Mary's first sleepover!

Jason and Charmaine had to get up early Saturday morning to go "Race for the Cure." So we kept Hunter overnight until Saturday after lunch. They both had so much fun playing together.

Mary and Hunter getting ready for bed (and, no they did not sleep in the same bed!).















We had waffle sticks for breakfast. Yum!










They had fun playing outside together.

























We had corn dogs for lunch.

Mary helped out with the cupcakes

On Tuesday we made chocolate cupcakes. Mary helped lick the spatula and beaters. She also helped put on the sprinkles. I think that was her favorite part.

The 80th Austin County Fair

Mary enjoyed her 3rd time to the fair. We left Wednesday afternoon and met Granny and Pa-Pa up at the fair. Mary loved seeing all the animals in the junior barnyard and in the show barn.

On Thursday morning we got up early to go watch the parade in town. Mary got to see lots of things in parade, including Pa-Pa. She was not happy when the parade ended.

Sometimes you never know what you might see in the parade.

Mary spotted Pa-Pa on the back of the truck! She was excited.

The truck squirted water at us.

The trail ride.

Bellville Varsity cheerleaders.

Mary, Kathryn, and Jackson all watched the parade.

We went to the fairgrounds afterwards to enjoy some lemonade and corn dogs.












We went home to nap. Later that evening we went back for more fair fun. William had a really bad headache so we left early that night.








On Friday we went to the flower shop to help Granny water the plants and play. We went to the fair for lunch and had some good BBQ. In the afternoon we picked up Pa-Pa from the fair and Granny from work, and we went to the Bellville Brahmanette Volleyball Game. They won easily in 3 games. Mary had fun watching and cheering. After the game we went back to the fair to enjoy a 4-H hamburger and curly fries.

On Saturday, we slept in and had lunch at home. Our friends, Gordon, Aurora, and Liam came to enjoy the fair. Liam had fun dancing to the Polka music and riding carnival rides. Later on in the day Todd, Jessica, Carter, Lilly, Jessica's parents, Ricky, Kim, Ben (Jessica's brother) and Laura (fiance) all came to have fun at the fair. The kids enjoyed the rides and music, as well. After dinner, we enjoyed music by Neil McCoy.

Last year I rode it with Mary and was SICK. I refused to ride it this year. So, Todd rode with Mary and Carter, the kids loved it. Todd was SICK this time!! No adults are allowed to ride the bear affair again!

Mary like driving the truck and flying the helicopter.



The super slide was fun!














Mary enjoyed eating her snowcone while listening to The Lazy Farmers Polka band. She even shared with Carter.

On Sunday, Mary slept until 9:15, when we finally woke her up for church. After church we went to Pop's on the Square for lunch. We went back home and got everything packed up and loaded up. We went to the fair so Mary could say good bye to everything and everybody. She even got to see Landon before we left. William was also excited because this is the first time that he got his season pass punched everyday. We left about 2:00 and made it home at 6:00 (nonstop).

Playing with dolls

Tonight Mary got out her dolls and put them down for a nap. She decided to join them!

Come and Join us!

Get your cowboy boots out, your hat dusted off, jeans starched, and come join us at the 80th Annual Austin County Fair, which will be held October 10-14. All attending the 2007 Fair will enjoy good Austin County fun, food, entertainment and fellowship. A big midway carnival, PRCA Rodeos, Livestock Show, Parade, Queen's Contest, Youth Auction Sale , exhibits and national recording artists will keep fair patrons entertained. Your general admission tickets includes the concert and rodeo and everything else!
DAILY ADMISSION GATE TICKETS
(Pay One Price - See It All)
ADULTS - $10.00/SENIORS $6.00
CHILDREN 6-11 YRS. $6.00/UNDER 6 FREE

Click on the link below for the schedule of events:
http://www.austincountyfair.com/

We will be taking off work Thursday and Friday, so we will be there Wednesday night!
See y'all there!

Another weekend of fun in Bellville!

On Saturday after lunch we headed to the cotton patch. Mary got to ride with Cousin Greg in the cotton picker. She also got to sit on the 806.

On Saturday night we headed to the Austin County Fair Shrimp Boil and Kick-off Dance. Mary made lots of new friends and had a ton of fun dancing.

We got to do the chicken dance!

Yee-haw!!!

Then Sunday morning we headed to church. Afterwards, we attended the Bazaar. Mary had lots of fun bouncing in the bounce house, "fishing" for toys, picking lollipops of the tree for prizes, eating cake and snowcones, and listening and singing along to the great music. She took a good nap on the way home today.Well, the fair starts on October 10 and we are ready. William and I are both taking off Thursday and Friday to come to fair.

Update

Charmaine was finished with surgery after 15 hours! She is now recovering and will hopefully be home soon!

Prayer Request

Hello all,
Our friend and neighbor, Charmaine, is having a double mastectomy and reconstructive surgery today. This morning the surgeon started at around 10 and the first portion of the surgery ended late this afternoon. The second portion should be done around 11 tonight. The family is hoping to see her around midnight. She has a 2 1/2 year old boy, Hunter. Please keep her and the family in your thoughts and prayers. Thanks!

Finally!

We were going out tonight to find Mary a new pair of cowboy boots for the fair season. William thought he better try on his new pants with his boots to make sure they would work. He put on one boot, no problem. He tried to put on his second boot and something was wrong....he took it off and reached in and pulled out the CAMERA!!! Yeah! Now I have finally downloaded the pictures from our last trip.

For those of you that have heard Mary talking about the Terra Gator, here is a full picture of it. Granny climbed up there with her this time.

And, we did find her a pair of brown cowboy boots tonight. She was so excited, as soon as she got them on she took off running and said, YEEEHAAAWWWWWW!!! She is ready for the upcoming fairs! We'll break them in first with a little boot scootin' at the shrimp boil and kick off on dance next Saturday.

Camera?? and catching up

I hope everyone has been doing well. With the start of school, time has flown by! I can't believe we just had curriculum night.

Anyway, last weekend, Sept 7-9 we went to Bellville to visit Granny and Pa-Pa since he had completed a chemo treatment earlier in the week. As we were leaving I took a sweet picture of Aunt Na-Na holding Mary (Mary said she was a baby). After I took the picture we were ready to hit the road back to McKinney, and suddenly I had no idea where the camera went! We still have not found it in our stuff, hopefully Granny has found it by now at her house.

William picked up Mary today from her sitter (which she is finally getting used to the new routine and not balling her eyes out every morning as I'm leaving!) and he took her to McDonald's for a happy meal. She was so happy tonight, much different from last night when she kept having to return to time out for hitting her parents, the dog, and the wall.

This weekend we plan to relax and do some stuff around the house that needs to be taken care of. The weather has been nice and cool! Yesterday morning the temp was in the upper 50's!!!! Fall is coming!!!!! and that means FAIR TIME!!!!!! We are so excited about the new fried food at the state fair this year....fried cookie dough! We already have Mary's first Wranglers for the fair and some cute rodeo/western shirts. We are still in search of some boots.

Have a great weekend!