State Fair Day Fun

Corey was actually home from work on State Fair Day (really this is just Columbus Day but in Texas it's a day where all students k-12 can get into the State Fair for free), so we took advantage of everyone being home and used our POGO passes for the Fort Worth Zoo.  It was a pretty good zoo and we walked a lot.  After the zoo, we stopped at Braum's for some ice cream on the way home.  We had originally planned to actually try going to the Fair, but then decided against it.  I'm glad we chose the zoo.

McKinney Invitational-Marching Band

Grandpa and Grandma were in town so they were able to come with me to the marching invitational that Westley and Caleb were marching in. This is a marching band contest where each band is given a rating.  Our band got the highest rating they could get!  I love watching my boys in marching band!

Pirates Home Game

This wasn't the first home football game of the season, but it was a Thursday home game that the girls got to cheer at from their cheer clinic they did a month or so ago.
I also got some pictures of the boys doing their pregame marching show.  I love going to these football games!

Travis Playing Football

The SRO at Cooper Junior High likes to take pictures at the sporting events and post them to his Facebook page.  He got a few with Travis in them so I stole them to use as record of him playing for this blog and my blog book.  Travis has been enjoying playing football this year.  Hopefully he'll be able to keep up with it through senior year of high school. 

Annmarie and Band Boys

Annmarie had an assignment for school to have a teddy bear with her for a week and take pictures of her doing different things with him.  We don't do a whole lot during the week because I'm so busy teaching piano lessons, but she went upstairs and played school with the bear and we made homemade ice cream with the bear too. 

Corey was able to get a decent picture of the boys at the last football game when he picked them up.  I had left early with Jonah because he was whining about being tired and wanting to leave.

Travis is THIRTEEN!!

Well, we have ANOTHER teenager in the house! Travis turned 13! I made him a hamburger cake for his birthday. He thought it was a really fun cake and I had fun making it.  He is growing up way too fast!

Random Family Fun

Over the last weekend, we used our POGO passes and went to a KidMania play area.  The older kids were  not really into it and it was kind of lame for older kids, but there were video games on one level that I paid $5 for them to do.  I just want to get out of the house, which was the reason I bought the POGO passes in the first place.  I don't know if we'll do them another year.  We'll see.

Jonah is my climber and here he is scaling the outside wall of the house by the garage.  He's a regular Spider-man!