A Visit to the Capitol

On Saturday, we went with a group to the state Capitol. Our group had a private meeting with our State Representative and then a tour of the Capitol. It was nice to do.

After we finished the tour of the Capitol, we went over to the Peace Officers' Memorial which is on the Capitol grounds.

After we were done there we headed to lunch with some friends. The food and the company were both good.

Look at the size of the burger that Dax had!!

It has just about everything on it. There is only one patty in that picture, the other meat is brisket, and there's also a fried egg on there. Decadent!!

Wowza!

Not quite done with the school year yet. Last week we attended an art show put on by this year's art students. Addison and Kirsten both had several items in the show. It was nice to go up to the school and for the kids to have a chance to show off some of their hard work.

We also attened the spring band concert to hear Wyatt and Abigail play. Both bands did a really good job. This was the last one we'll be attending (at least for the next school year) because they both decided not to continue with band. Oh well.

My wonderful parents spent the weekend at our house with the kids so that Dax and I could get away. We headed to San Antonio again and had a great time. It was very relaxing, but went by all too quickly.

On the way home we stopped to eat at Lulu's Cafe' and decided to bring a little sweet treat home for the kids. We went with a cinnamon roll (which Lulu's is famous for.)

 How's that for a little breakfast? The cinnamon rolls from Lulu's Cafe' weigh 3 pounds each!! Oh, and you can order them online.

Your welcome. lol

Renaissance Festival

Since the kids decided not to dress up for Halloween this year, we decided to go to the Renaissance Festival instead.

I just want to make note that the kids not dressing up made me both sad and happy at the same time. It's saddening that they're outgrowing these things. It just serves to remind me how quickly time passes. On the other hand, it was really a relief not having to get them to settle on one costume idea and then getting the costumes all put together.

Anyway, back to the festival......

I don't have a lot of pictures of the actual festival, just us eating our way through the day.

We had funnel cake

Jerky

 Fried mushrooms

Turkey leg

 Chocolate pudding

Chocolate covered strawberries

Chocolate covered cheesecake (on a stick) (Addison's favorite)



Brownie sundae

Cheese sticks

and more ice cream!

And, if you can believe it, they were hungry when we left!!

Another Great Weekend

Saturday morning Addison had her 4H foods competition and she won 1st place. Woohoo!! (I forgot to take a picture of her with her entry.) Now for the ugly truth....she wasn't competing against anyone. *giggle* But, she's still excited and she gets to go on to the district competition. Unfortunately, Dax & I will be in Vegas at a conference so she and Grandma are going to have to work that one out. :0)

After her competition we headed to Houston. The kids spent the night with Dax's parents and we went out with my parents and my brother and his wife. We first ate dinner at



This is one of my favorite places to eat. Then went to see Jeff Dunham's act




After the show Dax, my parents, and I went to the House of Pies for some of this



Can I just say Yumm!! I know it's making you hungry isn't it?

It made for a really long day but we had a good time. Headed home Sunday afternoon and it's back to the same old routine. :0)

What did you do this weekend? Hope you had an enjoyable time.