A Wonderful Visit from Nana and Papa!

October has gone by just a little too fast for my taste! Here we are on October 19th and Halloween is right around the corner. We have been so incredibly busy and I feel like I looked up and the month was over! Jer's parents from PA were here for the first week of October and then last weekend we made a family trip to Broken Bow, Oklahoma with lots of our friends. Between visitors, trips and trip preparation, I have gotten extremely behind on the blog...even more so than usual!

The visit from Jer's parents was absolutely wonderful and we miss them so much already. It was a leisurely visit with nothing major planned and a lot of time spent just hanging out (which is my favorite kind of visit!). We all went to the State Fair of Texas while they were here and I managed to throw every pretense of a diet out the window while consuming fried Frito pie, fried Snickers, and corn dogs. Oh, how I love my wonderful state! :-) Colin played his first fair game and won a giant neon green stuffed dog. He was SO excited when he won and it was so adorable. His favorite parts were the same as last year, the petting zoo and the Little Hands Farm. He asked to ride one of the small rides for little ones and that ended up being a disaster of gigantic proportion! We strapped him in, but could not ride with him, so he started screaming when the ride started up. There was absolutely nothing we could do and had to watch helplessly while he cried and begged us to stop it. I actually laughed over it...talk about your bad mommy decisions! I knew better than that! ;-) He was fine once the ride was over, but I would imagine that I set us back a few years as far as getting him to ride other things! Oops! We also had a big afternoon trip to the Fort Worth Botanic Gardens, which was beautiful, and ate a ton of good food over the week. Brenda (Jer's step-mom) literally kicked us out of the house that Thursday night so that we could have a date night. I don't remember the last time that I actually went out with Jer after dark! It was great! We had a peaceful dinner together at Mi Cocina and then had drinks and dessert at The Cheesecake Factory. It was so wonderful!! Brenda and Dean (Jer's dad) spent a great night with Colin and were actually making fun of us for getting home so early! 10:00pm was plenty late for this old girl! ;-)

Here we are on date night...please note how classy we are while our son poses with us almost naked. ;-)
Loving some corn dogs at the fair with Nana and Papa!

Dean takes great pictures...I love this one that he caught of us at the gardens.

By the grace of God, we didn't fall in. ;-)

Dean, Jer, Brenda and Colin feeding the fish