October is going to be an amazing month! We are either going to have visitors here with us or we are going to be going somewhere to visit someone else.
Our first visitor of October was my dear friend Shannon. We all look forward to her fall visit as a highlight of the year.
She got here on Friday and we went to dinner and hung out. We also went and got a reflexology foot massage but I don't remember whether we did that Friday or Saturday night.
Saturday morning I took Emmalyn to Kindermusik
Max did a 21 day fix workout video - he wanted to work out.
Shannon and I did some shopping, had some lunch and then it was family time (because all of us want time with Shannon!)
We were going to go downtown - it's a place we've never taken Shannon. We were going to ride around on the McKinney street trolley.
While we waited for the trolley, we got some frozen yogurt
Riding the trolley. Maxwell sat on Miss Shannon's lap the whole time. Sorry it is such a dark picture.
We got to see parts of downtown and then got off the trolley at Klyde Warren Park. The kids had fun playing in the kids area.
Here's what the trolley looked like (it passed us again as we walked to dinner)
Emmalyn enjoying the queso at the Mexican restaurant we went to. She was happy when she was eating and was difficult to entertain after that.
The group at dinner - Emmalyn is out of the screen waiting in her stroller to leave
Maxwell and downtown Dallas
We had a fun time riding the trolley around Dallas
Morning with cereal and the ipad
Look! Emmalyn let Shannon hold her!
For Shannon's last day in town we did another thing she's never done (or us). We went to the Stockyards in Ft. Worth.
This old cowboy had some pretty cool lasso skills
Watching the cowboy
Shannon and Maxwell
Longhorns are pretty big!!
The kids and I went on a fun little train ride around part of the stockyard
They sat next to each other and at one point held hands.
Max thought it was pretty cool.
We had some time before the cattle drive down the main street so Peter and Maxwell went to go do this maze.
Unfortunately Peter and Maxwell didn't make it out in time to see the cattle drive. I was expecting the cattle drive to be long with lots of cows. Instead it was like 13 cows and over in a matter of seconds.
We finished off the day with some Texas Bar-B-Que. Maxwell was so attached to Shannon. He was very sad to see her go when we took her to the airport.
Thanks for coming Shannon! We always enjoyed your visits and can't wait for the next one!
Since we had a bunch of visitors coming, we decided to go ahead and get a full mattress which will eventually be used when we turn Emmalyn's crib into a full bed. Butt for now, at least we can have a bed up in the bedroom upstairs and two different real beds for our guests.
Kids playing with legos while we bought the mattress.
Sleeping Kiddos
