Dallas State Fair

Last weekend we spent Saturday hanging out at Cecilia's soccer game and then we hopped into the car and headed to the Dallas State Fair. I didn't know what to expect but when we got there I was definitely not thinking it would be as huge as it was. I'm used to small town carnivals and fairs and this was HUUUUGE!!! They had a football game going on at the Cotton Bowl stadium which was on the fairgrounds too. I'm kind of a dork and thought it was the actual cotton bowl huge game and was texting everybody saying where I was, little to find out that's not until January. Ooops. Here are some pictures from our great, awesome, exciting Saturday with the Toti fam. Oh and our day didn't end until 10:30, the little girl was exhausted!

Swinging at the soccer park.

 This girl and a ball is just too natural, (oh wow, I sound like one of this bragging moms, Oh wait, I am).  She had so much fun running around after the ball, ball, ball.

 Hanging out on the bench with CeeCee (what Aubrey calls Cecilia).

 Walking into the fair!  They had some pretty crazy fried foods there and I didn't take a picture, ooops.  We tried the fried lemonade (delicious!), fried pizza, fried bubblegum (yuck!), fried pie.  They also had fried beer, fried margaritas, fried chicken pancake things, you name it and they fried it.

 We had fun with these cut out things.

 Riding on the ferris wheel, such an amazing view.

 Seriously awesome ferris wheel.

 Riding the carousel with Grandma TT, she loved the horses.

Ok, so gross story I added just because we couldn't stop laughing in the car.  So if you don't want to hear something gross stop here.  So we were driving downtown and Aubrey started making a face like she was well umm adding something to her diaper. All of a sudden the girls and Cole started yelling saying, grooooosssss you can see it.  Yep, as we were driving Aubrey was literally pooping her pants.  So while stuck in traffic Kyle and I held her legs apart so the mess didn't get any worse.  It was quite funny, disgusting but funny.

Oklahoma Visit

So 2 days after we got into Dallas we packed up the car again to head 3 hrs. to Oklahoma City for a residency interview Kyle had. Kyle's mom came with us and played babysitter while we went to dinner with residents and stayed at a paid for bed and breakfast, yep free the best kind :)

So I got home and edited pictures and realized I didn't take any of Kyle and I during time there but I did get a bunch of pictures with Aubrey and Grandma TT during our great day while Kyle was interviewing.  We hung around downtown Oklahoma City, bricktown and had a great day feeding ducks, wine tasting with a sleeping baby in a stroller (yep you read it right), and eating some great mexican food. 

Water Day

Our second day here (last Wednesday) we had a water day.  We went up to this awesome outdoor shopping mall that we always go to when we're here and I can not tell you how awesome this place is, seriously.  It has some great shops (Old Navy, Children's Place ok my two fave kids clothes places besides garage sales, haha), they also have the most amazing gelato and popcorn.  All kinds of popcorn like melt in your mouth good popcorn.  They have the cutest shoe store and really cheap cute jewerly store.  Now to add to it we got to play in the fountains today and we also enjoyed a wetzel pretzel, it was a great day!  Aubrey loved running through the water she thought it was the best thing ever.  Little to say we've already have been back and she's in a ridiculous cute tutu swimsuit this time, picture at the bottom.  This mall also has free strollers, free towels, free umbrellas, and if it's raining they give you a $10 gift card to come back.  I would so be hitting it up every day rain was in the forecast for that.  Here are some pictures and video from our fun water day.

 Aubrey loved going down the slide with Kyle.  I didn't know how she would do at first but after the first time she went down she immediately pointed to the slide and said...pease, pease, pease (her version of please) and pointed to the slide.  She's definitely a water baby or I guess toddler now.

 Playing with a ball, ball, ball with Cecilia.  Aubrey never says the word ball once she has to repeat it and repeat it, it's kinda cute.

Park and Grandpa B-day

So I wanted to recap what we did while we're down here for Kyle's Dallas rotation.  The day we got in was Kyle's dads birthday so I brought him the best present of all......AUBREY!  It was gorgeous weather and has been every day since we've been here. Crazy to be all ready for fall back in Tennessee and then step off a plane and bam back to summer.  One strange thing I have noticed here is although I'm wearing all my summer clothes- tank tops, shorts, skirts, sandals.  The rest of Texas is wearing fall clothes like sweaters, jeans, jackets, it's just crazy!!!  It's 90 degrees and people have on long sleeved sweaters.  I totally look like I don't fit in down here.  Kyle's mom explained to me that 90 is colder than they're usual 109 so people feel like it's colder when they're used to insane heat. 

Anyway, enough of my clothes rant and more pictures of the kids playing at the park. Aubrey has had so much fun going to play at the park in Grandma and Grandpa's backyard. She is in love with Cecilia and Jasmine and has spent every minute just walking around and playing with the girls. Her new favorite is to play barbies in their ginormious doll house.

This is where they hang out a lot.  They are always around the piano, Aubrey pounds on the piano and then dances, it's pretty darn cute.

Aubrey was so happy to see Bailey.  They both were pretty cute actually when she first got out of the car and realized Bailey was here she started running after her and Bailey was bouncing all over the play out of excitement.  Aubrey loves this room at Grandmas because it's full of a whole bunch of different animals.  It's basically like going to the zoo without all the walking, oh and the real animal part.  Aubrey has decided a giraffe says (she clicks her tongue) so you know what I have no idea what a giraffe says, so it sounds good to me.

Grandpa on his birthday with his girls.

 Playing at the park with Grandma TT.

We're having a great time so far, more pictures to come!

Mom's Visit

So while Kyle was working in Austin, my mom came to visit and take Aubrey and I to the airport to meet up with him.  We had so much fun just doing girl stuff and basically doing whatever we wanted, whenever we wanted.  It's nice every once in a while to be just girls (although we did miss Kyle like crazy).

Here are some pictures from our great week...

We played with lots and lots of dolls.  Thanks Mimi for Aubrey's new baby (Aubrey says baby the cutest ever, I'll post a video of it soon.)

We looked for monkeys and lions in our woods.  We really don't have monkeys and lions, Mimi just has a great imaginiation.

 We went to the library.

 We belly blowed.

We Chick-Fil-Aed (if that's a word) Aubrey loves baaugh bauugh (the sound of a chicken) and she couldn't get enough of this video when we got home. She kept pointing to my mom's camera and wanting to watch this video.


We snuggled.

We watched the Tech band and danced.


We tailgated and slid down some awesome bounce house slides.

 We watched cheerleaders and played with some Mimi hair (it's Aubrey's comfort thing, it's so cute.)

We ring a round the rossie'ed.


 We played at the park.

 Then we had to go to the airport to head to Dallas.  It was bittersweet because we were so excited to see Kyle but sad to be leaving my mom. 

 Watching rrrr's (the best way I can type the sound Aubrey makes for plane). 

 Walking to our gate with Aubrey's new suitcase from Mimi.  Thanks for a great trip Mom and I can't wait to see you again.  I love you more than the frozen rolos I'm eating right now.

 I couldn't get a good picture of Aubrey on the plane but it was a great trip.  She was so good on the plane and slept until Birmingham and then we had more people come on and Aubrey entertained the two guys sitting next to us the rest of the way to Dallas.  We're having a great time here in Dallas so far and I will definitely be adding more pictures of our trip so far this week.