State Fair

In October, we had to be in the Dallas area for a birthday party, so we decided we should go a day early and check out the State Fair.  It also happened to be TX-OU weekend, but since we went on a Friday, it wasn't too crazy.

Cory was excited about trying all the food, so we did a little of that.  There were also a few shows that we decided to check out, one was a dog show and the other was a bird show.  Both were interesting to Ethan for the first five minutes or so, and since we had so much we wanted to do, we didn't argue about leaving them early.  We all agree that the bird show was much more entertaining than the dogs.

Ethan had his first taste of a Fletcher's Corn Dog (so did Cory)

We met Big Tex, just a week before he burnt down

We finally found the kid section of the fair after a couple of hours, so we loaded up on tickets so we could try out a few.  Ethan picked one, but he wouldn't go alone, so I had the pleasure of joining him.  After one ride, he declared that he wanted to go on the ferris wheel that he had seen.  We were a little surprised, but after talking to him about it, we decided to give it a try knowing that it was highly possible that he could change his mind and scream the entire time.  He actually loved it though.  It was by far his favorite thing about the day and he told everyone about it for weeks.  The only other ride he wanted to try was the carousel, and he loved that one as well.

Riding one of the kiddie rides

About to board the ferris wheeel

So excited to go up

Loving every minute of it

riding the carousel

Being a butterfly

The last thing we (Cory) just had to do was to check out the car show.  Both of the boys had a blast checking out the cars.

Trying out Daddy's favorite

Going for a drive

I'm so glad we decided to go up early so we could do this.  I'm sure we'll be going again in the years to come.