Whew, busy busy busy...

Thursday Alan & the boys had tickets to go see TNA wrestling at the fair. We get to pre-order fair and fair event tickets before they go on sale to the public each year because we have been going to Disney on Ice for the last 13 years and we are valued customers, lol. So we always get great sweats. The boys happened to get ringside, front row seat to this event, so they were super excited.

Thursday is dance night.

Starla at dance class....




Since events at the fair include a ticket into the fair and 5 and under get in free, the ticket taker at the front didn't take off the free fair entrance off of Starla's Disney on Ice ticket earlier in the week. So since we weren't doing anything anyways, I decided I could use that ticket to get into the fair, Starla would get in free, and we would hang out with the boys for a bit before they went into Wrestling. So after dance class we went to the fair to meet up with the boys. Of course as we were driving there, it starts to pour. Lovely. I had an umbrella, but it was still a wet, rainy mess.

Alan & Bourbon tried the donut burger and have decided they must make them at home someday soon, lol. Roman ate the tried & true turkey leg!

It was rainy and yuck, so they didn't ride any rides or do much other than eat.











And after a bit,Starla & I went through a building while the boys left us to go to wrestling.


As Starla & I were walking to our car to leave, Alan called me, theyhad found their seats and who should be stting right in front of them? BILLY CORGAN!!!! For those of you who don't know who that is, he was the lead singer of Smashing Pumpkins. And for those of you who dont know, Smashing Pumpkins and Billy Corgan were my all-time favorite band as a teenager, and I absolutely LOVE him & them. (Um, Starla is actually the name of a smashing pumpkins song, yep, that's right, she is named after a song, hee hee.....) SOOOOOOO insanely jealous!!! The boys got to meet him, and be right next to him the entire show!!!!!! And the could care less!!! They so don't appreciate it as much as I would have, sigh. The one time in my life that I am kicking myself for not being into wrestling more....lol.








yep, this close to Billy freaking Corgan for hours......so sad, so very very sad. Sniff sniff. :)



They had a great time....











Friday was our 6th year anniversary. Which we didn't celebrate at all, in any capacity. I did get a text message from my husband that morning telling me Happy Anniversary, I guess that will have to do......oh well, there's always next year.

Friday night Bourbon had a couple of friends sleep over, and then Saturday the kids went to go stay the night at Nanny's house.

My wonderful friend Lori had invited us to come join her & her family sunday at the Wildlife Expo in Guthrie at the Laze E Arena. They have this free event every year, but this was the first year we had gone. They had SOOOO much stuff to do, we stayed 4 hours and I'm not sure we even got to do half of what they had to offer. They even built a giant "lake" in the middle of the arena and had kyaking! They had fishing, archery, basketweaving, birdhouse building, fire building, hunter safety, animals, and more!!!


















We even got to try "wild" food. Catfish, deer meat and buffalo chili, yum! The boys went back and got several of the samples......lol





The kids really liked the archery practice.....











We are going to have to go again next year just to catch all the stuff we missed this go round!

football football football! Roman had a game monday, a game tonight and a game thursday this week! He's the quarterback and he is loving it.

Nickelodeon Live

So Tuesday Starla & I had tickets to go see Nickelodeon Live (Thanks to Nanny & Papa who bought them for her birthday!). For some reason I was thinking that the show was at 6pm, and that we would have time to go to Roman's 1st football game at 4:45pm and see just a bit of it before having to leave for the show. So we got out of school at 3pm, sat outside Bourbon's school (which is directly across the street from our school) until he got out at 3:20 and then got home. About 2 minutes after we walked in the door, at 3:35pm I got the tickets off the fridge to put them in my purse so I wouldn't forget them, only to glance at them and realize that the show started at 4pm!!! I grabbed Starla and we ran out the door. Wearing my work clothes which had baby gunk all over it from hanging out with babies all day. AND I wear funny feety socks (you know, the loud striped ones that come up to my calves, with capris) to work because we just wear socks in our room not shoes. so I had those socks on with some red slip on shoes, TOTALLY looked like an idiot, and we were off to the civic center, lol. Of course both parking lots in front of the civic center were full and we had to spend an extra few minutes finding a spot and then sprinting into the civic center. We were in our seats like 5 minutes after, and when we got there Moose & Zee were doing the opening song. Whew.

Of course my camera batteries had died at school that day, and since I ran out the door I didn't grab my extra set. So I had no camera for the show. BUT thanks to the wonderful internet I googled images from the show and found a ton. And they are all the same exact show with the same exact actors, so they are as good as having my own pics! :)

Moose & Zee opened the show and came out and did a little skit between each show, just like on TV.




First was Kai Lan, which was fun.



next the backyardigans came out and did a skit




and my personal favorite; Wonderpets in Wonderland! They wonderpets follow Ollie the bunny down the rabbit hole to wonderland for his tea party with the mad hatter, the cheshire cat and the queen of hearts. :)













and last was Starla's favorite, Dora. It was the sleeping boots story where Dora becomes a true princess.






Then everyone came out for a song and a bow.



Starla was in awe. We had pretty good seats and were pretty close to the stage, and she couldn't pull her eyes away! I think she was even more impressed with this than Disney on Ice, although there's no comparison in my book; Disney always wins. :)

Here she is at home with her goodies from the show! Thanks Nanny!

Disney on Ice videos

I took a couple of videos and thought I would share. We get to order our tickets before they go on sale to the public since we have been going so long, so we generally get good seats. But this year we were at the very end of the row, even though we were in the very first seats, it still was no good when they characters moved to the other end of the ice, since we were behind a big pole towards that end! That and everyone kept walking right in front of us, which was annoying. Not just at the begining when all the scragglers came in, but it seemed like the entire show there were people walking in front of us!

Disney on Ice & The fair

I don't know what it is about Disney that I love so darn much, but I do. I love all things Disney. I think Walt was a genius, and I love him for wanting to create a world of magic where dreams come true and childhood fantasies abound. I believe in the magic of childhood, and I believe in fairies....I do, I do. :)

So it was our tradition to go to Disney on Ice on Bourbon's birthday every year, it always fell on his birthday. Up until Starla turned 1, and for the first time in his entire life, none of the shows fell on his birthday and instead it fell on Starla's birthday. And that year was Disney Princesses to boot. So the boys didn't go that year, for the first time in their whole lives. They went the next 2 years, but not this year. This year Alan & the boys got wrestling tickets at the fair instead of disney on ice.

So on Monday morning, Starla & I got to go to Disney on Ice just the two of us! This was my 14th year of going. I had taken Destiny the year she was born and then the following year took both her and my other neice Kasey. Then I had my own kid to take. :) I love it!

Since we left right after taking the boys to school, we got there an hour early. Plenty of time to shop and check everything out and find our seats. :)

I had asked Starla if she wanted to wear one of her princess outfits, and she said Tinkerbell was the way to go. :)










The show was called Disney On Ice Celebrates, so it was a bunch of little skits about holidays (including of course the un-birthday tea party!) and then other celebrations around he world. It was full of lots of different characters and was a really great show!





































Tinkerbell came over to our corner and waved at Starla, which was so cute. :)




So sad to see it end, sigh. Until next year my sweet Disney on ice.... :)

Ah, the fair! First thing was first; lunch! Well, for Starla that is. I wanted to walk around the entire fair first and see everything there was to offer before I decided what I wanted to eat, so I ate like 2 hours later, lol.





Starla picked out a corndog for lunch, yum!




Starla played the "duckie" game and won a ball, which was pretty darn annoying to carry around for the rest of the day. Should have left that for last.....







Starla got to pick out 3 rides to ride (which on the way home she told Nanny on the phone that they were boring because she only got to ride 3 and she wanted to ride 4, she's such a mess)












It was scortching hot outside, and we were sweating up a storm. So ice cream just seemed in order....




I always get a turkey leg, a corn dog or an indian taco while at the fair so this year I decided to try something new. It was a close choice bewteen the fried mac-n-cheese, loaded baked sweet potato or the donut burger, but I went with the donut burger, so that I could go home and tell the boys that I tried it. :)




It actually was pretty good. Although I could have done without the overcooked bacon on it.




yeah, that just sounds gross. Yes, even worse than a donut burger. :P





yum. I LOVE the fair cinnamon rolls! With buttercream icing of course. I had gotten this to go, but ended up eating most of it while we sat and waited for Bourbon to get out of school.... hee hee



We got to stay until we had to leave to pick up Bourbon, so it was a long full day of fun for use. :)

and Minnie Mouse makes a wonderful addition to our head collection. :)