Shop, shop, shopping

Birthday weekend was spent SHOPPING till we drop...for Mom , Miss H, and I!  We began the fun at Christmas in Cowtown!  Last year mom and I went for the first time.  We had a blast so of course we had to go this year.  Thankfully a friend gave us some tickets to enter!! The sale opened on Thursday at 11 so we had to be there ready to shop.  Plus the first day is the best day to see all the goodies.

We had a blast bought many goodies and got great ideas on new decorating ideas.  Miss H loved it too she enjoyed all the toys and such around.  Plus they decorate with these great boots.  Which one do you think was our favorite, Santa or the Zoo one?? Hum

Friday mom and I woke up bright and early and took off to CANTON!!  I haven't been in years nor had mom so we thought why not? The weather was perfect a little overcast and cool.  I am so thankful for that since H was with us.  She was a trooper like normal, enjoying strolling and walking along.   

We began by hitting up the back fields...where all the "junk" is found.  Mom and I enjoyed looking through the acres of stuff. We did find some great buys out there too.  Then after lunch we did more of the "shop" areas in the pavilions.  There are so many cute things out there I wish I could have bought them all.  Instead I walked a way with  cute Halloween decor, a huge measuring stick for children's heights,  some items for Miss H's birthday, and more!  Mom got some cute columns, an old gate topper, an old store sign, and some other odds and ends.  All in all it was a super day....great weather, great shopping, and a pretty happy baby!!

Miss H taking a nice little nap as we shopped

mmm lunch time

oh the goodies..loaded up

Miss H is happy she has a car seat or she may have had no room!

Saturday we didn't do much just kicked it here and town and went out for my birthday dinner!  Oh and did I mention when we got home Friday night my wonderful husband had broken his foot! AHH yes he stepped off the back fireplace wrong while covering his tv...and crack goes the foot!   We let Chris sit home and enjoy a day of R&R till dinner.

birthday dinner..

Sunday began the "building project"  My sweet momma saw this super cute lemonade stand at a garage sale and of course I wanted one for H's birthday!!  Moms are the best really so she brought down fence post with her for our project.

 This is the cute one my mom saw...

Once we got all our materials we were off and running!! Here are some pics from our work as we built Miss H a milk and cookies stand for her birthday!

Day 1

Day 2

 Someone found their tools and started helping too!

 I love this picture...mom showing H how to put the nail in just right! 

Day 3

It's not 100% complete but almost.  I still need to add her cute little Milk and Cookies sign to the stand as well as pendents.  My mom is AMAZING! I can't tell you how much I love that she is a go getter.  Honestly it wouldn't have been made without her.  

Country Living Fair and Bats too!!

WHEEWWW....it has only taken me a week to get things back to normal over here.  Mom, Miss H, and I took a little road trip to Austin last week!  Mom wanted to go to the Country Living Fair because it was the first time they would be in Texas.  Of course if they are so close we had to go.  Mom, Abby, and I had planned to all go....but at the last minute Abby had to go on vacation with her family.  Thus it was Mom, Miss H, and I.

Miss H was a trooper the whole time.  We had such a blast down there.  If you are not sure what the fair was, well it was basically like the magazine coming to life.  At least that is how Country Living explained it on their website.  We really were not sure what to expect, but we knew it was a must.  Apparently their Ohio fair is AMAZING.  Maybe one day we will venter to that one too.  It is in a small town and basically my understanding is it takes over the whole place.  I can imagine it would be fun, but we were glad to start out closer to home especially since we had Miss H with us.  Mom and I bought the early bird tickets that allowed us to enter at 8:30 instead of 10.  Basically you got to shop with fewer people at that time and man was it nice.  We enjoyed the calmer shopping.  On the first day at 10 it was like black friday shopping in that place...people swarmed and started grabbing things right and left.  It was kind of funny.

Of course mom and I could have bought tons of things....but we didn't have much room thanks to traveling with a 3 month old.  Miss H narrowed our car space down, but we still managed to buy some really neat things.  Don't worry next time we head out we will take a much larger car (hint hint dad).  Not only did they have great vendors but they had some neat dyi demonstrations too.  We got to enjoy some of those, but our favorite was Cash & Cari from HGTV.  She showed a lot of ways to repurpose old items!  If you haven't watched her show you should check it out.    All I can say to sum this up is....I love being a mommy who can travel around with my mommy.  We had such a great time.

Here are the many pictures...but blogger and I were in a bit of a fuss as it wouldn't let me load them in the order I WANTED!  Sorry they are so out of order!

Just showing off a little bit of the first day fun!  

Look who was having a blast at the hotel.

This is what we looked like when we MOVED IN!

and this is how it all was STUFFED in the car

Up so early to begin our shopping...can't you see she was still tired

Day 1 of 3 here we come....look Miss H went back to sleep! 

This is when the masses (10:00) of people poured in

I thought these were super cute...and I'm sure we could make them

I love this little girl...she just strolled along

Picture with Cari from Cash & Cari

Lunch break! Miss H enjoying a break from the stroller 

the sign we got for Miss H's room...

Mom with my seed sorter!

Okay this is funny...they put long horns in the middle of the venue, I guess because it was in TEXAS! 

Here we are at the end of Day 1....Miss H sleeping again

tummy time can be done anywhere...

mom organizing all our wonderful treasures...

waiting on a dyi event!  This is where Miss H enjoyed eating too

shopping really wears her out

Day 2 we spent time in the 2nd building...here is a view from the top

 Okay so while in Austin mom wanted to enjoy an Austin event.  There is a bridge there that has become home to over 1 million mexican bats.  Every night just as the sun sets the bats take flight.  Apparently it is an amazing even to watch as they just cover the sky.  We thought we would go to it our last night there....Only bad thing is we waited till 10:20 pm and THEY NEVER FLEW!!!  Normally they are out by 8ish...not the night we went

I love these 2 pics...Miss H was talking it up..you can see she is good at it.

BB and Miss H waiting on the bats...hoping not to get pooped on.

still waiting...and nothing happened! 

Here we are MOVING OUT!

And STUFFING the car even more

just another pic of some of the things we got.  The B's are for my nephew's room

waiting on the bats to fly!