We shopped till we dropped…..

…..and then we crawled.  Seriously we started off our day by heading out to Tanger Outlet Mall in Terrell Tx.  Our first stop was Rue21 and it was fun checking out all the clothes that were too young for me and/or didn’t fit.  That’s okay – the girlies had fun shopping there.  We bought a few things and just as we were wrapping up there Aunt G arrived and we headed to Carmona’s for a little lunch.   

I had beef fajitas and they were delicious!

~A~ and ~K~

Aunt G and ~A~

Me and ~S~

You know I love a great bathroom pic and on the door of the ladies restroom was this lovely….er….painting thing.

I wasn’t sure if you could appreciate the beauty of it so I took a close up.

I am not a painter so I will refrain from any further comments and just appreciate the art for what it is.  A painting of a woman on a bathroom door in a restaurant.

There was a hottie waiting by the door and he agreed to have his picture taken with us. 

We stopped by Old Navy next and found a really cute dog there!

~K~ and the friendly doggie

~S~ met some new friends there as well!

Me and my youngest triplet ~K~ 

~K~   ~A~   ~S~

~S~ and her buddy Batman

We had a fun time but boy was I tired after we finished!  We spent about 6 hours shopping…..who does that??!!  I think girlies were tired too….

We’re headed out for more shopping fun tomorrow.  What can I say?  I like to torture myself. 

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Celebration Station

We headed out to Celebration Station on Sunday for a couple of reasons.  One both Marvin and I were off and second, girlies found out that we could buy a play pass that included the go karts, bumper boats AND a pizza and drink buffet!  Who could pass that up?  Certainly not us.  So off we went prepared to enjoy ourselves and have a fun day.

We started off enjoying the pizza buffet.

mmmmmm…….good!

We headed to the go karts first.  Love us some go kart action!!

We always have such a great time! 

~ A ~ S ~ K ~

Marvin and the girlies having fun

We also love hitting the bumper boats.  We were the only ones on and so we had an absolute blast squirting each other with the water guns.  :)  Such fun!

Now we love the arcade games so after getting drenched on the bumper boats we headed inside. 

Marvin feeling the need for speed.

Now one of the whole points in playing these arcade games is to get tickets. 

You turn these tickets in for prizes.  Lovely and highly coveted prizes.  As we were perusing the prize gallery I found it really funny a couple of the choices that we had.

Seriously?  A food chopper?  Just what every kid wants, right? 

 

Dr. Fart is a little more like what I expected to find. 

So all in all we had a really fun day!  :)

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Taste of Dallas

So we ventured out on a HOT Sunday afternoon to see what the Taste of Dallas had to offer us. 

~ S ~     ~ A ~     ~ K ~

Gina and Jarrett

~ K ~  and  ~ S ~

     ~ A ~  and me

We had a lot of fun even though it was really, really hot.  I am not sure what the actual temperature was but seriously it was like we were on the face of the sun. 

So, after walking around and seeing the sights and smelling the food we wandered over to the kids area.  As luck would have it, Sterling Knight was there.  For those of you that aren’t in the “know” he’s on Sonny With A Chance on the Disney channel.  There were tons of tweens in line to have a chance for a photo and an autograph.  Normally we would wait in line as well but seriously, we were melting in the heat.  I did manage to get a picture.

 

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A visit with my niece HP

 

We were able to stop by and visit with my beautiful niece HP. 

She is just too stinking cute!  All the girlies and ~H~ got to hold her. 

~A~ and HP

~S~ and HP

~K~ and HP

~H~ and HP   -  and here’s an interesting note.  Hans is my firstborn and his name starts with H A.  Hailey is my brother’s firstborn and her name starts with H A.  Guess what my sister needs to do?

A friend of my brother’s and Allison’s got them a pink bat with her name engraved on it.  My sister also completed her special hand sewn blanket and it turned out really well!

To sum it all up I can’t wait until our next visit with little HP. 

The New Dallas Cowboys Stadium

      

On Friday we decided to go and take a tour of the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium.

 

We passed a cool water tower on the way.  Thought you might enjoy seeing it too.

As we pulled up to the stadium I have to say it did look amazing.

We found out that we had to park near the pro shop and I happened to notice this wonderful sign.  One of my “random things” that I like to take pictures of is the #5.

So now you know my day is starting off on a cheery note.  But if you look at the sign it almost looks like it says 53 instead of just 5.  Oh well.

We went into the pro shop and purchased our tickets for the tour.  The ticket prices are slightly discounted because the stadium is not complete. 

The stadium had some cool lighting.  Some of the lights were in the shape of footballs. 

Pretty cool, huh?  There was also a light that had drop down lights that were the “laces” of the football. 

We also enjoyed some of the suites that we’ll never enjoy at any other time.  ;)  They aren’t really in our budget….haha!  They are nice but in our opinion we don’t think that you get what you pay for.  But hey – that’s just our opinion.

 

The tour takes a total of about an hour and it does include a lot of walking.  Part of the tour takes you by the end zones near the large gates that open up.  It’s pretty cool. 

They take you down to the field level.  There is one part where they show you where the players will exit the field during halftime.  It has a big star over it that lights up.  It’s pretty cool.

This is the view that the players have as they come off of the field.

Have you wondered how much the food is going to cost at the new stadium?  Well wonder no more…..

We were on field level and were able to see them as they were preparing the field for the upcoming soccer matches.  Here is a close-up of the field.  They actually have several different fields that they use.  They have a soccer field, a field for college/high school games and a field for NFL games.   

Here are a couple of pics of us at field level. 

We did manage to stop by the pro shop but didn’t make any purchases.  I intended to buy some little souvenirs but yeah, the price was not little.  Hmmm….couldn’t even buy a cheap pencil or anything.  That was disappointing but I managed to get over it without any counseling or anything.  I did manage to get a couple of pics and I’m surprised I wasn’t charged for that.  ;)

And to sum it all up we really had a great time.  A better time than I honestly expected to have.  And the stadium is freaking awesome.  It’s amazing and we all kept saying “WOW” as we saw everything. 

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