The Texas State Fair

I bet you didn't know the Texas State Fair was going on during Thanksgiving Break!!! It was if you were a Pollan grandchild. Byron's Mom threw a Fair for her grandkids. She has been talking about doing this for a long time and well she did it. It was so much fun. There were a bunch of stations which had different games to play, dart throwing at the balloons, penny throwing into the cupcake pan, nerf gun shooting into the clowns mouth, ring toss over the IBC bottles, ping-pong ball into the bowls....etc. etc. We had a family game of twister and each kid made a homemade piniata and got to brake open their own turkey piniata. Fun!!! Loads of candy was collected and has been eaten. Most importantly fond memories were made. This was a day the kids will never forget.

Is that not the cutest piniata ever seen. The kids spent three nights making these. They actually held up way better than we ever anticipated. It was giving them two swings and they would be dead but they had to really whack at the things for a good twenty or thirty hits before they started to brake. They were made from newspaper and flour/water mixture. Astonishing.

State Fair Lunch: Corn dogs, popcorn, soda, pigs in a blanket, almost funnel cakes but they didn't turn out....the good news was though there was a lot of smoke we did not actually burn down the church...Phew! The fire department did not come out either though maybe they should have or would have if they had seen the amount of smoke in the kitchen....hot oil really puts up a lot of smoke.

I kept telling the kids, "Don't brake your Papa!!!"

Don't ask me how Phil can handle all of my kids on top of him at the same time....somehow they managed to have a good wrestle and the miracle was it ended before anyone started to cry.