Fall Festival

We (especially K) had a busy, wonderful weekend. Our neighborhood has a lot of events during the year, almost everything geared towards kids (the one adult event was the Casino night which we went to and really enjoyed).  Sometimes we go and sometimes we just skip the events.    This weekend was the Fall Festival and we invited our niece and nephew (and their dad, K's brother).   They came and we all had a good time.  Its always fun to see what catches their interest and what they don't like at all.   There was a rock wall and a bouncy house, but our nephew wasn't interested in them at all...first thing he was interested in -- a balloon sword! (his little sister got a balloon dog)    They also played several games and got prizes (stickers, silly bands).   The funniest to watch was the kids throwing a rubber chicken - Kaden tied for 3rd place.  He probably should've placed higher because the first group of kids threw from further forward, but he was happy and that is all that matters - he got a spider ring, and during some game he got a small teddy bear (Mr Boo).    The biggest hit for the niece - the train!   They got to sit in their own car and rode around in it, poor thing she cried when she had to get out of the train car.    Kevin and Kaden were twins in their orange clothes...


Afterwards, we met my in-laws at Culver's to eat.   I had my first pumpkin-flavored item of  the year, a pumpkin cheesecake mixer...yum!    Thankfully they have a new 'mini' size so I can get my custard fix without overdoing it too much (don't tell me how many calories are in it, I don't want to know).   I'm on the lookout for pumpkin flavored goodies. I'm not a coffee drinker, so that is out but I'll find some other goodies this fall.  I was sad that I'd completely missed their sweet potato fries, must've been a limited time menu item.

Today we got some much needed rain.  If you heard cheering it was probably all of southeast Texas applauding the rain!  It rained pretty much all day and was a great sound to hear.   Kevin went to the Texans game and I ran errands.  One errand has to wait for another day, we had so much rain that the place I went to get my oil changed had lost power and said they wouldn't be able to ring me up if the power stayed out.  seems to me like some of their tools (not to mention the lights to see) wouldn't work, but they only seemed concerned with the fact they couldn't ring me up.....didn't want to tell them people made transactions long before electric cash registers....

I wasn't totally sad to leave my car chore for another day, it let me get a long overdue haircut!   I feel like a million bucks when I get a haircut!  I tried taking a photo of it but haven't mastered taking photos of myself and kind of ruined the style when I had to run through the rain so I don't really want to have K take a photo of it now, will plan to get some photos of it soon.

I met K at my in-laws after the game for a chili dinner.  The weather made that meal the perfect food for today - a rainy day, not really chilly but they were all chilly since they'd gotten soaked coming back from the game.   only disappointment was that the Texans lost :(