More Perot Museum

I am so sad that Bennett decided to pop a key off my school laptop and shove it in to where my camera card goes...so all my pictures are from my phone.  Not the best quality, but you get the idea.

After the Children's area we headed to the sports hall.  This was really neat.  This wall lights up as you run your hand/body on it.  They loved it!

My handsome boys were loving this!

Next, we the racing game.  You could select an opponent like a cheetah or T-rex, or a human to race.  We waited in line for this for about 20 minutes.  Bennett was so excited to race!  He chose a male soccer player.

It counts you down and then you RUN!  He was so upset that he didn't win.  Winning isn't everything!

Bennett and the T-Rex

The boys got to stand on the Earthquake simulator.  Bennett didn't like it, but H did!

Neil and Bennett got to ride the "drilling" ride.  It showed how far you go down in the earth to drill a well.  Henry and I had our own fun since he wasn't able to ride.

Hen kept watching people open this geode and knew he had to try it.  A little girl was taking a sweet forever with it and after waiting patiently Henry said "my turn!" "my turn!"

We got to crawl in a log!

They had different wilderness scents you could smell.  This is Bennett after smelling the coyote urine!

Outside the Perot was a "leap frog" pond.  They. Loved. This!

Punkin' Chunkin'

We went for our annual pumpkin pickin' at Akin's last week.  Dad loves taking the boys and they LOVE going.  They each get their own wagon and fill them up.  They LOVE pumpkins.  

Little Scarecrow!

Bennett and Pops

Reid was loving the pumpkins!

Henry and Pops

Bennett the scarecrow

Carolyn and Dad with the 4 adorable boys!

Glad Carolyn mentioned that I should get a picture with the boys!  

Here are the other years: 2012 2011

Perot Museum-Children's Area

After our totally fun weekend in Dallas last weekend, we decided to take the boys back for a fun day.  We began our day a the Perot Museum.  I was so glad that Leslie and Amanda came to see us.  Leslie even brought some delicious brown butter cookies for us.  I ate all of them!

We have a Sci-Port membership and guess what?  It was a reciprocal membership at the Perot.  We were able to go for FREE!  This was a $50 value.  Love it.

We started at the Children's Area.  It was a blast!  We started in the Farmer's Market area.  They put on their aprons and went shopping.  Then they went and put all the food in truck to re-stock the shelves.  Henry walked up the 2 stairs to the truck and then did a face plant right off them.  I screamed, but he was more concerned with his tomato that he dropped.

The next area was the "Mini Dallas" space.  It had slides and conveyor belts.  They could build with blocks and even slide.  

We went to the art area and they had any art item you could imagine.  It was such a fun spot!  It would have been my favorite as a child, but they were ready to move along after about 7 minutes.

Henry planted flowers...

The camping area was SO MUCH FUN!  They had a fake camp fire with a skillet for cooking.  You could dress up like wild animals and even sit at the picnic table.  It was so cute!

Bennett LOVED the water area. Henry basically just dumped the water on his head and walked off.

Flirty and 30 Weekend

We had a total blast last weekend in Dallas for Amanda's "flirty and 30" celebration.  Amanda's parents hosted a fancy birthday party for her on the patio on Fernando's.  It included appetizers, fajitas, and any drink you could ask for!  They even served pralines and sopapillas for dessert. Neil and I were excited to be invited.

It just shows how great of a person and what a great friend Leone is because 4 people drove from Shreveport, 1 came in from Houston, and another friend flew in from Atlanta just to be at her party.  She had tons of new Dallas friends there as well.  It was such a fun weekend with friends!

Mr. and Mrs. Neil Lewis

Leslie, Emily, Jennifer and Anna Bella

Clint (Leslie's man) and Leslie (aren't they cuuuuute?)

Happy 30th!!

Leone and her mom, Lola

Since Tech was playing in Dallas against Army at the Cotton Bowl and we were already in Dallas..we thought we would go to the game.  Well, the weather had other plans.  We ate at Breadwinner's and then had to cancel our game plans.  It pretty much rained the whole day on Saturday.  We were OK with it because we had so much fun hanging out.

Leone's swanky apartments had lots of courtyards with these big, fancy chairs.

We went to The Nodding Donkey? for a little football watching.

We dined at the Porch for dinner.  I think our whole weekend was centered around food.  The porch is so delish.  We ate and talked and even ran into the Smith's and Raines'.  We told them to meet us..it wasn't like it was an accident!

Happy 30th!!!

Doug (Leone's new friend) and the rest of us.  He was hilarious!

We went back to the "swank tank" (Leone's apartment) for fun and games.  We played "awkward family photos" and it was hilarious.  Then we played "Nertz" where my team (Neil and me) lost every round.  I do not like to lose.

On Sunday morning, Leslie had to head out to FW for a 5K with her family.  We called up Anna and Brett to see if they wanted to meet us for breakfast. They did and we met at the Taco Joint.  They are the sweetest people ever!  We were so glad to get to meet McCann, their 1 month old baby boy!

We had so much fun in Dallas we decided to take the boys back.  We are headed out on Saturday to take them to the Perot museum and the new adventure garden at the Arboretum.  Fuuuuuuuuuun!