butterfly flutterby

Saturday, we headed over to Grapevine Main Street for the Butterfly Flutterby...

Avery had a fun time watching the butterflies...
decorating pumpkins,
talking to the police car, riding bikes,

and just having an all around good time!

Oktoberfest

Saturday night we checked out the Southlake Oktoberfest.

Live music, food & vendors...

Avery's favorite was the live music.

They has a pretty good Beatles Cover Band and Avery got busy dancing!

she was having a GREAT time!

She also made a new friend while we were there...

Sitting next to us while we watched the band was a mother and her 14 year old son, Jason.

Avery was completely taken with Jason.

She walked up to him and handed him her kitty...then went back to dancing.

I reached over and told the boy thank you, and took the kitty back.

As soon as Avery realized Jason no longer had the kitty and Mommy did, she walked right up to me, took the kitty and handed it back to Jason!
She did this several times...each time someone else would take the kitty, she would march up, get it and take it back to Jason! So we finally had her put the kitty in her stroller (I mean, a 14 year old boy does not want to sit around holding a stuffed animal!)

Well, since Avery no longer had the kitty to hand to him, she just decided to give him hugs instead!!!

It was so cute & sweet, ans Jason was SO nice about the whole thing!!!

The funny thing is, his Mom says this kind of thing happens to him all the time and that little kids just love him!


One more thing...

how wrong is this???

(and yes, it's a man!)

more weekend fun...

Today we headed out to the Plano Balloon Festival...

I have to say we were pretty impressed!

There were a LOT of hot air balloons!
{trying to keep cool with a sno-cone...yum!}

{a rare picture with Mommy not behind the camera!}

{look at these wild hot air balloons...a dragon & penguin!}

and we made it home in time to catch the Cowboys Game...

so everyone was happy!

Busy weekend...

It's that time of year...

fall is just around the corner

and that means time for outdoor festivals!!

We will be hitting one almost every weekend for a while.

It started last weekend with a butterfly festival

and continued this weekend with TWO!

Today we headed out to Grapefest... It was pretty hot (and with no breeze and walking on black top it felt even hotter!)...so we popped into the vintage railroad museum to cool off. Avery thought the BEST part of the museum was the air vents on the floor!



On to a little dancing to a Salsa Band


and some serious play-doh concentration

She thought this Gecko fan was pretty funny!

All in all, a fun day!!

{more to come tomorrow when we check out another local festival!}

'erflies...

this weekend has been rainy and wet...

there was a butterfly festival going on in Southlake hosted by the Kiwanis Club

luckily the rain let up just in time for us to head up there this afternoon!

We are looking forward to the Butterfly Flutterby in Grapevine in October, and the monarch butterfly release!!

{PS...How cute are those jeans? She looks like such a big kid!}