...our little kingdom: October 2010

So we went to Ava's Fall Festival at her school on Friday night. It was fun, they had a good turn-out and the kids had a blast. If any of y'all are able to come next year, they had bounce houses and slides and games, and all sorts of fun- plus it all goes to a good cause, our school! We finished much later than we had wanted, and ended up in Dallas at 10:30pm. We put the girls in their beds and chatted with the Blackhursts for a bit then went to bed. That's when I realized that I had not double-checked with Todd on the tickets. As you may or may not know, I lose things...but only important things like tickets, keys, wallets, social security cards, you name it. However if it is insignificant or unimportant, I can often locate it in seconds. So, yes, Todd was in charge of the tickets and when I asked him to make sure he brought them, in horror he responded he didn't think he had. Panic. I didn't sleep most of that night, which has been a bit of a theme lately, and in the morning Todd drove to Richardson to see if he TicketMaster that opened at 8am could help. They couldn't. He would have to wait until 9am and talk to the 1-800 number. So he waited at the ticketmaster. The people on the phone were able to void the tickets and have them reprinted at will call, but we would need ID and the credit card we purchased them with...problem. That card expired in September and I just got a new one in the mail and hadn't put it in my wallet yet, but I did take the old one out. AND? It was in Waco...with our tickets. So I printed up our proof of purchase, and our credit card account info. As soon as Todd would arrive back home we were going to get out the door to get there as soon as possible. Mark (my father-in-law) had run an errand and he was going to drive us up to Dart. So Chris (my mother-in-law) got in to drive, and we loaded up everyone and were about to leave when Mark pulled up. So Chris got out, took Lucy and the diaper bag back into the house and we got moving. Anyone catching on to the theme? Any guesses on the next problem? My wallet was in the diaper bag. So I'm about to have a nervous breakdown at this point. We get to fairpark and luckily they accept our paper receipt and let us into the park- b/c that would have been an over $30 to get fair tickets. We get to DSM, show them the same receipt, and they start working on figuring out why we need tickets and such. Then my Mom calls. Through this whole ordeal I can hear my mother's voice, "Don't forget your tickets!" I felt so disappointed in myself and I had feared we had lost all this money- which Mom & Dad had given us as our Christmas present...and I started to cry when Mom started talking. It had all piled up on me and I had to let it go! Poor Mom. While we were talking, though, Todd brought over the tickets and all was well. Sigh.

So- onto the better parts! The fair was ridiculously crowded with people. Longhorns and Sooners EVERYWHERE. It was just too many people and I didn't really like that, but oh well. We thought it would be fun to eat fair food, so we got nachos and fajitas, which were yummy and just short of a million dollars. In retrospect, we should have eaten at the DSM (Dallas Summer Musical) Hall, but oh well, we thought it would be fun...but it turns out sitting on the grass trying not to get dirty and eat nachos, one of the messiest foods on the planet isn't a barrel of monkeys!

We decide to head on over to the hall once we have seen Big Tex, which was a little creepy to the girls. :) We have awesome seats. The girls get to sit on these little pillow booster seats so they could see everything well. The show was........amazing. So funny. They have a whole song/segment on burping and tooting. Needless to say, our family was laughing HARD. The character of the dragon was actually a bunch of puppeteers, and that was AMAZING. She was my favorite character. Lord Farquire is a grown man on his knees, so that was really funny as well. However, the ending was the absolute best. It is just like the credits in the movie, and they shot confetti into the crowd. The girls loved it and I felt so fortunate to share the experience with them, and SO blessed it all worked out. I guess you could say it was worth it, but I'd like to not do it that way again. :)

Conference was very good, although I didn't like missing all of Saturdays sessions. Thats what I get when I book tickets like 8 months in advance, I don't remember things like Conference. Anyhow, it always fills me up and makes me feel better about life in general. So my goal is to remain SANE this week because on Friday I have Time Out for Women, and that should do the trick. Wish me luck.

I don't remember if I posted this here or not. My sweet Lucy and I making pumpkin bread. :)