houston livestock show & rodeo

my parents were nice enough to get us all tickets to the rodeo last saturday, including tickets to see brad paisley.  have i mentioned that i love me some brad paisley?  i don't buy his music (as my hubby brought to my attention: i don't buy any music.  i know.  i am old.) but i always love it when it comes on the radio.  plus did i mention that he has the sweetest, most genuine little love songs?  anyway, i am a fan so i was uber excited to have a chance to take my little one to the rodeo for the first time and get to see brad paisley in concert!

a little backtracking is probably in order.  colin got to have a slumber party with his honey & daddy jay & his cousins on friday night.  amazing.  the husband & i got to have a much needed date night and colin was so busy having a blast he didn't even notice we were gone.  back to the rodeo.  we picked him up early saturday afternoon and drove to pasadena to pick up my family for the rodeo.  we were bummed my dad couldn't go (he was super sick and is just now starting to feel a little more human) and we missed uncle doug too (he had to work way late on saturday morning and decided it wouldn't be safe to sleep for 3 hours before working again).  but we had a great time!

colin & uncle michael on the "train", aka metro rail.

preggo aunt kim!!! 



posing for the camera!



fun on the farm was so cool!  the kids walked through and fed chickens, "planted" veggies, and milked cows.  at the end of the trail they 'sold' all of their items to the farmer's market and got were able to purchase something from the store for themselves (a snack).  not to mention the tractors.  colin loved it!!!

once we were inside the stadium colin was spoiled with candy and treats.  little did we know the last saturday of the rodeo is the championship which translates to 3.5 hours of rodeo instead of 1.  it was fun but it was forever long.  colin was a trooper - he did great and we even got to see the first 30 minutes of brad paisley.

colin's first taste of cotton candy...think he liked it??!?!

after the rodeo/concert we were all starving to death.  on our way to the food tents the brother got his very first guitar.  precious, right?  notice his rodeo handkerchief too?  thanks to uncle michael he wore that thing all night and loved it.

all in all we had a blast!  we learned what to do again and what to do differently next year.  i can't wait to go back again!!! thanks mom and dad for treating us!