HOWDY FOLKS!

Trinity got Columbus Day as a holiday so we took advantage of it and went to the State Fair of Texas! I know it's been a few weeks...but here's the post anyway.

They had the Sky Way open this year so Greg took the big girls on a ride. I'm not sure they thought it was as cool as he did, but regardless they all had fun!

Emory, Addison and I moved on to the Carousel

Trinity was tall enough this year to ride any of the ride she pleased! That also meant she was too tall to ride some of the kids rides too.

She did take a shot at the darts and won a prize for each of the girls!

This was her favorite ride of the day!

Emory was tall enough to ride all the kids rides, but not quite tall enough for some of the others.

So she took a turn with her Daddy on the Ladybug...also her favorite of the day! Hers didn't go as fast as the one Trinity rode on, but it did go backwards!

Greg took Trinity and Emory on the log ride, unfortunately this was the best shot I got. I really like the picture, but am sad I can't see their faces...oh well.

Finally Addison gets a turn to go on a ride too! She chose the pirate ships, but had to wait her turn...

Can you tell she had a blast?!?!

Emory couldn't wait to go on the swings!!!


Then we moved on to the petting zoo...unfortunately it was ridiculously crowded so we didn't get to actually use any of the $5 of feed we purchased or touch any animals, but Addison enjoyed looking at all of them!

The baby animals outside were way better!

We ended the day with candy apples and finally a family picture!

This is where Addison spent a good part of the day...

Awesome day!

I've never stayed at the Fair that long before and I'm so glad we went and all had a blast!

isn't she the sweetest ever?

I already know I've got three of the sweetest daughters on the planet, as I'm sure I share with you regularly, but I have a cute story to back it up and I want to share it too.

Tonight at dinner Emory was being extremely complementary of the meal; every single bite she took lead her to saying something else really kind. Here are a few examples:
Mmmmm...Mommy, this is delicious!
How did you make this chicken Mommy...it is so good!
This is the best dinner I've ever had!
Oh wow, I didn't know spinach could taste so good.
Ooooh, I really like this rice, how did you know to make it?
Mommy, I think this might be the best meal ever!

You know...all the usual comments from my cooking ;)

So when I asked her why she was being so extremely sweet tonight her response was PRECIOUS! She said, "Well, I just had all that juice at gymnastics and it's so sweet with a lot of sugar, so that's what's making me so sweet. Now I'm drinking milk to make me healthy."

I love my girls!

Welcome to Panther City

In case you don't know the history of Fort Worth, it was nicknamed "Panther City" back in the day because, as the story goes, it was such a dead town you could see a panther roaming the streets downtown in the middle of the day. Well it's not exactly that dead these days, but we did find some interesting wildlife roaming our street this afternoon.

Yep, that's a buzzard, eating a squirrel...CRAZY! It was just around 1 o'clock this afternoon when Greg snapped this. Just after taking it a car drove down the street and the buzzard didn't flinch at all. NUTS!

btw...another bit of information about FW, my alma matter (Paschal HS) was the first HS in FW and it's mascot is the Panther b/c of this story and the nickname that came from it...PANTHER CITY.

A few random moments...

We have had a few great random photo opps around here today and I wanted to share.

A little sass from the Princess on a Monday morning.

SUPER EMORY!

These were actually taken last night. Addison decided she needed to try Emory's boots on...

We have such adorable girls! Yes, I know...I'm biased...but I still think it's true! Thanks for admiring them too:)

Homecoming at the Hill

Last night was the homecoming football game for the high school where my mom teaches, so we made a family outing out of it. We had a great time with Pappy, Gommy and Nini and I have quite a few pictures to prove it!

Pappy bought Mums for the little ones and his honey (but not HIS daughters...I see where we rank)

The girls were so proud to be walking in with their mums, just like the students!

Addison and Nini enjoyed watching the bands perform together before the game

Trinity went to the concession stand with my dad to get some water, can you tell she was just a little proud of her negotiation skills in obtaining some cotton candy?

She thought she was gonna get away with eating the whole bag...

but then her sisters spotted it!

Trinity got really sleepy, so she tried to go to sleep using my foot as a pillow. It didn't work out too well for her, but she did end up falling asleep during the 1/2 time show.

Addison and Gommy were almost asleep too.

but not Emory, she and Greg were having a great time together!

We're fairly certain she was flashing gang signs at us in the picture...too many inner city football games I guess

We had a great time and look forward to DHJ homecoming next year!

Our little singers

This year both Trinity and Emory are in choir at church, The Cherub Choir. They are having a great time and learning from the same person who taught both my sister and me when we were growing up. They have already learned so many basic things about music and some really fun songs. This past Sunday was their first time to sing in church and they were precious! I'm prettu sure I heard Trinity's voice through all the others', but Emory isn't quite as confident just yet. I thought I'd share a few pictures of our sweet little cherubs with you...

The girls had just gotten their robes on and were in the choir room.

In this picture they were in the big church, waiting to process with the other choirs...can you tell that they're showing off a bit?

I look forward to many more choir memories, special moments and concerts to come!

Going to the Theatre

My mom and one of her best friends took Trinity and Emory and Madelynne (the friends grandaughter and one of Trinity's friends) to see Sleeping Beauty at Casa Manana today. The girls were rediculously excited about getting to see this particular story, but even more excited about getting to do something "grown up" with their grandmother and friend. The girls got all dressed up and fancy for the occasion.

Even though they were all dressed and fancy they were still dancing around and being silly with their daddy while they were waiting on Gommy to pick them up.

Yay Gommy's here!

When they returned from the play Emory came running into the house and said, "Mommy, all the parts were my favorite!", so I guess it was an enjoyable event for all!

Thanks Gommy for the invite and special time with the girls! I know they enjoyed it and times like this will always be precious to them!

A lesson on chopsticks

On Thursday Greg had a lunch appointment with a client who wanted to eat Sushi. When he saw the chopsticks he immediately thought about the girls, so he snagged some extras and brought them home for us to use at dinner. When I saw them I quickly changed the menu to a favorite around here, Curly Noodles (aka Ramen). I know...extravagant homemade feast, but the girls LOVE them and would eat them three meals a day, seven days a week if we would let them!

I captured some of the facial expressions that went along with the experimenting so I could share

So you can't actually her face in this one, but you can see how she's using her left hand to guide her right. She refused to accept assistance at the beginning because, "I know how they work Daddy, I've done this before!"

Emory was desperately trying to get the two sticks to work together but just couldn't get either one of her hands to hold them both. She concentrated so hard! Every time she would get some picked up she couldn't get them in her mouth, she's bite the sticks instead.

Trinity finally got them figured out and ate almost her entire bowl using chopsticks! Greg job Princess!

Emory finally gave up on using two sticks and tried just using the one to pick the noodles up and the other to wrap them around the stick with. Too funny! I think she ended up eating 20 noodles total...probably less. I've very proud of you for trying so hard Angel, but I'm afraid you might have inherited your mommy's uncoordinated fingers...sorry!

Early mornings with the Hinckleys

This morning Emory grabbed my camera and started capturing some of her favorite moments from the early morning hours. She took at least 50 pictures (quite a few of them are of the floor and walls) the ones I'm posting are a few of them that turned out well of the different members of our wonderful family. Let's see if you can guess which member of our family is NOT a morning person...

The eternally happy Addison

Always loving Daddy

Hmmm...I think she might be the cranky one...

Me and my sweet baby girl, getting diapered and dressed:)

Thanks Ems for capturing some of the moments Mommy and Daddy never think about! Some of the best moments of our lives happen before we're awake enough to remember them!

Everybody do the Monkey Dance!

Last night the girls were in particularly silly moods and decided to put on a show for us. You can't fully appreciate the show without having seen it in person, however I'll do my best by providing you with pictures:

Here they are, beginning their routine by being monkeys

then they move on to shaking their monkey tails

then Trinity decided they should pose for pictures, so they did their "model" poses.

Trinity said, "models look mad in their pictures and serious too."

Now they've decided to show us their huge muscles because they all ate spinach with dinner and their muscles grew strong right away, just like Popeye's!

Trinity decided they needed to put on a real show for us, so she made up programs for each of us so we would know what the show was. It was too cute not to take a picture of:)

(Trinity, Emory and Addison, The Monkey Dance)

So we moved on into the living room for the real show.

They started out in balls and they were singing a cute little song they had made up

They then "grew up" and started dancing and jumping around while they continued with singing

What wonderful entertainment the girls were! How lucky are Greg and I to have nightly productions written just for us and put on in our very own home?!?!

I love my life and I adore my girls!