Trip to Texas!

We decided to take a short-notice, spontaneous trip to Fort Worth, Texas with my parents! Of course, Paige came along with us too :) I'll be honest, I almost didn't go because I was nervous how my 6 month old would do on a 2 hour flight. Last thing I wanted was to be "that mom" that everyone glares at the entire flight because my baby was crying...

Well, I'm glad that worry didn't hold us back because Paige did AMAZING on the flight and on the whole trip. Picture the best case scenario and times that by 100 and that's how well she did! She fell asleep, both on the flight there and back, before we even took off, she slept on my lap the entire time and woke up as the pilot was telling us we were preparing to land.

We have a baby who loves to socialize... I'm not kidding, she had people stopping us in the airport and on the plane because she was "talking" at them, smiling and kicking her feet. Ok, now that I'm done bragging about my well behaved, fun baby....

Friday, September 19th, we flew to Fort Worth to attend the Extreme Mustang Makeover Finals that weekend. After we got to Texas and got settled in, we headed to events and spent the rest of the day in the arena checking everything out. By the time we all went to sleep that night, we were pretty much dead tired. Paige slept 12.5 hours! haha!

Saturday, September 20th, we went to the Fort Worth Zoo (Colton isn't really into horses so he wanted to do other things during the day before the main event at night). The zoo there was pretty than the PHX one! They had two baby elephants, one boy and one girl. After the zoo, we drove around downtown Fort Worth then met up with my parents and family friend Darcy for dinner at Pizza Snob (if you ever get the chance to go there. GO! it was the best pizza!) then we walked around Texas Christian University before heading back to the arena for the Finals! Saturday also happened to be this weird day that people celebrate for their birth or something like that ;) so I got to spend my birthday in Texas with my little family and parents. It was fun! Probably one of my favorite birthdays thus far.

Sunday, we woke up and went to the Stock Yards for a few hours before catching out flight back home. We did some shopping, watched a cattle drive, I tricked Colton into getting on a bull so Paige could take her picture on one and we ate some food before leaving to the airport. Colton told me, "this place must be heaven for your mom because she loves this stuff!" and it's so true. The whole weekend was my mom in her "natural horse habitat" ;)

I'm grateful for a husband who will travel to weird places with me on trips I plan last minute. He's always such a great sport and the BEST traveler to go places with. It was fun going back to Texas because we went to San Antonio for our "first" honeymoon.

The Girl Who Visits Texas,
Erica