Burton Cotton Gin Festival

This weekend I went to the Burton Cotton Gin Festival. It was very country. :) I was also planning on going the Houston International Festival today but it was raining and I ended up going shopping with my parents. (Wow, I'm like 5 lol.)

They had some craft fair tents set up but it was nothing like last weekend so I was sad. Lol

There was a tractor pull and that kept my attention for about 30 seconds lol. I think many of the people here were eating and watching. The grassy hill was a great place to eat because there weren't a lot of tables.

The Cotton Gin

LANDMARK :)

I took a free tour of the gin and it was cool. Good ole cotton smarts.

View from up in the cotton gin.

Went to dinner with my mom at Goode's BBQ. FINALLY. It was good....yea, that's about it. :) I've had better.

Cute decor though...

Bevo! And Anson is only 24 miles away. Yay, that's where Terry and Barbara are! :)

Next weekend I have four festivals to get to. We'll see what happens.

Bluebonnets and Chappell Hill....and Perfect Convertible Weather!

Well, this weekend I went to the (popular) Chappell Hill Bluebonnet Festival. It was definitely the craft fair of the year. So busy! And not so much about bluebonnets but was appreciative of the workout I got from it.

TRAFFFFFFFFFFFFIC We did get a great parking spot, though and our $5 went to the Chappell Hill Historic Society so I was glad to have donated to them.
This is what we saw when we walked up.
But it was ENDLESS tents with all sorts of crafts and JEWELRY! I got a beautiful pink flower ring (HUGE!) and some blue paw print earrings for Lamkin.
The newest craft I saw was this Butts collector. My dad swears he's going to start smoking outdoors so I'm hoping my aunt and I can make him one of these out of a UT pot.
MORE booths but here we got a margarita. Not worth it.
As we were leaving we some some beautiful historic homes. I'll have to return to investigate. :)
We totally got lost heading back because the festival was on the main road to the highway. There were detour signs and then they magically stopped. So my mom and I had fun getting the cows attentions and de-stressing from the road wars.
Moooo
Bluebonnets!!




New camera setting :)
One of my favs
Probably my fav!

One of my favs!! It's a donkey!
Went to Cypress Station Grill. Love their chicken fingers. And watched Phil Mickelson win the Masters!!
Next weekend is more festivals and sadly, enough, no Llano.

Ahhhhh Contentment

I just have to say.....I love my job. I love who I work with. I love the family I come home to. :) Life is good! And summer is less than 2 months away!!!!!!!!!!!

Updated Summer Agenda
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June 3 Last Day of School
June 4 Drive to Abilene, Texas
June 5-June 13 (approx) COLORADO!!! and New Mexico
June 13-20 New Braunfels Tubing the River
June 21-27 CRUISE to Caribbean!!!

July 1-10 ENGLAND!!!! London, Windsor and Chester
July 10-20 Texas 101 Chowdown Shows with Deborah
July 20-30 NORTH CAROLINA and my nephews

August 1-10 Connecticut Part II

GET EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!

Tyler, Texas....Trip 2

Well, I went back to Tyler this weekend for a re-do of the Azalea Trails and for the Four Winds Renaissance Festival. I went with both of my aunts...Bev and Sherry. The Ren. Festival was quite the let down so we ended up actually seeing a lot of places from flyers that I had gathered from our previous trip.

Without further ado....

New camera settings lol will be having LOTS of fun with this with the bluebonnets for the next month.

The aunts in front of the gazebo

Dogwoods...

There were the Tyler belles at some of the more popular houeses. It was pretty cute....some people were taking pictures with them.

CHERRY BLOSSOMS! :)

Then we headed to the Four Winds Renaisssance Festival. LOL kinda bare, huh? Anyways, what really matters is the people were amazingly friendly and I would totally support their hobby business.

Pirates sword-fighting lol

The Easter bunny showed up with the king and queen to watch the jousting tournament.

We gathered on wooden benches and was really impressed that we began the (REAL) tournament with a prayer. Plus, the announcer had a crush on me since he kept coming over and making fun of how I say "Kazaa!" which is what you're supposed to scream.

Our knight that our section cheered for was Sir Dustin DuGrey. He was horrible. LOL Not gonna lie! The horse was beautiful but he said after the tournament that the horse was a little skiddish and was pulling away.

There were four games but then there was an actual jousting match where they were scored upon hitting their shields. I could have gotten a much better shot if the wooden poll wasn't there!

Our knight lost lol

And, as a lesson to all the kids there, the drunken pirate won. Nice, reallllll nice.

There wasn't really any food at the Ren Fest so we went and had some food and margaritas The Jalepeno Tree. That's when I pulled out my flyers that I hold on to. LOL

So, we ended up at the Goodman Museum. We toured around the house and luckily it didn't take too long, as it was nearly closing time.

Woohoo!! Another registered historical place down!

One of the bedrooms...

Then another flyer was to this Antique Mall. I didn't find anything but my aunts did. I did find some funny things though that are pictured below. Maybe it's because I'm going through an extensive house remodel right now but clever.

Haha! Nice way to recycle your toilet.

Old tub? Turn it into a flower garden!

Well, next weekend will be another weekend of festivals but closer by. Maybe Galveston...maybe Chappell Hill bluebonnets. Whatever it may be it'll be fun and totally enjoyable if this BEAUTIFUL convertible weather keeps up!