Daxton's 2nd Birthday - Cake & Presents

We returned from the Texas State Fair to continue the celebration with an awesome spaghetti pie dinner (courtesy of GrandMouse), birthday cake, and presents.  We had cocktails and an appetizer by the outdoor fireplace (1st time we got to use it - YEAH!).  I threw in some blurry pictures of me just to prove I was actually present at the event.  Thanks Emily for taking them! Unfortunately a lot of these are blurry iPhone photos.  :( Dax's favorite part of the evening I think was the toast - because he loves to "cheers!" and he got a big kick out of the fact we were toasting his special day.  

By presents, I mean he opened like one -Mouse's talk and scan cash register - which was a huge hit and he was happy playing with it for the rest of the evening.   We spread the rest of the gifts out over the remainder of the weekend.  He finally noticed the art easel Bert and I gave him Saturday morning- he has still yet to open all of the accessories.  Emily came by again Saturday evening and gave Dax a cute train that spelled his name and The Little Enhine that Could book - a classic.  Thanks Em!  Dax received a tent/tunnel combo from Uncle Don and Aunt Tammy that was also a big hit once we finally got around to opening it Saturday.  Bob and Terry have a sandbox waiting for Dax back home so the birthday fun will continue into November!

If you live or happen to visit Dallas and are in need of a cake, I highly recommend Society Bakery.  They made Daxton's cowboy themed cake for me based off some ideas I found on the internet and not only did it look good, it was delicious! Daxton didn't want to wear his cowboy hat, so Bert did the best he could to fit it on his noggin'.  :)

It was nice to have family join us even though we are so far away from home.  Thanks to Bob, Terry, Mouse, and Emily for coming to the celebration!  And extra special thanks to Terry and Mouse.  Terry helped Bert keep Dax while I was in the hospital last weekend and my Mom flew out Monday to help me out all week.  I would not have been able to pull the birthday weekend off as well without them.  Thank you!!!     

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Daxton's 2nd Birthday - Texas State Fair

Of course everything is bigger and better in Texas, so what better way to celebrate your birthday than at the Texas State Fair???  If you can think of it, they can fry it at the fair. We had fun sampling the various concoctions although you'd have to be there for weeks to try them all or risk a massive stomach ache.  I tried to capture images of a few examples.  Dax had fun riding the carnival rides and winning prizes from the carnies at the midway.  You can see some videos at the bottom of this post.  I have a few more pictures to add I took from Terry's phone after mine died.  I'll post those once I get them.

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GrandMouse proved 60 is the new 20, bolding riding the aptly named "Crazy Mouse."  Cousin Em Shea was bold enough to go with her.   The best part was she thought Emily could control the amount of spinning.  The picture captured was priceless.    

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Needless to say we all had a rip roaring good time.  Sadly Big Tex was a casualty.  We made a whole weekend out of it, so stay tuned for more pics.  It's going to be very hard to top this birthday.

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Pumpkin Patch

We finished off an epic birthday weekend with a trip to the Flower Mound Pumpkin Patch.  The place was packed!  There was no shortage of activities... they had horses, bounce houses, train rides, corn mazes, hay rides, carnie food, and of course plenty of pumkins.  Not bad for $5.   

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