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Rodeo Houston Family Fun

March 29, 2017 By Callie Leave a Comment

Houston,TX

This is a sponsored post on behalf of Rodeo Houston-I received tickets to the Rodeo show in excahnge for my honest and root tooting opinion.

 

It’s that time of year…you know when you’re driving down the road and traffic’s just a going slow because there’s a Chuck Wagon full of actual chuck wagons being pulled by horses, led by Cowfolk, and the bluebonnets pop up and the boots come out. It’s a Texas tradition time and Rodeo Houston is just that! We literally go to Rodeo every year-yes Houston has that world famous, most amazing rodeo and it’s not just for those late concert going people who two step. It’s for the littles too.

 

Houston Rodeo has a livestock show as well-what’s that you ask? It’s where all our local FFA students who have advanced come and show their livestock and sell them to community members who usually donate the animals back to the students along with some money for college. It where folks from all over can come and learn about livestock and the different types of animals raised in Texas.

 

Houston Livestock show and rodeo is the place to come dressed in your best cowgirl wear and support local vendors by buying your little an authentic but has to be pink cowgirl hat.

 

It’s where you get to see real live Longhorns up close and in a most friendly kind of way.

 

It’s where you get to collect cards with animals on them-every child’s dream!

 

It’s where you can walk around and find an amazing carnival full of fun filled rides-except it was mighty windy that day and our cowgirl hat blew off and our littlest Texan wasn’t having any of that.

 

It’s where you can try your luck at fun carnival games and win not one but four new stuffed animals just by fishing without bait.

It’s where you can eat cookie dough, and cotton candy and sausage and BBQ all in one place.

You can literally spend a while day at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo-playing games, learning new things, planting, petting animals, seeing local high school art exhibits. If you get tired of the exhibit hall you can head outside where there’s a full fledged carnival with games, rides and food all in the shadow of our beloved Astrodome.

 

Houston is an amazing cultural city and the Houston Livestock show and Rodeo is a Texas tradition for young and old. Yeehaw. Add this one to your bucket list!

Filed Under: Family, Houston Happening, review, Sponsored, Texas Tagged With: family fun, housotn, houston happening, livestock show, review, rodeo, sponsored, texas, traditions, travel

Weekend Recap

April 4, 2016 By Callie

This weekend was all about being a Texan. You see every year we have this amazing thing happen and they’re called bluebonnets. What’s a bluebonnet? Ask any Texas Kindergartner and they will tell you why ma’am that’s our state flower. They look like little tiny blue bonnets and line the roadside hills of our interstates especially through the hill country.

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Every year about this time we make the drive out of the city and into Chappell Hill-home of the Bluebonnet Festival. We look for those marvelous blue and orange hills. We have Indian paintbrushes too-don’t know about those? Check out this and this Tomie dePaola children’s book.

We take a picture every single year-some years go well…..

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so years go okay….

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and some years just don’t.

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Like I said we are making memories-they may not be the ones we wanted to make but we sure did make them.

We celebrate our Texas victory by doing something well Texan-BBQ-and pies, and blue bell and kolaches.

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Because well the stars at night are big and bright-deep in the heart of Texas.

This post contains affiliate links.

Filed Under: Day Trip, Family, Houston Happening, Restaurants, Road Trip, Texas, Uncategorized Tagged With: bbq, bluebonnets, chappell hill, day trip, family, houston happening, indian paintbrushes, kolaches, restaurants, road trip, texas, tomie depaola, traditions, tx, Weekend ReCap

Christmas Roller Coaster

December 29, 2015 By Callie Leave a Comment

Someone was nice #santacame

Someone was nice #santacame

Our Christmas roller coaster went up that hill, paused and now is slowly heading back to the station. I love preparing our homes and hearts for Christmas but I do not love the aftermath.

I forget about it every year.

I’m always so excited at all the fun Christmas things coming-what should we try this year….

How did your time go? Anything fun and new or old and loved?

We made cookies this year-and I mean she really did make them. We talked about ingredients and measuring and pouring and mixing and baking. She adored it.Honestly that child made a pretty darn good batch and ate four that night!

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She grabbed her shoes at least three times a week at night and smiled-asking to get in the car and drive around to see lights. Of course we did.

We dressed in matching jammies and got excited…and prayed for my Dad as he battled like a soldier through heart surgery.

We pressed our hands in salt dough and I begged for the Santa picture we couldn’t she wouldn’t do this year. My heart melted as I realized this was year 4 of Christmas with her and that the years were racing.

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Now we face the toys to open, the decorations to take down, the week on the couch watching Harry Potter took its toll and the house was wrecked. Oh but I love/hate it.

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We have missed our friends….we have missed outing but our couch sitting has been amazing.

I hold her and think don’t let it slide, don’t race. I know to well what school brings-time away, time demands and I don’t want it to start.

For now it’s just me, and her, and him and HIM. Oh and Grandma is usually here too.

Merry Christmas Baby Jesus-thank you for this time.

Now go clean your house already. It looks like Minnie Mouse is basically in every corner of my house now!

Filed Under: Birthdays, Christmas, Christmas Traditions Tagged With: christmas, cooking, traditions

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