I was really excited and happy to find out Ashly and Layla wanted to come to see our new home in Sachse Texas while Matt went to Colorado on a guy mountain bike trip.  The blog write up on Matt’s trip along with some incredible mountain photos can be seen over on his blog at www.cyclesinlife.com

The gilrs got in Thursday early afternoon and we hung out around the house and went down to the pool for Layla to have a little Splish Splash time.

Friday I took the girls into the office to see where I work and to show off Layla to fellow co-workers.  I had asked Ashly what kinds of food she wanted while she was down here and all she said was I want your home cooking.  Friday afternoon we hit the grocery stores and planned out several home cooked meals.

Saturday started off with homemade Belgium waffles and then a drive over to the Fort Worth Zoo.  It was a very nice, large and clean zoo.  It got up to the mid 90’s but plenty of animals were very active.

I have tried several times to get some decent photos of a male wood duck, and finally got one at the zoo.

I got the privilege of buying little miss Layla her first pair of real live cowgirl boots.

Sunday and Monday were spent shopping for Layla fall and winter clothes at the Allen outlet mall.

All in all I think all the girls had a nice weekend and I got to spoil them a little.  I worked on getting her to say PaPaw all weekend, but mostly just came out da or dad.

She is growing up fast!  I miss them already!

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Next up on the list of Texas events are Wylie Rodeo Days, and Plano Balloon Festival

Life I good and I am blessed!

Kent

Plano had an event this past Saturday called Chalk It Up.  It was free, and I was hoping for some really cool 3 D chalk art.  Took my camera and headed to downtown Plano.

They had a band playing in the little park just West of the DART line.  There were 44 sectioned off places for the registered artist to draw.  We got there around 6:30, since it started at 5:00 PM.  There were only about 8 people drawing and none were done.  I snapped off a couple work in progress that look to have some potential.

I was really hoping they would have been drawing since daybreak and had some 3D artwork like these.  3D Chalk Art

At least I finally got to eat at Lockharts Smokehouse.  Best BBQ so far in my Texas adventures.

One of the juvenile Ruby throated hummingbird has been hanging out at my office window.  She gets so close my telephoto lens won’t focus.  I’ll have to shoot her with a 24-70mm.  More to come of this later.

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Life is good and I am blessed.

Kent