Texas State Fair and Bump Updates

We almost missed going to the Texas State Fair, but thanks to some shuffling in our schedules and serious prioritizing of time we made it there on the last Thursday and had a blast! Both Zac and I are major fans of anything deep fried and we planned our route through the fair so that we would be able to easily hit up the stands selling this years winning deep fried concoctions. We tried the most tasty first which was the Deep Fried Cuban Roll. SO GOOD. Zac was in heaven with the savory pulled pork and gooey melty cheese. I also tried the BBQ pork wing which had a great sauce that was pretty awesome too.

After getting completely sucked into all the product demos we ended up buying a set of peelers and mandolins that Larry Scheidt, aka best salesman in the world, swore by. I have tried them already and am pretty impressed. These swiss made peelers shred, slice, peel, cut perfect french fry style match sticks, and glide like no other peeler I have ever used before. We also saw a stand selling the vitamix with an extra blending container for a 100 bucks! We almost caved in but we decided if we saw it again next year we would resist all rides/gimmicks/over priced food offerings and just buy the blender. The only thing we probably won't resist is the Horchata. It cost us 10 tickets or the equivalent of 5.00 but oh my heavens was it worth it. So worth it, that after taking a sip of Zac's I walked straight back and got my own 21oz of horchata.

Zac and I walked through the car shows, watched the pig races,  indulged in really yummy fudge, took pictures with the Big Texan, walked through aisles of incredible Texas merchandise, and scoped out all the different games and rides for next year. We also tried the fried nutella, which was actually a big disappointment since it was about 80% greasy fried filo dough, 10% whip cream, and only 10% nutella. It took us a while to find the stand selling the most creative state fair food--the deep fried Thanksgiving Dinner. It was pretty delicious. It was a nice balance of stuffing, turkey chunks, cranberry sauce, and gravy. Quite tasty. My ball of Thanksgiving had more Turkey than Zac's so he was a little disappointed, but I thoroughly enjoyed it!

Top left to bottom right horchata, t-day dinner, bbq pork wing, fried nutella, t-day dinner balls

We ended the day by sharing a funnel cake and vowing to get a corndog the moment we made it to next year's State Fair since we were way too full to get one that day. The Gator shish-kabob is on the next year list too. All in all it was tons of fun and we can't wait to go again especially with baby Z!

Some updates on my pregnancy:

- Just a little over 6 weeks to go!

33 weeks and 4 days = Feeling HUGE

-Still have an innie belly button, feet haven't swollen up yet, and I still have 2 pairs of prepregnancy pants that I can squeeze in to.
-Currently obsessed with mashed potatoes and Silk Vanilla Soy milk.
-Just started sleeping with a shower curtain under my fitted sheet in case my water breaks at night (according to Zac I can sleep through anything and he wouldn't be surprised if I didn't realize I was going to labor. How he figures that I have no clue!). Thank goodness I do not have princess and the pea syndrome and that I value my sleep way too much to care about the constant wooshing sound that the shower curtain makes every time I move.
-Currently prescribed to bed rest/couch rest but having a really hard time not noticing all the things I could be cleaning/dusting/arranging around me.

Oh yeah, and this doctor to be had his white coat ceremony two weeks ago.  So proud of him! But really trying to overlook all the red hair that is over-taking ALL of his face. 

Happy Fall!