The Shed

This weekend is the grand opening of The Shed (formally Shed 1) at the Dallas Farmer's Market!

The moved everyone out, remodeled it, & moved EVERYONE back in! The Shed was packed today for the big celebration!

Luke found the biggest basket of oranges to play with ;)

They had face painting and a petting zoo! Luke did not participate in the face painting, even though he begged & begged ;)

As part of the remodel they added a stage to the back of The Shed, Jazz while you shop :)

 This produce stand travels back in time to bring us prehistoric fruit!

 Luke approves :)

 We got to watch an entire bag of fresh peas get shelled in just a few minutes! I think they added a touch of magic during this remodel ;)

They may have some new diggs, but the wonderful produce that we know & love, is still there & will be what brings us back!

Legoland!!

 Elias & I went to Legoland for his 3rd "Birthday Trip", yes his birthday was in February, don't judge!

This was just the holding area where we waited for our turn to go in! Count me impressed!

The first thing we did, after all the kids helped "make" a lego to take home, was ride Kingdom Quest. This was like a ride along video game where we got to shoot the bad guys. Elias enjoyed holding the gun, even though he wasn't tall enough to actually shoot any bad guys.

Then it was straight to Duplo Village. This is an area just for kids under 40". He especially loved the giant rubbery legos!

They also had an area for kids over 40" that he desperately wanted to go in, and he kept telling me, "but I am a bigger kid!" So I think we will have to make another trip once he is an even bigger kid ;)

Earthquake Tables

Here you have to build an earthquake proof building. The platform will shake once you are done building & press the button. He liked this, because he loves to destroy Lego towers!

Miniland

Elias could care less, but I was very impressed that they built Dallas out of Legos!!

And certain parts of it, like the crane, he could operate using controllers.

Merlin's Apprentice

This one goes around in circles & up & down while you pedal & hold the bar like you are on a flying bike. Elias couldn't reach the pedals, so he kept telling me to pedal faster! I need this kid with me during my exercises!

Lego Racers: Build & Test

Elias loved rolling lego cars down the huge ramp! He built his first one, but after that was happy testing out other's cars when they left them to go play somewhere else.

Lunch time! The kids meals at Legoland come in this adorable Lego box! I was tempted to get a kids meal for myself just so I could have a box too!

Star Wars Miniland

Elias is racing this Podracer with another little boy, they were cute trying to figure out how to work them!

Vroom Vroom!

He is counting the Nemos :) This was in the gift shop, advertising the Sea Life Aquarium next door. I had no idea they had built so much up around the Grapevine Mills Mall! Will be planning more trips out there in the near future!

Batman!!! I do believe this was his favorite part of the entire trip! A picture with Batman, in the gift shop... something we could have done for free ;) It's the simple things.

As we were walking out to the car, he was holding my hand & told me he was ready to go home and take a nap in his own bed, of course he fell asleep on the ride home instead! But before falling asleep, he was babbling on & on about the trip, ( who says boys don't talk!) and he paused, took a deep breath, and said, "I love you Bo", heart melting! Excuse me while I pull over, because I can no longer see ;)

We had a great trip! Next year I will try my hardest for the trip to be much much closer to his actual birthday!! Happy belated birthday Elias, Bo loves you too!!!

Dallas Farmers Market and a few stops along the way!

What a busy day we had yesterday! The plan started with just a simple day swimming with my mom because she is on vacation this week, and because we have friends with a pool who are wonderful enough to let us use it whenever we want :) Jamie suggested we try out this new doughnut place she found, called Glazed Cafe, before swimming. 

Please excuse our about to go swimming look ;)

They had some very unique doughnut choices, such as a maple eclair that had strips of bacon on top of it. I got a savory waffle that had bacon, jalapenos, and cheddar cheese on top of it. If you are in Grand Prairie looking for a bite of breakfast I suggest you look them up, hopefully they will have a working website by then, because as of now I have no link to give you.

Then we had a wonderful time swimming!

After wearing the kids out at the pool Jen & Leah went home so Leah could nap, and we took Luke to the Farmer's Market!

Look at all that beautiful produce! Luke was thoroughly worn out from swimming!

But when he did wake up, he was ready to try all the yummy fruits & veggies! He liked the cucumber!

He liked the cantaloupe so much he tried to eat the peel!

Here he is trying a melon I had never heard of, an Israel melon. We all liked it & I even bought one to bring home for Hubby :)

Yum! Juicy!

This was actually Luke's second trip to the Farmer's Market. If you remember I posted a pic almost identical to this one in a previous post, only Luke was still in mommy's tummy :) (and if you do click back to read that post, and are wondering about my cilantro garden... it didn't make it)

They are working on remodeling the Farmer's Market, so we will be going back Labor Day weekend to see The Shed!

Once we had bought all our yummy fruits & veggies, my sister wanted to go try Emporium Pies, apparently we talked it up alot ;) We found out they change out their pies every season! So we will have to go back once Fall hits!

Hubby wanted a slice too! And they brought it out to me in the cutest to go package!

Busy Busy day! I think my Mom is going to need a vacation to recover from her vacation (I promise she was with us, she just somehow stayed out of the pictures)! Do you have a local Farmer's Market? Do you love it as much as we love ours?! You are welcome to come check ours out any time, we will share ;)