Texas!

I headed to Texas for my last work trip pre-baby and am still amazed at how ANYONE can live there...it is SO hot!! Lindsey was able to drive to meet me and stay for the weekend with us so that was a lot of fun.

The place we stayed was a really nice new convention center...very proud of Texas.

They had fun train sets/displays set up all over.

Even a replica of the Alamo.

This is where we ended up eating both nights, we had great ribs the first night and the second night....

pretty much anything on the menu that was fried...which is just about everything!

Linny and me...we had fun at the outlet malls, in the pool, eating some good food (and ice cream!) and just hanging out. Lin was a CHAMP in helping Ellie and I get all of our stuff ready to hand out as well. She folded about 300 shirts for us and fastened about 200 twisty ties! She headed out early the morning of the actual convention to avoid the heat since she has no AC in her car!

So Ellie and I headed to the convention hall to set up...I am bummed this pic didn't come out because it is hands down the ugliest blob of balloons I have ever seen. They for sure did not get the colors right and then threw in a few random ones here and there. They made an amazing balloon arch and then this! Blah!!

Here is our booth...and you can see all of the bags we stuffed lined up along the wall. Once they started coming in we were slammed right up until we had to leave. It was the fastest packing job ever so that we could make it to our flights!