Museums, swimming and family time

Due to the threat of thunderstorms we skipped the farmer's market and visited the Mayborn Museum at Baylor University instead.  It is a really cool museum full of the history of Waco and Texas and then 2 stories of hands on kid stuff with everything from a tea party room to a prairie style house to a kid's weather station to a room dedicated to the inside of the human body.  As usual the weather didn't turn out as threatening as expected (in fact not a drop of rain fell) so we ended the day at the swimming pool.  I think my child is a fish. :)

Face Painting, Boots and Grocery Shopping

Hooray for the weekend!!!!!  Today was filled with a trip to the farmer's market, trying a new bbq restaurant (I gave it a "meh"), "family boot day", grocery shopping and finally a couple hours at the pool.

Farmer's Market was awesome as usual.  We got tons of awesome produce, some more czech sausage and skirt steaks along with local Pineapple Balsamic Vinegar and dairy free cookies!!!!  A new vendor this week was an airstream bakery.  When I saw the posting about them on fb - I messaged them and asked if by any chance they would have dairy free cookies (a total treat for Mia because that generally isn't available) and they did!!!! When we went by they had set aside two for her and didn't even charge us.  It was totally sweet.  We will definitely be going back next week and buying some.  :) (and maybe begging for the recipe too)

I think I've mentioned it before but I <3 H.E.B.!!!!  Their "bulk foods" selection is fabulous.  Today we got different fruits for more homemade granola bar and made our own trail mix.  I was also able to get ground ginger for a total of $0.08 because they had it in bulk and all I needed was 2 tbsps for a recipe I'm going to try this week.

Fabulous start to the weekend for sure.

Facepainting at the farmer's market

Mia had so much fun getting her face painted today!  Other than our usual Saturday morning trip to the market we just chilled around the apartment and played at the pool for a little while.  It was a lovely and relaxing day!

New Saturday morning tradition

Our new Saturday morning tradition is to head to the Waco Downtown Farmer's Market followed by lunch at FreeBirds World Burritos.  The farmer's market is quite frankly AMAZING!  The picture above is all of our "loot" from the first weekend we went - sweet potatoes, carrots, lettuce, dill, rosemary, royal dip, spinach pakora, local olive oil, local jalapeno infused olive oil, naan, brocolli and an onion.  Since we've been back we've also gotten spinach, peaches, potatoes, squash, steak, sausage, tamales, and tatsoi.  Not only is the produce lovely but the environment is sooo much fun.  There is live music, ready made food vendors, amazing coffee and teas, a picnic area and it's all set on the Brazos River so if you do grab food you can walk a few hundred feet and enjoy your food with a beautiful scenery.  This girl is enjoying every moment of it.