Austin City Limits

This year John and I both got 3 day passes to Austin City Limits. There were actually bands I wanted to see and it was in October instead of September this year, which helped a lot with the heat. I would say it was much more enjoyable this time around then when I went 2 years ago. Friday night we were able to go for a date night with just the 2 of us.

John's nephews Mitchell, Mason and Parker all came for the show. On Saturday morning the nephews, John and EZ all headed down bright and early. . .

. . . and then I showed up later in the afternoon with the rest of the crew. Thank goodness kids under 10 are free.

There was so much free swag this year thanks to Samsung. John and his nephews were able to get there early enough to go through all the booths and stock up. They also got us all passes to the Samsung tent, which served free drinks and free meals. Kind of unbelievably awesome. Here is EZ showing off some of his super cool swag.

Of course we took advantage of all the awesome activities in Austin Kiddie Limits. Netta had to get her hair spray painted as usual. We decided to have Conrad get it done as well and then quickly regretted choosing red since it made him look like his head was bleeding and it literally took weeks to get it all out of his scalp.

There was also magnet painting . . 

. . . and tattoos. King basically refused to do most of the activities. That's my little stinker. 

They also had this awesome booth were some dj's would come and freestyle while the kids got to work the turn table. Netta loved it. Their main line was "Nobody does it better than DJ Anetta." There was also a karaoke booth for the kids that had too long of a line. I felt bad for the people working there because basically it was 10 year old girls singing the same Adele song over and over and over again.

Netta and EZ always love the booth set up by Austin's School of Rock. EZ just started piano lessons so he really liked watching the kid playing on the keyboard. He also went frickin crazy on the drums, so I think those may be in his future as well.

The kids were so excited to have their cousins here and Conrad really liked Mason.

Here we are looking like the coolest family on the block. Especially Netta with her shades. Those are what she picked for her souvenir. Always a diva.

That night John was gracious enough to take the kids home so that I could stay for The Cure, which made my day. The plan was for just John and the nephews to go for all day Sunday. There had been some rain, but nothing too bad by us, so that morning they headed down. Little did we know there had been flooding at Zilker park and when they got their they found out it was cancelled for the day. Needless to say John was a bit upset. They refunded us the money, but he was still mad because this was supposed to be his one full day at the concert. Also, it was just stupid that they didn't use the email list to notify people that it had been cancelled. A little bit of a downer after what had been a great weekend. But let's just focus on the cute picture of us as a family having so much fun together ;)