After my first experience at Derby two years ago.....
I said I would not return unless a few things happened - someone would give us tickets, it would be a beautiful day, and/or I would not be pregnant. All of those things happened to line up for us this year and we couldn't pass up the offer.
Shopping for dresses and hats with two little boys is exhausting....
Owen especially liked this hat. He was so very sweet while I was trying on dresses - he would say "I love that dress mommy, can you buy that one?"
My dad and Karen came up to keep the boys for the weekend so we could head down Friday night and hang out with some of our friends without the worry of waking up super early Saturday morning.
We tailgated with a big group of people in the stadium parking lot. I didn't get any good pictures but Connor's and Rachel provided a delicious breakfast with eggs, sausage, biscuits and of course mimosas.
This is how adults tailgate...
This is how the young people tailgate (a big blow up pool filled with ice and beer)...
Our seats were really great - we had a little box with chairs instead of bleachers and it was shady in the early afternoon. We couldn't have asked for better weather....
We did get to see the red carpet where the celebrities go through, however the only celebrities we saw were Kendra Wilkinson and Hank Baskett...
We bet on every race of the day and seriously lost every single dollar we bet. Luckily we didn't bet too much money - I am sure there were a lot of disappointed people at the track that day, as well as some very lucky winners...
We brought the boys cute little derby hats - and Owen and Grayson love to pretend to run in the derby race. Owen named his horse Shockey and Grayson is Chickey - not sure where he came up with that.
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