Friendship.

This is my bestie Nancy.  She lives a long way from me.  She's a Texan and that means that we live about 1000 miles apart:(  That makes for a lot of texting, ichatting, and phone calls.  We've know each other for about 3 years but it has just been in the last year or so that we have become very close.

She has been a huge support to me in the last year.  When I knew that we were headed to Ft. Worth for spring break, we decided to do a girls trip.  She drove up from Houston to Ft. Worth and picked me up and we stayed in downtown Ft. Worth.

The first evening we ate dinner at P. F. Chang's.  We enjoyed a nice long meal and compared IPad's at the table.

Then we walked around downtown Fort Worth.

The next day we went to a store called Sam Moon's.  For those of you that don't live in Texas, it is a store with bags, bags, and more bags along with jewelry.  I was doing some serious shopping at that store.

And yes, I bought the gray one, the brown, one and the black one:)  Also added a white one to the total and had to buy a suitcase to get them all home.

We then headed off to get a pedicure and when we got there, I decided to get a manicure too.

Then it was off to dinner at Saltgrass.  We split a filet and got some key lime pie to go.

After dinner we headed back to downtown Fort Worth to do a little more walking.

Texas and a game of basketball.

I should call this Texas Post 1 since I can't show you all the pictures in one post.  So, I will break it up into a couple of posts for y'all.  As I just typed this, I remembered that I haven't even showed you all the pictures from our vacation last year.  That is a must do post!

We decided to fly to Texas to visit my sister in law and her family.  We usually try to visit every summer but since we have moved so much in the last couple of years, we haven't been since 2009.  It was high time for a trip out there for some family fun.

Had to travel in my new Pleated Poppy scarf.  Loving my new purchase:)

Waiting on dad to park the car.

Usually I read on any flight that I take but this time Caden asked to play me in a game of scrabble on my IPad so that is what we did.  Gary always brings some type of history book to read:)

Flying into Ft. Worth and loving all the wide open spaces with touches of green!

So we flew out on a Thursday evening because my nephew was only going to be home until Sunday and we wanted to see him.  He is in college in Arkansas and his spring break was the week before Caden's so that is why we left a little early.

I have to say that when this group gets together, it is nothing but a big competition.  Courtney & Christopher (my niece and nephew) play college basketball and Gary & Chris seem to forget that they are 43 & 45 years old.  I think you know where this is headed.

This was the first thing they all did.

The grown men trying to whip up on the college kids:)

The boy who doesn't play basketball;-)

The whole time my sweet pea was playing, I was praying that he wouldn't have a heart attack!  (that's him shooting the ball)

A great father and son shot.

And lastly, the two old guys resting after dipping their heads in the pool to cool off!  They forget that they are middle aged now:)  I have to say that the old guys held up pretty well. They didn't lose by much;-) That was the only game that they got to play since Christopher had to return to school.

Up next I'll tell you about all the board games we played and my visit with my bestie Nancy that drove up from Houston to see me.

Texas. Yee Haw!

That's where we've been this past week.  It was spring break so we decided to go and visit my sister in law and her family.

We had a great time and I have lots to tell you about but first there is mail to go through, bags to unpack, and laundry to do.  (oh yeah, and 10 pounds to lose! urgh!)

I will be back soon with all the details and will be catching up with all my blog reading.

Have a good Sunday.

Melanie

I am missing…

this boy! He has been gone for a week and I have missed him today. I know that he is having a good time so that makes it okay. He hasn’t called us one time but I knew that he wouldn’t. He has posted what he is doing on Facebook so I am in the loop and I know that he is having the time of his life.

The house is quiet, there are no empty Mountain Dew cans by his bed, and I haven’t been picked on one time in the past week.

I also haven’t had my TV buddy at night, haven’t had a goodnight kiss on the forehead, or heard “love ya” while he's going up the stairs.

The house will be quiet for another week and then my boy comes home.

Right where his mama wants him!

Melanie