Girls Vacay!

The weekend after Sea World the boys stayed home and had a "boys weekend". They painted Noah's room, rode go-karts, saw SMURFS 3-D, and probably stayed up late watching movies and just doing "manly" things. While all this "man-stuff" was going on, the girls and I escaped. I hadn't been able to see my Mamaw (dad's mom) in a long time. She is.. uh.. not sure how old, but whenever I'm that young, I hope to look and be as fiesty as her. Anyways, I needed to go see her. So the girls and my mom and I headed up to Dallas. The girls were pretty good travellers and we got to Dallas in a record time of ... 6 hours!? maybe that's a little exaggeration? We got to our hotel, checked-in and then took my Mamaw out to eat. She lives in a new retirement community. Everybody has their individual apartments. I love where she lives and I love that she is around other people and not so alone. She seems to be really happy, which makes me happy. We ate at Cheddars and she kept me laughing at stories of her life at her new home. You know, maybe she should start a blog. I bet she would have people laughing just at her fiesty-ness if nothing else. After we visited with her, we went back to the hotel and crashed... after 3 hours of Kate and Kara talking and giggling.
The next day we got to visit with one of my moms dear, sweet friends from High School. I love Paula like an Aunt. She is one of the most kind, tender-hearted people that you will ever meet. She has never met a stranger, and loves everybody. She has two grandsons, and we got to meet one of them. He was just 2 days old and such a sweetie. We took her to eat (I'm loving vacations.. eating and no dishes!) and then had a cupcake Tea-Party at her house and just visited with her and loved being with her. She loved having "grand-daughters" for the day, too. My girls took to her quickly as well and wanted her to sit by them and hold her hands. It was so sweet. Thanks, Miss Paula, for loving on my girls!!
After we got with her, we went to a local outlet mall. Well, that was a letdown, but it was still nice to walk around in the scourching 100+ degree weather. It's not like we aren't used to it, but at least our scourching has humidity to it, so you don't feel like your just in hot weather. If you use your imagination you can talk yourself in to thinking its the sauna at a spa. Anyways, I think I will take Houston hot over Dallas hot anyday. Actually, I would prefer to take Colorado hot, over Houston hot.. but that will never happen. Why, you ask? Well, my bones wouldn't be able to take the winter. Now, my ideal would be to have a winter house in Roatan, Hondorus and a Summer home in Colorado.. ..
Anyways, the next day we drove home and made it home safely. Not sure if my mom wants to do a girls weekend again, but I wouldn't mind next summer! Thanks for coming with us and playing with us, Mimi.. we had a blast!!!
**and again, blogger isn't letting me upload pictures, so I will do it soon! :)