Trip home

HELLLOOOO!!

On Wednesday night, Jett, Krista, Colton and I headed to Dallas for the first leg of our journey. Jett had a conference that weekend and I was headed to Ft. Sumner for my sweet friend Michelle's baby shower! We got into Dallas around 10ih.. Colton did wonderful on the trip. We visited for a bit then hit the sack.

Thursday, Joslyn headed to work for the day planning to fly to Lubbock that night and I would pick her up and we would drive to FS together. Jett borrowed Joslyn's car to head to the hotel. Krista, Colton and I went to Candice's work to have her sign Michelle's gift, since she was not going to be able to make it to the shower. Jett calls just as we are leaving her work telling us to be careful.. snow is on our way. I tell him "we will be fine.. it is just raining right now" DANG IT.. as soon as I hit end on the cell phone, I told Krista, that sounds like sleet.. that continued for about oh half a second then it was almost a white out.. in DALLAS FREAKING TEXAS! WHAT?? I am not driving in Minnesota again am I?? here are a couple of pictures:




There was this prick of a driver in front of us, who kept fish tailing, he would speed up, then almost seemed like intentionally slam on his brakes to make him drive all crazy.. now, I can see if you are on a back road or NOT THE DANG INTERSTATE maybe having some fun, but here I am, driving with my son and my sister and I am not really in the frame of mind to deal with that crap. Luckily, Colton was asleep so he could not hear all of my "sweet, nice" words I was whispering to the other drivers.

In this picture, notice the car off the road and the lights a little further up facing us.. it was bad people, bad!





We saw a flipped RV, a couple of jackknived (is that spelled right) semi trucks.. the semi's were ticking me off b/c we had all started driving in one lane, in the middle of the interstate, going 20.. there were alot of cars doing this and it felt like a safe thing to do.. but the big semi drivers were in a hurry to get by us.. they were ticking me off (Sorry Dad!)

We had plans to meet Kyla in Abilene for lunch, our navigation system (when we started out) that we would get there at 11 45.. we ended up pulling in at 1 45, thankfully Kyla was able to still meet us at Chilis.. man, I miss that girl! We had a nice lunch, she got to meet her sweet cousin Colton.

Once we left Abilene, it was smooth sailing. Jett called and said "hey, this weather has messed up our conference, so it is cancelled. " WOO HOO. Luckily he was able to get on the same flight as Joslyn and they got in about an hour after I had arrived in Lubbock. We picked them up, quick ran to Party City to get some supplies for the shower, then headed to Dar and Davids for the night.

Friday morning, we got up and ran to Walmart, got the rest of the stuff for the shower and headed to FS. I had made a playlist on my IPOD of music from our senior years (97 for me 98 for Jos).. so we had a blast listening and signing to that.. dang we were dorks back then HE HE HE.. (NO COMMENTS PLEASE). We got there and ran to the Lumber Yard to say hey to Joslyn's mom, Mary Claire then met Nana at Freds... had a nice visit, then we went down to Nan's house and started our baking. Since it was a baby shower, we substituted Easter m & m's instead of chocolate chips.. and we made rice crispy treats with the Easter marshmellows. Luckily we realized we needed to seperate the marshmellows instead of throwing them all in, they would have melted into a ball of brown poo colored (which we could have put in diapers.. maybe next time). We ended up making 4 batches of cookies and 4 batches of rice crispy treats. YUMMY. Jett and I took Colton up to Granny and Grandad's and we picked them up and went to visit Cliff and Molly and the kiddo's. Man, they have grown! We got to see Reed's (and Zach has one) championship "3pete" state title football rings.. nice :)

Friday night, Peepaw got to meet Colton! It was great for us, our FS family is so far from us, we really cherish the time we get to spend together, when we get to spend time together:












Saturday was the day of the shower! Joslyn, Jamie, Crystal, Dawn, Ashley, Krista and yes, even Jett, met at the community house to decorate.. we had a blast:







We had a great time, and it was so awesome to see Michelle, she looks amazing!!! Here is a couple pictures of the hostesses (minus Candice).. we did one nice one and then one that is really us.. a bunch of goofs:






After the shower, we cleaned up really quick, then Joslyn, Jett, Krista, Colton and I headed BACK to Lubbock. Nana had baked Dar a birthday cake so we took that along. We got back to Lubbock at 9pm, had the bday cake and sang happy birthday to her, then hit the sack. We woke up Sunday at the butt crack of dawn (even earlier due to daylight savings) and hit the road. In Dallas, we met up with our good buddy Matt and his fiance, Mykeall, at lunch, dropped Jos off at the airport for her car then continued our trip. It took us a total of 14 hours and amazingly enough, Colton did WONDERFUL. The last half hour, he was DONE, but he did great.

We actually got here the same time Kent and Sarah did!! Yup, they finally got to come and meet Colton.. plus, they have some amazing news as well, they are expecting a baby!!! WOO HOO for that! We are very excited for them. So we went and ate Chili's and came home and crashed.. it was a LONG day for us.

We got up Monday morning and once again, hit the road to New Orleans, we wanted to go to the aquarium. Umm, it is closed on Monday's.. LOSERS. But we had a nice walk around the French Quarter... ate some beniegts, I shoved a spoonful of powdered sugar on Jett.. oh and.. I was very aroused when I saw this hunk o burning love sitting right behind Sarah.. every time I looked at her.. this is what I had to see (thank goodness Kent and Jett were blocking me in.. otherwise, there is no telling what I would do)



Tuesday we took the ferry to New Roads, ate some grub at Satterfields and then headed to Myrtles, the haunted plantation house in St. Francisville. We did not see anything paranormal but I still was creeped out: http://www.myrtlesplantation.com/

We came home, played the WII and then I cooked a Mexcian feast for supper. Wednesday, Kent and Sarah headed home and Colton and I hung out at the house.. poor Jett had to go to work!

All in all, it was a WHIRLWIND of a week. We were exhausted, but the GREAT kind of tired, that is brough on by great company, great friends!!

Hope all of you guys are doing well! Please comment but don't forget to sign your name if you are leaving one annonomously, we don't know who you are if you don't!!