Fun Trip

Wednesday afternoon I flew to Texas for our annual college roommate trip. This is our 5th year to do this and we had so much fun! We went to Angie's house this year in Temple, Texas. We enjoyed staying up late and talking and sleeping in each morning. We never left the house before 1:00 p.m. each day. We talked, laughed, shopped, ate great food, watched movies and enjoyed being together again. As always I get a little sad when I get home because we only get to see each other once a year. But the Lord is good to us in allowing our time together to be so blessed.

Me (Marietta, GA), Michelle (Columbia, TN), Danielle (Dallas, TX), Angie (Temple, TX)

Here's a picture I scanned of us at my wedding. 13 years and 11 children later we really are getting older!!!

While we were there we went shopping at IKEA. So I decided to buy Emily a place mat and plastic plates so she could start eating at the table with us. So bye-bye high chair! I bought a $10 booster seat today and Emily ate her first meal at our table tonight. She looked like such a big girl that I had to get pictures:
Since Emily stayed with my parents for part of the time I was gone, they went ahead and gave Emily one of her Christmas presents early. Here she is sitting at the table and chairs they gave her. She enjoyed coloring and playing with stickers yesterday at her new table:I went 4 days without seeing Emily and it was surreal today being around her. I felt like she added so many words to her vocabulary while I was gone. I just stared at her this morning listening to her talk. I was changing her diaper and she said "hold the wipes" . . . I said, "when did you learn how to use the word the!!!" It blows me away how fast they learn.