A bit of Heaven

We didn't think we were going to make it to Texas this summer, but in the end, we were able to squeeze it in right after Cade's birthday but before school started! Going back to Dallas and seeing friends and family is like a bit of heaven for us. We had a late flight on Tuesday evening. Here we are on the plane ready to take off at 9:25 p.m. Emalyn was very excited!

Unfortunately, we didn't actually leave. Instead, we had to get off the plane because of bad weather in Dallas. This little one was a trooper. She was probably 5 minutes from falling asleep, but instead, she stayed awake the whole time we waited to hear if we would get the green light to reboard and leave at 11:00 p.m.

Cade man was tired too, and tried falling asleep at the airport. He never fell asleep, but he fell asleep as soon as we took off at 11:00!

Maddi was wide awake while we waited. She is the night owl of the group!

We finally landed at 1:00 a.m. Emalyn slept the entire flight and stayed asleep when we moved her to the stroller. She even turned around in it like she was on her belly. What a trooper! We drove through the scariest storms I can remember and were releived when we finally made it to Kim's house after 3:00 a.m.

Wednesday morning, we met Joel, Sara, Grace, Will and Janet at Gattitown. I only got these two pictures from our time there, but trust me, we all had a great time!

I think Brett enjoyed the bumper cars as much as the kids!

We stayed at Kim and Michael's house and had such a great visit with them. The kids LOVED their house. Emalyn found a new love of pop guns. Cade showed her how to use it and she told me how to use it about 50 times. She was so cute, she's say "you pull this back and then you POP it! Do you want to try?" I thought about getting Emalyn her own popgun until I saw Cade with a popgun. He'd drive me crazy with it, so no popgun little Emma. Sorry!

Kim's kids were out of town with Dan, but Dusti and Mike brought Zach, Gavin and Reese and our kids loved playing with them. Maddi was playing dress up with the Emalyn and Reese and then Kim introduced Maddi to her closet. Maddi had a blast trying on Kim's middle and high school dresses. Here she is in Kim's prom dress!

We all got a good laugh at Maddi in Kim's candy corn costume from a few years ago. Nice! We used to all dress up in Kim's clothes in college and now our little girls are doing the same thing. How fun!

I was soooo happy to see my bffs. We had a great night hanging with our fams at Kimmy's. Les is trying to move back to Texas and we are too. Hopefully one day we will all be together again.

After a few nights at Kim's, we went to stay a night with the Balls. Their new house was beautiful and we had a lot of fun visiting with them.

Emma and Ellie had just seen each other at our house the week before, so they played together awesome. The day we were leaving, Emma and Ellie were outside when Molly, their dog, got sprayed by a skunk! When Brett went to get the girls inside, Molly ran inside and rubbed on their couch and rug. Their house smelled HORRIBLE! I was glad we were leaving to get on the road but felt terrible for them that they had that smell in their house. They were able to buy some products at Home Depot to get the smell out. I'm sure they were so relieved!

After leaving the Balls, we met up with the Laird's for lunch. No pictures from that, but it was so good to see them. Hayden was there too, which was great. He's 16 and a junior in high school. We've known him since he was about 2 years old! It's always so good catching up with old friends. After lunch, we made our way to Granbury for Texas Grammy's summer camp. Pics from that coming soon....