We left on Wednesday morning for Texas. I slept pretty much the entire way which was awesome! I woke up and suddenly we were already there! We didn't tell grandma we were coming down because we knew she'd do a ton of cleaning and cooking and we wanted her to rest. So we got there and surprised her, we had planned on going Friday but I didn't to work the rest of the week. I went to church with my aunt that night, got to see some people I knew and visit with them and that was great. I didn't think I'd sleep that night since I slept all day in the car but I sure was in bed by 11:15 which is insanely early for me and woke up at 7:30!! Which is insanely early for me too!!! Those are not vacation hours! We made breakfast and then started cleaning. We cleaned EVERYTHING! Thank goodness it was a group effort so it didn't take that long. Dad and I went to El Gordo's for lunch, then to Hastings to check our email/facebook, etc. After that we went to see Granny, an old family friend who lives close by. It was good to see her, mom and I got to see her a month ago when we were down there. She keeps her grandson's horse in her backyard (she lives in the country) so I took the opportunity to photograph the horse (don't know it's name) and got some decent pictures that I was pleased with. He came right to the fence for me which was wonderful! I had a great time! After leaving there we went back to grandma's, just hung out and had dinner, played some cards and watched some tv.
Friday morning was baking time! Those early mornings were quite an adjustment for me! After getting quite a bit of baking done we headed over to the church building to finish some of the food and keep it there for the party on Saturday. Dad set up the tables and we put the table cloths on and Aunt Martha suggested that I go look in a back room for some decorations and mom had some that she bought. So I went into one of the back rooms that had a lot of decorations and some of the chairs were broken, I saw some flowers on teh top shelf that I wanted so I took one of the chairs that didn't look broken to stand on to get to the flowers on the top shelf. Well.........I sure did step up on that chair and apparently it was broken. Because the padding on that chair sure did fall right out and I hit my leg on the frame of the chair. After I recovered from that little incident I went limping into the kitchen to announce that someone else could try and retrieve the flowers. I looked at my leg and I already had a baseball size bruise forming with a nice little lump underneath.
After we got done setting up at the building we went home and Grandma's brother and his wife had come early to visit. So we had lunch with them, and then mom and I got ready because it was time to go pick up Danielle from the airport in Oklahoma City almost! Well, in the process of getting ready I managed to burn my finger with my straightner. Note to self: do not try to multitask with a 450 degree straightner. So I went to the house aloe plant and put some of that one there, finished getting ready and off to the air port we went. Naturally I slept the entire way there.
We got there early and eagerly anticipated the arrival of Danielle!! We were all jumping with joy when we saw her. Oh! How could I forget the fantastic toilets that were at the airport! We went to the restroom when we got there and they had this crazy little contraption on them....it was an automatic toilet seat cover dispenser! It was fantastic in theory because none of the 3 that I tried actually worked. It was so disappointing!! I even had my camera on the toilet trying to record it in all of it's greatness! True disappointment. But back to Danielle -- we went to dinner at On the Border. It was scrumptious! We don't have one of those here so it was a treat to dine there. Mmmmmmmmm.
We ended up getting to grandmas later that evening and then they went to the hotel and I stayed with grandma and grandpa. Saturday morning started early (again) and it was Grandma's 80th birthday and Danielle's 25th. Happy Birthday guys! Mom, Dad, and Danielle came over and we opened Danielle's presents, she LOVED her presents! I took Danielle and we went to Walmart to get a couple things for the party, then we went through Starbucks because really....what is a birthday without Starbucks?? Then I surprised her with a mani/pedi and it was wonderful!
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