Texas

Our trip to Dallas was a little sooner than planned, but the doctor said if we wanted to go we had better make it in the next few weeks, so we changed our plans!
We left Kennewick really early on Sunday morning, and flew to Dallas getting there about 1ish after a delay in Salt Lake to de-ice the plane. It was all pretty normal though.
So we got our rental car, and headed to Granbury to visit some friends down there. Bens sister met us at their house, and we had a very nice dinner and a great visit. We spent the night there at our friends home, then the next day they cooked us a very nice breakfast. We headed out about noon that day to go to Bens grandparents home about an hour away. We met them for lunch, then went to their home and visited. It was really good to see them. We spent that night at their home, then had a relaxing morning and afternoon.
We headed to Keller about 3ish to get checked into our hotel and get things settled before we met with some more of Bens friends in his home town of Keller. We met them at “Babes Fried Chicken” and had dinner, then went back to their home to visit and catch up. They have two little boys who are full of spit and fire! It was a very fun evening. We got back to our hotel pretty late that night, and just hit the hay. It was a struggle to get up in time to be able to take advantage of the breakfast provided by the hotel, but we made it! After that, we packed up our stuff again, and headed to Dallas where we checked into yet another hotel, and then went to visit Bens business partner who made us lunch at his home. We met his two children and his wife, and had a fantastic lunch. It was good to meet his family, and catch up with him in person instead of just over the phone. After this we headed back to the hotel to get freshened up to go to the Lenten service at our church in Plano. It was so good to see our friends we had made there, and our Pastor who has become a friend over the last few years.
It was also just good to be back in the church we got married in with the people we have missed.
After service, we met up with some of our good friends we met while taking violin lessons, and had a late dinner. We miss both of them so much, and enjoyed the short time we had immensely. It was good to catch up, and just talk with them again.
After dinner, we headed back to the hotel to crash. (I was so tired!) Then we had plans to meet up with the group of friends that Ben worked with in Dallas for lunch, so we got up again to take advantage of the hotel breakfast, then checked out and went to lunch.
It was good for Ben to see them again, and for me to see the few that I had met a few times before.
We had set up a time to visit with our Pastor for a while after we went to lunch, so we headed back to the church to see him again and visit.
After this, Ben and I headed to the JCP home office for me to stop by and visit with a few of my friends there. We were there for a while just saying hi to a lot of people!
Then it was off to Girls night! WooHoo! They surprised me with a Baby Shower, and it was so good to hang out with my girls again. I have missed them so very much, and they were very generous.
Poor Ben was looking forward to having kind of a guys night that night, and as it turned out, all his friends ended up not being able to come, so he hid out upstairs with Butch watching man movies while we had our get together downstairs!
He finally was able to hook up with Ben that night, so it was not a total loss for him!
Then I was able to stay up a little later with my bestest and catch up a little. I was a little sad that we had such limited time to be together.
We stayed the night at their home, and the next morning was opening Day of Rangers Baseball, and Ben (Bens friend) had secured two tickets to go to the game. So Ben was so excited to be able to actually go to opening day again. So it was just Laura and me for the day. Her husband was out of town. We had a great time just chatting and taking care of her new baby. (She is a doll!) We just lounged around the whole day and had a great time together. That evening I packed up and headed to our hotel room. I thought that I was actually going to get there a bit early and be able to do a bit of work before the Bens got done with the game, but they got there just a few minutes after I did. So then we went to dinner at Texas Land and Cattle (thanks Ben!) and then Ben met up with a few friends while I went back to the hotel room. Shortly after I got back, Bens parents met up with me, and we had a good conversation waiting for Ben to come back. We stayed up wayyyy past my bedtime just talking, but it was really good to see them. Then next day, we hung out with Bens parents, and met up with other Dallas friends then went over to one of their homes where we grilled and ate and talked. We had a really good time, but had to leave before we wanted to, because we had left Butch in the hotel room, and it had been long enough that we needed to go let him out, as well as we had to get up really early the next day to be able to catch our flight back to the Tri-cities. So that was it. We ended up seeing almost everyone that we wanted to be able to see, even though each visit was very short, it was so good to see our friends again. We have missed them terribly.
We were actually both pretty bummed about coming back. It seemed like a very long flight, and both of us were just physically exhausted! Once we got home, we both just laid down for a bit, and ended up falling fast asleep.
The phone rang a few hours later and woke us up. Which was good, because we still had a lot to do before the next day when we both had to go back to work.
So that was it. It was a good trip, and we are both so very glad we were able to go.
Sorry we did not get any pictures, but we did not end up with enough room for a camera…