Ok, yes, I know, I have neglected my poor little blog for too long. Yes, I know I'm still behind. I am way overdue for an update on the boys for one thing! I'll get there...eventually! I take too many pictures with my iphone and then get weighed down trying to decide which ones to put on here...and it usually ends up being most of them...which takes a while...
But anyhoo...
For now I wanted to be sure to put these pics up and write about this day...because it was most definitely a reminder that we may make all the plans we want...but really only God knows how things are going to turn out! Ha!
On the Saturday after Thanksgiving, I headed down to the convention center downtown where they hold the annual Festival of Trees where Lauren dances every year. She was awesome, as always, but due to joining a new dance studio with a new teacher who is very good at encouraging her and building her up, she had a new confidence in her dancing that was exciting to watch. :)
Afterwards my friend Rebekah and her family were driving through town on their way home from spending Thanksgiving with family and so I grabbed Lauren and we headed to Starbucks to visit for a few minutes. The times I get to see Rebekah is never long enough and never often enough, but we take any little snippits of time we can and have actually gotten to see each other quite a few times this past year. Yay! :)
After Rebekah and family got back on the road to head home, Lauren and I realized we had the rest of the day to spend together - something we hadn't done in a very long time! Neither of us had eaten lunch yet so we stopped by the new Chick Fil A (if you live here and haven't been to the new one in Bearden...you should check it out! it's pretty awesome!). We decided that our plans for the day would be to run by my house so Lauren could take a quick shower, then either go to a movie or go shopping, followed by dinner at a place I had been wanting her to try.
Well, we got to my house and just before heading up to take a shower we decided to grab a couple pics of Lauren in her dance costume, so we both set our cell phones on the kitchen table, and I grabbed my camera and we stepped out on the deck...me in flip flops, and Lauren in, well, exactly what she's wearing in the above pictures. Oh, did I mention the high that day was somewhere around 43?? Yeah.
So pictures done, we walked back up on the deck and pulled the sliding glass door to go back in since we were both getting chilly - her more so than me since I at least had jeans and a long sleeved shirt on. But the door wouldn't open. Somehow it had locked itself as we came out!! We ran around to the garage door that we had just entered when getting home...locked. All the doors were locked! And my parents had left just before we got there to go see a movie! (Not something they do very often...but of course they did that day!)
So the doors were locked, Lauren has not much on to keep her warm - not even shoes!, our cell phones were mocking us from the kitchen table, and the cat was looking at us like we were dumb. lol Not sure what else to do, we headed over to our neighbors across the street to ask to use the phone. Lauren asked if I even knew our neighbors. I said I knew them just a tiny bit...but was about to get to know them a lot better!
Sean was home with his five year old daughter, Callie, and graciously let us in, let me use his cell phone, and let Lauren borrow one of his sweatshirts. I realized that I should call my brother...but didn't have his number memorized, so I called Michael who had it in his phone and gave to me. However, it turns out he had Daniel's old cell phone number!! Of course. So we called Lauren's mom, who had the correct one. Daniel was no help as he had no key to mom and dad's house and didn't know what else to do. :-p So I then called Leah, who was out shopping and came to our rescue! We went with her to grocery shop while killing time for my parents to get out of the theater. Then Leah dropped us off at Panera Bread (mom and dad's favorite place to eat...!) to wait for them. Thirty five minutes later (the movie had gone longer than they thought it would) they showed up to find two very hungry girls who were glad to get a hot meal and finally go home and shower and change into warm clothes!!
Not the day we had planned. Nor would we hope to repeat it again! However, I was thankful to get to spend that time with my little sister and not alone! :}
We'll try again soon, Lauren, and this time maybe we'll make it to a movie instead of waiting for my parents to get out of one! lol! :)
