our friends are the best...

 This past weekend we went back to Dallas to visit friends that we haven't seen in a while, take a few pictures and visit the Gaylord ICE exhibit. 

Friday night we enjoyed a great housewarming party with our friends and old neighbors.  For a brief moment their view of downtown made me want to live in a high-rise...

On Saturday we got up and drove into The Colony to see Ms. Rhonda.  We adore Ms. Rhonda and her whole family as if we were truly related.  She helped us raise Marley for the first 5 years of her life and we cannot think her enough for the influence she had on her young life and Adam and I as parents.  She will always have a special place in our heart.  

For lunch we met some of our old church Life Group for lunch and got to laugh and catch up.  It's hard going from getting together every other week and then being apart for 6 months.

Harlow, Taylor and Marley

We have used the same photographer since Marley was a baby and we promised her when we moved we'd be back...and here we are ready for some Christmas/Family pictures.  Marley loves Bobbi and somehow she manages to capture Marley's personality every time. 
We ended Saturday with dinner with some of our longest and dearest friends while in Dallas. "Uncle Monty", Laura (a rare siting in itself), Olivia and Cody.  (I'm realizing we pretty much ate our way through Dallas...)
We made so many amazing friends in our dozen years in Dallas and hate that we couldn't see them all this past weekend, but we'll be back and will continue to eat our way through town.

On Sunday we made our way to the Gaylord in Grapevine for the ICE exhibit.  The smile on Marley's face throughout the whole exhibit was worth every penny!  She hadn't quite understood what we were doing or where we were going but I think she thoroughly enjoyed it from the ice slide to the snow-tubing.

     

    

   

  

  

  

   

  

  

    

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

Before we headed back to Waco we had two more people to see, which obviously meant another meal to eat...;)  We met our dear friends Carmen and Brooklyn for lunch.  Marley has talked nonstop about Brooklyn since we moved and could not wait to see her and "Miss Carmen".

We miss our dear friends from Dallas immensely, but we are loving our new slower paced life in a much smaller town.  Our friends will still be our friends wherever we may go...