Hanes Her Way

Ok, so more about my wonderful trip to Texas & Oklahoma...

On Saturday I slept in, showered, and hung out by the pool for a couple hours...then after dinner, the Leyva's and I went to dance performance put on by RACE Dance Company. The performance was interesting...I enjoyed a few of the dances and now I would have to say that its opened my mind up to seeing stuff like that more often. After the performance the kids headed off with a friend, leaving Jen, Jason, & I to hang out...we went out to dinner & drinks with one of their very interesting friends, and I just enjoyed listening to him talk about performing, acting, etc. Afterwards (around midnight), we headed to the Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial...it was beautiful and there was something that made seeing at night so different...reverence maybe.

We hung out there for a few minutes, then drove around downtown OKC for a while...I got to see Bricktown and Jen & Jason pointed out some of their old hangouts and other places that meant different things to them. Finally we ended back up at Jen's Mom's...and what did we do...we went swimming...from about 1 until 3:30. It was so much fun just hanging out with Jen and Jason. And of course it wasnt easy waking up Sunday morning...but once I did Jen, her Mom, and I headed out to do some quick errands. After that we all had a quick lunch and said our goodbyes to Jen's Mom...she is such a sweetheart. Sunday afternoon and evening we hung out with Jen's Dad and family for a while...had a wonderful dinner at this great Mexican place, then headed out to head back to Fort Worth...I have to say OKC was pretty cool...and the scenery between OKC and Forth Worth is beautiful.

The last full day of my trip was probably one of the best...the kids had a Les Miserables camp, so Jen and I headed out for some shopping. We had a lot of fun, just hanging out, looking around...it was great. We shopped at the Old Stockyards, which was pretty interesting...they had "cattle drives" and other performers, including a guy with a whip.

After picking up Zach & Sadie, the four of us headed to the mall for some more shopping. Zach is at that age where if he doesnt want to do something you're making him do, he says, "you hate me"...after several "you hate me"'s and a promise not to say it anymore, I bought Zach a Monster...not the best idea...from then on anything you said would be followed by the comment, "your mom...". So I got punished for that one. At one point we went into one of those stores that has massage chairs, etc. So we took advantage...