Comic Con

Makayla and I just returned from celebrating her 13th birthday at Comic Con in Dallas.

It was a girl's weekend (well plus a baby boy but he doesn't care yet)!

 What's a road trip without Starbucks?!

 First stop of the trip was to meet my mom in Dallas and then pick up my sister in law Paige from the airport. Then we headed for dinner at The Rainforest Cafe and did some shopping.

 We were at the convention center before it even opened on Saturday morning, we were ready for a jam packed day with the birthday girl.

 First stop of the day was an advanced screening of a Dr.Who web series.

Q & A with the web series cast and crew

 Then we took in a Q & A session with a timelord himself, Colin Baker!

 We had the best time just people watching and taking in all the sights.

 There was so much Dr Who stuff....

 I am so thankful that Makayla has a strong group of women in her life to look up to and that love her!

Girl's trip day 1

Paige and Makayla

 We sat through a Q & A with the fabulously entertaining John Barrowman!

 After a long Saturday at Comic Con we threw in the towel and headed for dinner..

 We were up and at it bright and early again Sunday morning.

 more Dr Who fun.....

Girl's trip day 2 

 On Sunday we walked the entire exhibit hall. We came home with some really cool souvenirs and finds!

 Q & A with the beautiful Alex Kingston!

 Some of our favorite moments from Comic Con were having our picture taken with Alex Kingston and John Barrowman....

 then with David Ramsey and Stephen Amell......

The girls stood in line to get John Barrowman's autograph for Chris!

 I was able to meet and get an autograph from Melissa McBride "Carol" from The Walking Dead.

It was a fabulous weekend full of girl talk, great food, great entertainment and priceless memories. I am so glad I was able to take Makayla on this trip and that we had great company too!
                                                         

We have a teenager in the house!!

We officially have a teenager in the house!

James and I have spent all week reflecting on the last 13 years and how much God has carried us through. We have been so blessed by this amazing and beautiful young lady.

 Wednesday she woke up and opened her gift from her Nonna.

 James and I had lunch with her that day at school.
That night she opened her "big" gift, a surprise girls weekend trip to Dallas Comic Con in a few weeks.

 She also received a new iPhone 5C.

 We had dinner of her choice at Golden Corral. It will forever be remembered because poor Christopher got food poisoning.
Last night we had round 2 of party celebrating with cookie cake, tacos and watching the Mazerunner.

 Opening gifts...

photobombed by her brother

 This morning she had lunch with her GG who made her a blanket.

 and breakfast with her PawPaw Roland and Grandma Dawn, who gave her some Dr. Who gifts.

We have had the best week celebrating our girl! Now the countdown begins to our trip to Comic Con!

Ringing in 2015

Happy New Year!

We had a great time ringing in 2015. We stuck to our New Years Eve tradition of appetizers and board games.

Christopher made his meme's berry crumble for us!

We played Disney HeadBanz (thanks Aunt Karen)

Guess Who?!

Our dinner spread, you would think we were feeding an army! 

Our family tradition of Wahoo! 

Our new game, Clue

We are such party animals :)

Then there's always a memorable game of monopoly! There were so many laughs around that table. The kind of belly laughs to where you can't breathe. It was such a magical sound to my soul.

I would not have wanted to spend my New Years Eve anywhere else!

New Years Day was filled with playing in the snow, Netflix marathons and packing up the Christmas decor.

For dinner we had our traditional New Years dish of cajun cabbage and John and Stephanie joined us. It was yummy!