Last Wednesday I flew up to North Dakota to spend some quality time with my cousin Jen, her husband Chris, and my precious God daughter Abby.
(For those of you who don't know, my cousin and I are 2 weeks apart and are like sisters. We grew up very close, spending as much of our free time as possible together. I am very blessed to have her in my life. :) )
The trip up to Minot wasn't too bad. I drove to Dallas on Tuesday evening because I was flying out of DFW because it was several hundred dollars cheaper than flying out of Houston and I'm glad I did because it gave me an opportunity to hang out with my friend from high school - Sally. Sally and I were SUPER best friends in high school, lost touch for a couple of years in college, but are doing a much better job keeping in touch these days. We didn't do much but watch Bride Wars and eat animal crackers, but it was a fun night just getting to hang out. She is an absolute SAINT for driving me to the airport - love you Sal! My flights (DFW - to Minneapolis, Minneapolis to Minot) went off without a hitch (except for the strange stares I got from the Mennonite population in Minnesota) and I finally made it to Minot. I was SO happy to see my favorite cousin and my beautiful God daughter. Abby turned 2 on March 5th and is SUCH a smart little girl. I am so proud to be her "AnSah".
The reason for my trip was to celebrate Abby's birthday and boy did we ever. Anyone watch iCarly? Well it looked like iCarly threw up all in my cousins house (we went a little crazy with the decor), but it was absolutely great because Abby LOVES "iCarlysam". We had a blast opening gifts and eating cake and I was sad to leave my family, but not so sad to be leaving the weird, judgey, cold, boring, Great Plains. (Disclaimer: If you are from the Great Plains or Midwest, I am sorry, but I just don't care for that area of the country). Here are a few picture of the party:
Jen and I posing as Carly and Sam. If you don't watch this show, you really should. Just watch one episode - it's so cute and funny!
Me and the Birthday Girl who seemed quite distracted by 6,536,294 gifts she got.
For the story about the bandaid on her head, see below.
At least Abby can tell how much of a princess I am - she decided I needed not one, but TWO princess crowns! So cute!
Blowing out her big girl candles!
Decorations
So about that large bandaid on that pretty little girl's head: The night before I flew to N.D. Abby was running through the house and fell into the corner of a wall and split her forehead wide open. 6 stitches and a dented wall corner later (yes the corner - with the metal part!) she had this lovely bandage on the entire time I was there. Ohhhh kids.
My flights back were not bad at all except for the fact that I had only got 1.5 hours of sleep before getting on the plane. By the time I got to Dallas and drove back to Houston, I was basically a zombie. It was one of the hardest things I've ever had to do to push through and finish that drive, but I made it thanks to my mom staying on the phone with me the entire way home. Love you Mom!!
And that.... was Spring Break 2010. Back to work (and now that I've finally finished this post that I started a week ago - I've already been back at work for a week!), but only 2.5 more months of school left!!!! WHOOO HOOO!!!
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