lubbock: in pictures.

on friday afternoon, the hubbs took off a bit early from work so that we could make the trek to lubbock, texas and see both sets of our grandparents. {yes, they both live there - in fact, they've known each other longer than any of us... they have gone to the same church for 50 years - or close to it}.

anyway, 15 minutes after we pulled out of the driveway it started raining. and it did not stop until we were an hour away from home on our way back sunday. it was definitely nice to cool off a bit, but unfortunately it hindered our big plans for shooting off some fireworks, going to a bbq and of course, the infamous lubbock parade. {click on the link to see b at the parade at 3 months old! precious!}





hfeeding hippo.





stretching our legs at sonic.


they still had the parade. we went. we got wet. but it was fun - and fast - and brady loved it. he knew no difference, although we kept thinking how much MORE he'd love it with all of the floats and candy throwing, high school bands, etc. but again, he had a blast.





b. hadn't seen his mimi in two weeks {which is highly unusual since we live 10 minutes from them}. she'd been in lubbock taking care of mamaw, jeff's grandmother. brady was SO excited to get to the parade and see her!!






we had lots of fun staying with my grandparents. brady introduced them to elmo, megaw had a coloring book for him - and she showed him how to trace his hand. he loved it.


she taught me how to sew a few things for charlotte - on her beautiful sewing machine she got as a wedding present. i want it. i don't care that it only does one stitch. it's beautiful.


then it was time to leave.

it was flooded. bad. if there weren't other cars around, i would have made j. turn around at this point. but we knew we weren't going to get swept away.


on our way back, we planned to take our time through the small towns of texas. the hubbs was so patient with me. i have a little project in mind for our house and i kept making him turn around so i could take pictures. {i think he actually enjoyed it though!} but it wasn't all about my project... we stopped at a lot of historical markers for him too. we learned a lot about the indians, the railroad and cotton. we learned where the first high school band was from. we saw the demise of small towns when the railroad decided to pass them by. we enjoyed the breathtaking beauty of the drive.

sidenote: to be honest, we've both made this drive our entire lives and have absolutely dreaded it. it's like "get me there" and then "get me home" as quickly as possible. but sunday, we drove a 5 1/2 drive in 7+ hours because we had so much 'fun'. b. was great in the car both ways until the last hour of our drive home... but we didn't mind too much. he was pretty self-sufficient.

i had to stop to potty in dickens. it was 10:30 a.m. when i got out of the car, the smell of fresh bbq overtook me. i came back out and begged jeff to get me some. {i normally despise bbq}. he stepped out of the car, smelled the same thing i did and nodded his head - "absolutey!" it was delish.


and then - for lunch - we stopped at dairy queen. since i'd already 'eaten', i had been dreaming about a mint-oreo blizzard for the next hour.


it was good. really good. {why don't they have dairy queens in dallas?}



brady blowing on his food {below}. super cute.


we stopped to get fireworks in prosper on our way home. but that's another post. the project that i'm working on is going to turn out well... i think. but that's another post too.

i hope you all had a great fourth with your families!