Backing Up ...... Weds. 11/26

Post # 2 for the week!

We traveled up to Dallas on Tuesday, 11/25 and spent the evening with Laila & Justin at their house in Arlington. They are graciously letting us stay at their place for the time we are up there. John cooked up a fabulous meal as usual. Meatballs, gravy & noodles and some fabulous peas! Yes, peas!! Even Stephen ate them if that tells you anything. They were yummalicious!!

Laila & Justin have two sweet dogs! One older, Laddie, and one puppy, Simba. Laddie is sweet, a little scared of shadows, but will come and sit with you once he warms up. Simba is a beautiful Australian Shepperd. I think he's called a Blue Merle - he has one blue eye and his coat is really neat. Anyway, he's sweet when he knows you but he does have an aggressive side that is very protective and unfortunately, for some unknown reason, he did not like Stephen. He attacked him unprovoked at one point the first day we were there. Scared Stephen (and me) pretty good and luckily, the dog was pulled off of him before he took a bite of Stephen. Reminded me of one of my Dad's older Aussies, Dundee. When my Dad lived in Houston for awhile, I was living with him and one day, I came walking in Dad's apartment and Dundee nearly took me down!!

Anyway, we managed through it with John running interference with Simba (typically we all were not in the same rooms) and the rest of us for the remainder of our stay.

Laila & Justin headed off to Tennesse on Weds. morning for a couple of days with Justin's family to visit his grandmother. The rest of us had a mission ..... shopping at the mall! We had to hit a few places ...... like.....

The Dallas Cowboy Pro Shop!!! (bet you never guessed)

John is in HEAVEN here.... See the big grin on his face!!!

He proceeded to make sure Stephen & Rachel were sufficiently outfitted properly for the game on Thanksgiving! Each got jersey's to wear, Tshirt and hat. Rachel picked #82, Jason Witten (more story on this later) and Stephen picked QB #9, Tony Romo!

Took this picture because it has John's favorite player's name and info in it! Bob Lilly!!

Bob Lilly was in Dallas on Tuesday evening at a Borders where he was autographing his book just released. Unfortunately, the timing did not work for us to be able to go to it.

More pictures of us in the Pro Shop in the photogallery!!

From there, we just went around the mall and we managed to finally get John some new glasses!!! He looks quite handsome in them. Take note throughout the pictures and you'll see them.

My sister, Perry, joined us later that afternoon and we had a great mexican dinner at Mercardo Juarez! Fabulous tortillas!! Great picture of Perry & Rachel here. More in the gallery!

Perry decided to spend Thanksgiving with us so she could personally take part in the infamous Dallas Cowboy experience. She's coming back to Houston with us as well on Friday!

More to come!!