a great weekend with the "family"

the dallas family, that is. i went up to big d for the weekend to hang out with everyone and it was some good times. friday nite was "family dinner," a term actually invented back in cs in youth impact with little littles. it was at arlene's and there was quite a nice group there with a handful of out of town arrivals such as myself, patin, and peeples. we had a delicious mexican fiesta complete with tacos, dip, chips, rice, etc. then it was time for the draft, the boy draft that is. the girls got to draft their partners for a game. however we didn't actually partner up with our draft picks later so essentially the draft was all for nothing..but fun nevertheless. parker served as a fantastic commissioner and joey earned the most prestigious first pick although there might have been some girlfriend favoritism in there. cam eagerly presented her draft pick, who ended up being the commish himself, his team "jersey." i eagerly presented my draft pick, patin, with a team sweatband which had somehow gotten real stretched out...so not only was he quite ungrateful but the running joke was then that i have a ginormous head. awesome.
we played some games...the favorite easily being a fantastic pictionary type game where everyone writes a statement or name on a piece of paper and you then hand it off to the person to your right. then everyone has to draw a picture of whatever is on the piece of paper they have been handed. and then you pass it on again except now you have a picture you're looking at and you have to write what you think it is. you continue this switcheroo until you are back to your original. usually, and it's often better this way, the end result is miles away from what it started off to be. a guaranteed good time though for sure.

and all that was just friday nite...saturday was busy as well. jen and i had a great time doing some shopping...got some great stuff. then the big basketball game sat. afternoon where the ags lost again...but only by 3 points...and there were so many turnovers which made it even more frustrating but life will go on...i suppose.
took some family pics on sunday for the cute married couples - the parkers and bakers. attempted yet failed completely at watching cam, ck, joey, and mike finish the white rock half marathon. yes, they definitely all finished with great times and yes, we definitely all missed them finishing...quite sad. but way to go guys...yall are amazing.

some highlights of the weekend:
some great mexican food at family dinner, rie praying that "we would all get along," absolutely absurd statements and pictures drawn during pictionary, the first ever family dinner boy draft, cam joking about jax "sleeping her way to the top" of the draft pick order, jen and i spending a good 20 minutes picking out scarves at gap, honey almond shmear at einsteins, playing cards at the parkers despite never securing a medal, bfast with jax at cafe brazil, mike asking halfway thru the meal at olive garden if i was still in town when in fact i was sitting two seats down from him, driving home with NO traffic despite it being rainy (a christmas miracle in my mind).

and now im back at work *sigh* where i am bored out of my mind and EXHAUSTED. today might be rough..