Tres Chicas

Brooke is home for the weekend. There was a family wedding in Dallas today and Louisiana family came into town yesterday. We all met Ruth/Chad/Callie at Babe's in Roanoke last evening---lots of fried chicken! Ruth and Callie went to the wedding with Brooke, JoAnn, Jimmie and me. It was a very nice ceremony at First Baptist in downtown Dallas-----a very beautiful building complex. We saw lots of family, some from West Virginia, Arkansas, and of course, Louisiana. Brooke came the longest way---Oregon! JoAnn and Jimmie went back to La. after the reception and Ruth and I left Brooke in Dallas at her friend's house---she will visit there til Sunday morning and go out with a group of friends in Dallas tonite. Tomorrow, Brooke, Zack, and Stephanie and I will go to Ruth' and Chad's for a birthday dinner for Ruth---her B/D is Monday. Brooke flies back to Portland on Monday.



Since I left Brooke in Oregon on 06/04, I knew that she would be coming home for this weekend and her being gone was "temporary". Now that she's here, I have full realization that when she flies back it is not temporary anymore....She really will be "gone". Of course she will come home at Christmas and will be able to stay for about a week, but then, she will leave again. I miss her, but we talk almost daily. Still, it is not the same as seeing her daily.



Callie was so cute last night at Babe's---taking all the commotion in--watching everything, and curious about the chicken, mashed potatoes, corn, and biscuits everyone was eating. "Mmmm!" she'd say, watching Chad eat chicken.



Today at the wedding, she made it through the first prelude song in the sanctuary, before starting her verbalization. Ruth had to get up and out with her prior to the wedding party processional. They sat out in the foyer and got to see all the wedding party assemble to enter the sanctuary. At the reception, she gnawed on a celery stick.



Having Ruth, Brooke, and Callie all together in the same place at the same time was great!