PRE Birthday Weekend

Cliff's 26Th birthday celebration began this weekend... He was quite the lucky guy. Saturday my dad came over to celebrate both Cliff's birthday early and my birthday late. It was a nice visit since there were lots of changes for him to see. We loaded up and went to Ft. Worth and ate at Shady Oak's BBQ. If you have never visited.. YOU NEED TOO!! It's delicious for a sit down BBQ place. For my birthday I received a Brighton choker necklace and 17 charms and several spacers for my new necklace. Each charm represents something about me! I will post pictures, but the piece is so me! I love it!! Cliff got a gift card to Academy and also one to Cabela's. On our way back from lunch we drove around Decatur and found this old, interesting place. At one time it was the home of a very, wealthy person. Now an estate that is not allowed to be stepped on. It is called the Waggoner Estate. Beautiful and would make a great museum too. Saturday evening we joined Joe and Lilly next door and watched Tech stomp on OSU.. Pretty much a given that Tech won but enjoyed the time with our neighbors. We cooked out on the grill and Joe make chicken and pork loins. I cut up 2 huge potatoes and created a 3 cheese masterpiece from one of Cliff's grilling cookbooks!

Sunday was a very uplifting service at church. A young girl (age 23) liver is failing and only has a few hours to live. Her name is Christina. She has a young boy almost 2. He is being adopted by a church family who has tried and tried to have a child of their own. Bittersweet story overall. But I thought I would share with everyone. Shows each and everyone of us to live for today ALWAYS!!!

We spend the afternoon in Lewisville. Thought along the way my car was going to give us some problems but we made it! We stopped by Hallmark, one so that I could get Cliff a birthday card and two, a card for Grandma Davis. Cliff and I had fun looking at all the new Christmas figurines and such. I love that Cliff can enjoy Hallmark as much as I can too! We then headed to Academy!! Cliff was in HEAVEN! He had $150 to spend in 1 hour and the count was on. He found the Magellan hunting boots that his heart had desired. Tried those on and they were a future purchase. Cliff also decided to get a tree harness since he is hunting in a tree stand and though the safety would be a good idea. He also found a turkey bottle opener. It make different turkey calls and Cutter absolutely loved it.. And last but not least Cliff shared his birthday gift card with Cutter and got him a Buffalo toy with not just 1 but 5 squeakers!!!

That evening we met my mom in Denton at Master Grill. Identical to Tejas de Brazil in my opinion but WONDERFUL food!!! We had good conversation, lots of food and Cliff got some more birthday! He received some shotgun lights and a Armadillo Jalapeno Cooker from my mom. He can't wait to use both! Our birthday dessert arrived and not only did we both get Key Lime Pie, but also a Caramel cheesecake and triple chocolate cake.. They accidentally brought us both. So we took the 2ND two home for later. Mom informed me that the key lime pie tasted almost like the one from the Crow's Nest in the Cayman Islands which was always a huge hit...

The weekend is over and time to go back to the grind.. :)

Pics to come!!! Along with hopefully some soon from my DAY at the spa with my mom on my birthday!!!