January Photo A Day/Writing Assignment 1-26-13

01.26.13 TOGETHER

Together. So happy together.What an easy word for the day and a perfect day for togetherness. The first event was a visit for Senor Harjo from Malachi. To get the full effect of this heart warming new friendship you have to see the picture.

See, you can see the excitement Senor Harjo had a visitor, I am pretty sure Senor Harjo grew about 5 inches, I know you can't tell from this angle on the photo but I am pretty sure he was almost a foot tall!

The second event of togetherness was a bitter sweet saying of "so long, see ya soon, we're praying for you" to a neighborhood friend that we've grown to love over the past eight years. We were first introduced to Reginald "RJ" Orr when we first moved to this neighborhood and Darya came home  announced to us that she had made a new friend and his name was"Original". He is moving to Houston and stopped by to say good bye. What a great kid, his positive spirit and smile will be missed. We are praying for you RJ, find you a good youth group to get plugged in to and remember, "Houston...we have a problem."

The third and final event of togetherness of the day was the celebration of Jenn's 30th Birthday. This is Jenn. She is wearing glasses with a big 30 on them. I know you wouldn't have figured that out unless I told you. She is one of the sweetest people I know and would do anything for anyone. She is just that type of person and has a really BIG heart!

This is her hubby Servando.

He is....well let's say....this next picture describes him...

I know what you are thinking, "that's mean".... no it's not. I didn't mean "Oh No He Big" I meant "Oh No He Big to Jennifer" See, now don't you feel bad? This picture definitely speaks of "togetherness". When you can have Arkansas, Texas and OU fans at one table and can still smile...usually means it's time to eat!

Because Craig is always so thoughtful to let me get in a pic too, you get to see one more group photo. Basically the same one, except I am sitting by my hubby and Isabelle is sticking her tongue out at the photo. Lovely I know. You can tell she loves to take photos.

 

Then it was time to flame the candles and load up on sugar.

But not until Jenn opened her gifts. She got some jewelry, a cross, a cupcake candle, some smell good and a gift card to a tattoo parlor. Not really on that last one. I don't want to be responsible for spreading rumors, but it sounded fun.

Meet Nat. Nat thought it would be cool to shave at the table. Not really. Nat was playing "Game Time" announcer with this monster microphone...let's get ready to rumble!!

Up first on the Speed of Light is Yamarie and Amy, they were popping and locking - knocking down those lights as the lit up and at lightening speed!

It was anyone's game...but Yamarie pulled out to a big lead and even drew a crowd of fans! Amazing. They truly are!

The next game took a lot of effort, in that you had to push one button! I know it was a difficult task but Servando managed to win a lot of tickets off this one game. He is coo-coo like that.

Then it was time for a four-way game of air hockey. The Arkansas folk (Ivan and Ariel) beat the Texas folk and it was ultimately Ariel that was crowned Air Hockey Queen!

Go big or go home! Darryl and Servando played this ginormous Connect 4 game.

Thumbs up for an overall successful afternoon. We all gave Servando our tickets because he really wanted the big Chuck E Cheese stuffed animal, then we told him we weren't at Chuck E Cheese but at Dave & Busters, then he begin to weep. Well, not really, but he couldn't get over how small this Dave & Busters was compared to Texas.

Then reality hit....it was time to go home and be parents again.

It was our first time to Dave & Busters. We're done...we are officially corrupted. I really feel bad about it. I do. So we ended the night with the bond of friendship. Togetherness. Well, except I am not sure what happened to Ivan and Ariel, they like disappeared. Could it be that a day out in the arcade pushed them back to their college days when they first met? Thanks Jen for inviting us to your birthday party to celebrate THIRTY years of life, we love you!