Louisiana/Texas Roadtrip

3 or so weeks ago Craig and I made the journey to Texas to check out some dental opportunities and we made a few stops along the way...

While driving in Louisiana we saw some cotton growing on the side of the road and Craig had never seen real cotton before. He thought it grew on trees so I was driving and stopped to make him go pick some cotton! (This is what it looks like for the rest of you who have never seen cotton- it just looks like cotton balls growing on a plant!)

Conveniently, the time we were able to go out to Texas happened to be the same weekend as the Florida/LSU game so of course we had to stop for that. Our friends Trent and Amelia came too, we were sad we had to ride in separate cars since we wouldn't be headed back to Florida for another week, but we still had fun!

Sometimes things get heated during this game.

But we managed to pretend we liked each other for the camera.

We left Florida Friday evening after work and school and drove to Baton Rouge, getting there around 3 AM, we got up around 6 or so to make it to College Game Day.

I'm smiling in this picture, but the reality was 8 hrs in the car, 3 hrs of sleep, standing for 3 hrs in a crowd, 26 weeks pregnant, not to mention LA humidity! I was not doing well by this point! I spent some time that morning crouched over trying to breathe and not pass out!

I tried to get a picture of Mike the Tiger, but I couldn't get a good angle.

Amelia took this picture, but I thought it looked really cool!

After Baton Rouge, we headed north 3 1/2 hrs to my parents. This was our stop off point between destinations. These pictures are all mixed up, but when we stopped on our way back to Florida my mom and other family threw a baby shower for me.

They played a game where everyone wrote down how many inches they thought I was around. I'm posting this picture since it shows how big I really am!

I have to include this story...it's an inside joke kind of but I don't want to forget it! Amber, the girl in the bottom left corner, was (is) my best friend growing up. We were inseperable from kindegarten on. So somehow we came up with this game of sorts. We both had really long hair when we were younger and we would collect the hair from our hairbrushes and roll them into hairballs (if this is completely grossing you out- skip ahead). So once we made the hairballs we would hide them throughout her house for her mom to find. We put them places like the bathroom faucets so when she turned the water on a hairball would come out. Other times just in drawers and stuff. We thought it was SO FUNNY. I don't even know how many months/years we did this. So, when I opened the gift from her mom out falls two hairballs! Amber happened to be sitting next to me and saw it and we were dying!! We hadn't thought about that for sooo long and it was so funny her mom thought to do that. I could NOT stop laughing and it was so awkward because it wasn't really something you could share with all the other people watching me open gifts.

Green and brown are the colors we're doing the nursury so everything at the shower was green!

My mom made this diaper cake and I thought she did an amazing job! Super cute!

Somehow I didn't get any pictures with my mom or anyone else for that matter. I have pictures of everyone else and pictures of just me, but no groups! :(

During our few days in Dallas we crammed in a lot. Craig had an interview and several dentists he was meeting with and talking to. Overall it was a very successful trip and we've pretty much decided Dallas is our next home and probably forever home! We're really excited, but REALLY sad at the thought of leaving Gainesville.

While there we did cram in some fun things, like a U2 concert in the new Dallas Stadium. The stadium might have been more impressive than U2.

Also, while we were there a dentist friend of Craig's took us out to this resturaunt. The reason I post about this is because it was the most amazing food we have ever eaten. EVER. Of course we won't be able to pay for a meal there for several years...but WOW.

We also got to spend some time with Cameron (Craig's brother) and wife Anne and their family. As well as Todd and Abby and their little boy. Abby is pregnant right now too and we took some pictures together, but I don't have those yet. I'll have to do another post later of all the things I forgot!