Hello, Good-bye.

This past weekend was a long, full, fun-filled weekend. To start off, Kyle's parents came in from Saudi Arabia. Yes, Saudi Arabia. For those of you who do not know, that's where they live... coming to the states every so often. They were supposed to get here Friday afternoon, but the weather in Dallas shut them down, and they had to re-route through Chicago and got in at 11pm. Usually when they get here, we would all stay up, drink a brewski and catch up buuuttt Layne had a half marathon race in the morning. So we picked them up, and pretty much went straight to bed once we got home.

Saturday morning we woke up at 5:30 am. Race started at 7:15 {Yes, you might think 5 am-ish is a little early for a race at 7:15, which yes it is, but we had to leave the house at about 6:30. You gotta stretch, drink some water, eat something small.. it's a long process}. Kyle's parents and grandma and Layne's parents and aunt and cousin were nice enough to wake up and come watch her. We also took the Charizard, which helped Layne out, seeing her pup while running. So, Layne ran her race and finished. Yahoo!

{Aside: Layne herself wrote that previous paragraph about the marathon, i.e. the humility in the details of the race. She ran a 1:40:12, was the tenth female overall and second in her age group. She beat her previous best by 5 mins 49 secs, which is nuts! She also ran it on three hours of sleep bc she couldn't fall asleep. Unity!}

After the race, Layne and Char took a looong nap. Char is not used to waking up at 5ish and not getting a nap in before 10. At around 2pm we went to Landon & Catherine's shower at Salvastono's Pizza where we also saw Taylor and Joey, amongst others. It was a great time celebrating Landon and Catherine, catching up with friends, eating good pizza and drinking good beer.. But it didn't end there. The shower ended around 4:30, but we knew there was a Thunder game that night at 8 {sad loss for us} so we all decided to stay at the bar and chill until 8 to watch the game. Joe Lorenz decided to come hang out for once. So we drank some beer and watched the game. We lost, but we'll get em next time {tonight}.

Sunday morning, since no one vanished, was the beginning of a long day. Long, but exciting. We picked up Brendon & Amy at the airport and went straight off to Target. We were having a graduation party for Kyle's cousin David and we had to get some grill food and the must-have chips and Deans french onion dip. We stocked up two carts. We came home and immediately started setting up. Well 2:30 rolls around and the fam started to come on over. We hung out and chowed down all day, took some pics and watched David's play, The Little Shop of Horrors. {he was the lead}. When the family started to leave, Brendon and Amy joined us for a trip to get sno cones. It was a must with B&A because L&K were talking about it all day telling them how good it was. Oh my, the magnificent flavors we got. L-silver fox, K-Love on the rocks {their two original, go-to, must-haves}, B-silver fox and A-piña colada. We all liked them{an understatment}, but the piña colada one was a little toooo piña colada-y, according to A. They were gone within seconds. Best part of the day:: We put in HPATDHP1. Great end to the day.

Monday was a good-bye type of day. Jerry left late morning to go back to Saudi and B&A left at night for Chicago... or they tried. They actually are delayed at the airport right now because of the crazy Oklahoma weather so we're still waiting to see what's going to happen! While we wait we are going back-in-forth from the bachelorette and the Thunder game.

And for funsies, Layne found this magnificent photo of Kyle. Shoulda stayed with modeling.