The Daily Hailey

Before I actually talk about the date we went on today, I’ll again apologize for an after-midnight post. Forgive me please. Apparently I live to craaaaazy of a social life. Don’t worry, I really don’t usually.

I’d also like to quickly recap Friday, since I blogged in the morning about the ridiculous dreams I had that I believed caused me to wake up sweating, crying, and contracting. I was feeling kind of antsy, and as if I should maybe be around people that day, to help shake off the stupid dreams from that morning. I felt completely relieved when my sister called and invited me to join her and my mom for the afternoon. It was Caity’s last day in town, so I was thrilled to come visit for a bit. We had pulled pork on buns for supper before Brady, Dekker and I brought her to the airport. We saw her through security and then went and settled down by the windows to watch the planes come in and out. Dekker waved politely at all the nice reflective people wearing earmuffs on the tarmac  but no one saw. Sad, I know. Because he was sooo adorable. What we really did like was we actually caught a glimpse of Caitlin walking past the windows of the walkway onto the plane. We waved like mad and she saw us! We blew some kisses and she continued onto the plane. We waited until her plane took off as well, getting right up to the big window and waving. Her texts later confirmed that she saw us then too 🙂 So when you see the crazy people waving at the airport, know that sometimes it totally pays off.

As for this morning, turns out I really am having braxton hicks contractions. They woke me up again this morning. Isn’t this way too early for them to be showing themselves?! Not impressed. Contractions aside though, we went on a family date with our friends, Hailey and Nolan and their two boys. This has been planned for a couple of weeks now, and I think I can safely say we’ve all been really looking forward to it!. We met at the pool for the busiest family swim any of us had ever witnessed. It was kind of nuts and hard to settle in. Dekker was pretty nervous most of the time there, but warmed up towards the end. It was just pretty chaotic, but it makes sense 🙂 No big deal. Just a different scene than going in the middle of a weekday. But we did that for a good hour and then headed back to their place for the afternoon and evening. I have to say that everything we ate was fabulous! Once we were all relaxed and settled in and Dekker was napping, we sat down in the kitchen and absolutely wolfed down this great shrimp dish they made. Brady was pretty upfront about not being a huge fan of shrimp, and said he’d just snag one or two off my plate maybe. After eating most of my helping, we got a few more scoops and devoured those as well. Guys, that was incredible. And mom, you’ll LOVE it! I’ll make it for you one day soon 🙂 We really just chatted the rest of the day away, from the couches to the kitchen, from drinks to steak and barbecued veggies. We ate SO much! Dekker ate half a steak!!! No lie. And veggies on top of that. And a great whipped cheesecake filled with berries for dessert. Seriously friends, we raved about the food all the way home! We would happily eat that exact same meal at your place again. No word of a lie.

After dinner we dragged our food-overloaded bodies downstairs. Dekker was the happiest I’d seen him all day, surrounded by new toys! He was completely occupied for the next good hour while we all sat on the floor and talked and the guys took turns playing Mario Galaxy. The day was so relaxed but something about a pool seems to make a person extra tired, doesn’t it? We were all wiped out completely, fading really fast. We finally hauled ourselves out the door shortly after 11pm. But its hard to leave when you’re having such a good time! For being relatively new friends (as in friends who actually see each other…) it feels like we’ve known them forever.

SUCH a great date night! Might be hard to top. Our turn next, I guess, haha!