She's here!

OK...so she's been here since Saturday...but, obviously, I've been too busy enjoying my sweet, precious Elaine to take time out to update...sowy!

But, here you have an update!  No pictures of us yet...she has a couple on her real camera, but I don't have any on my phone, boo...need to adjust that problem  :)  And, since she's still fast asleep (this never happens!  she's always up before I am), I'm not going to wake her to figure out how to steal some pictures from her phoney-phone.  So...y'all will simply have to wait  ;)

Anywho, we've been having a lovely time.  And, the time is flying too quickly - Lord, please don't make me send her back to sweet Texas!  Please!

She made her debut in the 'Sota Saturday afternoon and I was SO excited to see her.  I just whipped into the first curbside spot I could find and jumped out of my car as soon as I saw her and nearly accosted her with a monstrous hug.  I SO MISS HER!!  We threw her little bag in the car and, of course, made our way to the Mall of America. We strolled around for a couple hours and Elaine just took in the "ooooo" and "aaaaaah" of a mall that has a theme park, mini-golf, and an aquarium inside of it...not to mention an American Girl store, a Lego store, and a few other wonders.  Haha, but at the end of the day when some friends of mine asked her what she thought of the mall her response was, "I mean, really, it's just a really big mall...with some crazy stuff added to it" (<--paraphrase, but you get the idea.).

Saturday evening we met up with a few of my good friends here and had some burgers and fries at Snuffy's Malt Shop and then made our way out to Lake Elmo (the town, not the lake...we'll hit up some lakes today) for a drive-in movie.  We saw Cowboys & Aliens....have to admit that we weren't super impressed, but that might have had to do with the insanely stormy weather...like major thunder/lightning (super awesome storm...just wasn't conducive to watching a movie...).

Sunday morning we did our usual farmers market and breakfast run with my gang up here, and it was a lovely morning...thought it started to get way crazy humid by the time we were about ready to leave the market...good thing we were leaving!!

We pretty much just hung out the rest of the day and had lovely convos about life, love, God, everything (it was wonderful) until it was churchy time.  I loved getting to show her off to my church family here.  It was especially great because a ton of people asked, immediately, if she was my sister.  Nope...just my bestest friend...and we just happen to resemble each other fairly significantly.

And now my sleeping beauty is awake so I'm off to soak up more time with here.

Much love!
~MW