Planes, Car Trips and Kojies...Oh My!!

Let's back up the calendar and talk about 3 weeks ago...sorry. :)
Hensley and I were flying to Dallas together and staying with our friends Ryan and Alyssa and then the next day, the girls were all driving to Abilene for Homecoming. I was so nervous about flying with Henz alone, but she was awesome! She nursed as we took off and passed out the whole flight- I was obviously more nervous than her! This is the day Hensley slobbered so much into my phone that my blackberry's life ended that night. We had a great time playing with Lyssa and Ryan that night, but the best part for Hensley was meeting their dog Guinness. He loved to lick her and our anti-social dog has never licked her before so she giggled like CRAZY!

Then, we drove to Abilene and Hensley was fabulous and slept most of the drive- whew! We had tons of play time with the girls- Alyssa, Kasey, Emily, Calli, Kimmy, Brooke, Amanda, and some of the husbands came too! Calli, Kimmy, Brooke and Emily came in late Friday night, so in an effort to give them a warm welcome, Hensley woke up and decided NOT to go back to sleep until she played with our new guests.

 Meeting her sweet baby friend, Clarke. They were precious loving each other!!

We just wish Austin had been awake for the photo!
Hensley FINALLY went back to sleep and then us girls stayed up until 2ish catching up. My old lady self hasn't stayed up that late in so long, but it was worth it to chat and giggle with my girls! Unfortunately, we were going to Kojie breakfast the next morning and had to wake up at 5 a.m. boo! Hensley had a blast at breakfast and loved being passed and played with by so many girls.

My favorite picture! She loved to do the Kojie-famous pop!!
After breakfast, we did the parade, toured all the ridiculously cool new additions to ACU, and then went back to have some down time at the house. She played with her other friend Austin, and much to his dismay, wanted to invade his personal "bubble"!

 The next day we were enjoying our time so much that I lost track of time and we didn't start driving back to Dallas until later that afternoon...so I missed our flight. After rushing through ticketing, they told me that I could make the next flight if I hurried. So, we did everything short of knocking old women out of our way to get through security. BUT my sling was "suspicious" and they had to pat me down (in ways so innapropriate that I blushed!) and go through all of my things by hand. After quite the interrogation, they decided I was not a terrorist, but a stressed out mommy missing her next flight. And we did miss it. I checked with the NEXT flight and they were completely booked and couldn't guarantee that we could get on. This was the moment I lost every ounce of restraint. I cried with the ticketing man (who wasn't impressed), then I cried in the middle of the airport when Hensley pooped her outfit and I had to find the nearest restroom, then I cried again as I had to call Jon from a payphone. Yup. I lost it, and the dirty, germy payphone was the straw that broke the camel's back. Long story short (even though it's pretty long already), we got onto that flight and had a nice, cozy seat in between a large man and a man not so jazzed about children. Ugh. But Hensley slept and was super pleasant. ONE of us held it together, it just happened to be the infant. :)