From Decatur to Houston

Last weekend, our good friends Charles and Cara came to visit us here in Houston!  They were our first couple friends to come see us, and we were so incredibly blessed to have them here for 3 days.  We went to church with Charles and Cara in Birmingham, but they now live back in their hometown of Decatur, AL...a short 1 to 1 1/2 hour drive from Bham.  We only wish we could've convinced Charles to take the Texas and Alabama Bar so that they could've moved here with us :)

After they got in late Friday afternoon, we took them to eat at our favorite Mexican place, Lupe Tortilla, before we headed downtown to see the Rockets play the Sacramento Kings.  It was our first Rockets game.... more fun for the guys who actually care about NBA basketball (I usually only halfheartedly cheer on the Celtics), while Cara and I were far more entertained by the "cheerleaders"/dancers.   

Love my sweet friend

Charles won a free hat AND t-shirt at the game. 

Saturday we slept in, cooked a big breakfast, and lounged around all morning before we could all get up the energy to get up and head down to Central Market to eat lunch.  Saturday night we stayed in, watched the playoffs, ate white chili, and most importantly made homemade donuts.  It's a Hardison family tradition to make homemade donuts on Martin Luther King Day....M decided he wanted to carry on the tradition this year while we had our friends here.  I'm generally not a big donut person, but M knocked these out of the park!  I was bragging on him all weekend. 

Charles and Glen were in the same social club at Harding, so were friends while they were in school.  Cara however had never met Glen or Kelly.  No surprise, they loved her!

Pre-fried

Thanks to Ed and Shawn for their leftover fry pan.

Best part...icing them

This is how much Glen participated...by watching the 49er's game

Yummy goodness.

Sunday we took them to church, and then to eat at BJ's.  I had promised Cara that I would take her down to the Galleria Sunday afternoon, until BOTH of us proceeded to fall asleep on the couch for a couple of hours Sunday afternoon.  Whoops!  Next time I guess! 

We had a blast getting to catch up with y'all.  We miss our friends back in the Magic City terribly, so it was nice to have a little bit of home come here for a few days!  Thank you so much for coming!  We will hopefully be able to return the favor sometime soon!

Pregnancy update soon!  I would say nursery update, but there's been no progress...does that already make me a bad Mom?!