Sunday, April 4, 2010

A Quick Trip to MEMPHIS!

Last Wednesday - I have FINALLY (well kinda!) caught up with my blogging - my mom and I headed down to Memphis to help my brother Bryan with some overall life decisions! He is going through a divorce and simply needed some reinforcements...mom and I were thrilled to help!

We got down there after a not so quiet five hour drive - I LOVE how my mom and I talk every day, but still never run out of things to talk about! We met with his attorney on Thursday morning and then got to pick up my lovely niece, Alyssa Jade soon after! Of course she was THRILLED to see her daddy, and kept saying, "I missed you, Daddy!" but even better than that was the fact that she was loving on Nana and me too!!!
Bryan had to go to work that day at four, so Alyssa, Mom and I had a great girl's night out! Our first item of business of course, was shopping! We picked out 5 great outfits for Alyssa and 4 pair of shoes...it was too funny, b/c we just kept finding adorable little butterfly shoes - to match her face painting, and you know the saying, a girl can NEVER have too many shoes!

After all of the shopping, we were hungry!!! We headed to grab a bite to eat and Alyssa wanted to take a pic with ME!!! LOVE YOU, ALYSSA!!!
I had brought down a Beauty and the Beast jewelry box for her as she is such a girly girl and LOVES the Disney princesses. She wanted to find a butterfly ring, but EVERYWHERE that we looked, we just couldn't find one. So, when we stopped at the grocery store to get some juice for her we found rings in the little quarter vending machine! There WERE pictures of adorable butterfly rings, but after 4 or 5 tries, no luck!
Luckily, we also bought a chocolate bunny that eased the pain of no butterfly ring! Here she is in the hotel room with her new princess pjs and bunny! Could a girl be any happier???
Unfortunately, I had to say goodbye to her on Friday so I could head back to my three boys!! Can't wait to see you both (sorry, Bry...you always get left out, but that happens when you have such an ADORABLE daughter!) on Memorial Day!

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