The Lewis Family: WTGC and other occurences

On Wednesday I went to the airport to pick up Peggy from her world travels. I took David with me because he refused to go to bed. We arrived at the airport around 10:40 and David found it fascinating, especially the luggage carousel. Then he was still wide awake when we got home around 11:30, and I do mean wide awake!
We took the kids to the Dallas zoo on Friday. It is no where near as good as the Ft. Worth zoo. Not as many animals and most of the habitats were pretty pathetic. They had a fun children's area though and Alex and David both got to ride a horse. Peggy and I decided it was not worth the money so we will not be going back.
Jenelle and I went to the Rapha House open house at Karen's. There is some really great jewelry so if you get a chance you should check it out. Then we went to eat dinner and discovered two of our favs are now open... Jason's Deli and FIREHOUSE!!!!!!! We were SO dissappointed that Firehouse was already closed for the night but we ate at Jason's Deli and it was very yummy!
Saturday I headed to Abilene for the West Texas Girl's Conference. There were 5 middle school girls and another sponser. It was fun getting to know Sharon (the other sponsor), we talked the whole way there and back. The conference was really good! The girls had a lot of fun going to classes and worshiping together. The theme this year was "Love me for me" and it was a great reminder that God created each of us with a purpose and that he loves us just the way he created us. Christa Black performed on Saturday night and she was fabulous! I had never heard of her before, but I left a fan.
Sunday night was a special night. I had my girl's small group over and my friend Wendy came and brought Ancsa. She is from Hungary and has had a lot of hardship in her 15 years. She became a Christian over the summer and she is getting to visit the US for 3 weeks. It was really neat watching the girls talk to her and include her. We brought her gifts and took pictures so she would have a memorable experience and hopefully we can stay in contact with her once she goes home.
While I was hanging out with youth group girls all weekend, Jon started hanging Christmas lights. I was able to get out of it because Brock volunteered to take my place (THANK YOU!) Grandma and Grandpa kept the kids all weekend and apparently found a great new playground! I missed the kids a ton and this made me realize how hard it is going to be to leave them for 10 days!! I know we will be having a blast in Breckenridge, but I am sure I will miss my babies terribly.
Here are pictures from the week. Blessings!
David with all of my scarves