texas trip and mom

darian and i flew to texas on 5/30...we were supposed to land at 11:35pm, get a rental car, drive to terry & buffy's for the night.....then drive to port lavaca early next morning so i could go to dr appt w/mom and jan on 5/31.
our flight to austin was delayed and we ended up landing around 2am....rental car co was closed so terry drove to the airport and took us back to their house (THANKS, BROTHER!!)
buffy was sweet enough to wake up for a minute to welcome us before we all went to bed.
since rental car co opened at 6am, there was no way we were going to make it to PL in time to go to mom's appt. terry took me back to the airport to get the rental car then he was off to work....i went back to the house and went back to sleep for a bit...
darian and i ended up going to eat breakfast at kerbey lane (one of our austin favs)....yummy food : )
when terry got off work, he had lunch with us then we headed out to PL....

it's always great to be in PL at mom's : )
we are blessed that our family gets along and loves to visit with one another...
besides the 'normal' family visit--this trip, we went to kendal's high school graduation, see a dear friend, roxanna (who used to live down the street/we grew up together), celebrate mom's 81st bday, and visit with janice and her mom for a bit.....oh, and we ate from el patio (twice)...umm, umm good!!
was great to catch up with roxanna--it had been a while since our last visit.....i went down to her mom's house and we watched a dvd that had been put together for her dad's 10-yr life celebration.....i can't believe it has been 10 yrs since he passed away...it was nice watching the dvd with roxanna and her mom.

the only bad part of the trip is that i ended up with a migraine 2 days....spent several hours in bed with an ice pack.....but over all -- great trip...
darian and i flew back on sunday 6/3.....at the austin airport, we ate at schlotzsky's and amy's ice cream.....and at david's request, bought him two brisket sandwiches from the salt lick (i guess we kind of 'ate our way' through texas).....

we flew from austin to phoenix then to LAX.....when we were boarding the plane i saw a guy that i thought looked like Gallagher and mentioned that to darian.....but we weren't sure...when we got to LAX and were at baggage claim, we saw the Gallagher-looking guy and decided we would go up and ask if it was him or not.....so, darian and i walked over to him and asked him if he was Gallagher.....he just nodded 'yes'....then i asked if we could get a picture with him and again he nodded 'yes'...he was a very quiet man....then when i got ready to take the picture, he put his arm around darian....we thanked him and went to wait for our bags.....while we were waiting, we saw a wooden sledge hammer come around and we knew it belonged to Gallagher....was pretty funny....

mom's surgery to repair the aneurysm was set for a couple days after we left---was hard for us to leave as we wanted to be there with her......but she had several of my siblings there so i knew she had a great support system with her.....plus mom told me not to worry.....

she had the surgery and went home the next day......she said she's feeling great--no pain....
life is good : )