Chirky

January? Is that the last time we got together? Please don't say it is so! Still, we had another girl's night last night. The same group: Nicolle, Heather, Erica and Katie. And me, of course! We all worked together in the high school youth group in Denton. We've remained in touch, and cherish the times we spend time together.

Last night was no exception. Well, there was one exception. Heather never made it. So I guess it wasn't the same group, since we were sans one girl.

Erica & Nicolle & I waited for like a hundred minutes until Katie finally decided to come in. And that was only after I snuck out to her car and photographed her as though I was the paparazzi.

See? I TOTALLY have the skills. Just imagine if that were a picture of Linday Lohan in her car on the phone. I would make millions!

Katie had her own surprise for me, though! She just got a camera! A digital camera! And it's so cute and tiny! It's an elph, because, you know, THEY ARE SOOOO COOL. And now Katie's cool, too. I played with it, taking lots of pics of Katie and the others at the table, and decided that Katie made a good decision. I'm sure that relieved an enormous burden off of her shoulders, wondering what I would think of her camera.

I must tell you that I am excited that I will no longer be the only one with a camera surgically bonded to my hands.

Erica and Scuba (her husband) went to a conference this weekend about adopting children both internationally and nationally. She explained to us the difference the different types of adoption, about the process, and about the needs for adoption. Thus, the majority of the conversation last night was centered around babies and having children. Since Erica and I are roughly on the same time table, we thought it would be fun if we conceived at the same time. So we spent a few minutes planning that, too. :) How exciting would that be to both be in the same hospital room together? SO. MUCH. FUN!!!!

My, my Erica. What a big fork you have!

I didn't make the same mistake that I made last time we ate at Carrabba's. No charcoaled liver parmesan. No meaty dogfood balls. I got the margherita pizza, an Italian classic.

Yummmmm....

Last night we celebrated Nicolle & Katie's birthdays. Katie turned 28 a week-ish ago. Nicolle turned 25 on Wednesday. Nicolle and Katie were rescued from certain embarrassment by our server-in-training, Jason. I took a picture of him and our real server, Grace, but with Katie's camera. Maybe she'll put it up. Anyhow, neither Nicolle nor Katie had to endure the restaurant birthday song, but they each still received a birthday ice cream! With caramel! And candied nuts! And a candle!!

Nicolle blows out her candle.

Because I filled up on Carrabba's bread, AGAIN, I couldn't eat much of my dinner. So I had it packed to go!! Sweet! Lunch!

Carrabba's Italian Grill. Except, not much of their food is grilled. So really, this name doesn't make much sense.

We couldn't leave without a group picture, and convinced the hostess to stop holding the door open for people so she could snap some shots for us. We're so conniving!

Sans Heather. We TOTALLY posed for this picture.