Richards Reflections

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Nacogdoches

The last weekend of Spring Break we headed to our happy place, Nacogodoches. This time we took our favorite girl with us. Turns out she "wuvs macogdoches". This could not have made her mommy and daddy any happier. Since it was Spring Break we headed out early Friday morning so we could be there as long as possible. We got in town and checked into our favorite hotel, The Fredonia Hotel. Of course we hit up as many bookstores as possible. Baby sister and Bella got new SFA gear! We drove on to campus to show Bella where mommy and daddy went to college. She was very impressed, so much so that when we drove off she started crying and saying "I want to go to cowege!" Since then she has talked about going to "cowege" quite a bit!

We then made a stop by our favorite chicken place, Chicken Express, YUMMY! We took our food and headed out to Lake Nac. It is our dream to one day own property out there. We figure it's the best of alot of worlds... lake, East Texas, and obviously the close proximity to Nac. Bella loved it out there and we just soaked up the beautiful weather and enjoyed eating our chicken and looking at the water.


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We stayed out there for awhile, drove around for quite awhile, and did a massive amount of dreaming!

Saturday morning we got up and got dressed and headed back out to explore and show Bella more of our favorite place. This time we started at the arboretum on campus and walked all through the azalea garden. Oh, the beauty that is East Texas! She had so much fun running around and looking at all the pretty flowers.

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"The kiss of the sun for pardon
The song of the birds for mirth;
One is nearer God's hear in a garden
Than anywhere else on earth."

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Azalea's in East Texas are like none other! And they weren't even in full bloom!

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After we wandered around the garden we headed over to the Ag Pond and let Bela feed the ducks. I lived in dorms on both sides of the Ag Pond in college and always enjoyed sitting out there.

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It's crazy to be sitting out there 11 years later with my 2 year old. Hopefully we will get the opportunity to sit out there with her as a student!

Later in the afternoon our friends Natalie and Gibio got in to town with their girls, Laney and Landry.

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We did a little hanging out with "Surfin' Steve".

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Later we headed back to the hotel to get ready for the reason we were in Nac. We had a wedding to attend! One of Terry's former soccer players brother was getting married. We have stayed close to the Goodrum family and were so excited to be there to celebrate with them!

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Bella was a dancin' queen! She had a blast at the reception!

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Terry with 3 of his former Nac soccer players. They are all in college now and JT (far right) is playing college soccer. We love our Nac soccer boys (and girls) are we are always so excited to see them or hear from them. They are very special to us!

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On Sunday before we headed out of town we got to eat breakfast with Bill and Patti and their family. It was great to be able to spend extra time with them!

We had a great weekend in Nac and it was the best way to spend our last weekend of Spring Break!

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