Goodbye Sophie...or a night of Chick fil A

Sophie leaves early Monday morning to begin her drive to Arlington, TX to begin her new job as the Associate Pastor of Youth & Missions at First Presbyterian Church of Arlington, so of course we had to do something to send her off in true southern fashion! Sophie LOVES the southern food chain Chick fil A, like is borderline obsessed with it. It is apparently common for people from the south to be that way, Chuck goes bananas over the place too, and made sure I ate at one at least once when I was in South Carolina with him for New Years. The chain has migrated out west a bit and there is one about an hour from Pasadena, so for her party someone had the idea to get them to do party platters for our main dish. Sophie and Pocket went to pick it up yesterday and enjoyed lunch there as well:We had everyone else bring side dishes, and had a wonderful meal, time of hanging out at Pocket's apartment. They had got Chick fil a hats for everyone and Pocket was the hat police and made sure no one entered the party without one. And we all had to keep it on the whole time we were there or else we would be reprimanded.

And Sophie looked like a walking bilboard for the place...

Yes, there was another Texas cake made for this event--apparently that Texas shaped cake pan was a great investment, we've gotten a lot of use out of it!

So Alethia's look was my favorite. She always looks so stylish and pulled together, and then Pocket stuck the dumb paper hat on her head...

Pocket & Christina

Ok, it was COLD in that apartment, so Alethia & I spent part of the night cuddled up on the couch trying to stay warm

Becca was on a missions trip this weekend for her church, so we missed her in our pictures

At the end of the night, when we were all done wearing our hats, I collected them and decided to build something. The original idea was a castle, with a moat and a tower...but well...that required a bit more creativity than I posess. So we ended up with ...kind of a leaning tower of paper hats...