What's happened

I have just gotten back from a family wedding in Plano--some musings on the past few days:

We took the girls to the road show of Annie last Thursday night. They were so excited!!!The production was very good--just a little long. On the way to the theater, I told Brandon I though we should do valet parking. Maddie, picturing me in a pink tutu I am sure, said in a very shocked voice, " Nonnie is going to do ballet?" It is a very funny picture.

The wedding was beautiful and emotional as they all are. Mary Morse, my grandniece married a young man from England (The Isle of Man, actually)who works for FC Dallas, a professional soccer club. Mary has been in soccer all her life and coaches soccer at a school in Plano. I was very impressed with Prestonwood Baptist Church where they got married in the chapel--very much a complex. Their book store is better than any in Abilene. They are in a fund-raising campaign to raise 600 Million dollars and are almost there. While sitting in their opulent family waiting room (The Fireside Room) I couldn't help but think of Room at the Inn and the homeless. The church had staff members who helped direct the wedding. It was an easy way to have a wedding, and they were very nice. Chris's family came---his uncle Howard was a character whose English this Southerner found very hard to understand.

We all went to church together yesterday to New Heritage Church in Allen, Tx. It is a break-off from Pitman Creek in Plano. This "people of Christ" (not Church of Christ) is fairly small, casual, and intimate.Somewhat similar to the emergant church we went to the previous Sunday. Communion was place on two long tables in the middle of the horseshoe arranged room, and we all went up to partake. Instrumental music (with my nephew Jeremy using his gift with drums) with contemporary songs carried the day. The minister, Terry Cartwright dialogued with the youth minister about today's culture and how Christians fit in for the sermon.
I enjoyed it. Plus there were coffee and doughnuts right there in the "sanctuary".

Dallas is booming and moving far north into suburbs. We ate Mexican food twice--Yea!
Brandon got to spend time with his college roommates, and I got to enjoy a getaway. So it was a good weekend.

This weekend was the same one Charles Lindbergh finished his flight to Paris, and I thought how far we have come since that event. 2 hours from Dallas to Nashville.
A huge "airbus" was debuted this week too. Lindbergh would be amazed.