Treasured Pearls: Crazy Weekend

Monday, February 27, 2012

Crazy Weekend

Before our very exciting Saturday with TJ, AT and I had a very fun and tiring evening on Friday. We spent Friday night here

telling people about

and

While we were there, we got to see

and

and

and

We had an AWESOME evening, just AT and me!

3 comments:

Difference2This1 said...: How cool!!! :); 10:40 AM
Unknown said...: Glad you had such an awesome time!; 7:16 PM
Leslie said...: I <3 America World! They helped us bring our 4 children from China HOME!

Thanks for sharing the message!!!

And way to go TJ!!! WOW!!!; 4:56 AM

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