Wacky Wonderful time with Tia Sophia

This week has been an absolute blast so far, Jackson's Tia Sophia came into town to visit and we had such a good time with her that we are still grinning and talking about all the fun we had. While we knew this trip was going to be all about Sophia and what SHE wanted to do, we also knew it was bound to be interesting because when you hang out with Sophia you end up having an adventure or 6 all along the way.

Monday began with a quick lunch at Sof's favorite Cuban restaurant and then a hop over to her Alma mater, St. Edward's where she ended up saying hello to some old friends and coaches. While there, we learned that her old tennis coach is still in love with her and that one of the many maintenance workers she befriended while in college, ended up getting arrested and sentenced for sexual harassment. Priceless. We then went to a few different boutiques so that she could get a good idea as to 'whats going on fashion-wise in Austin' and ended our day with a lovely Pho dinner at home from a hole-in-the-wall Vietnamese restaurant that her and I used to go to in college.

Tuesday we had a jam-packed day full of bridal boutique spying and of course everywhere we went Sof asked questions like 'are you making money?' 'what lines are you carrying?' and 'how much do you pay in rent?'. I have to admit she is the best market researcher out there and when you have a friend like me who loves to make up fake stories about herself to get her way anyways, well it just makes for some pretty interesting conversations. Poor Jackson ended up playing his own role in our made up reasons for trying on dresses and taking pictures of merchandise and I'm sure his dad LOVED me using him as a prop in our role-playing shenanigans.



Our visit ended abruptly, but not before we completely redid Sof's room at the 11th hour with a phone call to her mom that went something like this, Sof: "mom, Missy is redoing my room since you never did. Yes, so I need you to call Jose and tell him to paint my room light grey. Yes this week. Ok see you tomorrow, bye". I don't think I've ever designed a room, bought everything for it and had someone paint it so fast ever. It was like an episode off HGTV. We'll have to take before and after pictures for you all to see what we came up with but here is a teaser below to keep you interested ;)



Needless to say we were quite sad to drop off Sophia at the airport this morning and we cannot wait to see her again next week when we road trip it to El Paso with Gigi.