Hot Fun In The Summertime

A little over 3 months after Teri and I started dating, she finally got to meet some of my family. I guess that's how it works when they all live 400 miles from here. My parents came to visit last weekend, and as I expected, they really liked her. I knew she'd be nervous meeting them, even though I knew she didn't need to be. After all, I was nervous when I met her family. Granted, we had only been dating 3 weeks at the time, but still, it's just a nervous thing to be doing. I should also note that starting last Monday I had a summer head cold, and I'm still getting over the last little bit of it. I mention this because I was worried all last week about how well I'd be on Friday when Mom and Dad arrived. Thankfully, I felt fairly decent.

Mom and Dad arrived a little before 5 pm on Friday, and Teri arrived at Team Hudson Headquarters (THHQ) between 5:30 and 6. I don't remember exact times because that was a few days ago and, well, because I'm Matt. We went to P.F. Chang's for dinner, and the food was teh awesome! We all got water to drink, and as is the case in any decent establishment, there was lemon in the water. One nice touch is that there was also a little orange plastic sword stuck in the lemon wedge. Teri had a great deal of fun stabbing me in the arm with her sword. She and I were going to have a mini sword fight, but the waitress took all but one of the swords off the table. Boo waitress!! After dinner, we walked around Easton and just looked around. I was surprised that Teri was able to walk past a Victoria's Secret that had some sort of sale going on without ever walking in. Perhaps it had something to do with my parents being there. The world may never know the exact reason. It will be a mystery much like the Loch Ness monster. Later in the evening, we retired to the hacienda where Teri took the opportunity to look at the pictures of me when I was a kid that my parents had brought. This was a period of big fun for her. Great big fun for her. She's been looking forward to that for a couple months now, which is understandble because she is a self-described picture whore. I also noticed that I was good at winding up in pictures with a cheesy grin or just a generally ornery look on my face from a very early age. I guess I'm pretty advanced like that.

Saturday morning Teri took her long run to continue preparing for the marathon, and my parents and I ran some errands, some of which involved procuring the supplies for dessert that evening and for lunch on Sunday. We then picked up Teri when she was ready and headed to Chick-fil-A for lunch. Since it is right next to the Caribou coffee that Teri and I met at, we headed over there for some delicious coffee beverages and sat outside to enjoy them. There was even a re-enactment of my handshake and her hug attempt. Teri was having great fun with that as well. We then swung back to THHQ to pick up the supplies for the evening dinner with Teri's parents and headed over to Team Kautz Headquarters (TKHQ) so we could all finally meet Liea. She's way cute and still looks to be in good shape, so it's clear to me that Darren isn't treating her like a corkscrew. Really Darren, how did you get that corkscrew to jump a few teeth like that? I'm still baffled by it.

When it was time, we went from TKHQ to Teri's parents place, stopping at Teri's apartment to pick up Sparky on the way. Saturday evening having dinner and hanging out with Teri and all of the parents was the highlight of the weekend. When I've spent time with Teri and her parents before, it's felt like I'm hanging out with her and her family. This was different though. It felt like we were three couples hanging out and, more than that, like it was just our family hanging out. Our parents seemed to really hit it off and to really like each other, so it's nice to not have to worry about that. Honestly, that's the only thing I had any worries about for the weekend (other than my aforementioned illness). I need worry no more. Also, I realized on Saturday night that a delicious application for the brownies from Melissa's grandma's recipe is for brownie sundaes. I don't know if Jarrod and Melissa have ever utilized them for that or not, but they've been cheating themselves if they haven't. If you don't think that a brownie topped with vanilla ice cream topped with hot fudge isn't a tasty treat, then you are completely retarded...or Celine Dion...or both. Here's a pic from the brownie sundae construction period.


Sunday morning Teri met us at THHQ, and off to church we went. We actually got there on time and were able to get four seats together that weren't even in the front row. Afterwards, it was back to THHQ where Teri and I fixed lunch. Despite a brief detour from the recipe, everything turned out just fine and I even have delicous leftovers. Of course, we then had to use some of the leftover brownie sundae supplies to have brownie sundaes for lunch dessert because the only thing better than deliciousness is more deliciousness (okay, so Teri is even more better than more deliciousness). Here's pictorial proof that the cooking did in fact happen.


It wasn't long after that that my parents headed out for their trek back to the HC and Teri and I went to her place so Sparky could be let out to do his bidness before we went to see The Dark Knight. If you haven't seen it yet, you are cheating yourself. Not only is it a good superhero movie, but it is just a good movie in general. Whether he wins or not, Heath Ledger should at least get some Oscar consideration. Since I had found out just last Thursday that Sonic does indeed serve their breakfast food all day, we had to stop there for dinner. I then proceeded to get a delicious breakfast sandwich. As Sonic is a drive-in, we headed back to Teri's where we dined on her veranda. The food was delicious, and my dinner companion was gorgeous as always. We then spent the rest of the evening enjoying each other's company and trying not to think about how the weekend was already over, yet again, and we'd have to get through another work week. One of these days we're just going to have to get married so we can skip all the being apart during the week crap. I can already do without that.

I don't quite remember when, but at some point over the weekend, Mom and Dad also found out what Teri's last name is. I thought I mentioned it to them, but I guess they never asked, and giving out such information tends to slip my mind so I wasn't shocked that I hadn't told them. I guess it probably didn't seem terribly important to me either since it won't be staying that way much longer anyhow.

With how well things went this weekend and how much my parents like Teri, I'm looking forward to Labor Day weekend even more now so she can meet the rest of the family. I know Lucy's looking forward to it too since she's already said she wants to play with Teri (though she'll have to come to C-bus to visit Sparkley). I think they'll get along quite well. The only thing about Labor Day weekend is that I won't be able to joke with Teri about proposing to her anymore because after she meets my family I'm allowed to propose for real. If there's a chance it's real, I won't joke with her about that. That clock is already ticking though, and it's the best clock ever...even better than Flavor Flav's neck clocks.