And so we meet again

The facts were these:

• I found out that the Pioneer Woman was doing a signing for her new kids book in Houston.
• Angela asked if we were going to go.
• Bomb diggity yes we're going!
• I ordered the book from Amazon, promising a timely delivery.

• I picked up tickets that saved us a place in line.
• Lady from store estimated our wait to be an hour to an hour and a half from the start of the event, which was at 5pm.
• The Haymakers and I determined that 6pm would be the perfect meeting time.

• Book delivery didn't happen before we left, so I purchased another book from the bookstore at twice the price.
• At 6pm, the store people told us it'd be about 45 minutes until our turn.
• We ate a pizza in the shade.
• It was pleasant and lovely. Just hanging out with the Hamakers made the night worth it.

• Christine made eyes with Liam.
• I asked the store people for an estimate again at 6:30pm, learned it would be another hour. That's not how you do math!
• Liam kissed Christine while Dash and I were away.

• Dash stuffed a mouse puppet in his mouth, disbelieving his failure as a suitor.
• Christine's bedtime is 6:30. She missed it.
• Liam and Dash's bedtime was 7:30. They missed it.

• There's a reason we don't miss bedtimes.
• I haven't seen them so cranky.
• Christine spit up on her daddy. We all were glad she spared her mom, who need to look nice to meet PW.

• We finally entered the store sometime after 8pm.
• The store people probably had to spend an hour fixing all the books the boys pushed back on the shelves.
• Liam hit himself with a book and screamed for all the world to hear.
• Books stands turn out to be fantastic playthings for super tired babies.
• Ree (the Pioneer Woman) declared Christine to have the most beautiful eyes.

• After meeting the Haymakers, our approach prompted her to say, "Another cute couple with babies!"
• Then she said, "They aren't identical, are they?"
• I replied, "They are, can you tell a difference?"
• She admitted, "Well, no, it's just so rare to have identical twins."
• This time, I didn't babble when I talked to her. But, unfortunately, no toilet coincidences.
• I prompted her memory of the photo she chose in her Brothers Photo Assignment.
• She remembered that photo. I was moderately pleased (see giddy grin in photo above).

• Then she said that we must get lots of good photo with such cute boys.
• Then she asked which boy did the punching in the picture. When Sean indicated Dash, she pretended to bite his feet.
• Liam played with her hair. Dash kicked at it.
• After we walked away, Ree declared, "Now I need a baby break!"
• Angela and I giggled in our excitement of chatting with our idol.
• I forgot to grab Angela's copy of Ree's love story book to borrow.
• I kicked myself for not combing my hair before meeting Ree so it didn't look so stringy.
• The boys fell asleep within a minute of leaving the parking lot.

That is all.