September 2010

We started the month with a Longhorn game at Reliant Stadium over labor Day weekend! What better way to start the month? Hook Em Horns!

SO GLAD the whole family could come...our seats were pretty much amazing.

Sisters

Even our Aggie best friends came to cheer for the Horns! I'm sorry, I shouldn't say such things about my best friend. She's 51% Longhorn, 49% Aggie.

We could be sisters. Wait, we are :o)

About to score!
We ended up winning easily...we were playing Rice for crying out loud!

We decided to round out Labor Day weekend with a little grilling...redneck style. We had to grill in the garage due to the intermittent POURING rain! It was still fun...

...Mylie LOVES grilling with Daddy!

We picked up Maggiano's one lovely Friday night and spent the evening with out dear friends, Alli and Taylor. We were so excited to meet baby Bennett!

We had Courtney, Laura, Morgan, and Brecca over for the UT/Tech game. We had a blast time with good food, good drinks, and GREAT company! And shots every time UT scored...

...UT scored A LOT that night, lol. It was after this shot my husband took the UT flag off the front of the house and ran it up and down our street. We take football, seriously ya'll.

We played hide and seek and spent LOTS of time chasing a certain purple ball...

And to round out the month, we celebrated 4 years of marriage at, where else? The Melting Pot! I absolutely LOVE that place!

October so far has been nothing short of insanely stressful and the school year is really starting to take it's toll. I'm hopeful to spend my time that is not consumed with school having fun with family and friends. I figure it I do enough of that, I can drown out the school garbage, right?

It's Saturday Oct 2nd, 2010...

AND O-WHO STILL SUCKS!!!

HOOK 'EM HORNS!!!!!!!!

Baby Fever

Our precious friends Alli and Taylor welcomed Bennett in August, and Chris and I were SO excited to get to visit them a couple weeks ago! I will tell you, that beautiful, cuddly boy has officially given me Baby Fever!!!

Wordless Wednesday: How could you not smile?

Our trip to Austin!

Dropping Mylie off at my Mom and Dad's. Great chance for a family picture :o)

We stopped for lunch at El Arroyo in Austin and dropped an obscene amount of money at the UT Co-op but sadly, all the pictures we took during this time were ruined when the camera malfunctioned :o(

Moving right along...

In the HAUNTED elevator on the way up to our room!

(We were in fact haunted by a ghost while we were there! The ghost of a small child that fell down the stairs and died in the early 1900's. We kept hearing "Mommy, mommy" and giggling EVERY. SINGLE. TIME we stepped off the elevator and there was never a child ANYWHERE in sight. Creeeeeepy!)

Views of our room at The Driskill in Austin.

Views of the Driskill from the street. Honestly, the most beautiful hotel I have EVER seen both inside and out!!!

Me on our balcony. I never once looked down. I would have had a panic attack.

Hello, I live here. (the GIANT hot tub in our bathroom!)

Sunset view of 6th Street from our balcony.

I would drive back to Austin right now for another piece of that chocolate cake!

Room service breakfast. The fruit and banana bread were a-mazing!

Goodbye Driskill. We will be back without a doubt!

Waiting for a table in The Oasis garden area.

The second day we enjoyed lunch and the views of Lake Travis at The Oasis.

Walking around the Arboretum waiting for dinner at The Cheesecake Factory.

This may seem random but as a kid my family would make a yearly trip to Austin for a Longhorn game, and we would ALWAYS stop at Amy's Ice Cream in the Arboretum and take pictures with these cows, haha! They are probably older than me!

Mylie was SOOOO happy to be going home. She missed us but not as much as we missed her!

This was Mylie for the next 2 days straight! My parents said she didn't stop moving the entire time she was there except to sleep at night!

Romantic get-away

After a long....LONG....summer of full time school and full time work for me and LOTS of traveling for Chris, we are finally taking a much needed break to celebrate all that being OVER with!!! We are taking a few days to go to Austin to enjoy the Hill Country Wineries, Lake Travis, and 6th Street. We are staying here, The Driskill Hotel...

Our EXACT room! HUGE fluffy, white bed, HUGE balcony overlooking 6th street, hard wood floors, HUGE plasma TV. Yes, please!

I see lots of book reading, wine drinking, and relaxing in here.

This is where we will enjoy cocktails and possibly dinner at night. And oddly enough, breakfast in the morning.

And of course, we can't go to Austin without a trip to the UT co-op. Seriously, it wouldn't be a normal month if we didn't drop at least $100 there!

As ALWAYS we will be missing this sweet girl terribly! Fortunately, my wonderful parents are watching her the whole time, and I know she will have SO much fun, she probably won't notice we are gone, haha!

As for the rumors that The Driskill, built in 1886, is haunted? I'm choosing to believe they are all bull poo. And if I decide to sleep with my cross necklace on and my Bible under my pillow? That's really up to me, now isn't it?

Hiding...