Weekend to Ourselves

It is unusual for us to have an entire weekend of R & R, as we are usually jam packed with events one or the other of us has to attend, etc. Like coming up in August, besides the first weekend, we're out of town the other 3! First I'm attending a bachlorette weekend in San Antonio, the next he is attending a men's bachlorette getaway (same couple!) and third, Scott's leaving town for the weekend with his buddy to do their hometown Fantasy Football draft. By September we are going to need a couple getaway fo-sho.

So this weekend was so perfect for us to spend one on one. We started off right, too! On Friday, we celebrated my brother's baller week at work by having some drinks at third base, and I beat everyone at Big Buck Hunter! I am pretty sure I look ridiculous reloading my gun every time I shoot anything at all, I look like a mad woman haha. It is such a fun game though!

We watched some movies and passed out early only for Scottie to wake up at 9am on Saturday morning (wayy early for him!) and invite me to a cafe breakfast at the 620 Cafe in Round Rock. Ohh, I love this place! I treated myself to a chocolate milk and we had some fun laughs remembering the last time I came here and accidently ordered something with mushrooms, ewwwww. This time it was much better. Our hungry bellies are the reason why there was no photo of this :(.

We continued our day and decided not to go home, but to go shopping at the outlets close by!

Ralph Lauren had a huge sale going on, so it was Scott's lucky day. He is the kind of guy that dresses up on casual Friday. You'll never find him in basketball shorts or a tshirt at work, always a button down with jeans/cargoshorts on casual day or fully dressed. He scored a new belt, tie, three new shirts, and 2 pairs of shoes at the outlets and spent under $200!

I am in in this "must save for a house" mode, so lately when I've been shopping I've been stopping myself from buying really anything as I am in full house-fever mode and want to save every penny. It'll still be a while, but we've been sending each other many houses we both like :-).

Huxley has been sleeping in our bed pretty much his whole life, but we decided over the weekend after being completely smushed together for months, that until we get a King, Huxley needs to sleep in his own bed - this little muffins sprawls out in between us leaving us hanging off the bed hah.

I think he loves it... it even matches our bedding!

We stopped by redbox on the way home knowing we'd probably have a horror movie night and eat popcorn and snug up on the couch, but I could not have been LESS impressed with this movie...... "The Intruders" ... buhhhhh so weird! We ended up turning it off to watch DVR as we had recorded Something About Mary, Enemy of the State, and 21. All great movies!

Friday I picked up these gorgeous crosses down South for only $10! What a steal! I cannot wait to start really decorating our little home and a little cross wall is just what we need!

Earlier Friday during the day, I had a little lunch date with our office Manager, Sharon, who is about 70 years old and the funniest lady, I love working with her! We get caught up in the most random conversations and she tells the best stories. Makes the work day very quick and easy. :-) Well, we chose this new place in walking distance to our office that just replaced Bennigans, and as much as I wanted to like it so much, I was not impressed, the food was really bland.

We ordered the Fish Tacos and the Capri Salad and split both entrees. These two entrees are some of which I order at multiple restaurants to see how they compare, who has the better one, etc. We even got the fish blackened, and it still had no flavor. It was almost like everything tasted the same, has that ever happened to you?? Meh. I was, however, impressed with the furniture and ambiance of the restaurant. Very sports-like with TVs everywhere, and the bar top tables and regular dining tables, they looked pretty expensive dark brown wood. The service was also pretty good. Would I go there agian? Eh. Probably not with all the amazing restaurants in Austin to choose from.

Soo.. funny coincidence that our #1 house we are looking at is on a street named "Huxley Ln"... Even though we don't have NEAR enough to put down 20% on a house at the moment, Scott is seriously considering pulling some strings, but we will see! It's so hard that the market is so great right now, but we just don't have the money we need quite yet. We are about to start buckling down hard. I'm so excited!

What did everyone else do this weekend!?

Weekend Shenanigans

Shenanigans it was, my friends. This weekend just about had a little bit of everything. For some reason I have felt like everything was wrong with me this weekend! Let's start from the beginning, haha.

So Friday, I am at work towards the end of the day, planning out what appetizer I'm going to make for the House Hunters party, and my middle finger on my left hand starts feeling irritated. Now before you start thinking anything gross or weird, NO irritation showed what so ever. Just felt like it was on fire, itched, whatever. So I put a bandaid on it and forgot about it as I was getting ready to leave and make my way through 45 min of traffic getting home.

We are supposed to be AT the party around 8, well guess who shows up 10 minutes before 8 a little tipsy from an after work happy hour? The boyfriend... I am the kind of person who HATES being late, yes hates... so I'm a little chaotic getting things together, showering, cooking, etc. and as I'm unloading the dishes, our hefty sized plate falls edge first and lands smack right on my knuckle on my big toe.... yep couldn't breathe for a good 9.6 seconds. UghhH! Leaving the picture out though to save you from the grody-ness. You're welcome.

Still can't really bend it much either. It is nasty looking haha! But we got everything together and at least made it to the party in time for House Hunters to come on! I made Southwestern Egg Rolls (recipe to come!) and they. were. so. good!

These were a huge hit, and I also made a Spicy Avocado Ranch sauce for dipping. Will post recipes this week!

The House Hunter's party was so, so fun. Ruthie & Jon are the cutest and hope you all tuned into their episode! Who came name all the bloggers in these photos!? We were all there to support our girl!

Scott has really become good friends with the blogger hubbies, and played Corn Hole with Jon for hours straight. We didn't leave until about a little after 1am... fun night!

Saturday we were zombies! We had all these fun plans for Scott to hang out with Dave (Mallorie's hubby!), see Batman all together, etc.  well we laid on our couch being lazy until nearly 3pm! Wasted day, but Chris, Scottie and I still went to see Batman around 7pm... I have to say that after Friday's Colorado thing, I was definitely feeling a little weary of being in a theater, but the movie was INCREDIBLE. I love Christian Bale Batman!! hehe

Saturday was rough with my finger having some weird allergic reaction (with no visual! so weird!) that was bothering me, and my toe that I couldn't bend, I was definitely being dramatic about it but it hurt, ok!? I ended up picking up a thing of benadryl on the way home from batman. I straight up passed out less than 30 minutes later, I guess it still has the same effect on me as it did when I was a kid haha.

When I woke up Sunday morning to start getting ready for Church, now my throat was all hurting! Am I fallin apart or what? I immediately took some airborne, tylenol, and laid back down and streamed online - no way am I going to get sick! When I got back up, cleaned up around the house, did some laundry, and Scott was really wanting me to go with him to this new restaurant so I got ready and off we went to Lupe Tortilla! He's a fajita fanatic, and we've heard nothing but great things, so I was pretty excited. I love little day dates with my man.

This place was a little more expensive than say Chuy's or La Margarita, but I can see why. Not only was management constantly stopping my tables giving samples of their famous fajitas, but always making sure we were having a great experience, margaritas came with another glass full and were strong (yay!), and chips and salsa were great. Scott has named this place our new go-to. If they had Creamy Jalapeno like Chuy's does, I would have been SET!

Yummmmmm. We had lots leftover too. Rest of the day was spent finishing laundry, we got a Red Box movie, and chillaxed. I'm still feeling a little rough today, but now I can bend my toe again, yay! My finger is 100% better too. I swear - so weird. Anyway, while we had our family snugglefest, I snapped cute pictures of Huxley so that is what I'll end my post with.

Weekend Surprise

Happy Monday!!

Hope everyone had a fabulous weekend and for my Austin friends, hope you enjoyed the weekend FULL of thunderstorms and cool weather :-), I sure did!

My weekend was orginally going to be very laid back. I got a call on Friday asking if I could watch my precious little Bananalee (Annalee) while our besties Ashley and Justin had to work an early shift, so Friday night for me ended very early since I had to be somewhere at 630am. Scott had some guy friends over and had an NBA 2k12 battle while I enjoyed some DVR shows and snugglin' with Huxley til I dosed off.

Babysitting Bananalee is one of my favorite things to do. She is literally the most chill baby ever! I love her sweet little face...

While I was babysitting, I got a phone call from Scott around 2pm saying he had some fun news and to get home as soon as possible! Hmmm this should be interesting. The whole weekend, we had been planning that Scott was going to spend the night at his Dad's place and hangout - so I was already planning on having my Saturday night consist of fun trashy TV shows, Huxley cuddle time, etc.

So I hurried on home when Justin got off work and relieved me, and Scott had a beer in his hand an a smile on his face as he had a bag packed and told me we'd be having a fun little staycation in downtown Austin at the Doubletree Guest Suites! *WHAT!?* We never get to do fun stuff like this!! So I quickly showered and threw on something cute and we were out the door!

Neither of us have been to the doubletree downtown, and I have to say that I was thoroughly impressed! The rooms were HUGE and had a full kitchen, office, living room, AND TV in the bedroom - oh and the bed was huge too! I felt like a little kid I was so friggin excited.

Happy girl right hurrr!

We also had a pretty awesome view of all of Downtown including the State Capitol. Ballla

After jumping on the bed and swooning over our awesome room, it was time for a cocktail so we headed down to the hotel bar for some vodka tonics and to figure out where we wanted to eat.

We got soo many suggestions and recommendations from friends that we ended up debating forever until we eventually just wanted somewhere on Dirty 6th that we could walk out and bar hop after, so we went to Iron Cactus.
Started the night off right...

Margarita on the Rocks & a Vegas Bomb

Funny thing - I know that I took of a picture of my food at one point so it was weird when I went to grab it this morning for the post... maybe I deleted it that night? Dunno... but I ordered the Baja Tacos (Fish Tacos with a baja sauce) and they were amazing!

We then made sure to make it to Suite 101 (a West 6th St. bar) to see one of my good girlfriends Cheyenne who was bartending... I miss her! It was fun. It was super dark so I didn't get any pics of us together, but this is the one shot I did get at the bar.

Haha, you cant really tell... but the girl behind the bar is our friend Chey, and that big shadow is a girl just dancing... I was completely amazed because she never took a break! We were there at least 20-30 minutes and not once did she stop booty-dancin. Lol!

It started raining and my great hair day turned sour with a big wavy mess. At first I pulled my hair back while we bar hopped more, but then we went into this bar that had Corn Hole AND Jenga outside - and while others were scared of the rain. I was at the point of intoxication where it was WAY too fun to play in the rain than stay dry and boring. So I challenged Scottie to a game of Corn Hole and I WON! What whaaaaaat!?

We had SO. MUCH. FUN. together! Ya know, it just makes me feel so blessed and happy that Scott thought of us and planned a much needed little staycation away from home and all the daily stresses of work, life, etc. We were truly reminded of how much we genuinely enjoy each others company and have a blast together. I love him so much!! (Sorry for the sappyness haha)

So we went to bed I'm sure around 330ish? We woke up and checked out around Noon hung over and draggin' our feet... and knew we were destined to carry on our tradition when we go DT and have the best "hungover" burger in town... at Hut's!

We enjoyed some delicious burgers, and Scottie had a craving for their malts and ordered a Strawberry Malt to-go...

With full bellies and a headache, we left excited to go home and watch movies and lay around. I was soo excited to see my little munchkin and took him for a good walk and a dip in the pool! One of Huxley's favorite thigns to do is swim in the shallow area of a pool, and even MORE than that, towel off! He makes the funniest grunt noises toweling off and when I take the towel off him, he runs right back toward it for more... super cute... we call him Scuba Hux!

Anyway, sorry for the long post/pictuer overload - but this little surprise weekend was a BLAST and I wanted to share :-). Have a GREAT Monday, friends!!

What did you do this weekend!?

Ziplining over Lake Travis

As most of you know, this weekend was crazy eventful as I really wanted to make my little sister, Maddie (14 - who has been staying in Austin w/ me for 3wks from Louisiana), and Scott (28- the BF), feel really special as they both celebrated birthdays on Friday and Saturday.

Friday night we had Scott's Birthday Bash, which I posted about yesterday, and today, I've got all the awesome pictures we took while out in the blistering heat beautiful sun and lake!

Saturday morning started early for me as the "event-coordinator", and I got some extra extra strength head-ache medicine and water ready next to our bed for Scottie (yay for curin' the hangover quickly before it starts!) and whipped up the breakfast of champions with some waffles, fried eggs over easy, bacon, with syrup and nutella out for the spreadin'. They were happy campers :-). I made sure to schedule the zip-lining around 3pm so that we could all feel like "sleepin in"/lying around the house during the day being lazy! Also woke up Maddie with some balloons and a card from Huxley. Although Huxley seemed a bit more interested in the balloons than Maddie. It was too funny!

 

We got there about 30 minutes early to get all prepared, and thank goodness we had been drinking water all day because we were in for a huge surprise with allllll the hiking it really was to get to these zip lines!

We did a total of 5 zip lines, all getting longer and faster each time. It was an experience to remember! The last zip line, you got up to 65mph and it stretches over a 1/2 mile directly over the lake (we had many watchers from their boats on the lake - so fun!)

The tour-guides were absolutely fantastic - fun and energetic. Very motivating while you're hiking, and water was provided at every stop/zip line. Overall it was an incredible experience and very worth the $89 per person (although I was bummed I missed the groupon back on OCT that would have made it only $50 but oh well!)

Best part is - after all the zip lining - you have access to a private beach where you are provided tubes, floaties, everything you need to have a great time - the water was perfect and we hung out and unwinded with a cold beer after ziplining. A perfect afternoon. Scott and Maddie had a great time, and that makes it all worth it for me.

Scott is holding up his shoe because we bought those before zip-lining. He LOVES them - they ar the new Apidure (Toe-shoes?) that are perfect for hiking, swimming, etc. They were only 39.99 at Academy which is NOT bad for the comfort and support he had. He said he felt like he was barefoot! I just can't bring myself to wear these toe-shoe things. Looks so weird! lol!

Once we noticed the sun slowly starting to set, we decided to take off and grab a good table ealy at The Oasis on Lake Travis in Austin. It was about 11 minutes away so it wasn't a far drive at all. Scott got Fajitas, Maddie got Fried Shrimp, and me - Shrimp Tacos w/ Baja Sauce. Oh and a cold magarita too. JUST what we needed after a day of workin' out/swimmin!

Look how breath taking the sunset and skyline was...

It was the perfect dinner, we were feelin pretty tired though and headed home for some Huxley time... he was soooooo happy to see us :-) Cuddled up with daddy right away and we watched a movie and I'm pretty sure we were all in bed by 11pm!

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Father's day has been rough on me as this will be the second one I've spent missing my daddy who passed away in October of 2010. His story is here. For some reason, I couldn't bring myself to go to Church where I knew the whole sermon was going to be on dads... I am making it up by attending Church Wednesday evening, but it was definitely hard - and I know it is much harder on Maddie who was only 12 when she lost him so we had an easy morning in the house. Sunday evening I grilled some Steaks, Corn on the cob, Asperagus, with loaded mashed potatos, and we had Scott's dad over to watch the game (for all you Heat fans- OKC will come back strong don't you worrryyy!) and we had a great time. Since Scott's dad had to work on Scottie's bday - I made some homemade brownies and had candles so he felt like he got to celebrate w/ us too.

Ruthie, notice a delicious batch of onion dip half gone? :)
That dip is amaaaazing and was half devoured in 3.2 seconds. Credits to Ruthie Hart for the recipe!

Shrimp Diablo Appetizers (Bacon Jalapeno & Cream Cheese wrapped over Shrimp and grilled)

Huxley made a #1 Fur-Daddy TShirt with paw-prints for Scott for Father's day. He looooooved it!

Well, that was my weekend! Sorry for the abundance of pictures - but I KNOW you enjoyed them! We are still unwinding from all the fun activities and great food. Also a lot of amazing things happening in our little family right now, so stay tuned! God is SO good :-) We are blessed.

Scott's 28th Birthday Bash

Happy Monday! This weekend was just as I expected: fun, exhausting, adventurous. It was Scott's birthday on Friday, Maddie's birthday on Saturday, and Father's Day on Sunday. Wowzers! I decided to split everything up into two posts.. (sorry you'll have to wait to see ziplining pictures tomorrow friends!) and today will be pics of Scott's birthday bash at Juniors. Some fun videos included :-)

Scott was extremely indecisive on where he wanted to either have dinner or a party or drinks somewhere, so this ended up being a somewhat "last minute" event. I secretly hit up all of his friends to make sure they would be there, and duhh of course they showed up! Scott was surpised thinking it was only going to be a few friends - but when you work at Dell, word of "drinks" spreads quickly and sooner than you think practically half the floor shows up! I think he had fun :)

Here is the funny vid of the dancing going on....

We even found the most Epic Mustache of the Night!!!! Scott was obsessed about getting a picture of this! This guy's expressions were priceless!

Scott showing off "his moves" to the ladies!

I was SO excited to see Mallorie who came with Dave, and they were sweet enough to give Maddie a few of his albums (which she is now mildly obsessed - I warned you Dave! A bunch of 14 yr olds are about to go crazy! haha) anyway I wish I would have gotten a picture with her! Love that girl!!

At Midnight, it was so special everyone started shouting and cheering for MADDIE who officially turned 14 and we took RedBull shots to celebrate! When the bar closed, Scott was successfully hammered and we headed home to hang out pass out.

Huxley was so happy to see daddy again and gave him some birthday love!

Oh, and I had surprised Scott by secretly re-designing our bedroom before he got home from work... I don't have a before picture cause it was hideous. We have used Scott's blue/green plaid comforter for over 5 years and I'm pretty sure he's had it since he was a senior in HS. ick!! I have been DYING for a makeover forever, so when he got home I surprised him with this:

I LOVE it! We've never had anything on our walls, night stands, or even a nice comforter, and when he walked in.... I had to fight em to get UNDER the covers it was so comfortable!! I kind of want some more decorative pillows to put a little more color on the bed, any suggestions???

I love my boys :-) Happy Birthday boo!!

Get ready for my ziplining/oasis/fathers day post tomorrow!!