guadalupe river

we tied up our tubes, mine, kort's and the cooler's and down the river we went with all the college kids, over three rapids and twists and turns.  we floated about three hours until we found our bus stop managing to stay in our tubes, using our flip flops as paddles.  what a great weekend we had!

Rule # 1: do not throw up

Rule #2: do not fight

my favorite place EVER!

Gruene Hall, Gruene, TX 

The oldest dance floor in Texas famous for many well-known artists starting careers there and also parts of Hope Floats and Michael were filmed there.  The moment I walked in I knew I loved the place and didn't want to leave.  It had so much character and history, hopefully, I'll get back there soon for a visit!

for dinner we went to the gristmill that sits behind gruene hall and had one of the most scrumptious meals ever finished with dessert that on the menu read:  created by a waitress who once went on a dessert binge :-)  it really was sooo good.

Randy Rogers Band

caught a Randy Rogers concert at Nutty Brown's Cafe

Kortney comes to Austin, hooray!! Flat Creek Winery

I was over the moon when Kortney came to Texas to visit.  We jammed a lot of stuff into just one week and it was so much fun.  We needed about another week to do the rest of what we had on our list, but I'll take what I can get!  We started our week at this adorable little winery in Marble Falls out in the hill country, which was so beautiful.  We got there when they opened for lunch and were still there when they closed the doors that evening, with that said, we had a great time catching up and laughing hysterically at Kortney's "hot" soup and other random incidents.  For whatever reason, whenever we get together my stomach aches from laughing so hard and I feel like a silly little kid again. 

I'm a survivor...

our good friend's mom, mary margaret, is a five-year cancer free survivor.  in honor of that her family threw her a surprise party to celebrate being a survivor in waxahachie.  it was such a fun party with great reason to celebrate.

JD and Macon

Lucy turns 3!

It's hard to believe that just three short years ago life as I knew it had changed forever when this sweet little face came into the world.  The time has flown by, but every minute has been adventurous and fun as can be.  We went to Sea World to celebrate and then had some friends over for swimming, cake and ice cream.  Happy Birthday LuLu!

happy birthday america!

we celebrated like any true american would.  a bbq, of course, complete with pool,

lots of finger-lickin' food

good company,

tractor rides,

bounce house,

did i already mention the food?

and some homemade southern banana pudding, mmm.