A slice of Happiness.

The days after Christmas were just as sweet as the days before! My family took off to Dallas on the 26th to spend time with my brother and sister-in-law. It was such a great time! My parents and I stayed at the Gaylord Texan (Hey guys, let's go Gaylording!) which was so much fun! I get a kick out of staying in fancy hotels! The whole place was decked out for Christmas! I love Christmas. :)

So the whole trip was filled with good times with the fam including Christmas Dinner, Christmas light looking, and shopping (I bought a coat and a swimsuit in one day. Yes, weird.). The last day, I split with the fam to go shoot a wedding in Ft. Worth. It was a crazy fast paced day, but the wedding was beautiful! I've started editing the photos and they are awesome! Have a look on Facebook...I've uploaded some new ones!

This day before New Years eve, I'm at Starbucks, editing all my dear little photos. I've also found a new respect and love for Coldplay. I've never been too much into them, but now I am! Their short album Prospekt's March is rocking my world!

A Brownwood Weekend

Cheers to another great weekend! :) This time, Megan, Scott, and I drove down to Brownwood to visit Matt, Megan's boyfriend, for a day. We had a great time! We explored Matt's house (it's like a fun treehouse), went out to eat, drove all around brownwood, and went to this sweet abandoned hot spring! It was so cool! 

Here are a few photos: (1) Me standing on the old pipe supports that brought the water to the hot springs. I fearlessly jumped up there and then was terrified to get down! I was like a scared cat up a tree. Both boys had to help me and it took forever! (2) Megan getting a little help from Matt hopping the fence to get into the old hot springs. (3) Meg and I are friends! (4) A snapshot of all of us.

Great trip you guys! :)

P.S. Don't forget to vote tomorrow!

Home!

Hi friends! I just returned from another wonderful weekend in San Antonio...this time with my mom! We had a girl trip, and it was so fun! First of all, we stayed in Boerne, this sweet little town just a few miles out of San Antonio, at this lovely mix between a Bed&Breakfast and a hotel. It was so authentic and WAY better than staying in a hotel. It was almost like staying with a relative in their home. Definitely a nice place to come back to at the end of a long day at Sea World or shopping! Yes, my mom and I went to Sea World! :) But first, have a look at the "Ye Kendall Inn" where we stayed.Some of the old school artwork found in our room...This is a picture of the lady whom our hotel room was named after, Laverne McQuinn (the hotel rooms didn't have numbers, just names).They had a "Texas sized" hot tub! We hung out there after the day at Sea World and it was glorious!Seeing this sign made me very happy :)The first night we ate at Papasitos--I'd never been there before and I give it an A+! The salsa was the best part!! This photo represents us getting our "gangsta" on in SA! We are ridiculous. :)And here we are at Sea World!Here I am petting a Clydesdale at Sea World!! It was GIGANTIC and BEAUTIFUL!We also got Baskin-Robbins ice cream! I haven't been to a Baskin-Robbins in probably something like 10 years!
What a great trip!

Shamu!

Here's a quick video I took of Shamu while we were at Sea World! I seriously marvel at how they train those animals! I can't imagine how amazing it would be to work with a giant whale like that on a daily basis.

See ya!

I'm jettin' out of town for the rest of the week to spend a fun few days with my mom on a girl trip! See ya next week!

San Antonio Trip :: Part 2!

After a lovely lunch at McAllister's Deli and a spur of the moment shopping trip to this sweet modern furniture/decor store "Motif Studio," Scott and I jumped in the truck and headed homeward.

On the way home from San Antonio, we most definitely made a stop in Fredericksburg to do a little walkin' and shoppin'...not that we could actually buy anything...or at least not anything I wanted! :) I fell in love with this little antique side table/mini dresser, but check out the price. It was also pretty much the least expensive item in the store, so just imagine the price of the other lovely things.
We also stepped into this anthropologie-like store called "Root." It was so inspiring and fun (and girly...Scott was a good sport), but alas, expensive.Then we got photo happy and started snapping away. I personally love this one. You can see in the lower right hand corner the date the building was built. 1889. Cool!I wanted to do a little photo collection, but couldn't figure out what to do...until we had passed store after store with adorable "Open" signs! So here you have it, a sampling of the "Open" collection. So as not to wear you out with too many photos, I've hand selected my favorites. :)

When people say they "hand selected" something, you know it's going to be good. :)

This trip was just what I needed. Fun and relaxing, with the most awesome family ever!

Have a lovely day!

San Antonio Trip!

Hi friends! Last Thursday I headed out of town with Scott to visit his oldest brother's family+his twin brother in San Antonio. What fun we had!! We spent Thursday swimming with all the family at the neighborhood "Rec Center" (It was gigantic! Even had a lazy river...and we took full advantage of that!). Since Scott's oldest brother has 2 kiddos, we played pool games that I haven't played in years! Diving for sticks, the color-dunking game, handstand contests, Marco Polo, racing, tag, and general horseplay :) It was a bbbblast! Swimming has got to be one of my favorite activities ever! We loved it so much that we actually all went to the pool every day of our visit!! Anyway, after being thoroughly waterlogged, we headed back to their lovely house and cooked out for dinner.

I had my two cameras with me, so Scott and I each had our fill of photo-taking...thus the extravagantly long photo post :) Here we are just lounging around at the house.

This is Scott's nephew, Heston, playing Playstation!


Here's Noah, Scott's other nephew.

Friday, we all went to the Alamo and Riverwalk (and we got to do the fun boat tour!). Check out how cool the Alamo is!!

Kidding! :) Here's a real one...

We wanted a cool jumping picture, but it took a few tries.

We finally got one!

This is Scott's twin brother and his wife. I got a little hungry on the Riverwalk... Noah was contemplating. That green grass was just so inviting! How could anyone say no?!

Saturday night, Scott and I went to the Riverwalk again, but this time it was just the two of us. It's such a different experience at night! Gorgeous! All the lights reflecting off the water were mesmerizing. We found a sweet little table at a deck restaurant upstairs (so there weren't tons of people walking around) and enjoyed the night talking, laughing, and taking photos. I was amazed at how well my camera did in such poor lighting conditions! My favorite story of the night though, was how we got shivved at this one restaurant. We put our name on the list, waited and waited, watched people walk up and get tables, and finally left, moving on to a restaurant where they really care about people.

:)

By the way, "shivved" as defined by the urban dictionary means "to be stabbed with a piercing instrument, like a screwdriver." :) What an amazing word.

We wandered into this hotel lobby with the COOLEST furniture around!
What a great night!! But wait! There's more. Watch for Part two, coming just as soon as I can get the photos loaded :)