The Weekender {vol. 13}

Such a fun and busy weekend for us.  Lots of eating, touring, and hanging out!

Friday night we went to Pappasito's for dinner and of course I got this delish blackberry marg tequila creation again!

Um I also ordered this insane combination meal-pork tamale, cheese with chili con carne enchiladas, and a crispy beef taco! I hate like half of each and then just about died.

Saturday we drove out to Galveston, and spent the first half of the day shopping on the Strand. I found like 10 maxi dresses I would have bought were it not for something called "a budget" and "saving for a home."  Boooo.  

However, I did get some really great bracelets that I think are knock offs of ones I've seen at like Nordstrom, but whatever: 

Annnnd here is a blue tree to raise awareness of conservation because of Hurricane Ike (I think?)
 

We were all set to take my mother in law to an awesome seafood place so she could get something delicious and fresh, but then we saw this Mediterranean place and got hooked on the idea of a Greek salad:

 

Umm yes I got mine with gyro meat. No shame!

K so then we ended our day with a tour of the Bishop's Palace, I will let the photos speak for themselves:

 

Gorgeous! We grilled some dinner up, had some wine, and then everyone was pretty much exhausted from a long day!

Sunday, Sunday!! We went to Buffalo Grille for brunch, and omelettes and breakfast burritos abounded.

After that we headed to the zoo.

Rawwwrrrr

Oh hi sad zebra, let's be friendssss!

Crazy giraffe all splayed out!  They have like 400 giraffes, it's great!

Sea lion getting a drinky drink!

Sunday night we grilled again, and then ended up going to Dessert Gallery for some cake!  I got the "chip off the old block" which was white cake with chocolate chips and dark chocolate ganache.  yeah. and Bryan and his mom both got the Italian cream cake. 

A little HGTV later and we were all done for after two full days of walking, talking, eating and drinking!

What was your highlight of the weekend? Hope everyone had a great one!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Five on Friday {what a week.}

Sooo happy Friday everyone!! 

We have had a crazy week, but in a good way! Bryan's mom is staying with us and having a little vacation, and it's going to be a fun weekend playing tourist in Houston and showing her around!  I actually feel semi confident that we know what we're doing here now and can actually guide peeps around a bit! 

Onto the FIVE!

1.  Oh hi perfect German Chocolate cake I made! & happy birthday again Bryan! 

2.  I am happy to share that The League on FX will be back in just ONE month!  

Seems muy trivial, but for real got me excited!! 
 

3.  Oh hi Internet! What's that? More amazing news for me? About a PHILLIP LIM LINE AT TARGET? Omg dies. 

This bag is everything. I am in love and will make it mine for fall & winter.

4.   This pic is also everything, but in a less RZ, more adorable puppy snoozing on husband pic. I die a little inside over this. 

Sorry I'm not sorry that I'm a HUGE CREEP taking sleep pics. We all know he does it back because I've posted the evidence too. 

5.  I will never apologize for jamming to Mariah. But this song? I mean jamming doesn't cover the things that happen when I play it in the car while I'm driving solo.  

Cheers to the weekend everyone!  What was your jam this week?  Did you bake or cook anything amazing? Most importantly, did you take at least one creepy photo?! :) 

 

The Weekend and 3/4 of the Week {lazy.}

Whhhhat? I'm supposed to post on my beautiful new site?? Ok. I know. Slacker ways.   Well good news is that I have a bunch of photos to share. Which is great news because we are currently hosting Bryan's mom for a week here and I have virtually no free time for the next week! 

Golf love last Friday! Read all about how I didn't suck at golf inMonday's post. 

Woooo wine!  Friday night we went out to dinner for Bryan's birthday. I promptly drank a bottle of wine to celebrate for him!  This was glass two.

Then I had a delicious steak! Yay for Churrasscos! Please note the three stems of glasses in front of me. 

Took a semi decent selfie before everything went to hell and I took a couple too many birthday drinks in honor of my husband!

 

Saturday we hauled up to our friend's pool party and took Barley! He frolicked off the leash and added three new girlfriends  to his book!  So now he has two black labs who are seven, and one boxer who is 6 months, plus a few from around the apartment area too! 

Playa puppy!

Saturday night we got to go out to dinner with my BFF's older brother and his fiancée who halfsie live here now!   We went to Cyclone Anaya's and I even managed to choke down a marg.  seriously delish food tho!

After we went to a few bars in Midtown and showed them around a bit! Seriously such a blast and I can't wait for both of them to be here permanently! 

Sunday is all summed up by this pic:

L.a.z.y.

In other random news:

Barley is really starting to get big!

Beatles are ruling my commute to work this week.

We picked up "a little" BBQ  for my mother in law's first night here visiting last night! So out of control delicious. Always get grilled zucchini people!

 

 

 

 

 

 

I Don't Suck At Golf {yay!}

Sooo, Friday was Bryan's birthday and I surprised him with a round of 18 for the two of us and tow of his buddies!  We pulled into the lot at the golf course and he was shocked to see his friends there, win! 

Since I am basically exhausted from our amazingly fun and perf weekend, here is the part where I show you how fun golfing was via photos!

So here I am...ready to go and so scared and nervous!  Had not golfed since I was like 14...so almost 13 years I guess! Yikes.

Golf cart selfie time!

Then we casually rolled up on this hole and it had like 8 bunkers. What? Excuse you golf course? 

Luckily the cart girl rolled up and I got a beer to take the edge off. Which was good, because things got worse.

 
 

Oh ok, so I just hit it from land onto an island and life's great and everything is cool? Awesome.

I missed on that one, but I did clear the water on another one and land it on the green!  So I was pretty proud of that. We had a reallyyyy fun afternoon, and hopefully soon I will be getting my lady starter clubs and maybe even take a couple lessons! 

You can basically golf 360 days of the year here so I think it will be a perfect sport/hobby to take up! 

Anyone out there a golfer/would like to be one? I mean getting in it for the cute golf clothes is worth it alone! 

More on our weekend tomorrow! 
 


 

 

 

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I have been wanting to make a BIG change for a while now....

"Sara In Texas" was great, but none of it felt like me....Sara Elizabeth.

So I contacted the beautiful and talented Ms. Kaitlyn at Put a Bow on It:

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