Another Week...

Hi everyone! I guess I'm becoming a weekly blogger... Nothing wrong with that, I suppose, just an observation.

A lot has happened since I last checked in...

Bryan and I went this past Thursday to Austin for the night. The main reason for going to Austin is that they have a Melting Pot restaurant. This is one of our favorite places to eat. We first went to the one in Nashville for prom my sophomore year, his junior year. The one in Nashville is VERY fancy, and you would never see anyone in shorts or sandals. We went to one in San Antonio once and now the one in Austin. Neither of these were NEARLY as fancy, but the fondue was still AWESOME!!! Here's a picture of the restaurant:


We caught a ride TO The Melting Pot in the hotel shuttle. We decided, before we left the hotel, that we were going to walk back after dinner as it was only a couple of blocks. That was decided to be our "nightly walk". What a GREAT decision that was!! On our way back, we noticed quite a congregation forming on the Congress Street bridge. Somehow Bryan knew that it was almost time for the bats to come out. Apparently, there are millions of bats that reside under the bridge. Sure enough, after about 15 minutes or so of waiting, we saw MILLIONS of bats come out... It was CRAZY!!! We took a couple of pictures, but the bats are very difficult to decipher, so I won't bother posting one...

Once back at the hotel, we just relaxed a little. It was nice to do that. We watched a little TV, then it was time for bed.

In the morning, we got up, went downstairs for breakfast (we stayed at the Embassy Suites, remember their HUGE breakfasts from the wedding??), then returned to the room to get ready for the day. Upon check out, we stopped in the gift shop and, before we knew it, we had purchased a T-shirt for Maddy. It's ADORABLE. It's pink and says " Texas Princess".

Once we left the hotel, we noticed that the capital building was just down the street. Bryan wanted to stop and take a few pictures, so we did. Once we were there, taking pictures, we decided to go in. We wandered through for a little while and took some pictures...




We also saw the cathedral, so we walked to it to take a couple of pictures:



After leaving the cathedral, our trusty new GPS took us to Babies 'r' Us, where we just perused since we don't have one of them. Once we were finished with that, and had a little lunch, we started the drive home.

Once home, we met up with Mike & Breezy, our friends that live a couple of streets over (the couple who I house sat for while they were both deployed). Mike's truck is on it's last leg, so he wanted to go look for a new one. That worked out nicely because we wanted to take our new car seat to the Toyota dealership to check out how much space there will be in the 4Runner once it's installed in the backseat. After visiting a few dealerships, we went to dinner at Logan's, which concluded our night.

Yesterday, we got up and did a few chores around the house, then headed out to our buddy Landon's third birthday party. Actually, we're friends with his parents, but we were invited, so we went. It was a nice time, but it was HOT!!

After leaving the party, we went to the GMC dealership. By this time, we had made our decision. We have chosen to purchase a GMC Acadia. We found our friend Willie at the dealership and gave him our print-out of what EXACTLY we are looking for. Shortly after we got there, our friends Kristen and Bobby (who also live two streets over) showed up. They, too, are looking for a new vehicle. Shortly after they left, our friends Ryan and Diana showed up to pick up their brand new Acadia they purchased last week. Seems like EVERYONE is looking for a new car right now... Willie tried talking us into one of the Acadias that he had on the lot since it had all the features we were looking for. Unfortunately, it's WHITE. We had given Willie a list of colors we liked, and white was not one of them, so we thanked him for the offer of "a helluva deal", and asked him to please check around to see what others around the area have to offer us. He agreed and promised a phone call tomorrow with his findings. Sounds like we could be the owners of a brand new Acadia before the end of the week!!! AAAHHHHH!!! Scary, huh?!?! I'll be sure to take lots of pictures and post them once we have ours.

We came home after the dealership to have some dinner. After dinner, we went BACK out (we forgot that we were planning to stop at Target while we were out) and purchased some curtains for our living room:



What do you think?? I hope you like it. I know that I do. I think that Bryan is still adjusting.

Today, we cleaned out Maddy's room a little more. Once Bryan has Mike come over to help him schlep some things up to the attic, we'll have a better idea as to where we stand. We fully expect to have that room completely cleaned out this week... and hopefully painted.

We DID pick out some paint samples for her room. We are looking at pale pink and chocolate brown. Any suggestions there?? As to how to paint the room to incorporate both colors??

One last thing we did tonight was look into getting a 4D Ultrasound done. We got a postcard in the mail yesterday for Stork Vision. That's a place here that does 4D Ultrasounds. Since Bryan has missed both of the other ones, we thought that would be a pretty neat thing to do together. We are required to get permission from the doctor, so I plan to call tomorrow and see what she says.

Ok, well, I'm pretty sure that I've talked your eyes off by this point, so I think I'll end this. Maybe I should try to blog more frequently as to not bore you so much next time!!

Love you guys!!!