A Fun and Busy Weekend!

On Friday, we met our new friends, Michelle and Lauren, at Sea World and the kids had a ball playing for several hours. They went through the water area, rode all the rides, went to the play ground and had lunch there. The kids were SO worn out, they fell asleep in the stroller on the way to the car :)

Saturday, we woke up and I cleaned up some things around the house...blah. Then we went to lunch with a family from Joe's work who just moved here a day or two ago! They have 3 boys (bless her heart, I probably would have shot myself in the foot by now). Ages 7, 5 and almost 1. Since we were out eating, it was more of a meet and greet for us parents, rather than the kids playing with each other. It was a nice time tho. I look forward to seeing them again soon. The mom is young, like me, so it is nice to have that in common.

That afternoon, I was invited to go to a baby shower for one of the girls in Joe's office. It was nice to get out without the kids for some grown up time, even though all we did was talk about our kids :) It was nice to meet the other wives and women that I never really did get to meet in Joe's old job, since they seemed to mostly be young, single men. I loved the house, where it was hosted! Oh what money can buy you out here :) The couple that hosted, lived in D.C. (Haymarket area) and had a townhouse they sold and were able to move here and buy this GORGEOUS and HUGE house in Helotes. It was just a beautiful house, which would probably cost you 1.5-2 million back in D.C.! They probably only paid $400-500,000 here for it. Needless to say, I really liked the house and everyone I meet.

That night Joe and I had fun grilling and drinking some Mexican beer together, which is odd since we both don't care for beer :) We are thinking it is kinda like coffee...an acquired taste that you work on. I have to say, it has been tasting alot better :) After, we went to Best Buy and got an Ipad. Finally caved in. You will laugh at the reason why...Joe is leaving for a few days of training and HBO go that we are using from family won't work on my old generation Ipod touch, but works on his Iphone, so I need the Ipad so I can watch True Blood starting tonight (Sunday)! ha ha ha, I love that show! So there ya go, you can see why it was so essential now, right? We stopped for ice cream on the way home at McDonald's.

Sunday, we met up with Sabrina and Troy and their two sons. We meet them through some of our good friends back Virginia. They took us down to Market Square (historical area) to do a little shopping and had brunch at Mi Tierra's. It was really good, I LOVED their flour tortillas! I should have grabbed something out of the bakery for dessert on the way home. Everything looked really tasty. They have alot of little vendors and sellers all around that area, selling traditional Mexican stuff. Collin got a ball you can connect to your wrist and the ball has a bungee cord attached so it comes back to you. Perfect for him! Alana got a very pretty pink seashell necklace to match her outfit. I wanted to get a cowgirl hat, but resisted the urge for now. They are such a nice family and laid back and that makes hanging out with them enjoyable for us :) It feels like we have known them forever and this was only our second time meeting up!

We had to leave sooner than I personally wanted to because the kids were pretty darn cranky and we didn't bring a stroller. Also, we had to get Joe home because he is leaving for a few days to go up to Dallas, for some training. It has been so long since he has traveled, it is kind of weird. It will kick in tonight when I am bored and lonely :) I better get use to it fast, because there is no end in sight for him to stop traveling.

I hope everyone had a great weekend. I know we did!