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I'm so proud of Ryan! We just got back from Austin where Ryan ran the Austin Half Marathon. He hasn't been able to run much lately with all of the long hours at work, homework, class and selling the house. But, he shaved around 10 minutes off of his time from the last time he ran a half. Also, he said it was the hardest course he had ever run, what with all of the hills in downtown Austin. I am super proud of his committment and dedication to this sport. Until the next race...

Austin, TX...Yes Please!

So this past weekend Ryan and I set out to visit our friends in Austin, Texas. They just had the cutest baby in the entire world and we were so excited to meet him. There is a show called Man vs. Food that Ryan and I are watching all the time, so we decided to visit restaurants that had been featured on that show. For this trip that included Salt Lick BBQ, Fran's Hamburgers and Amy's Ice Cream. All three were great!

Salt Lick was the BEST BBQ Ryan and I had ever had. That is saying a lot as we are from Texas and have eaten quite a bit of BBQ in our time. As you can see, we both REALLY enjoyed ourselves!

Dinner was filled with brisket, sausage, ribs, potato salad, coleslaw, beans and the best dang BBQ sauce I have ever had! The fact that Salt Lick is BYOB didn't hurt either. I absolutely love this place and we will definitely be going back soon!

After having such a ridiculous dinner Friday night, Ryan and I both got up to run 5k the next morning, so that we could continue to eat of course! On the meal schedule for Saturday were Fran's , Amy's and Central Market. At Fran's it was a jalapeño burger for Ryan and a bacon cheeseburger for me. We tried to be somewhat healthy by splitting fries. Ugh! Still artery clogging, I know, but so good for a little hole in the wall type place.

Amy's was next to add insult to injury. Ryan had something called Chewwy-Baka (duh!) and I had something called Bloody Sword (to this day that name makes no sense to me). The C-B consisted of coffee ice cream, peanut butter, Heath bar and pecan praline sauce. The Blood Sword consisted of mexican vanilla ice cream, coconut, cameo cookies and pecan praline sauce. Both were a-ma-zing!

For dinner that night, we decided to bring CM to Mike, Amanda and Henry's house so they didn't have to get out. We had so much fun visiting their new home, catching up, having dinner and meeting the cutest baby boy in the country. Ryan and I miss them more than I think we realized and more than they may know. I can't say enough how fun it was to see them, even though we just hung out and did nothing. It was a great, great night!

(See! Cutest boy ever! I told you!)

As a random side note, while we were picking up dinner at the CM, I really needed some bottled water. I decided I would buy whatever was cheapest because all the bottled water is really the same anyway, right? Look what crap they have in Austin...

Yes, this is water you are supposed to buy to support UT students and it is in the shape of the tower on campus. Don't get me wrong, I think it is great to support college students, but this is the cheesiest thing I have ever seen. I think TCU needs to sell water in a bottle shaped like a Horned Frog. Now that, I would buy a case of!

Until next time Austin, which hopefully won't be long, because I am missing little Henry already...

Austin Down to Kerrville

This past weekend Ryan, Ryan's sister Laurel and I all piled in the car and headed for Austin. We decided to stay in Austin, two hours away from Kerrville and then drive in on Monday morning for the funeral. The main reason we wanted to stay in Austin is so that we could stay at Barton Creek, a ClubCorp property. When we got to the resort, only one room was ready, so Ryan and I decided to go look around the resort. We ended up finding a large chessboard and decided to play. Ryan won, of course, but it was a lot of fun!


After going back up to our room, the sun was just setting, so Ryan and I pulled up a chair to watch. It was so nice to be able to see for miles, unlike when we're in the city.


Another great part about staying in Austin was that we got to visit our friends Mike and Amanda. I can't even begin to describe how great it was to see them. We didn't get the chance to hang out with them much when they were living in Dallas, but now that we can't just pop over and see them, I miss them! We went to County Line for dinner, which was some great BBQ and a lot of fun!

The next day we went to Ryan's Grandmother's funeral and got to see a lot of his family. We also got the chance to have lunch with most of them and catch up. It was nice to have everyone in the same room since the last time we saw most everyone was at our wedding almost a year ago.


We didn't want to take more than one day off of work, so as soon as lunch with the family was over, we decided to head back to Dallas. Along the way we stopped at the infamous Czech Stop for some Kolaches. As you can see below, they were AMAZING!


Although it was sad to have to go to a funeral, we did have a good trip down to Austin, to Kerrville and back.