Dallas STARS!

Tonight we got tickets from Brandon's work in their box at the American Airline's Center. The Stars are one of Brandon's favorite teams, second only to the Cowboys of course. We've gotten to go to several games this year, but the game tonight was really great. Ott got a "hat trick" (or he did a hat trick?) which means he scored 3 goals tonight = big deal, and everyone throws their hats on the ice which is fun but kinda stupid to me because how are they going to get those back??? Brandon always tries to teach me all the rules and random hockey stuff, most of which I never understand. But I'm actually enjoying watching the games a lot. Tonight they won by a good bit (notice I'm not telling the score because I'm not reeealy sure what it was). But we had a good night. I just wish I had a picture of Brandon from when he played hockey to post on here because he was just so cute. But the picture of us tonight will have to suffice.


Go STARS!!!

Happy Birthday!

Today is Brandon's dad's birthday,
so we just wanted to wish him a very
HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

I like this picture- taken when he was fishing with Brandon on some trip last summer. He's a great father-in-law, and he's taught Brandon much of what it means to be a Christian man and how to be a hard worker. I am so thankful to have such sweet inlaws- I just wish we didn't live like 14+ hours away from them. Sorry we can't be there to celebrate with a yummy cake from Casa Linda. We'll try to make it up to you. Hope you have a good one!

Landscaping

We've finally come to a stopping point for all the landscaping we've done over the past few weeks. And, again, I love the before and after pics to show the difference. I'll take pictures of the front soon, so here are the ones of the back yard...

BEFORE:








AFTER:











I'm gonna try some roses this year- we'll see how they do:)



We still have a few things we want to do, but that's it for now. Thankfully, we had a gorgeous weekend. Hope everyone had a good one!!!

Madness

Ok ok. I'll update my blog finally...March really has been madness. So busy, but (thankfully) not because of college basketball. I'm blogging today because we can't work in the yard as it's covered in SNOW. Yep, 5 more inches of snow in Dallas. Good thing I put off planting my tomato plants a little longer. I can't believe the Texas weather this year- I've never seen anything like it. It's been so pretty the past couple weeks. Friday night we were sitting on the back patio with friends eating ice cream, and then Saturday it was snowing! And they say tomorrow it's supposed to be 65 and sunny. What in the WORLD?!?! But today's been kinda nice. Brandon and I needed a day to just do nothing and relax, and catch up the blog of course. Here's a couple pictures taken earlier today.





Last weekend my parents were in town for several days. It was so nice. The weather was absolutely gorgeous. We went to 6th Floor Museum, did a little shopping, and Mom and I went to see Phantom of the Opera while Dad and Brandon did some home improvements. But mostly, we had a relaxing weekend with good food and some good movies. It's so hard being so far away from them, but it was such a treat that they took off work and came just to spend a few days with us.





I'm so glad they came to visit. Something about spending time with family just rejuvenates me and keeps me going. I feel so blessed to be living in Dallas and surrounded with such great friends, but I just need to spend time with my family every so often. Brandon's getting over feeling sick and I'm doing my best not to let all his germs get to me. We hung out with all Brandon's cousins on Thursday night to celebrate a bunch of the birthdays. Then yesterday we got tickets to the Stars game again from Brandon's work, so that's becoming a favorite thing to do. Other than that, we've spent a lot of our time outside getting some landscaping done and getting ready to plant a little veggie garden. But we'll wait to post pictures of all that when it's not covered in snow. Hope everyone has had a good weekend! If you are considering going to see The Bounty Hunter with Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler, I would highly recommend it. Meagan and I saw it last night as the snow covered our cars. Oh and also, I would highly recommend anyone to start watching Parenthood with Lauren Graham. It's on Tuesday nights and I just love it, kinda reminds me of Brothers and Sisters. That's all for now- I'll try to update again soon!