The exception, not the rule.

August 3, 2012

Insta Friday

The last two weeks via Instagram (no time to link up on vacation)!

Linking up with:

Spencer with his posse on our road trip

Ummm...yes, please!

Fabulous Mexican food and margaritas in San Antonio

My love

Love this place in Austin!

Couldn't get any better!

The best thing I found at Sam Moon. :((

Melts my heart!!

Decided he would stay up until 11:30 the night before.

At the zoo in Tyler

Chocolate fried pie for dessert at MaMaw's Pies in Whitehouse

These were everywhere we ate on this vacation. Get with the program Lubbock! Genius anti-roll crayons!

The GIANT fire ant bed I was stepping into every night when we got home. I have bites like crazy and figured it all out when we left one morning and I saw this!

iPad = road trip lifesaver

Literally in the middle of no where on the way home & saw this on our GPS screen. Only 'sand'...and that wasn't a lie! Ha!

Decided to make try a green smoothie for breakfast. It did not disappoint! Tons of spinach & you can't taste a bit of it! Recipe here.

Pool days...my favorite and to think they are coming to an end soon. :(

This kid and his sneaky ways with my coffee!

Spencer & Emie...it was love at first sight when they first met as babies!

Finally! Love all things Skinnygirl...really, it's all about Bethenny!

August 2, 2012

The last leg of our trip was Tyler. Rick's mom & sister live there and it's always so much fun to go there. Rick's mom was put in a rehab center the day we got there, so we only saw her twice. That was so unfortunate, but she needed to be there to get stronger. Meanwhile, we got to get some things done around her house that has needed to be done. This part of our trip was a "working vacation". Ha!

We always go to the zoo in Tyler and it's always great fun. This year was the first year that Spencer really got into it. He would take off and say, "Come on guys!"

We love spending any time we can with Rick's sister, Terry & her husband James. They are so special! Spencer started asking us in Austin when we were going to see Aunt Terry & Uncle James. Spencer & Uncle James disappeared for awhile one day and this is what we found them doing...

James & Terry have had numerous trees die this summer mostly due to the drought lat year. James has been burning them slowly and he needed a helper!

We had a special visit with Rick's mom the night before we left. We hated not seeing her much, but this place was the best place for her at the time. Spencer sure does love Jean!!

Isn't she beautiful??

Such a great vacation and we've been trying to adjust to reality this week. Ha! School's right around the corner!!

July 30, 2012

Vacation - Austin

After San Antonio we went to our favorite place, Austin. We just love it there and would live there in a heartbeat if the opportunity ever arises. We don't do anything special there, but we eat like crazy because we have so many places to eat there. We always try to find new places to add to our arsenal. :)

Dinner at Zax

Then we had a night cap at Shady Grove

The next morning we were excited to hit up Manuel's for brunch. Their Sunday brunch is the best! They have live jazz music and of course $2 mimosas! ;)

Silly, silly boys!!

We hit up Guadalupe St. after that to go to Tyler's, Jamba Juice and the UT Co-op.

There are no more pictures of this day (I have no clue why), but we went to have a quick snack at Z Tejas where we got some great eating suggestions from our waiter.

For dinner that night we went to a new place, Hopdoddy. Outstanding burgers! Bread made fresh daily, all meat ground there and all veggies are locally grown.

No big plans for the last day we were there other than eat. Ha! We had breakfast at our favorite place, Juan in a Million. $2 breakfast tacos and they are outstanding!!!

We are always intrigued by the food carts in Austin and always try to hit up a few while we are there. We ate lunch at Jalopy. FABULOUS! Everything fresh and bread made fresh daily. We loved it!

And we had dinner at our favorite place that we visited on this trip, Red's Porch. This was another suggestion by our waiter at Z Tejas. I didn't take a single picture there!!! Please visit the website and check it out. SO.MUCH.FUN.

Then we ended our night at Shady Grove, again. I think we like that place just a little. It's pretty much all outside, so Spencer can roam which is a good thing.

We left for Tyler the next day. Stopped at one of our all time favorite places, Whole Foods. We had a wonderful lunch and then hit the road.

Melt my heart!!!!

July 22, 2012

Vacation - San Antonio

Vacation is finally here!!!!!! We left Friday and went to San Antonio for just one night. It was perfect. Spencer has never been there so it was a great experience.

We had to go to La Margarita when we first got there. This is part of the Mercado district and is the best AUTHENTIC Mexican food and the BEST margaritas EVER!