UT Game!

This past weekend my hubby scored some free tickets and a parking pass to the UT game (courtesy of his brother).  Thank goodness a storm came through Friday and dropped the temperature or else I'm not sure I would have gone.  On Saturday it only hit a high of 85 degrees, perfect!  It was a busy day as we took Ry to Safari Champs that morning, then went out to Dripping Springs to watch Evan in the drumline competitions (they took 6th place!) and then rushed back to campus to fit in an hour of tailgating before heading into the game.  We had some awesome seats in the shade and the weather was perfect.  UT played a great game against K-State, we stayed into the 3rd quarter before we decided to head home (that was a lot of standing for me at 34 weeks pregnant).  All in all an awesome Saturday and great time at the game!

UT game 9/21/2013

Tailgating is back!

Tailgating is back and boy has it been HOT!  So far we've attended two tailgates, the first one was 106 degrees, the second one was 96 degrees.  Definitely not very comfortable for me as I'm preggers and all. :P There is one more tailgate this month that I'll be able to attend.  However I'm currently watching the weather and seriously debating not going if it's in the 90's again.  Other than that we've had a good time as usual.  Ry had a blast and even played (or tried to play) football with a couple older boys.  ;)  Surprisingly there are no home games in Oct, there are 3 home games in Nov (one on Thanksgiving day) but I'm definitely out on those as baby girl will be less than a month old!

Tailgating 8/31/2013

Tailgating in trees! 8/31/2013

Tailgating Returns!

The weather is starting to cool off (just a tad), the mornings are darker and football is back!  Which means....tailgating!!!  There were 2 tailgates this Sept, the first one was crazy HOT, then the following week a nice cold front came through and IT. WAS. AWESOME!  My friend Jennifer joined us at the first tailgate, then Moni and Kyle came out the following weekend.  I only managed to take pics from the first tailgate, oops.

Tailgating 9/1/2012

Jenn & Tina

Opa & Juju

Tailgating - It's a family affair!

The tailgate

This past Saturday marked my parents and Ryland's first ever UT tailgate.  For an extra special touch our tailgate joined forces with Major Applewhite's family tailgate!  We arrived around 10am and began showing JuJu and Opa the ropes - you know, scouting out the location of the kegs, food and TVs.  :)  The food selection for this tailgate was slow cooked chopped beef brisket sandwiches and fried boudin balls.  YUM!  The MSU vs UofM game came on at 11am and thank goodness there were 2 TVs as the A&M vs. Baylor game was on at the same time.  MSU played an awesome game and spanked UofM, 28-14.  :D  Go Green!  Ryland had a blast and was a social butterfly.  He didn't want to miss anything and pushed out his nap time by almost 2 hours.  Can you tell everyone had a good time? :)

Wearing an MSU green and white hat - had to represent!

Happy baby!

Happy grandparents

Sissy and Ry

Like father like son

Someone's tired

Football and Tailgating!

Football is back, bring on the tailgating!! 

Ryland will make an appearance at the next home game in Oct, when it's hopefully much cooler outside.



Let's get this party started! 9/10/11



The awesome smoker



The setup - Ready to watch MSU and various other games before UT plays (they have satelite).



Tailgating!

#25 - I've perfected taking pictures of myself ;-). 

All these pictures have been taken with my phone camera..not bad eh!?

Tailgating

#11 part 2 - UT tailgating at its finest! They make some amazing meals on this TX sized grill.

Visitors from Australia

 This past weekend was my 6th Annual Halloween Spook-tacular.  I spent pretty much the entire month of October preparing for this party.  The great thing about this years party was that my friend Karen from high school and her husband Ben flew in from Australia to attend!  I had told them about my party for years and this year they were finally able to make it.  Her brother Seth will be getting married Nov 1st so they came in a week earlier just to visit me!  They arrived late Friday night and we spent that evening catching up.  Early Saturday we went tailgating for the UT game and then were back at the house around 2:30pm for last min food prep and cobweb decor.  Sunday we went to Chuy's for some great Tex-Mex before dropping them off at the airport.  Everyone had a great time and it was wonderful to see them again.

Weekend Fun!

Talk about a fun weekend!

Friday- I went downtown for a co-workers bachlorette party.  We started off at 219 West where they had half priced appetizers until 9pm and $5 martinis!  I had the best blackberry martini, and I'm usually not fond of martinis!  From there we headed to Rain, Qua, Lanai (a new rooftop lounge that served stellar sangria's, we all really liked this bar) and Cuba Libre.  It was a great night out with the girls.


Saturday- UT tailgating!  Malek's brother has an awesome spot for tailgating...this is the 2nd one we've attended.  They served meat on a stick (aka shish kabobs), corn on the cob on a stick, and brats...plus all the side items like chips, brownies, cookies, etc. They even had the MSU game on for me (well, actually I would steal the remote and change the channel).       Go GREEN!  MSU beat Indiana!!!  Stinson came out to join us as well for the TENN game....good lord that woman can yell.  After tailgating we headed over to Katie & James house for a BBQ, poker, Wii and other games.

Sunday- We rested!  Watched a couple TV shows, did some laundry, went to Lakeway to visit Malek's mom and drop some stuff off, came back and watched more TV, munched on queso (yummy cheese!), then had a VB game at 9pm.

It was a great weekend!

# 89 - Visit Scholz Garten, Texas' oldest German Bier garten.

Labor day weekend was a blast!

Friday 8/29- A group of us went to Pluckers after work for HH.  There was a really funny guy singing outside about his life stories and then a huge storm hit!  The water was actually coming in sideways and Pluckers had to lower the screens...it even started to flood a little.  Thankfully it didn't last too long, but it was quite entertaining.  Later that evening Christie, Nico, Malek and I headed out to GCS for some dancing and karaoke fun.  No, I did not sing, I'm horrible.
Saturday 8/30- First UT game of the season!  Malek and I headed downtown for some tailgating at his brothers tailgate.  He has an awesome location and they served fish tacos, brats and a few other choice meats.  We were there until the camp headed out to the game.  Since we didnt' have tickets we made our way over to Scholz Garten (# 89 on my list) for some beer and to watch a bit of the game!  It was very interesting...amongst a sea of orange and inebriated fans we found a place to sit outside.  Across from us was this poor chap that was pretty much passed out.  Everyone once in a while he'd try and move and get up but he was fighting a losing battle.  Eventually Scholz escorted him out.  We headed home shortly after that since we were exhausted.  I didn't get to watch the MSU game because it wasn't on TV, had to order Game Plan and I didn't feel like paying that much for it.  We were down for the count by 10pm.
Sunday 3/31 - This day was spent recovering, cleaning house, mowing the lawn, and grocery shopping.  It was a nice low key evening, watching TV and playing my favorite card game hand & foot.
Monday 9/1- Happy Labor Day!  I had a small group over for a BBQ at my place.  Malek did the cooking, and it was awesome!  This takes care of #15 (cook home meals - 27/143) for the week.  Erika brought over an amazing cake and we spent the whole day just relaxing and conversing.  Later Stinson came over to watch the TENN game....and boy was that intense!  It was a crazy game, unfortunately TENN couldn't pull it off...I didn't think Jenn was going to survive.

All in all a great weekend.  :-)

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