weekend in Nashville

Two weekends ago Megan and I made a trip to Nashville to visit our super good friend from high school, Alyssa.

Me and Megan in the Austin airport

Our girl weekend was made complete by lots of baking....

Lots of chocolate...

Knock You Naked Brownies. Didn't do exactly that, but WOW, were they AMAZING.

Brownie Chunk and Chocolate Chip Cookies. They were DELICIOUS too!

Pedicures...

Lots of delicious food...

And of course a guitar-shaped fly swatter....

Hahahaha.... don't you love it?

I got it when we went to the Grand Ole Opry. We didn't get to see inside because there was a high school graduation going on. But we still visited the gift shop.

(Btw, how stinkin' cool would it be to graduate high school on the stage at the Grand Ole Opry. I mean, really?!)

The streets of downtown Nashville

Taylor Swift was in town.

Oh, and her 628 18 wheelers.

Alright, maybe only 8. But there were a LOT of them!

She was having a open dress rehearsal to raise money for the tornado victims the Saturday we were in town. We didn't go though. Bummer.

At the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

A dress that Carrie Underwood wore once!

Reba McEntire was being inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame the day after we went. But her plaque thing was already up.

Where is her big hair?

My cute silly friend. :)

At the Grand Ole Opry

I leave my computer unoccupied for maybe 30 minutes.

And this is what I come back to as my computer desktop picture! I have such gorgeous thoughtful friends. ;)

Softball super regionals

Last week/weekend Chris got to travel with the A&M Softball team to Tempe, AZ to Softball Super Regionals.

He flew out on Tuesday morning and was there until Saturday afternoon.

The team didn't play until Thursday and Friday, so he got to help out at practice by shagging foul balls.

He even got to WORK for ESPN while he was there! Tough trip, right?

For the first game he was the Talent Stats guy for Michele Smith and Pam Ward.

So cool.

His view for the game.

It was a best of 3 series. They lost the first game on a 7th inning, 2 outs, 2 strikes, AWFUL call. Then they lost the 2nd game on Friday.

This picture was towards the end of the 2nd game. Chris got to sit with the other Sugar Daddies that made the drive all the way to Arizona.

Seniors left their cleats on home base to symbolize the end of their college softball career.

I miss my husband.

I miss my husband.

These past two weeks have been busy and weird.

Last week I worked FIVE nights in a row. I usually see Chris before I go in to work, but typically it's only about an hour or two. So when I work several nights in a row, we don't see each other a whole lot.

So I worked Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday of last week.

Then I was home Wednesday night.

Then Thursday I left to spend the night in Austin and flew out to Nashville for the weekend on Friday. So I was gone Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and came home Monday night.

Then Tuesday morning I worked as a substitute nurse and Chris left for Arizona.

And he's been gone Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and will come back late tonight.

Whew.

I'm a little excited to see him tonight!

And tomorrow we are driving to Longview to hang out with my parents for a few days.

Side note: I sometimes complain about my job, but I am so blessed to have a job that I have 4 days off every week. This allows us to go and do things like we do. And now Chris being out of school for the summer makes our schedule much more flexible!

Hope everyone has a great Memorial Day weekend!

What I'm Loving Wednesday

I'm linking up with Jamie today for What I'm Loving Wednesday!

I'm {loving} that I'm off work for the next 7 nights!!

(after working 5 nights in a row!)

I'm {loving} Krazy Kookie Dough ice cream!

This is one of Blue Bell's new flavors and it is sinfully good!!

I'm {loving} that I'm going to Nashville this weekend!

My best friend from high school, Alyssa, lives in Nashville and I am going to visit her with my other friend from high school, Megan.

Here is me and Alyssa in 2006. (I have many many much older more embarrassing pictures, but they are on my external hard drive that I don't have with me. So disappointing.)

Here we are on my wedding day.

Here is me and Megan in fourth grade. We were inseparable.

Megan and I at Alyssa's wedding last May. Scary that we haven't changed much, huh?

I am so grateful that I've been blessed with lifetime friends from my growing up years.

I'm {loving} 

my sweet husband.

While I'm gone this weekend, Chris will be very busy! A&M Softball is hosting the first round of post-season regionals this weekend and my PA Announcer husband is getting to announce all of them! My parents are coming in to watch the tournament.

I will miss him while I'm gone!!

a week with Kaden

We got to keep our adorable 3-year-old nephew this week.

I'm so grateful to my brother and sister-in-law for sharing him with us all by himself. :)

Kaden is 3 and a half and so stinkin cute! Chris picked him up on Monday. Kaden and Chris had a chicken nugget picnic on our back porch.

After his nap, we took him to the softball complex while Chris announced a high school playoff game. He loved being up in the press box and watching "soft-a-ball" (as he called it). Every time the crowd would clap or cheer he would ask "Whose da winner? Is it over?" But if the crowd got excited and cheered, Kaden would clap and cheer. So cute.

On Tuesday, Kaden and I took Scout to the dog park. They have a small playground at this park, so Kaden got to play too!

Tuesday afternoon we went to a different park where Kaden rode his bike and played tennis. Here's a video of him playing with Chris.

After we got home, Kaden was SOOO excited about the "water slide" we had bought the night before. It was a slip 'n slide and when we set it up he had a BLAST!!

Here is one of his first runs.

I think he enjoyed himself. :)

Wednesday we went to another park, went and made a surprise for Jennifer's birthday (his mom) and then had some people over that night.

Thursday I met Jennifer halfway and dropped him back off.

We had so much fun having him here and getting to spoil him with our time! We hope to get to do this again sometime.

happy birthday!

Saturday was Chris' 29th birthday!

I was able to work some overtime at work on the night of the 28th, so I slept until 11am on his birthday. Then I was able to pick up a half day of substitute nurse for the rest of the afternoon. Chris had also signed up to accounce a high school playoff softball game that night! (Can you tell we are trying to get whatever money we can for our trip this summer?!) It was a busy day!

After all of our work, we celebrated with dinner at TGI Friday.

THEN, on Saturday, we went to dinner and a movie with a few of our friends.

We saw Fast Five. I have only seen the first Fast and Furious movie, and since it was in 2001, I didn't remember a whole lot about it. Just that it had a lot of guys and fast cars!

The movie was awesome though!

Happy birthday to my wonderful husband. :) I love you so very much and am so blessed to celebrate this birthday with you.