What a week...

Man, I feel like I have been going and going and going since Tuesday! I headed to Austin on Wed morning. I was SO excited to go that I could not sleep past 5am on wed morning. I got up and started trying on clothes for the shower, packing and everything else I could think of. I got MIke out the door then I was able to pack up and leave myself. Wed. I had lunch with my mom at her work, I was SO happy to see her. We ate and chatted for a bit, then I went to see my sister at her work. It was so good to see everyone. We talked for alittle bit in her office and then I headed out to go back to the house for a nap. I still hadn't slept and was so tired! So then wed, I just hung out with my parents and watched some tv. Thursday I went and ran a bunch of errands for my sister just to help out since I was there and off, then I went and saw more friends and family that I hadn't seen in awhile. I always feel so good when I go back to Austin, it's like all of the stress just goes away and I feel at home. We can't wait to move back, it just doesn't feel like home here. Then thurs night it was my mom's birthday so we all headed to downtown for a really nice dinner and alittle live music at Belmont. The food and atmosphere was awesome! A bit pricey and a long wait for food, but might be worth it for how good it was and the great patio! (thanks again dad for buying!!) I was DD of course while everyone had their wine and stuff, I sipped on my fabulous water and enjoyed the music. I'm fine with not drinking right now though, I have passed the point where I am craving to drink. The first 3 or 4 months were tough just because I enjoy having a beer on the patio or a glass of wine at night, etc. But now, i'm totally used to it and it doesn't bother me anymore.

So then Friday it was still raining so hard! Poor Mike had to drive in that day, luckily he got off alittle early. Anyways, Friday morning my mom, sister and I all went to Lifetime and had a great workout!! I worked out for over an hour and it felt great. I didn't overdue it of course, but it was just so nice to have all the weights and cardio options. So then we went to lunch with dad and hung out for a bit. I also got to pick up my nephew from daycare so we could hang out for a bit. We went and bought him a toy and just played. He is just so adorable and so much fun to be around!! I can't wait for Dylan to get old enough to play with him. Friday night Mike finally got there! I was SO excited to see him, we hate spending nights away from each other, even though we know it's good for us, we still hate it! He was a bit grumpy when he got there because he was so worn out from studying, driving in traffic and rain and just having a hard week. So I had a cold beer waiting for him when he got there and some pizza, he was happy soon after that. :) So we all just hung out and went to bed fairly early since we had a big day ahead of us on Sat.

So then Saturday we woke up, I played with my nephew for a bit while my sister got ready and then it was time for me to get ready for my shower. I was pretty excited about the shower but also just nervous because we had a few more people cancel before it and I was just wondering if anyone would even show up! It ended up being a good turnout. There were about 18 of us. I will post the pics when I get some from everyone. There were about 5 or so people that I didn't know, it was so nice of them to come and not even have met me before. We played this game where you had the name of a famous celebrity mom on your back and you had to ask questions from everyone (where they could only answer yes or no) until you could figure out what the name was. So in the first few mins I figured out I was a bad actress, a singer, I was pretty young, and I had 2 boys. I COULD NOT think of who it was!! Finally someone helped me out a bit. I said "do I have blonde hair" and she said "yes, when you have hair!" That totally gave it away, I knew I was Britney Spears right after that. What a great game though, it was so such a good time hearing everyone asking questions. My sister April had Wilma Flinstone and she could not for the life of her guess it! Finally about 5 mins before the shower was over, everyone just started throwing out hints. You don't wear shoes, you have a white dress and a white necklace, etc. She finally got it. It was pretty funny. We played a lot of fun games, had great food and great company. It was a perfect shower. I am so appreciative for everyone coming and for everything that everyone did to make it happen. I am very lucky to have such great family to put it together. I got a ton of great things too, we had to stuff 2 cars full on the way home and it's all in his nursery right now. I can't wait to start going through everything and putting it in it's place. I feel so much better about him coming now, I felt like I was so unprepared before!! I still have a lot of stuff that we need to go buy but it's not that much so we did great!! Thanks everyone who contributed! Later that night I went to my friend Kari's house. There were quite a few people there. We watched the UFC fight and just hung out. It was a great time hanging out with everyone. Everyone drank and had a great time, I as usual, sipped on my water and watched everyone drink. hehe. Luckily Mike had a DD home though since it was so far away. We ended up staying until about 1:00am though. I was proud of myself for lasting that long. I started telling Mike at midnight that we needed to start wrapping it up. I was so worn out and my back was killing me. He kept stalling because he was having fun. I felt bad for making him leave too, but I was just so tired! So finally about 1, I finally lost my patience and said Mike, LET'S GO! hehe. He was like ok ok. So we left and drove home and fell right asleep. What a long but fun day.

We got home to our doggies. We took Kramer with me but left Gunner and Sam here. We have never done that before and felt so bad about it all weekend. We had a friend come and feed them and check on them. We knew they would live and be ok, but they are just so spoiled, we felt so bad for leaving them, but it was just so much less stressful without them. We wont' do that very often, but we know they will be ok if we ever HAVE to do it again. We took them running and just spoiled them the rest of the night. It was nice to be home and relax, nowhere to be, nothing to do, just chill. We are going back again in May to watch my nephew for a weekend, the drive was kinda hard just because I had to drive and stop to pee and the traffic just stressed me out, but next time Mike will be driving!!.It took forever to get home. Luckily next time, we will be riding together and I can just sit back and relax instead of stress over traffic.

Overrall, what a great week and weekend!! I had such a blast with everyone!!! Again, I will post pics once I get some from people.