Eureka Springs

With my sister and her husband living so far away in Missouri we are not able to see them very often. Visits are either during Thanksgiving, Christmas, or weddings; which equals not enough sister time!

Kevin and I have been planning a trip to visit Jennifer and Curtis since forever and a day ago and that day has finally arrived! To make a long driving trip not feel so long we broke up our trip going up to Missouri. We left San Antonio and stayed our first night in Arlington and continued our drive the next day up to Eureka Springs, Arkansan. The drive was very pretty, I got a good nap in, and we were a day closer to seeing my sister!

Eureka Springs is a very small town know for multiple springs that the original founders discovered. The springs were thought to have healing powers which attracted many settlers. Now, Eureka Springs attracts tourist for shopping, seeing the springs, and the Gingerbread style homes.

Some springs...







Shopping...




The glass chapel...








Let the road trip continue!

Gruene

Jennifer and Curtis came to Austin a couple of weekends ago for a wedding, so of course we had to see them! The family all meet up in Gruene to eat at the Gristmill. So yummy!!!

Kevin and I...


Jennifer and Curtis...


Sister...


Mom, Dad, and Andrew...

Cowboys Stadium Tour

For our anniversary, I got Kevin tickets to have a guided tour throughout the Dallas Cowboy's stadium.

The stadium...


Kevin with Tom Landry...


Our tour met you in the Pro Shop and begin at the Main Club level. During our tour we learned interesting facts about the stadium and how it was built.

Ready for the tour...




This is the HUGE television screen above the field. Interesting facts: this TV is never turned off and it is one of the 2,800 TV in the stadium.







Next stop on the tour was to view a private suite that belongs to Mr. Jerry Jones and his family. In his suite, there is a private elevator that only his family and guests can use that will take them directly to their field level box.



We proceeded to the Dr. Pepper Star Bar level and learned more about the retractable roof and window screens.





After that, we went into another private suite that was very large with extremely comfortable chairs. In this suite we learned more about the radio and print media press boxes.

From there, we visited the Cotton Bowl offices. Eventually they will need to move some of the Big 12 helmets...



Interesting Fact: The glass windows surrounding the Cotton Bowl offices are important/ famous plays from previous Cotton Bowls.



Our guided tour concluded by going down to the field. From that point on, we could explore the event level by our self. During this portion of the tour we walked around the field (kids were throwing footballs on the field and pretending to score touchdowns), went to the locker rooms of both the Cowboys and Cheerleaders, got to see the post-game interview room, and see the Miller Lite Club where the Cowboys rush onto the field for game time.

On the field...






Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders' locker room...




Dallas Cowboys' locker room...




Kevin and I giving our post-game interviews...




The Miller Lite Club...


Kevin and I had a lot of fun on the tour. It was very interesting and we got to get into places that we would have never had access to. Now we just need to go to a Cowboys home game!

Congratulations

"Will you marry me?" Was a very popular question this past weekend.

Adam proposed to Ana and Lyle proposed to Allison over the 4th of July weekend.

Ana and Adam are our very close friends and we could not be happier for them! Engaged friends...


Allison is one of Kevin's cousins. Allison and her "special friend" (what Allison would call Lyle to her first grade class) are very happy and we are glad to share the excitement with them! Engaged family...


Happy engagement Ana, Adam, Allison, and Lyle!

Happy 4th of July!

Happy Birthday America! Kevin and I celebrated the 4th in Arlington while Macy May spent the weekend having a play-date with Petunia.



Saturday morning we went to the Arlington's 4th of July parade. It was a cool morning and we lucked out that the rain stayed away.







It was a big parade with all of the high school marching bands/ cheerleaders/ dancers, floats, and old time cars.











That evening we had dinner with Kevin's childhood friends and families. The BBQ was tasty and we concluded our evening by meeting up with Mike and Jen in Dallas. I can tell I am getting older because a loud bar is not so much my thing anymore, but the people watching was good!

The 4th was celebrated by going to a Rangers game. What a better way to celebrate America than watching America's favorite pasttime ... baseball! The Rangers took on the Chicago White Sox, but unfortunately came up short. We did get to see a few home runs and Kevin and I both got new Rangers t-shirt out of the game.







After the game finished the lights were turned off in the ballpark and we were able to see a beautiful fireworks show. It was very pretty!



Parade + Baseball Game + Fireworks = A great 4th of July!