Weekend Fun

This past weekend Ryan had class all day Friday and Saturday but we still managed to squeeze in some fun.  We went out to dinner Friday night with Alison and Mark at one of our favorite restaurants in our neighborhood, Zelko Bistro.  I'm still thinking about their mouth-watering fried chicken...

Saturday I ran the Rodeo Run 10K with a coworker of mine.  This was the third time I've ran since the half-marathon last month so I was little nervous how it was going to go.  Thankfully, the weather was great and we had a great run.

That afternoon I did a little window shopping since Ryan and I are planning on changing up our living room and I actually ended up purchasing a new couch at West Elm.  We've had our eye on it for awhile now and finally pulled the trigger.  Now I need to get busy on purchasing everything else and actually decide on a wall color...

That evening Ryan and I had a date night at Tiempo.  It's rare lately that we have a meal together so it was nice to go out and enjoy good food and relax.

The weather was beautiful on Sunday and we had plans to meet all our friends up at a local restaurant that afternoon to celebrate Nicole's birthday.  We had a great time hanging out with friends on the patio and it was a great way to end the weekend!

Still Here....

I've been meaning to sit down and blog but I've been struggling lately with something interesting to write.  However, I want to keep this blog updated on happenings in our household (exciting or not) so I'm going to give you a bullet point list to recap our last two weeks.... I know, don't get too excited : )

• Ryan has been at school
• My car died one day after work and I had to hitch a ride home with a co-worker
• My car sat in the parking garage for four days before it was towed out
• We were convinced it wasn't the battery but the repair shop told us otherwise.  I guess we should have tested it before we paid for a tow truck....  
• Ryan has been at school
• Ryan got a new job at work (yay!)
• Ryan has been doing two jobs at work until they hire someone else...
• Ryan has been at school
• I had a fabulous dinner with two of my best friends.  Yay for fun times with girlfriends!
• We picked out a new couch, chair, rug and paint for our living room.  Now we just need a tree with green leaves in the shape of dollar bills to grow in our back yard so we can purchase new furniture...
• Had a great evening at a delicious restaurant with Ryan, my parents, brother and his fiancé
• Found out three friends of mine are pregnant in the last five days.  Something must be in the water...
• Ryan has been at school
• Discovered Ryan's car now has a problem...
• Had a relaxing Valentines date at home with Ryan which included a heart shaped pizza from Papa Johns and a bottle of red wine... Doesn't get much better than that. Seriously. 

All in all, these last couple of weeks have been good but I must say Ryan and I both are ready for him to graduate.  Between school and work we barely have time to see each other.  It will all be worth it though in a couple of months when he graduates!

Hopefully my next post will be a little more exciting and won't have a picture of pepperonis...:)

We finished!

All six of us finished 13.1 miles this past Sunday in the Houston Half Marathon.  It wasn't easy and it definitely rained on us but we finished.  And that's the important part.  We toasted to completing the half-marathon afterwards at Cyclones with our families and it was a great moment.  It was especially great to be dry.  And done.

I also accomplished my goal and finished right under two hours at 1.57.57.  And Ryan had a great run and finished at 1.36.30.  Cheers to another great race for the books!

The fab runners - Alison, Nicky T, Chelsea, Me, Ryan & Mark

Ready to Race

Ryan and I picked up our race packets today and we're ready to race tomorrow morning!  I'm not sure the weather is going to cooperate but we're planning on running rain or shine.  We both have a goal in mind of when we want to finish but that could go all out the window if it's pouring rain.  Either way, we're looking forward to a safe, fun run and then brunch afterwards with all our friends and family!

Birthday Weekend

I've had a great weekend celebrating my 27th birthday and I owe it all to my husband, friends and family!  Ryan and I went out to eat Friday night and then last night we went out to one of my favorite restaurants, El Tiempo, with all of our friends.  We had a great time at dinner and then came back to our house for a little more fun.  We had a fire going outside, played a couple rounds of cornhole and just chatted :)

Now we're spending today being lazy since it's cold and rainy outside which is perfect.  I'm also blogging right now from my new laptop thanks to Ryan!

Thanks for all the calls, texts, facebook posts, emails and gifts!  It makes entering my late 20's not so bad :)

Back to School, Part III

Ryan started back to school this week for his last semester of his MBA.  That's right, his LAST semester.  Woohoo!  So, in honor of him having only a few months left, I poured myself a glass of wine, heated up some leftovers and plan on catching up on my DVR of all the shows Ryan can't stand watching.

I've posted here and here on Ryan going back to school and both times I had set big goals for myself to accomplish during those months.   This time around I haven't exactly set any goals as I plan to spend my free time hanging out with girlfriends, learning how to cook from my mom, taking Bennett on runs and simply enjoying being alone every now and then.  Cheers!