Da Weekend

Happy 2nd Anniversary to us! That's right, it's been 2 years since we had our fabulous wedding and have been a little Marshik family. It's been a great two years and we know we'll be able to make it many more!

Friday: After work we had a Happy Hour with some friends at a local bar, Boondoggles. Good times, although we did have to fester in the sweltering heat for a couple hours on the patio - Where oh where did my little breeze go? The pizza chips made up for the heat though, with their tasty cheesiness. Mmmm Mmmm delicious!

Saturday: This day was dedicated to trying to fix up the office thanks to some spotty painting...unfortunately it looks like we'll have to repaint the whole thing to cover up our mistakes. Drat!

Sunday: We took our sweet time getting things done this day. We have sadly noticed that our "Lazy Sunday" times seem to be long gone. Any reprieve from the daily grind or overly planned weekends are hard to come by...adulthood (and gradstudent-hood) is stinky. We did, however, get to go to the Haak Winery (http://www.haakwine.com/) in nearby Santa Fe for one of their Sunday evening events. There was a steel drum band playing in the background, and a slight breeze in the air...lovely. We sat in the grass with some friends, drank the winery bottles of wine, ate our own food (or could buy)...it was wonderful. We'll definitely be going back again! On the down side, we decided "Oh wouldn't it be nice to bring the dogs. They'll love the people and enjoy the time out of the house. What fun!"...and brought the puppies to their very first family outing. Never again. It was craziness and they are still definitely "puppies". They aren't as disciplined we would like them to be and sweet holy hannah, the small one can wriggle right out of her collar when she's determined. We'll try again in a year....maybe. Love 'em, but leave 'em at home. Overall, it was a great experience.

Monday: Our anniversary! We woke up and had Maple Egg Cups (basically a portable, sweet egg-mcmuffin thingy) for breakfast, then packed up the dogs and headed to Galveston's Stewart Beach! It was beautiful there - no crowds since school just started for most of the kids, clean water, no stink and a breeze. We boogie-boarded on our little Galveston waves and had a blast. The dogs had fun digging in the sand and much to our happy surprise, Sammie really liked the water and the waves! Good times. After the beach we went home, cleaned up, then saw "Superbad". Good movie, not for the faint-of-heart for vulgarity, but it was pretty funny. We topped it all off with a round of sushi from Sushi Coast (love it!) and then hit Academy Sports and Outdoors for some snorkeling gear for Hawaii.

All in all it was an awesome anniversary and weekend.