Rock and Roll Bride...

I've been a bad blogger... I know, I SUCK! 

But I wanted to share this cool news with the few people still following along.  Our wedding was featured on the Uber cool blog Rock and Roll Bride. 

Check out the feature here.

Weekend Recap (Husband Birthday Edition...)

We celebrated the husband’s birthday this weekend and it was such a low key glorious day. I made him a special breakfast to start the day with, which included egg whites, turkey sausage and sweet potatoes pancakes.

We lounged around watching movies and he LOVED his gift…. BeachBody’s “Insanity”.

We ended the night by going to a Brazilian steakhouse, which was a very unique experience. Basically you get a card that you flip over to show its green side and before you know it you’re bombarded with meat. The hubs was in MEAT HEAVEN!! Meat was coming from all different directions and it was so good. Once your ready for them to stop, you just flip your card over to the red side and that lets them know not to bother you. It was a really fun night, but I think I can go the rest of the month not eating another piece of meat…LOL!

Another wonderful birthday for the Love of my life!!

Weekend Recap...

It’s funny that I am writing this post exactly 2 Months before our wedding date. This weekend really changed and defined my relationship.

We went to the Austin City Limits (ACL) festival on Friday. Being honest I was not too excited about the whole experience, I’ve posted about this in the past, but I suffer from agoraphobia, for those who don’t know about it you can read about here. I knew I was in store for an anxiety filled weekend, but I wanted to be brave and try pushing myself. Things didn’t start off so well, when we had to get off the shuttle after I had a small panic attack, but honestly after we got off I was good.

We ended up taking a Pedi cab, which was the craziest/coolest thing ever and once we got to the concert, things were going GREAT, I got to see Brandi Carlile and she was AMAZING (and made my Girl Crush even BIGGER). For as many people that were there, things were actually really organized and things ran really smoothly. We decided to camp out in one spot since most of the shows we wanted to see where at this stage. We saw Big Boi, Damien Marley, Nas and from a distance we could hear Foster the People, but didn’t want to move, for fear of losing our spot. As the night progressed we started to notice more and more people crowding around our space. When the nights headliner, Kayne West came on we were literally smashed against 30 thousand other people. (I heard on the news the next day there were over 65 thousand people at the festival).

I thought I could handle it, I had taken some medicine before hand, but I couldn’t. I had one of the biggest panic attacks of my life and I broke down. I was frustrated for letting myself get into this predicament and also for ruining the boy’s chance at seeing Mr. West. I couldn’t hold off, I started crying, I couldn't breathe, my head was spinning and my chest was pounding. In that moment I thought I was going to die, I know it sounds crazy, but that’s what my mind was thinking… The next thing I knew, I was being calmed down, I was being talked to in a manner that made me feel safe and secure. My hand was being grabbed and I was being rescued. When I opened up my eyes I could see I had been saved.

I wish I could eloquently explain how much I love the man I am being blessed to marry in 2 months. He is my knight in shining armor and his actions on Friday showed his raw and genuine love for me. In every relationship there are defining moments that change it for the better and sometimes the worse…that moment changed my relationship, it made it grow and develop into something I don’t even truly understand. I do know I will never let him go, I will hold him forever and every night I will get on my knees and thank the heavens he was sent to me.

Weekend Recap...

This weekend went by obnoxiously fast and we hardly left the house. We tried a new food trailer called “Man bites Dog” and they had some amazing hot dogs. The boy being always adventures got a Greek dog (which was surprisingly very yummy) and my plain Jane self got a ketchup and mustard dog, but it was YUM-O. They had the softest buns; I  literally could have just eaten a ton of those.

The renegade craft fair was in town so we stopped by and guess who had the cutest booth there….Twinkie Chan. If you don’t know who she is check out her blog here. She makes the cutest accessories and I jumped at the chance to own one. I ended up getting a cupcake you can wear in your hair and it’s ADOR-able!!

The rest of the weekend included:

Pancakes at midnight, Yummy tacos, l0unging in bed watching Disney’s “Tangled” (which was uber cute), and FINALLY finishing my horrid closet. 

I also got my glitter and plan on working on my shoes this upcoming weekend, plus I have another wedding DIY in store....YAY!!

Weekend Recap...

The BF and I ate SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much junk over the weekend. We went to the coolest café that is set up in a recycled storage warehouse, called La Boite Cafe.

I was super excited to try this place out, as they are one of two places in Austin that sale the infamous French Macrons.

We tried one of each flavor, the only ones I can recall are the purple which was lavender and orange was peach.  I think there was also a vanilla, and one with carmel, but honestly the filling they used tasted like a big stick of butter.   They all had the perfect chewy texture but lacked flavor, it was hard to tell one from the other (as u can tell from my detailed descriptions...LOL) if u were not looking at the bright colors. It was totally not worth the $10.00 I spent.

Later that day we washed the Macrons down with doughnuts, from this place called Gourdoughs. This is a pretty new food trailer in Austin and their speciality are huge fried doughnuts. 

(How cute is their Logo)

We got one with chocolate fudge, coconut and coconut cream inside, but I almost passed out when the BF said it was almost 5.00 for a doughnut....thats until that monster came out!!

It was so warm and FRIED (it almost tasted like a big funnel cake!!) and as much as we tried even among the two of us we could not finish the whole thing.   I can't wait to go back and try more, they even have one that has a chicken strip on it.

We also had Mimosa's (Happy Hour is my BFF!!!) and mexican food, we had to get our nutrients from somewhere!!

(Can u see me hiding my excitement for my next drink)

Along with our eating binge we went to the movies several times over the weekend.  We saw "Machete" and "Going the Distance". 

"Machete" was AMAZING!!!  It was so trashy and terrific at the same time. (People were  actually clapping at the end...LOL)  The cooleset thing was the movie was filmed here in Austin, and they shut down several streets by my office to film it, so we were able to point out all types of places in the film.  I also thought it was quite funny and ironic that Lindsey Lohan played a Crackhead in the movie....LOL!!!

"Going the Distance" was also really good...I love Drew Barrymore and it was just a cute fun film!!

I love long weekends and exploring the city with the BF.  Its a shame to say but we never fully take advantage of the fun city with live in, so its always nice to change things up from our normal weekend routine and end our day like this!!

(Cupcakes from Polka Dots!!)

Snack Time!!!

So, I was craving a snack and had no idea what I wanted. I was downtown and stopped at the cutest local grocery store here in Austin Royal Blue (http://www.royalbluegrocery.com/) to find something to munch on. Oh Lordy…to my surprise what did I find CHOCO TACOS!!! I have not had one of these in years, so I had to get one. If you don’t know what is CHOCO TACO is, I advise you to rush out to your local grocery store and seek one out. But to tempt you here is the Wiki definition:

"Choco Taco is a kind of dessert food resembling a taco, consisting of a taco shell-like waffle cone, reduced-fat vanilla ice cream, artificially flavored fudge, peanuts, and a milk chocolate coating.[1] The product was invented in Philadelphia in the 1980s by the Jack and Jill Ice Cream Company,[2] but was introduced nationwide by Good Humor-Breyers in 1996 as "America's coolest taco", at the Supermarket Industry Convention in Chicago, Illinois. The "Choco Taco" is marketed under both the Good Humor and Klondike brands, with the Good Humor version marketed as "The Original Ice Cream Taco". Both brands are owned by the same ice cream conglomerate, Good Humor-Breyers, a unit of Unilever, based in Green Bay, Wisconsin."

I love being over-joyed and excited by the smallest things **Mouth full of yummy taco*!!!