another family weekend.

this past weekend we had more family visitors, this time dad and robin came to see us and our new house! they arrived on friday afternoon and after spending some time giving the house tour and just catching up, we headed downtown for some dinner at fork & pie bar.

ohmygosh we ate so much food. if you happen to visit fork & pie {which i highly suggest you do} i would recommend the appetizer trio, because choosing just one would be too hard. for our meals, dad and robin both got the shepherd's pie, austin got the pulled pork bbq, and i got the spinach orzo pie. each of these get an a+.

but the real highlight of the meal was the dessert {but isn't it always?}. robin went with the banana pie, dad with the pecan, and myself, well i got chocolate chess pie, of course. i should have stopped one bite earlier on the spinach orzo so that i wouldn't have had to waste this last bit of chocolate chess pie. i cried a little having to leave it behind.

after dinner we decided to wander around nightfall for a bit to burn off those dinner calories show dad and robing the city a bit.

on saturday morning austin and i picked up some amazingly delicious donuts from julie darling donuts {red velvet donut: oh. em. gee.}. they were delicious. i might have an addiction.

and then dad helped us install a new wax ring on our toilet. man, we are good hosts. we butter you up with some gourmet donuts then we make you do manual labor. anyone else wanna come visit? we've got walls that need painting cookies for you!

saturday evening we had austin's parents and brother down for a cookout. and since dad and robin bought us a lovely new fire pit we were able to keep warm outside on our patio.

ok so maybe we were sweating our... faces off, but the point is that we have a fire pit now and we were too excited about it to care that it was 90 degrees outside.

and now, an overload of pictures.

oh and we can't forget that miss graci was there.

i'm so glad that dad and robin got to come visit! now i just need all my siblings to make a trip out here, too! can't we get a trump siblings trip together somehow??

surprises are fun.

want a quick recap of my weekend in ten words or less?

surprises, friends, ponchos, guns, mexicans, pirates, beta beta, and sisters.

oh, and saltine crackers. so i guess that makes like eleven words or something.

anyways. now for a real recap of my weekend. friday night, austin and i met up with some of my friends from pta school at nightfall to catch up and listen to some music. oh and sweat, because it was really, really, really hot outside. we also may or may not have complained about school stuff already...

but saturday was when the real fun happened. because i was held at watergun-point surprised by two of my bestest friends in costume at my front door on saturday afternoon. katie and lindsy promptly forced me into a costume {complete with crooked mustache} and made me dinner. who could complain about that? not me. cause there was cheese dip. and it was delicious.

then we reverted back in time to when we were in college and we had girls nights and we would listen to music as we all crowded in one bathroom to fix our hair, put on makeup and try on 47 outfits in order to go out for the night. holy moly i miss those days.

and i miss this ridiculousness in my life.

on sunday, we proved that we could be normal if we try hard enough and got all prettied up to attend the ribbon cutting and grand opening of our sorority chapter's new house. it's been like ten years that we've been waiting for that house. i only wish i could actually go back in time so i could live there.

katie, lindsy, me and brianne in front of the house with our letters.

we had a great time touring the house {and peeking in to every room and closet we could find} and seeing lots of our sisters. and feeling old realizing that we know absolutely no one in the chapter anymore... but it was a great time.

i'm so happy that katie and lindsy surprised me this weekend with a visit. and we gotta get on that yearly girls trip planning asap!