It's the weekend in Texas

Friday was a great day at the Stanleys'! Brandon got home early so the weekend started early for me! We decided that it is officially Friday Night Date Night. On a recommendation from a dear San Antonio resident, Jill Bacon Whitfield we checked out Paeseon's. Great restaurant if you're ever in town by the way! So that was a great night that we ended at the Alamo Heights Highschool football game; we sat on the opposing team's side. Alamo Heights lost, bummer.  Saturday we began a big adventure starting with mowing the yard, weed eating, and a Boston Butt purchase. We came home and did a little rub a dub on the meat as pictured, start with twine so it doesn't fall apart.

 

The Rub ingredients:

Ready for the Big Green Egg!

We did eat all the food, mac and cheese, chicken, boston butt, baked beans; it was great.  We had Angie and Dave, Dorene and Max, Dan, Ashley, and sweet little Drake!  The only picture of the crowd is below:

We had a great time!    Happy Weekend!

In other news: I start working tomorrow.  

I hope I can find all these stores they are sending me to...hope the GPS is in good working order.  

We're here!

We have officially been in Texas for three weeks this Saturday. Our home is put together, we really like the neighborhood, the neighbors, and I'm certainly learning my way around this HUGE city. On the work front: my license is here and Brandon's work is good. So in my last post we were ten days from heading here...let's recap:
Sept 20: End of work in Birmingham
Sept 21: Tie up loose ends as much as possible; Study for test on Wednesday, Sept 22
Sept 22: MPJE at 2:00, Brandon flew in at 8:00
Sept 23: 7:30 am packers arrive!
Sept 24: 8:00 am the 53' tractor trailer arrives


ON A SIDE NOTE: I called the lady who was in charge of our move she told me that our things would arrive in Texas October 15. I can't even describe my panic. Can you imagine not having packed enough underwear for three weeks and thinking, "that box they just put on the truck probably has ALL the rest of my undies in it!" So I had a sit down talk with Steve, the driver. He told me he had a load to drop in Austin the following day and wanted to be in San Antonio Monday! There was a second wave of panic then. Monday meant Brandon and I couldn't dilly dally on the way out we had to drive straight thru, for that I was a little sad. So they finished the truck up and we hit the road.

Sept 25: ON THE ROAD to Texas
Sept 26: We made it! Unloaded our U-Haul, we had to do everything we could to get this house ready because they were coming to UNLOAD Sept 27!
Sept 27: The Mayflower pulled in and unloaded!
Sept 28: I think that day I was in a daze, I lot had happened.
Sept 29: Brandon's 26th Birthday! Big Green Egg joins the Stanleys as well as AWESOME beach cruising bikes.
Sept 30: Looking way forward to Mom coming to HELP me!!
Oct 1-2: Went to Austin-great town by the way- then we went to Fredricksburg for Oktoberfest! Great weekend
Fast forward Oct 6: Mom is here!
Oct 7: We stayed up very late rearranging and redoing, then did some more on the 8th as well as some shopping!
Oct 8: Yes we did more more more
Oct 9: Mom left me with a house that is gorgeous and great for Thanksgiving and visitors otherwise!
Oct 10: Off to the lake with Dan, Matt and Anne, good times renting a boat, wakeboarding, skiing, and I took a whack at knee boarding
Oct 11: Great church service good fellowship, what we needed!
Oct 12: The waiting game for this pharmacy license!
Oct 14: License CHECK!! Today is going to be awesome. I certainly hope you have a good one too

And now my blogger thing is freaking out on me and I can't upload pictures...but I have them and I will certainly share them later!