Pictures

I have been terrible at taking pics since my parents have been here. Luckily, my mom has grabbed my camera a few times and gotten some cute pics. Hopefully we’ll be able to get more before they go home and another family shot of Casey, Brady, and I too!

My parents left Colorado after my dad got off work on Friday and got to our place around 8 on Saturday morning. Since they were still recovering from the long drive, we stayed at home and Casey grilled burgers and corn on the cob for dinner – yum!

Sunday, we ventured out for an early dinner after Brady’s nap. We hadn’t tried Iron Cactus yet so we opted for the Galleria location for dinner (I’d only gone there for drinks when we had our Girls Night Out). The weather wasn’t unbearably hot so we were able to sit outside in the shade with an occasional breeze bringing the water from the misters over to keep us cool. After dinner, we walked next door to Amy’s and tried the ice cream for the first time. The Mexican vanilla was SO good! My dad flirted with the ice cream scooper and she hooked him up with a huge bowl for no extra charge! I was happy we were able to try 2 new places instead of falling into going to the same places!

Casey smoked four slabs of ribs for Labor Day. It was really good and way too much for 4.5 people so he took the rest to work to share yesterday. Casey and I also went yesterday to get our Texas driver’s licenses and register to vote. I was hoping since it was raining that people would stay at home but the line was horrible. This ties with California as the worst DMV experience. We ended up waiting 40 minutes just to get a number and then another three hours before our numbers got called. Ugh, I guess it does beat the 4.5 hours they had estimated on our numbers (4:32 to be exact). Casey ended up calling his boss shortly after we got our number and found out how much longer the wait was supposed to be. He told him he was taking the day off but ended up only being an hour and a half late. Ugh, stupid DMV. Hopefully it’ll be at least another 6 years before we’ll have to do that again. They gave us a printout of our license information with a picture that we can use for 4-6 weeks until the actual ones come in the mail. I’m pretty content with both of our pictures but it’ll be interesting to see how they look in color. And we managed to get our licenses in time that we’ll definitely be able to vote in November (cutoff date was 10/4)!

Today, Brady and I are sticking around the house as far as I know. Casey has video conferences on Wednesday morning so he left early for that. Unfortunately with the remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine and the flash flooding there was tons of traffic and road closures. It took him over an hour to get in today. Booo! My parents took off to San Antonio for the day so it’s pretty quiet around here. Right now all the kids are sleeping and it’s still raining. I should probably take a shower before I fall asleep myself.