Fun Weekend with Friends

Nick and I had a great weekend catching up with friends. We basically ate our way through Dallas this weekend, but we have hard time turning down a good meal. Friday evening our friends Chad and Jeneille came into town from Longview and we met up with them along with Stephen and Jennifer who live in the Dallas area. Stephen, Chad and Nick have been best friends since high school (Nick and Chad before that) and they love when they get a chance to all get together. Of course it helps that they have super sweet wives as well. We met up at PF Changs and enjoyed drinks and an awesome meal together. It was so nice to get a chance to catch up, see updated pics of Chad and Jeneille's cute little son Graysen, and enjoy each others company.

Saturday, Nick mowed the lawn and worked in the yard while I tried to get ahead on school work. I know once this week starts and I have to teach and schedule in my first round of testing, I'm going to feel like I'm in a whirlwind. So I have been working hard to get things done ahead of time, and hopefully make my life a little easier this first six weeks. In the evening, we took advantage of "Restaurant Week" in Dallas and headed to our favorite steakhouse, Pappas Bros., with my sister Meagan and her husband Jason. For $35 (which is normally the price of one steak there) we enjoyed salad, steak, potatoes, green beans and a dessert. In fact it was so much food, we will be enjoying our leftovers for dinner tonight.

Then on Sunday, we had a chance to meet up with our friends Stephen and Stacy for brunch at Blue Mesa in Addison. They moved here recently from New York and we are SOOO excited for them to be here in Dallas. We love hanging out with them and can't wait to spend more time with them this year! Even though we had a huge meal the night before, we couldn't turn down Blue Mesa's DELICIOUS brunch. We are ready to relax this evening, but it was fun to get to spend so much time with friends after a great first week of school. We are blessed to have such wonderful friendships!