Great Weekend

This weekend was great for the Mattixes! Outside of travel weekends, we have probably done more this weekend than any other since we've been married. Friday night we had a great night with the Bouchards. I work with Brad, and he and his wife invited us over for dinner and drinks. The chef prepared us an AMAZING beef Wellington that made me acutely aware of my culinary deficit. A good night for us is always determined by what percentage of the drive home Angela is asleep, and Friday was about 80%, that's pretty high!!



Angela is known to hibernate in any circumstance.

Saturday was a busy day to say the least. We were moving by 7:30am and went to Home Depot, Lowe's, Walmart, and Best Buy (with a quick reward trip to Chick-Fil-A for breakfast). I hung a bunch of pictures, none of which was more annoying than the one where the two hooks on the back were 3/8" in misalignment. The wall has many holes to prove it. We also bought a new chandelier for the dining room that is 10 times better than our old wimpy yellow one.



Our new and improved dining room!

We capped off our Saturday by having Angela's bridesmaid Laura and her fiancé Tom over for dinner and football. I grilled chicken and sausage with minimal casualties (we lost one sausage to the forces of gravity). We ate our food and watched the Horns defense hold Tech below 150 yds of total offense, the last time tech was held below that was in 1990!

Today will be spent cleaning and preparing for the week. Angela has some new things going on at school and I am going to Austin (woohoo!) for recruiting at the engineering career fair. We will also be closely watching hurricane Igor which is bullying our favorite island of Bermuda. My mom is from there, and her family is bunkered down at nana's house for the storm. Please keep them in your prayers over the next few days.



I don't think our drawing will still be there after Igor. But then again, it's probably been gone for a while now!