Lake Travis Zip Line Adventure!

This weekend my dad, his friend Ken, and I went ziplining at Lake Travis Zipline Adventures! We've had the groupon for a while but since my weekends are getting crazy we decided to go sooner rather than later. Who knew when we booked this 2 weeks ago that it would be COLD! There were 5 runs with some hiking in between. We warmed up on the hikes but it was pretty cold soaring through the sky! The first 2 ziplines were 300-400 ft long, the 3rd was 1800 ft, the 4th was 1600 ft and the grand finale was 2600 ft long (from a 20 story cliff above the lake)! We calculated and on the 1800 ft line we were going about 40 MPH...crazy!! On the 2600 ft line you can go up to 60 MPH but the wind was blowing against us so we weren't going quite that fast but it was still SO fun! I would definitely go again...not in the heat of summer because the hiking would be kind of miserable but maybe in a little warmer weather than we had :)

Lake Travis Zipline Adventures

Dad with a little putting action while we waited for our tour

Ken practicing too

One of the little goats running around...so cute!

Pretty view of the lake...or at least what's left of it!

Crazy spring...back up safety feature!

Ken coming in for a landing

Dad coming in for a landing!

Me coming in at the end of the 1800 ft line!

So fun!

Oasis on Lake Travis

Last night Justin and I had a Tuesday date night at The Oasis on Lake Travis - aka "the Sunset Capital of Texas." We didn't quite make it until sunset because of daylight savings but we had a great meal with a great view! Here is my first "instagram" post and I'm very excited!!

The Oasis

Pretty view

Justin  & his double burger! Dinner & lunch!

Date night!

So pretty but check out that  huge island!

Spring weather

Love the lights & giraffes!

The Oasis "complex"

Loving lines

Travaasa - Our First Anniversary

I'm going to back track a little bit. I have a few posts coming that I'm really excited about but first I wanted to share about our First Anniversary. Justin and I went to a resort - Travaasa out by Lake Travis for our Anniversary. It is such a beautiful resort and I never even knew it existed! We got a great Travel Zoo deal on our stay. It included breakfast, dinner, wine tasting, and all activities - such as ropes course, yoga, cooking classes, equine exercises, hiking, and so many more. Unfortunately since we were only there for one night we didn't get to take advantage of any activities except for the wine tasting, but hey - at least we got to enjoy that! When we got home on Saturday we watched the A&M game (aka napped through it) and then went out for dinner for my Dad's birthday. My mom got us a gorgeous (and yummy!) anniversary/birthday cake to celebrate with. My Dad's birthday is on October 21st and our Anniversary is on October 23rd...I think it's neat that every year we will get to celebrate these two special occasions together :) Here are some pictures from our little getaway weekend!

Our beautiful hill country view out off our balcony



Infinity pool overlooking the lake (or lack of) and hill country



The only picture of us from our stay - too bad it was soo sunny!



Sunset at dinner



Our 3 desserts - the waitress couldn't remember which 2 we ordered so she brought us all 3! - Delish!






Our room was in the building in the middle





Our Anniversary/Dad's Birthday Cake

  

Happy 1 year!!


It was a great first anniversary and I can't wait to celebrate 2 years next year! I think we will make it a tradition of doing something special each year because we are so busy - especially at this time of year...it's important to take some time away and relax!

Reunions, Graduations, and Ice Cream...Oh my!

k so I am LONG overdue for a post, I apologize! It feels like forever since I wrote but it was really only 2 weeks ago from today, wow. So 2 weekends ago we took a trip to Schulenburg for the Schulenburg festival and Justin's 5 year class reunion. Justin, Lexie, Hunter and I went on Friday after work and my parents came Saturday morning. My parents had never been to Schulenburg so I think it was an experience for them. The experience started out with us having to go pick up Justin's mom from work within 5 minutes of my parents getting there because there was a crazy man outside the clinic where she works. So see, Austin doesn't house ALL the crazy people! Then right after we got to Justin's house we realized Lexie had escaped and was loose in the field. Her little head kept popping up in the grass that was taller than her. It was scary that she was loose but pretty funny that she kept popping up in the field. We finally caught her - Justin said he'd never seen me run that fast!! haha So after that we went to the festival for a while where it was scorching hot, as you can imagine outside in August in Texas. Then Justin and I went to his reunion for a bit. That night back at his house I was finally able to get out my camera and take some pictures. I took a ton of pictures and got to play with different settings I hadn't had a chance to use. Here are a few of my favorites:

This past weekend was a blast! Miss Rachel Barde graduated on Friday and we had the pleasure of celebrating with her on Friday night with her family and again on Saturday with everyone! I don't have many pictures from Friday because my parents and I got Rachel a new camera for graduation which happens to have a fish-eye setting so that pretty much occupied us all night. Check her facebook albums if you need more detail. Saturday morning Justin, Christine, Michael and I went to the Austin Ice Cream Festival at Waterloo Park. There wasn't much to do but there was a TON of food/ice cream choices - so who can complain?? I ended up getting a scoop of banana pudding gelato - DELICIOUS and a mini ice cream sandwich that had ginger snap cookies and lemon peel ice cream - also VERY yummy! Justin, Michael, and Christine opted for some dippin' dots.



Justin, Michael, & Christine with their dippin' dots!





Me with my gelato & Justin with his dippin' dots!



Fun Ice Cream Festival van!!



After the adventure downtown the 4 of us made our way out to Carlos and Charlies on Lake Travis for Hotschedules (Justin and Michael's company) 10 year reunion. Ok that made it sound like Michael and Justin own it - they just work for Hotschedules but how cool would that be if they owned it?? Anyways, the boys were sweating their butts off in the volleyball tournament and Christine and I were sweating our butts off watching. It was a fun afternoon but we had to cut it short at 3:30 when my parents picked us up to go to Rachel's graduation party on large marge the party barge! I must say marge was large and was definitely a party barge!! We had SO much fun!! Captain Dave took us out to "the cove" or something like that and we got to swim and eat and watch the sunset. Who could ask for a better Saturday than that?? And to top it off Hunter turned 2 years old!! He got some glow necklace action when we got home! We celebrated his birthday the weekend before in Schulenburg with his doggie cousins! He had a birthday cake and everything :)



My handsome birthday boy!!



It's been a crazy past 2 weeks with everything going on and doesn't look like it's going to slow down anytime soon. This weekend we're off to Houston for my second bridal shower - I'm so excited!

In other news I had my first product launch last Friday...go check it out - it's the Dell Streak. I could have a whole blog post about that but I'm not going to bore anybody :) I promise it won't be 2 weeks until my next blog post!! I'll leave you with one last picture...a sky picture of course!

How is it already August??

How is it already August?? We started out our fun and BUSY month(s) of august (september and october-duh) with a great weekend!! Friday night we went to a family friends house for dinner. They wanted to give us our wedding present early - how sweet! They got us the Calphalon knife set we registered for and we are SO excited! Let's just hope there's no post about me cutting myself soon :) Saturday was a busy day filled with working out, cleaning the house, running errands and finally going to the movies. We went to see Dinner for Schmucks with our neighbors, Ashley and Cory. It was SO funny - Steve Carell is ridiculous as usual. Yesterday we went on a party boat for a friends birthday and had a BLAST! Justin had never been to the lake with us before (how is that possible??) but he had a great time. Somehow I didn't get a sunburn - must be a miracle! Sadly I do not have any pictures from this weekend but the lovely Rachel Barde took a few yesterday so I'll have to steal them from her. This is the month of party boats for us - in 2 weekends we're going on one for Justin's work and then 2 hours later for Rachel's graduation party! Don't worry there will be a whole post dedicated to a day of partying on the lake! I was exhausted last night and fell asleep on the couch - felt like I took a benadryl - I guess that's what the sun can do to you.


Hopefully I will get some wedding projects done this week since I have no more photography class and no more dance lessons (sad day!) I really enjoyed taking dance lessons - I've missed dancing so much, I didn't realize how much I missed it until we started a couple of weeks ago. But yes back to wedding projects, I've created a list of to-do's since our countdown is under 100 days!


I'm making macaroon cookies tonight, so look for a yummy post tomorrow :)

Party boat :)