January

Here are some of our highlights from January:

Drew enjoyed a field trip to a small town outside of Abilene, trying to catch illegal hunters. He loved it & can't wait to "get in the field":
Courthouse in that small town.....

It was open country...at least they took advantage of the wind power out there! If only I had one of these next to my house, I'd have electricity galore with all the wind where I live!

We also celebrated 4 wonderful years of marriage in January! We feel like we're still newlyweds on a great adventure! We have a blast together and feel so grateful to the Lord for these past 4 years. To celebrate we went to Austin (such a cool city!)......walked around the capitol building:

Went to the massive whole foods store (we were like kids in a candy shop!), ate at a delicious Greek food restaurant downtown and went for coffee at Mozarts on the lake to top off a wonderful day!

Since we were unfortunately not together on our actual anniversary, I mailed Drew this yummy cookie cake and he sent me beautiful flowers! What a wonderful husband!


Let's see...the next weekend, I attended an awesome Arbonne VP conference in Oklahoma City. I love these ladies that I have the privilege of working with including my wonderful mom! She looks so young and trendy!


and Drew went hiking at one of our favorite Texas State parks...Enchanted Rock. This huge rock with caves and peaks that you can climb all in and over. You can actually see Enchanted Rock from our deer lease and that's where Drew spent the weekend with his dad & youngest brother, John Michael.


Towards the end of January I was cooped up trying to keep warm from the ice/sleet storm -- my car got covered!

This weekend we decided to kayak a river that fed into Lake Georgetown, about 30 minutes south of where we live. So we found a spot to park, Drew wheeled the kayak to the water and we were ready to go! The river look a bit low, but not impassable for a kayak.....


That water quickly dried up...but we were not deterred by having to "portage" the kayak over the dry spot, because it led to this beautiful part of the river...

We would not even be deterred by 2 more portage spots...even after the kayak falling off the wheels repeatedly & Drew having to rig it up with his fishing stringer, until we came to this spot!

So much to our amusement we had to HIKE over a mile out of the river on the biking trail! Drew got some good speed on the downhills!

No matter what we always have a grand adventure!

What a great start to 2009!

Small town.....

Doesn't my blog look pretty now? My great friend and blogger extraordinaire, Amy Busti made my blog look so beautiful which inspired me to post just to show it off! Thanks Amy!

While I grew up in a relatively small town, I have not wanted to live in any town smaller than my hometown. On the other hand, Drew loves small towns....actually I think he could live out in the middle-of-nowhere (Little House on the Prarie) and be perfectly fine. Tallahassee was great, I loved the size, friends, "small town type of feel" and everything at your fingertips, but at times I didn't always feel safe at night in my own house (especially the time when Drew was on patrol, told me to turn the lights on and get armed because there was a break -in in progress a few houses down from us & he was heading our way fast! That's not a fun way to get woken up in the middle of the night!).

I thought I didn't care to personally live in a small town...that is until Salado. This town is SO cute and I feel so safe here.
Who wouldn't feel safe with a red barn right off of the main street?

Or love having a little creek running through your town....I love to walk here with Rookie or sit and read a book....


Salado has tons of bed & breakfasts....this is one on Salado Creek - everytime I go here I get the urge to wade across the river just to enjoy a few peaceful moments in that hammock. This picture reminds me of the mountain streams and little cottages we loved so much in North Carolina.

Another bed & breakfast....yes, this is Texas - wagon and all!
Drew trying out his new camera during our Sunday afternoon stroll around the town. One of the historic bed & breakfasts behind me.


Again...so cute (a secret flower garden behind one of the gift shops)! I think I've come to believe that small towns are wonderful...if they're cute! I am adjusting to small town living (although I drive 20-30 minutes to even grocery shop!). There are great perks like....the post office clerks already know me! This may be my training grounds for whereever we move next with Drew's job...could be a really small West Texas or border town....which I have a hard time believing will beat Salado on my "cuteness" scale.