Thursday, May 24, 2012

Good Bye Plaza Hotel! And Some More Catching Up :)

Today I woke up bright and early to watch the Plaza hotel be imploded. It was kind of awesome. And definitely worth it!! I got up a little after 5. By 5:30ish Jacob and I went to Shipleys for kolaches and donuts. Then we parked at the Panda Express on Texas and George Bush and walked to the golf course.

This was the Plaza's last day


Waiting... By the time we walked over there it was about 6:20


Forgive my looks in this picture... I woke up too early... Haha


And then probably 15 minutes later than expected, we finally heard a KABOOM!!


The plan was for me to take pictures and for Jacob to record it. But like I said we thought it was supposed to be at 6:30 and he got tired of wasting so much video on his phone. We also thought they would have sirens as a warning before it happened. But no. So luckily I was standing there with my camera ready, because it happened fast.


And then there was smoke...


And more smoke....


And some more....


And more....


Believe it or not, though it's hard to see in the picture I even found some more smoke on E. 29th and Briar Crest about 20 minutes later.


Okay, I'm behind I know. So I guess now it's time to catch up :)
On Sunday after church Jacob and I decided to go feed the ducks and the fish at research park. We mostly fed the turtles though. And we tried to feed a squirrel. It was fun :)


Trying to feed the squirrel


Squirrels!


He's a weird one...


But I'm kind of obsessed :)


And maybe a little obsessed with myself too ;)

Heres some videos too:

Trying to feed the squirrel...


And feeding the turtles!!



The Friday before this we went to Waco to see Jacob's newest nephew. Baby Corwin Heck. But the only picture we took is of him and the baby and it's on his phone. The baby was adorable though and so were his other nephew and niece which I made fast friends with when I pulled out my phone :) Haha.

Recently I found out that I got a scholarship to Blinn. Yay.

The weekend before this Jacob and I celebrated 8 months... well kind of. We just always try to do something around the 20th of each month. And this month he surprised me and took me iceskating! And of course I have pictures :) Bt before we did that we stopped at Double Daves for pizza rolls. We love pizza rolls!

Waiting for our food...


We were bored... And hungry....


And I like to take pictures...


And he likes to ruin them with weird faces... so I make an upset face...


And sometimes I like to take pictures of myself... A lot...


He always sings to me in the car :)


And then we ice skated








I may have been a little nervous....


But over all it was a lot of fun :)

In April we took a weekend trip to Katy a few weeks ago. We watched Elizabeth's soccer game. Went to Hayley Stuckey's birthday party. And just enjoyed visiting everyone. It fell over the 20th and Jacob got me a pretty rose, just like the one he gave me when we first started dating :)



<3


Brody and his faces.


I don't know how she got so big. I guess that's what I get for leaving.


My Jacob :)


He's such a character.


Baby girl!


Cutie.


They're so cute. I even had fun at the party. Jacob... not so much. And I got to hold sweet baby Sydney!


He always makes silly faces...


Much better :)

Besides all that I was so relieved to be done with school. But now I'm about to start my summer classes :( And always Walgreens keeps me busy with about 35 hour weeks.

I just realized I never posted about the Theta 5K. It was fun. Although I wanted to puke when it was over. I enjoyed it. But I'm over that craze for now. So I'm just sticking to the treadmill. Well until August when Rachael and I move into out new place. Which means no more workout room. I guess I'll have to buy an aerofit membership or something. I'll worry about that later though.

Before the race


And after the race. It was very bright. And don't be fooled by my smile I was exhausted and sick to my stomach. But once I cooled down I was happy. Haha.


After the race we went to Laynes. 








Yes it's a picture of me making faces in the mirror. Mallory pointed out one day that she always looks at herself in the mirror when she's in the passenger seat. And when I realized I was doing it I had to take a picture and send it to her.


And then we hit up the tent sales and got some hats.


I've never cared for wearing hats, ever. So Jacob was very happy that he convinced me to get one. I guess it's not so bad.



And that night we made home made pizza. BBQ chicken!


And pepperoni!


The next day was April 1st, which meant the nonsense of 'mustache march' was over!!


So I made him shave it off :)


Happy girlfriend :)



And here's a few more random pictures over the last few months.

For easter I met the family at the Seckinger's lake house in Austin.


The weather was beautiful.


I got lots of sun :)


But unfortunately didn't get to spend enough time with everyone. I got there late Thursday night and left around dinner time Friday. I had to work on Saturday :( But when I left Friday what most of the family didn't know was that I was going to meet my brother Stephen in San Marcos. They didn't know because on Saturday he went to the lake house to surprise everyone. I wish I could have been there. But I'm glad that I at least got a chance to see him on his quick visit to Texas. 


I finally straightened my hair.


It's a pain and takes forever so I never do it.


But that doesn't mean I don't like it. And it's gotten so long, but I'm scared to cut it :/


At some hardware store I've driven by plenty of times but never even noticed until I went one time with Jacob. That thing was huge. And I had a hard time picking it up. Hahah. 


My newest bedroom accessory :)


Making kabobs :)


Berry cobbler :)


Not even a week after I got my new shoes and they were already dirty :( the splotches are ink from the printer at work...


Tanning with my best friend :)





He was so excited to cut that tree down.


So silly!


A random picture of me.


A picture of me right now and a semi picture of how I rearranged my room when I got the new mirror.


This post took a good 2 hours... I hope this means I learned my lesson about not updating enough. Probably not though...