The weekend of the 22nd I went to visit my friend Melissa who lives in Texas now, and we had such a fun time!! We had so much awesome hangout time, and it was really cool to see Texas too!! We also had AMAZING food all weekend and I think I gained like 50 pounds. Melissa lives near Dallas, which isn't too far from Waco, so one day we drove to the Magnolia Silos (if you watch Fixer Upper, you know what I'm talking about!). It was SO fun, and I had to keep reminding myself that I had to fly back so I couldn't buy too much!! And on the way back from Waco we stopped at an area of Dallas called the Bishop Arts District which was a really cute area, and I especially loved it because its name was Bishop! :) The weekend totally flew by way too fast, and I can't wait to go back and see Melissa again!
A HUGE bear that was in the waiting area of an amazing Mexican Restaurant we went to right after I arrived in Dallas! They made their own tortillas there, and I had the best steak fajitas I've ever had in my life!
Bishop Arts District!
Me and Melissa! I miss her already!
And this weekend Kevin and I were really busy! Friday night we watched a horror movie (30 Days of Night), and Saturday we woke up pretty early to drive over to an area called Lambertville (the name always makes me think of Lambert the Sheepish Lion... Does anyone besides me remember that cartoon? Anyone? No? Just me?) because there's a little diner that we love for breakfast and that town also decorates like CRAZY for Halloween! After breakfast we went to a few of the streets that go nuts with the decorations and we walked around for a while! The weather was perfect for wandering around. There were lots of great decorations, but one house in particular was AMAZING. The people that live there make all of these Tim Burton-esque characters, and they're sooo creepy and awesome. I took WAY too many pictures of that house, but I hope you enjoy them.
A cool house!
Another fun decoration!
A cool house with Van Gogh's Starry Night incorporated into their Halloween decorations!
And now... the Tim Burton-ish AMAZING house:
After we finished there we drove over to an orchard we've never been to that was supposed to have some good apple picking and pumpkins! We were trying to find a new orchard to go to for apples and pumpkins, because our usual (Linvilla) has been getting insanely busy. Well... this one was not great. It looked super cute online and it WAS cute, but I think it was just too small maybe... They had quite a long line to wait to get on this little wagon thing to take you to some apple trees, and then their pumpkin selection was this little pile of like 15 pumpkins. So... we kinda struck-out there.
Saturday we also did a bunch of housework and yardwork, and yesterday we did more housework and yardwork. Busy busy! Kevin's dad came over for part of yesterday too to help out with a few big projects: they installed our tin ceiling in our downstairs powder room (I'll take pictures once we have all the trim up!), and the 3 of us worked on cutting down a dead tree in our yard! It was in an area where there is some poison ivy (UGH), so please keep your fingers crossed for the 3 of us that we stay itch-free! We all washed with some good soap right afterwards, so I'm hopeful we'll all be ok. We had a crazy busy weekend, but it feels good to catch up on some housework and yardwork!
I hope you all have a great Halloween, and I'll post more this week with pictures of our Halloween decorations, pumpkins, etc!!
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