Kasee, Jason, Nora & Venna: food

Thursday, August 28, 2014

A couple of weeks ago we celebrated our 5 year wedding anniversary! It does seem like a lot has changed since then:

2 college degrees
6 moves
3 apartments
1 trip to Europe
2 jobs
1 house
1 baby
Lots of adventure, laughs, smiles, and memories

We decided the main way to celebrate was with....FOOD. Of course. And we have absolutely no regrets about it!

Jason got me flowers and some decor for our living room that I've been wanting with the sweetest card (it was funny we said a lot of the same things in our cards to each other-true love). I left him a trail of Reese's through the house with something I love about him on each of them. He's supposed to take the whole container to work so they will make him smile daily!

Friday night we went for Sushi and it was our best experience yet! We finally have gotten better at ordering and got delicious rolls and the right amount.

After dinner, we got a Redbox and I made Magic cookie bars since we had those at our wedding and are a favorite of ours. We also decided to watch our wedding video (perhaps the best wedding expense) and it was SO much fun to reminisce about our wedding day and all the memories. It was not only fun but personal to both of us. We loved seeing how young we looked, our sweet wedding stories and all the hilarious dance moves. It was especially wonderful watching it with Nora as I felt that life has come full circle as our family has grown to include this sweet little girl. I definitely plan to keep this tradition each year to remember how far we have come (and to have a good cry!).

Cute baby while watching our wedding video

On Saturday, we ate burgers at P.Terry's before heading downtown to the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas since we had never been before! Jason wore Nora in the carrier and she slept the whole time. It was fun to walk around (in the nice air conditioning) and to discuss the art (or lack thereof at times).

Little family selfie

The main atrium-a sea of blue

This was by far by one of my favorite pieces. Not sure if you can tell in this photo but the this interactive art piece has 2,000 hanging bones (cow not human) connected to a pit of 600,000 pennies connected by 800 communion wafers. The artist titled the piece Mission/Missions (How to build a Cathedral) hence conveying the connection/corruption between religion and money and I found it very thought provoking.

We loved these massive sculptures.

Jason contemplating art.....

We relaxed that afternoon before taking Nora to her first non-family babysitters -Jen and Tim! We were the first ones to watch their baby Trey so we thought it was only fair! We dropped her off and according to Jen, she was great all night!

We headed downtown again to La Condesa-a contemporary Mexican restaurant. The food was definitely the best we have had in Austin & it was a nice baby free fancy feeling evening.

My handsome man

Mexican street corn covered with cotija cheese, lime and chile powder-delicious!

spicy guava glazed pork ribs, pickled onions, charred corn-chipotle slaw-AMAZING

Venison tacos- definitely my least favorite of all we ordered but still good!

Hard to tell but it's a whole branzino fish, garlic-epazote oil, salsa verde, cauliflower escabeche

Then we went to Gordough's for a deliciously fat doughnut. Food coma complete.

So our first babysitting was a succses! Thanks Tim and Jen!

We had an amazing 5 year anniversary and I'm so glad we found each other. Life is good.

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Did you know that Austin's motto is "Keep Austin Weird?" Well, it is, and Austins are very proud of that. We live about 15 miles north of Austin in Round Rock aka the suburbs/Dell Land. Did you know that Round Rock's unofficial motto is "Keep Round Rock Mildly Unusual?"

just a little FYI. haha. We suburbanites are so witty.

The past week or so we have really been exploring our city, Round Rock for some good food!

Friday night we headed to Moonie's for some delicious burgers. Jason got a guacamole bacon burger and I got the western with BBQ sauce, bacon and the essential onion ring. They were delish and I loved their fries. We had a blast with Juan, Cami and Amelia. And even with Steph and Cam playing Apples to Apples after.

Western Burger. yum.

Amelia loved her hands as much as we loved burgers.

Juan being awkward

This is us having so much fun. haha.

We are serisouly so lucky to have made such amazing friends here in Round Rock!

We even recorded this little video while we were here. Probably no one else thinks it funny, but we were being ridiculous and Amelia thought it was hilarious so at least she is cute!

Then the next morning we went for Round Rock Donuts. Yes, I know, we are obviously on a health kick as this post proves.

Round Rock donuts are famous for being delicious and its "Texas Sized Donuts." Apparently Man vs. Food has also stopped by.

It opens at 4 in the mornings and closes at 6pm and I think there is always a line to get in.

Eating donuts outside. Please excuse my tired face!

There she is ladies and gentlemen, the Texas donut.

Then that night after eating lots of veggies [ha] we went to Freddy's for custard. I know this isn't just in Round Rock but we hadn't been. Jason was skeptical because he thought custard was pudding [so naive] but we loved it!! The custard is thick and so creamy. They only have vanilla and chooclate but then you get cool combintaionts like my brownie sundae and Jason got a turtle sundae. We both devoured ours in minutes. We recommend them!!

And finally, last night we went out for Thai food with Jason's "class" for one of hte girls birthdays. The food was great and it was fun to meet people from work. The only pictures I managed to snag were of Amelia and my yummy sushi.