7.30.2008

Cookie goodness at the bottom of my cup!

Hello All! 

And by all I mean our moms and jenni! I think sometimes that we have a blog just to keep the moms up to date....anyhow....

...we are enjoying a lovely summer night, or at least me and Daisy are. Stu on the other hand is doing homework...gross! 

Stu made what I am loving as a post dinner treat, a cappuccino. But the one thing that made it amazing was a cookie from Whole Foods. We made salads for dinner and Stu was getting bored with the salad dressing that we had to choose from, so we walked across the street to Whole Foods (which is still so weird after three weeks) to get a new dressing! While walking in the terrible summer heat I decided that I wanted (or needed) a cookie! So after dinner Stu made his works of art in a mug and I dipped my cookie in the foamy delightful treat! I was then struck with sadness as I watched my cookie break off and sink to the bottom of my mug.... :( ....then it hit me! I would drink the rest of the cappuccino and at the bottom would be an even better double fudge cookie!!  And as I happily reached the bottom I was greeted by a little piece of heaven! Next time I'll throw the whole cookie in there.....that's how good it was!

So being that Stu and I have started Apartment Life at a new location we are starting fresh. We have this little letter thingy that go out to the residents that talk about who we are and what we do as a "CARES Team". Well, we were asked to either provide a new picture or have the old picture reprinted. Stu and I decided that we would send a new picture being that the other one was over a year old. (and I think Stu wanted to play with his camera...and we don't have any good recent pictures of the two of us) So we took a few pictures with his fancy little camera in between dinner and my cookie goodness. Here are a few of our favorites!!  



This is the one that was sent to be printed....


...isn't he cute!


...Kissy face...


...Serious face...


and fatty "D"


~nicole

7.24.2008

bad bloggers

So we're bad bloggers....

After having moved, finished my internship, Stu starting some final classes and working we have developed the non blogging attitude. I have had the intention of blogging and sharing part of our crazy lives with you but when I don't have any pictures I tend to move away from the decision to actually write something down. But I intend to get some of our pictures up soon....I just have to get them from Stuie's fancy little camera. 

We have almost finished our move to downtown and have decided that we are loving the almost-hippie lifestyle of Austin. One of our favorite things to do is to walk across the street to Whole Foods and eat some yummy food. 

This evening we went to one of our favorite spots, located a few blocks away from the apartment, Cafe Medici. This is the home of the best cup of coffee in town (according to the Smiths)! When I got off of work I decided that it was a cappuccino sort of day. Those cloudy, rainy days require either an awesome cup of coffee or a nap... coffee was the better choice this time around. 

Stu and I are trying to finishing making our new home beautiful, well all Stu is worried about right now is his office....but I am sort of excited about that too because while we enjoyed the post dinner cup of joe we talked about how Stu wants to get a new office table and move the current table to the corner and make it a Nicole workspace/proof table. I like the sound of that! Our office is big enough and we could make my workspace into a high table with a neat stool... I have lots of ideas! 

I plan to get pictures of the apartment up soon....

This weekend will be a busy one....we have our first event at the new apartment and later in the day we have what will more then likely be the last event at the old apartment. I am a little sad about that because Stu and I have developed a lot of friendships with the people there...but I am also very excited about what a new community has to offer....

anyhow... I'll have more later!

~nicole

7.07.2008

4th of July Weekend Photos

This weekend was a full one to say the least. Birthday (Stu - 22) on Thursday, 4th on Friday, Packing on Saturday, Packing on Sunday and Church tonight. All the while, we've had one of our favorite house guests, Oliver Neutzling (aka: Ollie) as seen below. Daisy isn't a huge fan of Ollie (also as seen below), but we are!

The other non-dog pictures below are from our new home @ 300 N. Lamar. We were blessed enough to just be able to spend our 4th there on the new balcony and cannot believe we will soon (tuesday) be living there! The Lord is truly good to us.