There's nothing I love more than visiting friends. I'm lucky enough to have some great ones that will drive 2+ hours to see me for a couple of days before a work conference. Love em to death!
After leaving a brisk 40 degree Milwaukee, I landed in a balmy 84 degree Houston, TX on Friday night. Haley was nice enough to let us all crash in her town home and we rallied the troops for a late dinner. (Naturally my first stop in Texas would be for queso.) I told Haley it would be great to go somewhere "kind of quiet, where we could all talk and catch up."
Little did we know what we were getting ourselves into...
(The gang's all here! My favorite people in Texas!!)
(Kathryn, myself, and Brooke at dinner. Notice how dark it is in the background? Yeah, that's because it happened to be salsa night at Gloria's and all the lights were out with laser strobe lights on. So much for a quiet dinner:))
(After dinner we headed a couple of blocks down to Celtic Garden in Midtown.
Love hanging out with my guuurls.)
After a long night out, we headed to Tacos A Go-Go for some much needed breakfast.
It's amazing how much you can laugh when you're with true friends.
I literally don't think I stopped laughing the entire day.
(Saturday night we headed to Lights in the Heights for a good dose of Christmas lights and carolers.)
(Sunday morning we had the most amazing brunch at Benjy's.
Nothing like crab cake eggs benedict!)
(Actually, there's nothing like a refreshing blood orange mimosa. Those things were so good!)
(The rest of the week in Houston I spent at a Values and Practices workshop for Cooper Eaton. The acquisition went through about three weeks ago so we're still in the transition stages of finding everything out. We had a power outage at the Tech Center one morning so they passed out some unreleased products. Someone's getting a Mighty Light for Christmas!)
(Wes and I took a late flight on Friday to get back into Milwaukee in time for the Young Professional's Holiday Gala at the MAC. It was quite the swanky event and I loved getting to catch up with my MKE friends who I hadn't seen in ever and a half.)
(That's Wes. The love of my life. In Santa suspenders and a candy cane bow tie. Gotta love him.)
(Saturday night Wes and I headed to Natalie and Meg's Tacky Sweater Party.)
(This picture perfectly captures Sarah's awesome earrings. They were christmas lights that flashed. Totally awesome.)
(My sister couldn't put up a real tree this year so she attached this little cutie to the wall.
That is some Christmas Spirit!)
(Tonight we had breakfast for dinner. I decided to make some bisquick biscuits and jazzed them up with a little heart shaped cookie cutter instead of the traditional circle.
Don't they look twice as good shaped like a heart?!)
In 5 days my family is reunited!! I'm so excited!!
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