a husband win

Two weeks ago I found a Groupon deal (that apparently is ALWAYS a Groupon deal) for $5 tickets to any movie at Studio Movie Grill. Naturally I bought 4 and then bought 4 tickets to Catching Fire on the Friday it opened. One text later to my friend Haylie and we had a double date planned. 

Except when I told A about it, he responded with "sorry, we can't do that. I have a surprise planned." I immediately jumped to thinking that there was NO WAY his surprise would be better than Catching Fire and I begggggggged for him to change it. He repeatedly stated that he could not reschedule the surprise and I repeatedly made a fit about it. He's so lucky.

Friday rolled around and he made reservations to Crisp, a cute pizza/wine bar about 20 feet from our house. Don't get me wrong, I love the place (and their Texas Goat Cheese app - goat cheese mixed with marinara, soft garlic and basil served with drunken garlic bread for dipping…my mouth is watering), but we'd been there twice prior and for such a HUGE surprise, I expected something new. Also he let it slip that he had only made the reservation THAT NIGHT. So naturally I was fuming the entire dinner that the surprise was just a stupid (ok, yummy) dinner that he TOTALLY could have rescheduled! 

We got home and I proceeded to almost fall asleep on our bed but couldn't because I was still SO MAD. 

Then the doorbell rang. Which it never does because our house is gated, meaning that the only doorbell rings we get are from our neighbors and I knew they were out of town. I stomped down the stairs because A magically disappeared and opened the door….then I screamed and shut it only to immediately open it back up with tears in my eyes. 

The little stinker and my best friend planned the best surprise ever. And yes, I HAD NO CLUE. I am very hard to surprise because I do everything in my power to figure it out before hand. Alex lives in Shreveport and I don't get to see her as often as I did when we lived in Lafayette. Plus she had never been to Houston to see our new house and I just missed her dang it! So yes, this was a HUGE husband win.

Right after she arrived we went out in Midtown. I'm pretty sure we were home by midnight…we are definitely NOT in college anymore.

Saturday morning we treated Alex to the best breakfast tacos known to mankind. SERIOUSLY, if you live in or are ever in Houston, go to Chilosos and thank me later. They deep fry the bacon!! I MEAN. Then we lounged (so maybe we had headaches…) and of course I had to take her to 19th street and do a little antiquing. 

I didn't get this but I am already planning on going back tonight to pick it up. It's even real silver! Wouldn't this look so adorable in a little girls room??

The LSU game was an afternoon game (also extremely cold and rainy - SO glad we decided not to go) so Meg (the lone aggie) and Mo-Reese came over to watch it with us. We nibbled on some dip of the Gods (aka Charleston Cheese Dip) but when the game was over we were all starving, so we decided to try out Hickory Hollow, a BBQ place in our neighborhood. The second we walked in it was like we were not in Houston any longer. It was the cutest little place ever, complete with JUMBO mason jars to drink your sweet tea out of. So cute.

So, A, I have to give it to you, you pulled off one heck of a surprise! I'll try and remember how awesome you were this weekend next time you leave the seat up.

he was my partner!

If you follow me or Ashley or Alexa on twitter and instagram, you already know what I'm about to talk about. But I don't want to talk about it because that means it's over. Hold up - I'm over here crying again. 

It all started on July 3rd. I was sitting at my desk bored out of my mind (hey, no one was working that day!) and reading blogs. I clicked on Stephanie's blog and immediately started crying. The big Katie surprise was the sweetest thing I'd ever seen. And so I got an idea...

The original LET'S DO THIS texts. Yes, originally we were going to be insane and DRIVE there. WE JUST WANTED TO GO THAT BAD.

Getting Glenn in on the plan. This is where we started freaking out because it's REAL.

Andre' was 100% against the driving. In his words - "we aren't 18 anymore, Kaitlyn." So he did what every normal person would do and got on Priceline and bid for some tickets. It was around $150ish cheaper to fly out of San Antonio, so Wednesday night we drove there and flew out at the crack of dawn on Thursday morning. 

The weekend was, besides my wedding, the best weekend I have ever had. We might have done it too big on Thursday, but we didn't let that stop up. I'll do a full wrap-up later on this week - or maybe just a photo post - but I'll leave you with the video that STILL makes me cry. 

I may not be the best and most consistent blogger, but I am for sure the luckiest. I have found two of my very best friends through this. We're no longer blog friends, we are just all REALLY good friends. (Even Glenn and Andre'! That part is slightly adorable.) Now we just need to work on getting Glenn + Alexa to Houston. FOR GOOD!

wedding wednesday

Time for the surprise engagement dinner post!

I have the sweetest childhood and forever best friend, Lyndsay. She lives in Northwest Arkie so we don't get to see each other a lot, but when we do, we make the most of it.

Luckily we got to celebrate the engagement because we were both home in Houston for Christmas. (She also helped me pick a wedding venue that week!)

Every holiday that I'm back home for, I always have either a lunch or dinner with my best friends from high school. Lyns, Haylie, Steph and I had already had our lunch that week so it surprised me that they also planned a dinner later on that week. I didn't think anything of it when they said the boys were welcome to come, though.

The night of the dinner Haylie, Lyns, A and I all rode together to Campioni's (check it out if ever in NW Houston, deeeelish!) and met Steph and JR there. We walked in and bypassed the hostess stand, and like a dummy I didn't think anything of it. Out of the corner of my eye I see my sister and everyone yelled surprise. I was SHOCKED! It is SO hard to surprise me, and they pulled it off. I mean, just check out this face, says it all.

at least I dressed cute!

 

the mastermind behind it all

 

Lyndsay had my mom give her phone numbers for all of our family friends so that they could be there with us. It truly was the most thoughtful thing ever and SUCH a fun night.

 

knew me before I was born!

brian, on the left, taught me how to ride a bike when I was five

sweet friends

newly engaged couple!

 

 

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