Welcome to my Scenes From the Week series! In these posts, I share the highlights from my previous week ranging from the simple, everyday things to the more memorable events. One of the primary reasons that I blog is to keep a scrapbook that I can look back on in the future, and these posts help serve that purpose.
This week was my first full week back at work after taking a couple weeks off for Christmas. It was hard to get back into it, especially because I dove head first into busy season, but I think I got back into a good a rhythm of “real life” by the end of the week.
Photos from the week, top left to bottom right:
(1) Monday was a work day, but I couldn’t quite get out of vacation mode yet! We went to check out the Holla! Mode truck that had been on our list for a long time. They serve Thai-style rolled ice cream, which I’d never had before. I had a vanilla one with honey and graham cracker, and it was delicious!
(2) Tuesday was a snow day (well, under Texas standards, it was)! My office was closed, so it was a work-from-home day. Unfortunately, you can’t see the snow out the window here, but Banana is staring at the falling snow in utter confusion. He couldn’t figure out what it was! We ended up getting basically no accumulation on the ground, but it was still fun. 🙂
(3) Our main treat on Saturday was a stop at Bougie’s Donuts. This strawberry iced sprinkle donut was just what I was craving!
(4) The majority of our weekend was spent thinking about our baby registry. We haven’t even started adding items to a registry yet, but we decided where we are going to register and started researching some of the main big ticket items. I realized we had entered an entirely new phase of life when I noticed my husband watching YouTube videos about strollers and newborn must-haves and that these types of things are what we talked about pretty much all weekend!
Not Pictured:
- Going to Mattie’s for dinner on Friday after a long week. It is an adorable restaurant in an old farmhouse about five minutes from where we live. I’m not sure why we hadn’t gone to this restaurant before! My favorite food items we ordered were the biscuits and our sweet cream ice cream with fruit and shortbread crumbles, but our whole meal was fantastic.
- A double date out to Lockhart on Saturday with our friends for BBQ and a stop at Daniel’s friend’s art studio grand opening party. It was a really fun, different experience! I always love going and exploring the small Hill Country towns around us.
- After church on Sunday and before heading to Target for more baby registry research, we went to Tiny Boxwood’s for brunch. It was another wonderful meal! The original location is in Houston, and my friend Kaitlin told me how great it was, so I’m glad that we were finally able to make it to the Austin location.
- We think we picked our nursery theme to be woodland creatures with a blue/green/gray color scheme!
- Sunday night’s church small group was a baby shower for one of the couples in our group. They are due next month, so it has been pretty fun to follow along right behind them in my pregnancy journey. Since we had baby registry planning on our minds, we ended up talking with them about strollers, carseats, play pens, and more over dinner. I really can’t believe this is where we are in life now, but I couldn’t be more excited! 🙂
On the blog:
- I shared the itinerary and a map of our stops on our Western Europe backpacking trip. This post has links to all of my travel guides for each city, and I hope it can be used to help plan out both big backpacking trips like ours or shorter trips within each of the individual countries.
I hope that everyone has a great week!
Click here to see all of my Scenes From the Week posts. I’m linking up with Biana at B Loved Boston for the Weekending link-up!
{Thanks for reading! Want to know a little more about me? I’m a CPA learning how to balance a career with frequent travel while planting roots at home in Austin, TX. When I’m not exploring my home city with my husband Daniel or cuddling with our chubby orange cat Banana, I’m probably planning, packing, traveling to, or daydreaming about our next adventure. After all, my travel mug collection is never complete. If you have wanderlust too, be sure to follow me on Instagram (and InstaStories!), Pinterest, and Facebook, or subscribe to my blog!}