Austin!

This past weekend, we got visit Dustin, Cam & Meredith, and Lizzie, Cory & baby Grace in Austin.  It was a fun weekend!

This is how our weekend started though...

Thank the Lord for technology.  Seriously, I think it was a total God thing with the way the situation played out.  We had not even made it out of the Houston area when I looked over and noticed a warning light on the dash board.  I asked Brandon what it was, and our car's computer told us that our back left tire had 15 psi.  Holy cow! We needed to exit and get some air in the tire asap.  We weren't able to exit right away, but once we did, we pulled into a gas station and pulled up next to the air pump.  After we got out, you could literally hear the air coming out of the tire.  We looked at it and sure enough, there was a piece of metal in our tire.  Lovely!

So, not having done this on my Tahoe before, we first had to locate the jack.  It was nowhere obvious, so Brandon got the manual out.  Seriously never would have found it without the manual...

Yep, a "secret" compartment for the jack..crazy!

Then, my sweet, oh so happy and pleasant (ha!) hubby got to change the tire :)  Also, I'm pretty sure the people around us must have thought I was crazy for taking pictures.  Ha!  Oh, and did I mention the wind was crazy making it feel FREEZING cold!  I had my velure jacket, Brandon's leather jack, and a blanket wrapped around me.  Talk about ridiculous.  Ha!

Lowering the spare...

Removing the flat...

Putting on the spare...

We then discovered that our spare was also flat, and this is another reason I think it was a total God thing that protected us.  Not only did we know prior to getting the flat to get off the freeway, but we were at an air pump.  Had this happened in the middle of no where, or even had we not been able to get off the freeway in time, we still wouldn't have been able to go anywhere.  After all the work Brandon put into changing the tire if we had not be right where we were we would have been stranded.  We were able to fill up the spare, but I was still concerned about driving all the way to Austin on the spare, so we headed back to town and Discount Tire replaced the tire for us (Thank goodness for their insurance policy! It only cost us $33. Woohoo!).

After that, we were on our way!  We also got to see this beautiful sunset on the way :)

I did not get a whole lot of pics over the weekend, but did manage to get some pictures when we went to Papasitos to celebrate Cam's birthday.

And since we never take pictures together (mostly because I don't like them of myself) here's one of us...

(ignore the fact that it looks like Logan took scissors to one side of my hair - ha!)

The boys serenaded us with the Ducktales theme song.  Here's a little clip :)

And Cam got the honor of wearing the sombrero and being serenaded by the Papasitos' staff :)  I did not get a pic of this, but did get video.  You're welcome, Cam ;-)

Then, on our way out on Sunday, we got to visit Lizzie, Cory and sweet baby Grace.  I even got to hold her!  She is so tiny (less than 5 pounds!) and so sweet, but we are all so happy she is here, safe and healthy!  I did not manage to get a picture though.  I'm so sad! :(

It was a great weekend and I'm so glad we were able to do it despite the rough start.  I definitely missed my sweet boy, but he was having so much fun that he didn't even miss us!