A Shoe Filled Closet: NYE weekend

This year, we decided to head out of town for NYE! Our great friends, Ann and Mike (Ann is the friend that introduced me to Will), have a family house in Horseshoe Bay, near Marble Falls. They decided to head down there for a low key NYE and invite our other friends Lea and Brian. We ended up with 6 adults, 3 kids and 3 dogs...and we thought it would be low key!

We arrived on Friday afternoon and just piddled around the house for awhile. Ann and I set off to Wal-Mart to get food for the weekend and then to the meat market for steaks for NYE (thank goodness for GPS on the phones!). Friday night we had great fajitas, and of course, lots of wine and beer! We spent the rest of Friday night watching the OU Sooners defeat the Iowa Hawkeyes (sorry Aunt Judy and Uncle Scott!)

Mike and Alex "fishing" in the pond...sausage bits don't catch many fish!

Saturday morning, we woke up with the intentions of going to Bluebonnet Cafe, a favorite of everyone in the house. Being my first time in Marble Falls, I was excited to try this place because Ann and Lea raved so much about it, Lea swears their peanut butter pie is amazing! Ann and Mike left earlier with the kids so they could get a table, but later called us to say they were closed! All 6 adults were disappointed! We did find a breakfast place that met everyone's needs.

On the way to breakfast, Ann and Lea spotted an "open house" so we decided to stop in and be nosy! The house was REDUCED to just under $2 million, NBD. I will admit, it was a beautiful house, right on the water with LOTS of space and more importantly, lots of bathrooms! Two of the bathrooms even had bidets!

After touring, we headed back to the house to watch A&M beat Northwestern in another close game! While Will was absorbed in the game, the two babies, and 4 of the adults took naps...I might have been one of the adults...

Elvis is stoked that A&M won!

Will and I did visit a couple of local wineries on Saturday...that's another post!

After the winery tour, Will and I rushed back to the house to make kickoff of the AUBURN game! We ate a wonderful steak and baked potato dinner (thanks, Mike and Ann) while watching Auburn beat UVA! We were 3 for 3 that weekend...everyone was happy! We all stayed up and watched the countdown and welcomed in 2012 with great friends!