Day Trip and Shoes

We had a wonderful little trip to Lubbock on Saturday. We had a great lunch, enjoyed walking and driving around reminiscing about our college days, and we shopped a little, buying a couple new t-shirts for the upcoming football season... I found the cutest book for Blake! It's called Hello, Masked Rider!, and is obviously about the Masked Rider as he rides around campus and eventually to the football that Tech wins. Here she is looking at it on the way home.
I really wanted to take her picture in front on the Texas Tech Seal on University... but a wedding party was having their pictures taken there, so maybe another day for Blake.

We are always amazed everytime that we go back to Lubbock how much it has changed. We visited a cute little subdivision called Vintage Township that is it's own community, with tons of parks, places to eat, community swimming pool... The homes are so beautiful, of all different colors, with big porches with white columns - just really cool. I tried to include a picture, but go to vintagetownship.com if you want to look around!

These are the delicious fried cheese sticks from Spanky's that I mentioned we would be eating. They are worth the 2 hour drive and are just as good as we remembered!!
Blake was really interested in the food and kept grabbing for the cheese sticks. These days I have to eat with my food out of her reach because she is grabbing for everything! This was her first time sitting in a restaurant highchair. It was way too big for her, but she was tired of sitting in the car seat, and it worked out pretty good anyway. Blake did so great on the trip, only ever fussing to let us know when it was time to eat! She's a good little traveler.

And these are the adorable Nike shoes from the Ellis family! I just had to take a picture of them, especially before her big feet (I can say that because I'm her mom and I love her) outgrow them and because they are too cute. Thanks Kelly and Jonette!