Life Lately

In the last few months I have...

Celebrated my Love's Birthday with party hats and scotch.

Experienced my first real flooded apartment. 

Spoiler alert!! It was awful.

We even had to move our bed into our living room for about a week while the carpet was being repaired.

 Ugh. Such a pain.

Chopped my hair off to donate to Panteene's Beautiful Lengths Program.

Explored some of the beautiful outdoors that Austin has to offer with new friends. 

Some of our friends from back home came into town for a visit. We took them to some of our favorite spots (the park and eateries mostly).

And we also took them to see some things that even we hadn't experienced yet!

(The Congress Bats, Salt Lick Texas BBQ)

I finally got around to enjoying our new pool.

It's phenomenal. BTW.

I joined Tone It Up's bikini series again this year and becoming best frenemies with the treadmill upstairs. 

And of course I can't forget the oodles of Ellie Bean cuddles. 

Those are the best.

This Weekend

This weekend I.....

 Made my first ever Tone It Up protein pancakes. 

They were fantastic.

 Took the dog to Zilker Park for some throw ball.

Walked to Birds and got the Man a much needed hair cut.

Walked around Congress and visited a few thrift shops.

Also, we just happened to come across this sign on the way home.

On Star Wars day nonetheless.

We visited the Pecan Street Festival and drank wine and beer while checking out the booths.

Oh, and there was a petting zoo.

Obviously it was the best part. 

My favorites were this kangaroo baby. (Joey)

 And of course the Alpaca. 

Always the Alpaca.

 I still liked it despite the no chasing rule.

Had dinner at Rio's Brazilian.

It's always always delicious.

Then of course we went to one of the wonderfully hipster bars on the East Side.

After my run on Cinco De Mayo I enjoyed some coconut water in my wine glass. 

To make it fancier.

Obviously. 

Not pictured are the fish tacos and guac that we devoured. 

Like animals. 

Because it was Cinco De Mayo.

Wonderful Weekend

What a beautiful weekend!

We've been having some SPECTACULAR weather here and we certainly enjoyed it.

We celebrated Earth Day by taking my mom out to brunch.  We went to one of my favorite eateries Vera Fare (the only exclusive gluten free restaurant in Bozeman).  The food was delicious but we did feel a little guilty that we weren't outside helping people clean up litter and such....

....oops....

The rest of the weekend was spent getting my exercise on and studying for the LAST WEEK OF SCHOOL!!

How was your weekend??

Date Night

Today is Saturday and I have a TON of homework to do.

tests...photography midterm....papers...more tests.....

Knowing that I have all this to do, here is how my day has gone:

Coffee with the mister,

Costco,

Pinterest,

Facebook,

Pinterest,

And NOW I'm going to write a blog post about my date last night!

As you can see I am both very productive and responsible.

Future Meg is gonna be maaaaaad.

Anyhoo, the mister and I went on a 'Hot date" last night. (That's what he calls it)

The occasion:

He sold lots of crap on ebay.

The place:

Over the Tapas

(Have you ever had tapas? It's wonderful!!)

What we ate:

Chicken skewers, roasted plantains, chorizo stuffed mushrooms, and paella.

Oh yeah, and beer and wine.

It was wonderful!

The mister and I are quite the homebodies so it's nice to dress up and get out every now and then.

Plus the food at Over the Tapas is spectacular! We especially enjoyed the stuffed mushrooms and the paella.

(And of course the wine)

Now if you'll excuse me I need to get back to not studying.

It's an extremely important task that takes all my concentration.

Local Spotlight- Vera Fare

The Boyfriend and I checked out a new restaurant here in Bozeman the other day. It's called Vera Fare and it is Bozeman's first all gluten free restaurant!!

Naturally I was pretty stoked when I heard about this place and even MORE stoked when I discovered that one of their specialties are gourmet WAFFLES!!

I had the Nutty Sundae Waffle (pictured first), and boyfriend had the Fiesta Frittata (second picture) and of course we both had coffee. All of the food was simply magnificent. The waffle was so rich I could hardly finish the whole thing!

One of the most difficult things about going gluten free has been the lack of breakfast foods so this was a real treat.

Vera Fare serves breakfast all day and also has dinner.

The boyfriend and I will definitely be checking out this place again!!

And by the way, the waffles were WAY better than gluten waffles. And seriously, look how pretty they are!!!

Friends and Flirtinis

On monday my boy and I did something unusual....we went OUT! I even put on a nice dress for the occasion!

We met up with some friends at a swanky bar in Bozeman called Plonk and had some fancy drinks. Luckily the weather was gorgeous so we got to sit outside on their back patio which is beautiful. It makes you feel like you are in a whole other world!

My favorite drink to get is the flirtini. It's pink, delicious AND really fun to say!

Everyone always laughs at me a little when I order it but the heart wants what it wants ya know?? (The drink pictured is not actually flirtini as that picture is on my phone and I can't seem to get it off)

It was so great to get a night away from the house to enjoy good drinks and great people.