Weekend Recap

This past weekend was a whirl wind for me! I had so much to do with so many places to go and just barely enough time to do it all. So, let’s get into it:

It all started on June 24, 2022, when my mom happily accepted her boyfriend’s proposal to get married. Fast forward to September and it was time for their engagement party. Around three o’clock on Thursday Sept. 29, 2022, my roommate, Michelle, and I loaded my car with our suitcases and started our five-hour journey to my hometown of Midland Texas.

Arriving in midland at around eight o’clock, we went straight to, Kessler’s the party venue, to help set up for the celebration the next day. Once the lights had been strung and the center pieces had been perfected, it was finally time to go home and eat some dinner. My amazing big sister, Autum, made Michelle and I Birria tacos from scratch and they were the most delicious tacos I have ever eaten. After dinner, Michelle and I said goodnight to each other and went to sleep.

The next day was very fast paced but honestly one of the best days ever.

I woke up at around eight in the morning and hastily got ready for the day while Michelle was still asleep. This morning, my mom, my sister, and I all had manicure and pedicure appointments for ten o’clock, so we picked my sister up at around nine-forty-five in the morning and headed to the nail salon. The three of us had the best time laughing and catching up while getting our nails done – I miss them so much it is unreal sometimes!!

Once we got home from the nail salon PANIC set in as I realized I did not have a dress to wear to the party! You see, I ordered a gorgeous dress online from Princess Polly but mistakenly shipped it to my mom’s house instead and when I tried the dress on, you guessed it, the dress did not fit – it was two sizes too big.

Michelle and I rushed to the mall in hopes of finding anything to wear and with a little bit of luck and a lot of hope, we find a very similar dress to my original one but at least ten times better – so it all worked out the way it was supposed to. We then stop at Target to see my best friend Dezmond who works there and to get a new lip liner (if you’re not using lip liner – it’s a game changer). At around two-thirty in the afternoon we arrive back at my mom’s house, and we start the hours long process of getting ready.

By five o’clock the white hummer limo had arrived, and it was time to go celebrate the two love birds. Once at the venue, we step out to the photographer taking our pictures exiting the limo and walking into the venue – it was such a magical experience.

The venue was gorgeous; it had amazing fountains and other water features, huge sparkly chandeliers, an outdoor space with sparkly string lights and an ambience no one can forget.

That night was purely magic. We danced and laughed and loved the newly weds to be.

The next day, Saturday, was a major recovery day for everyone because we all went to bed at around three in the morning after the engagement party.

My mom’s Fiancé, and I suppose my soon to be stepdad, was so sweet and went out and got breakfast burritos for everyone in the morning and they were delicious. Once we had finished eating, we lounged around the house lazily all day until around eight o’clock at night when Michelle and I decided to round up some friends and grab some drinks.

My sister, Autum, is a bartender and server at a restaurant called Cork & Pig, so my friends and I went to see her for a quick drink before heading to a bar called Fair to Midland. It is a really cool fair themed bar in Midland that is supposedly owned by the same owners as Kung fu on west sixth street in Austin Texas.

At Fair to Midland, we meet up with some of my hometown friends and have the best time playing skee ball and going down the giant slide they have. That night we shut down the bar and went to sleep at around three o’clock in the morning once again.

The next day, Sunday, was the longest day of my life (it felt like at least)! I woke up and got myself ready for the day at around nine in the morning. I then went to fill up my car with gas and got a car wash because Michelle and I were going to leave at around 11 o’clock that day to head back to San Marcos.

Unfortunately, we noticed that one of my headlights had gone out so we had to spend time fixing that before I could get on the road. After my car had been fixed, we loaded up the car once again with our things and started the five-hour journey back to our apartment at around three o’clock in the afternoon.

Michelle and I arrived in San Marcos at around nine o’clock in the evening where PANIC once again set in when we realized we had a birthday party to go to at ten o’clock. We rushed to get ready and surprisingly showed up to the birthday celebration on time.

That night we got home at around two-thirty in the morning, and we were EXHAUSTED!

To our own surprise we had just completed a five-hour road trip, a 45-minute rushed get ready, and a full twenty-first birthday celebration of our friend all back-to-back-to-back.

Overall, this weekend was an absolute whirl wind but in the best way possible! I would not change a single thing about this weekend!