Deep in the Heart of Texas: Taylor

After celebrating with Granny, we all headed out to the homestead.

LB and Carter loved exploring the land and having fun with the new cousins they had met.

Granny enjoyed having family playing ball in the yard, sitting around the porch talking and watching football in the living room.

It really was a wonderful weekend deep in the heart of Texas.

Deep in the Heart of Texas: Texas State Capital

Part of our time in Austin was spent at the state capital building.

As with anything in Texas, it is the biggest state capital building and is even taller than the national one.

I loved this for many reasons but the details were spectacular!!! Stars were EVERYWHERE!!

Deep in the Heart of Texas: Austin

After having some time around the university, we met up with Dustin's family to see Austin.

Austin is a neat city.  I heard the motto is "Keep Austin Weird" but I really liked what we did and what we saw as we went through the city.

There were lots of places to choose from when it came to eating.

For lunch, we chose Moonshine.

I would recommend it highly!!! Fabulous food of all kinds and we loved the outdoor eating area!

After eating, we needed to walk around so we walked the streets taking in all of the sights of this city. I loved the different buildings and random works of art we would see as we went through.

For a snack/supper, we stopped at a cool little ice cream place called "Berry Austin."

It was cool and very Austin.

The walls, counters, stools, etc were all made from different items as you can see from the pictures.

Then, on the counters, they had iSpy games for you to do as you enjoyed your treat.

We did stay to see the bats leave from the South Congress Bridge but my camera was hijacked during that event.  So, the pictures weren't the best in the world.  We really enjoyed our time in Austin.

Deep in the Heart of Texas: University of Texas

One of the things of Carter's and Damon's bucket list was to see parts of the University of Texas while we were there.  I was searching one day and found where we could take a tour of the stadium so that quickly became a MUST on the list.  It was WELL worth it I must say.

While we waited for our tour, Carter loved seeing the big posters of former UTexas stars.

On the tour, Carter kept his eyes open for anything and everything, but he especially LOVED seeing all the Colt McCoy and Jordan Shipley things.  He told our tour guides (who were just college students) more than once how Colt got robbed for the Heisman!

LB kept saying ALL of this would be so much better if it was Alabama!!!

She cracks me up! 

The BEST time of all was when the tour led us through the tunnel and out onto the field.

Our sweet tour guide even played the Texas fight song so Carter could run out just like the big guys!!!  He thought he had arrived!!

He thought running out of the tunnel was great until he realized they had a REAL jersey AND helmet for him to wear!!!!

More Colt in the trophy room....

If the boy had been born 4 years later - he would have been Colt instead of Carter!