Saturday Night (Fever)

Our new friends, Lauren and Sam, invited us out on Saturday night to celebrate her big 3-OH! We headed out early to catch the happy hour at The Belmont before the birthday girl arrived. Yep you heard right folks, happy hour on a Saturday night. A bar/restaurant that offers happy hour on the weekend night gains major points in our books! Since we knew that it was going to be a decent size party we met April at the swanky, 'rat pack'-esque bar a few before catching up with the lucky lady up on the roof deck.

Nothing beats a warm summer night out with some great people....

Happy 30th chick!

Oh how we heart this girl!

We're so grateful for the great people we have begun to connect and have relationships with in our new home-state. It doesn't quite replace the people we left back in Cali. Who are we kidding, you guys could NEVER be replaced!...Anyone looking to get out of CA is more than welcome to give this place a try any weekend in the near future, just let us know when. We are really enjoying getting out of our comfort zones, trying new things, and living up to the promises we made to ourselves before we moved. BUT having good friends around you makes all of these new adventures just that much more special and fun.

Tomorrow we hike, and Jess starts her first day of "new to district" training on Monday. Happy weekend ya'll!

Get Your ASana Outside

Two of the top reasons we chose to move to Austin was because of the fit community and multiple opportunities to sweat and HAVE FUN. Thankfully to Jess's involvement with lululemon this summer she's really taken advantage of all things sweat related, this Saturday included.

In case you didn't already know via Facebook, lululemons across the nation all participated in an event called Salutation Nation. It's an event that brings the yoga community together outside enjoying the benefits of yoga- body, mind, and spirit. In other words, it's a great excuse to wake up early and practice some yoga with some amazing people. Although Texas summer days are heating up pretty early these days, we thought it would be a great opportunity to spend some time together.

Where are the Vances? (hint: yellow shirt and red hair/all black)

Inspired yet?

We invited some of our new friends (Sam and Lauren) and met them at Festival Beach to get our yoga and snack on yummy treats after. We love this couple and always have an awesome time hanging out and experiencing everything Austin together! Tonight we are going our for Lauren's 30th too!--pictures and post to come.

Jess met her first and BESTEST friend (do I sound like I'm in elementary school again? that's what it feels like when you move away from everything familiar) in Austin while working at lululemon. Her name is April. She is an amazing person always up for a good time, a glass of wine, and a yoga class or two.

So glad we made it out to this event today to "sweat once a day". We have an early hike planned tomorrow and a few more adventures up our sleeves before the end of the weekend. Stay tuned.

PS Jess finished her classroom and will be posted "after" pictures soon. We know you have all been anxiously awaiting!

Celebrating Mother's Day Our Own Way

With our first Mother's Day out of the state of California, we knew we couldn't head over Paradise Cove and have a Mary with our family. To celebrate the day we headed over to a spiritual center called, Austin Center for Spiritual Living. Before we left, some really good friends of ours told us that we should look into finding a church or some other type of spiritual center to help us find good, lasting relationships here in Texas. Moving away from family and friends has definitely been a challenge for us and we look forward to all of the visits they have planned this coming summer and fall. What being said, we still know the importance of finding good people to share in our life's adventures.

We met some really nice people at Austin Center for Spiritual Living http://www.cslctx.org/, and plan on heading over to another center that's a little bit closer to home this time.

Where ever we end up settling we realize that staying grounded and finding the time to look inward in important no matter what stage or transition of live you are in.

It's been a new experience putting ourselves out there and meeting new people **Think first day of school all over again **, but also fun just putting it all out there since we don't have a network of family and friends here. We have ended up meeting a collection of different people whenever we are out and about. We're actually heading over to a "Guac Off" next weekend hosted by someone that we met at the wedding a few weekends ago....should be fun!

A weekend away...

We couldn't quite believe that our last trip or vacation together was our honeymoon last year. So we were excited to have friends who decided to have a out-of-town wedding! Our friends, Amy and Mike Carter, chose a beautiful location on Murrieta (near Temecula). We were blessed with beautiful weather and some good times and good friends. Here are just some of the 100 pictures we took that weekend.