My AMAZINGLY resourceful husband, Our FUN weekend in Lubbock and Our 90% Finished Nursery…HOLLER!!

Well, our weekend started out with Coby’s truck dying in the middle of our drive way as we were leaving to run our last errand before heading out to Lubbock.  Since it wasn’t on his side of the drive way like it normally is…we couldn’t get my car out to go and buy a battery.  My ever so manly, resourceful and problem solving husband decided he was going to pull “Blue” out of the garage (that’s Judy and Cecil’s 4 Wheeler he hijacked for hunting season) and pull his truck out of the way so we could get to my car.  I honestly didn’t think it would work because of how old and MUCH smaller the 4 wheeler was than his massive truck BUT sure enough…it did!  I’ll never doubt him again and his handy skills again.  I seriously lucked out and married someone who can fix and do ANYTHING!!  I always give him a hard time about being so cheap and hijacking Judy and Cecil’s stuff instead of buying his own but at that moment I was just glad we had it sitting in our garage.

As we were sitting in the drive way getting ready to leave a woman came to the vacant house next door to us and started taking pictures like they usually do when a home goes back to the bank and forecloses.  YEP…both of our neighbors foreclosed on their houses this weekend and royally killed our property value…oh the joys of being an adult!  Guess we’re stuck here for quite a while!!  Our one neighbor kept telling Coby he was building a new house out in Haslet on more land and stuff but yet their house NEVER went up for sale.  They moved out about 3 months ago and thanks to my love for internet stalking I found out that the house is in HER name and they were building the new house in HIS name.  Guess they realized they would lose over 20k+ if they sold the house they were in so they probably just stopped paying the bills and just waited for the bank to take it back…I’d sure love to tell them THANKS right about now!  Our other neighbor was this precious gay African man who LOVED him some CobyJ.  Coby loves to walk out of our house with his shirt off like most of the other WT people we live near and if Willie Joe was outside walking at the time…you should have seen the grin on his face.  I think it was that exact image of Coby that helped him get through losing his houseJ.

After all that fun was over, my glider showed up on the front porch as we were out getting a battery right before we left for Lubbock and I was SO excited!!  We had finished everything else in the nursery the night before (minus the Hutch Buy Buy Baby still owes us) so I quickly ran inside and put it together myself while Coby fixed his truck.  I’ve posted pictures so you can see below…we find out the sex of the baby on Friday so we can FINALLY put a little color in here!  It’s going to be pink and brown for a girl or blue and brown for a boy….so excited to decorate!!!

After all the festivities were over we headed out to Lubbock to visit Chris & Tammy and their crew at 2:30pm…so much for first thing in the am…guess you gotta just go with the flow (I’m learning that on the time schedule thing…I’m VERY much a time scheduler but since marrying Coby…I’ve had to let that go J).  Lubbock was so fun!  We went out on Friday and so did Judy and Cecil (Coby’s parents), and then Chad & Jackie and their crew came out on Saturday morning and we all went home on Sunday.  We hauled our trailer since everyone was going so there would be plenty of space to sleep.  We got a whopping 6-9 miles per gallon on the way there…we borrowed Cecil’s pick up for the way home thankfully and were able to get 20 miles per gallon…bless those Diesel engines!!! 

West Texas is SO flat, orange, dusty and WINDY but it was still super fun.  When we pulled up I asked Coby where all the trees were and if they just tore them down when they built the houses and he laughed at me.  Apparently where he’s from in Dumas it’s much worse on the tree end so he was used to it…it was a shock for me.  I’ve learned that my brother in law Chris loves to do things that are different from the norm and he’s pretty funny.  Below is a picture of the inside of the back of his beloved horse trailer and his new favorite spot…guess you could call it his man cave. 

 

He put a little heater in there and did not understand why his almost 70 year old parents did not want to sleep in the bunk beds in the horse trailer because it’s his new favorite toy J.  My question to him was who were you thinking was going to get up on that top bunk?  He told me anyone can because there’s a ladder…yep the little block of wood that is about 3 inches wide is the “ladder”.  I doubt I could even get up there haha.  We finally got to see his beloved mules that he always talks about and they were actually very pretty.  I wasn’t sure what to expect when he said he’s a mule rider instead of horse rider…guess I’d never heard that one before haha.  He took Cecil mule riding while the rest of us spent the day at the mall.  I was surprised Coby would take the mall over anything but I guess mule ridings not something he shares his brother’s love for.

 

We hit up the movies and dinner after the mall and then all went home and Chris’s friend Juan brought over crepes.  This was a first time experience for the Brown family but a routine one for me.  Crepes are our family Christmas breakfast tradition and have been ever since I can remember.  We’ve tried to break that tradition out of laziness a few times and I think Ariel and Riley almost had a heart attack…so a tradition it will continue to be.  I have a feeling with as big of a hit as it was, it will become a Brown family tradition as well! 

The weekend was short because a lot of it was spent driving to and from but I think Coby and I have a new found appreciation for the fact that Chris and Tammy and their crew drive that distance from Lubbock every single time we have family camping trips and holidays and never once complain.  I think we’ll try to make it at least a once a year trip but I haven’t broken that one to Coby yet…his preferred driving radius for any trips is 45 mins but 3 hours max J.  Anyways, we’re home safe and sound after an eventful weekend and back to the every day grind…THREE MORE DAYS until we find out the sex so we’re definitely counting down!!