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Before I jet off to Europe, I wanted to do a recap of our life lately in Texas. We’ve been super busy, especially with Zach beginning tax season, but we’ve still managed to soak up some of the beautiful weather and have some fun.

The view from our apartment is beautiful. We can take walks or run along the marina, a feature I exploit as often as possible!

We love walking around the boardwalk area of Kemah. It’s such a cute little beach town with laid back vibes. For New Year’s Eve, fireworks were shot off of the boardwalk and we sat down on the rocks near the water on the other side of that lighthouse to watch them. It was so impressive seeing the fireworks framed in the water, hearing the waves, smelling the salt, and enjoying the fresh breeze – Zach and I were awestruck.

The boardwalk is beautiful at night. Zach and I find ourselves wandering down here most weekend nights, just to walk around and enjoy the lights.

My mom and younger brother visited for a long weekend recently, and we went to the Houston Space Center! It was neat seeing aircrafts that had actually been up in space. The rest of their visit was spent in onesie pajamas watching Gilmore Girls and making homemade cookies and gelato – perfect!

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Soon after that, I had another visitor, a friend from college who recently moved to Dallas. We had a quintessential Texas dinner at T-Bone Tom’s, then went to Skallywag for a bit in the evening. The next day, we went on a hike at Pine Gully Park. It was a perfectly clear day, and the water and sky were brilliantly blue. However, the hike took us away from the water and we ventured into some desolate areas that reminded me of settings from the first season of True Detective!

I was just running errands one Sunday and I pulled over to snap some pictures of the sunset. It felt like a very Texan setting – I halfway expected some tumblewood to blow by!

The first picture above is the view from our gym. The second is just a shot of a budding tree against a clear blue sky – I was feeling artsy.

I took this on a walk around the marina one evening. I’ll never get tired of that view.

Both of the photos above are from a sunset I accidentally caught one evening while walking to get our mail.

Valentine’s day! The Fannie May chocolates are from my parents, while Zach took me to a nice dinner at Opus Bistro Saturday night and surprised me with flowers Sunday morning.

The photos don’t do the food at Opus any justice… it was all delicious! I got red snapper with crab and shrimp on top, while Zach got a juicy steak. We were so hungry and the food was so good that I didn’t even get a picture! ;) For dessert, we chose the crème brûlée – it was absolutely delectable.

  Life in Texas Before I jet off to Europe, I wanted to do a recap of our life lately in Texas.