Thomas Tidbits...: Football is back!

It's finally starting to feel a bit like fall down here. Well with 106 degree record breaking day on Friday, it didn't physically feel like fall... but when football is back, fall has arrived. It did cool down to 90s on Saturday, so we snuck Ellie J out of the house for an hour in between naps. One of our favorite activities is heading down to the South Congress area for some strolling, shopping, people watching, and coffee drinking. Baby girl loves it as much as her folks do.

We managed to make it back in time to watch the KU game. We (I) was super pumped that we got to watch it at home. Too bad the new Hawks played like the old Hawks and gave the game away in the last 2 minutes. What a waste. Had to go for a run on the trail downtown to blow off some steam after that one. Homemade pizza and a movie topped off a fantastic little Saturday.

This week we watched a new episode of Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations filmed here in Austin during SXSW 2011. He hit one of my favorite spots, Barley Swine (had my birthday dinner there last year) as well as two of the top BBQ joints in Texas. One of them is J. Mueller which has been called the Obi Wan to one of the greatest pit masters of today, Aaron Franklin of Franklin BBQ also Austin.

Lund keeps giving me a hard time since we live 5 minutes away and have never been to J. Mueller. So I figured there was no better day than today... First Chiefs game of the year! They open at 10:30am, so we figured if we got there by 11 we'd be fine. That was a miscalculation. By the time we got there at 11, there was already an hour long wait (thank God for DVRs). It was well worth it. The meat was delectable (even by KC standards).

Unfortunately, the Chiefs game had the same result as the KU game - a LOSS. Brutal weekend for KC sports (Yes, I'm also referring to Mizzou getting smoked by Georgia at home - how's the SEC feel now?). Dylan is totally dominating me in Fantasy Football this week even with Tony Romo going off on Wednesday night. So for those keeping score at home, that's 0 for 3 at the Thomas household. Sarah picked Houston this week in the eliminator pool, so that means she'll pretend to like at least one aspect of football for another week.

Now - we are officially entering beach week. A welcome break to our happy place. Not to mention an introduction of Ellie J to Uncle Nick and Aunt Jane. Off to Pensacola on Tuesday for a few days at brother and sis's, then over to Watercolor for a long weekend with the Hales. Bama and Grandpa are coming down for the weekend as well as Aunt Val and Cousin Rob. We are pumped.

I'm convinced Ellie J. and Jack will love the beach as much as we do. Can't wait to get them all sandy.