Newschool Nomads

Tweet Austin feels like home. Brent works the days away. The boys are leaving dishes in the sink. Meow Cow is owning the bed. The dogs are leaving paw marks on the the back door. I’m yelling at my kids … Continue reading →

Tweet Nothing makes rushing off late to church more fun than finding your car battery dead. After church, we drove to a small town right outside of Austin for a FOTR meet up. What is FOTR? Families On The Road! … Continue reading →

Tweet When I was googling “vintage clothing austin” I never dreamed I would come across something as spectacular as a Vintage Style Fest. I also never imagined it would be the weekend I was actually in Austin. In Austin with … Continue reading →

Tweet Breakfast tacos with my best friend and our families. Cowboy hats? Getting candy exploring the funky shops on South Congress Avenue in Austin? Celebrating the coolest 9 year old’s birthday party with TRICK CANDLES? Yes, please. Give me tacos, … Continue reading →

Tweet As the title suggests I’m a little behind in my writing schedule.  The crazy thing about it is we are still in Texas despite being about 3 weeks behind.  I’m doing my best to catch up so I can … Continue reading →

Tweet We slept comfortably at the rest stop last night.  This morning we even got up and made pancakes. After walking the dogs and picking burrs (I’ve never encountered such villainous flora.) out of our shoes that had tagged along from Marfa we … Continue reading →

Tweet Last night, before we went to bed we made a difficult decision. Not a life-death or always-regret decision, mind you, but a decision that we had been chewing on for a few days. We decided not to go to … Continue reading →

Tweet I woke up curious this morning. Curious to see where exactly we had “tumbled in” last night. After all, last night we only could see the strange little “office”. The sky outside was as strange as the town. Large … Continue reading →

Tweet Today, we left Carlsbad, New Mexico, bound for Marfa, Texas.  We weren’t too far down the road when we came upon a pleasant surprise- Guadalupe Mountains National Park. How one just stumbles upon a national park, I don’t know. … Continue reading →

Tweet So I finally got the courage for another Thrifty Threads Thursday post. Truth be told, I feel a little silly doing these but I’m having so much fun scouring thrift and vintage stores along the way and I want … Continue reading →