We've had a string of packed weekends lately. We've gotten to put off replacing the fence in our backyard as a result, though, so that's been an added bonus. I don't have a ton of pictures, but here are a few.
Here's a picture from a few weeks ago when Laura came home from Colorado for the weekend. We didn't do much, just ate a lot of BBQ and hung out. 
The guys joined us, too. Starting at the left there's Katie with her boyfriend, Daniel; Laura with her fiancee, Benton; Kolby and me; and Alayne and her husband, Tommy. We (girls) have been best friends since middle school.
Then three weekends ago, we went down to Austin for a UT game and hung out with Kolby's family at their ranch in Wimberley. Somehow the only pictures I ended up with were of the pups. These guys were having the time of their lives down there. Maya loves her cousin, Molly. So much so that I almost took her to the vet the following week because she was being really sluggish, but then I realized that she was just being a mope over missing Molly after a long weekend together.
A favorite: Maya trying to chew on something while Molly tries to chew on her.
We attended a hometown wedding the weekend before last and a lot of our friends came in town for it so we had fun catching up with everyone. The wedding was in the bride's parents' backyard and it was absolutely beautiful.
The picture above doesn't show it well, but I cut my hair off that week. It was time. My hair was much longer than it had ever been in my whole life, so I had Kolby take a picture of it for good measure. It was even a couple inches longer than this when I straightened it. There were a LOT of curls on the floor after that haircut!
Finally, we went to Waco this past weekend for Baylor homecoming. It was our first time back since we moved at the end of May. Here's a picture of my parents with Russell, who is a sophomore there this year.
We tried to get a family shot after the [horrible] football game, and halfway through taking the picture we realized my dad was on the phone. My aunt was counting 1..2.. and then all the sudden we heard Dad saying "Hey Remy, just checking to see how Brad was feeling..." Seriously?!? He was smiling the whole time as if the fact that he was ON THE PHONE would go unnoticed in the picture.
Notice that both of my parents have their jacket/sweatshirt tied around their waist... classic Webb style. Strap on a couple of fanny packs with an attached water bottle holder and you've got a replica of a family Disneyworld picture from 1993.
We met some of our Waco friends at a park after the game. Our up-and-coming photographer friend, Walker, took this picture of Maya watching the rest of us throw a frisbee. So poised.
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On a different note, today is October 26th. That means that Kolby and I have been together for eight years! Our wedding anniversary is really important to us, but this date will always have a special place in our hearts as well.
As we drove I-35 to Waco this weekend, we had a nostalgic conversation about how we've driven that stretch of road together during so many completely different phases in our relationship.
We drove it in early high school when we headed to a stadium in Waco to watch our school's football team compete in the state semi-finals. We talked about who would win the game and did NOT talk about how we had kissed two weeks earlier.
We drove it when we were 17 and on our way to Wimberley for the first weekend I ever spent there with Kolby's family. We talked about whether or not it'd be weird to sleep under the same roof.
I drove it by myself for 2 1/2 years while I attended Baylor and Kolby went to Wheaton. I either talked to Kolby on the phone or cried about how much I missed him.
We drove it when we spent a day over Christmas break in Waco looking for an apartment for Kolby. We talked and talked and talked about how wonderful it would be to live in the same town (or state!) again.
We drove it when we came up here to "look" at some stray dogs at a local animal control center that were scheduled to be euthanized. On the way back, we talked about what on earth we were going to do with the sick, shaking husky that was curled up in the back floorboard.
We drove it every summer weekend the year we got married. We talked about the litany of wedding planning matters we needed to take care of that trip.
After we got back from our honeymoon and celebrated our first Christmas together with each of our families, we drove it to our first home together. We talked about how cold moving-in was going to be since we forgot to sign up for electricity.
Then in May we drove it from Waco into the great unknown. We talked about the wonderful life we were leaving behind and took bets as to how long we'd be without a home of our own. (Neither of us guessed 3 months!!!)
Who knows what that road will have in store for us in the future, but it sure has been good to us so far!
We're headed out the door to a Christmas Eve service with Kolby's family, but I wanted to pop in and wish everyone a very merry Christmas tomorrow!
We used bungee cords to tie the tree to the roof but didn't think about how we 
The leaf piles add one more texture to her backyard line-up. She has a very specific route that she passionately and joyfully runs when she is struck with sudden bursts of energy: grass, wood deck, concrete driveway, grass, leaf piles, ivy ground cover; repeat. Suffice to say that she is definitely making the most out of finally having a yard.
