Happy Apple Goodness: We love our neighbors

Being a first time home owner we were always wondering what our neighbors would be like. I, admittedly, thought since our community was a fairly new community that our neighbors would be friendly and eventually would become friends of ours. I also thought that once we closed on our home and moved in, that a neighbor would come over with a nice baked pie or other good. That did NOT happen. LOL I guess we aren't living on "wisteria lane" like on desperate housewives. A few months later at Christmas our neighbors did bring us cookies. And this past Christmas other gifts (shown below).

We did meet our neighbors in our culdesac and they are all great. Our next door neighbor moved out of state a few months ago. That was hard to take because we loved them so much. They were our age and had a young, very cute baby boy, Sebastian. The person the bought home after the previous neighbor moved is awesome. A little older (and they are from Alaska) but they definitely have the same mentality that I have (party planning, etc). We are suppose to get together and plan a block party (especially now that the weather is super nice). I can't wait!

There is one couple in a our culdesac we are really close to. They are a couple years younger than us, but we have good times with them (Natasha and Aaron). Last week, they invited us to Friday happy hour at Babloo in Katy. Little did they know that it was our favorite spot. We love the food and the homemade sangria (side note: did you know that to make a pitcher of sangria,all you need to do is fill up 1/4 the pitcher with orange soda (any generic brand) a little of vodka (not necessary needed) then pour in a bottle of red wine (Merlot or Cabernet sauvignon). DELISH. If you have some fruit to cut up in it....even better! I learned this by watching the waiter do it at our table at Babloo.

So, our neighbors and I went to Babaloos (Friday is their Latin/salsa dancing night and there are usually a lot of people on the dancing floor). Mr. Spouse and I didn't dance this night (surprisingly). We enjoyed the sangria, the people watching ( I love people watching) and the tapas food (the southwestern egg rolls are the BOMB).

Below are pics of us and our neighbors at Babaloo.