Friday, December 5, 2008

Christmas Decorations!

We finally put up our decorations for Christmas! I was so excited, B was probably scared that his wife had reverted back to being 12. I made him start a fire, we put on Christmas music & I had hot chocolate....oh yeah then when we were done we watched Elf for the 1000th time. I think he was just glad that it wasn't "Meet me in St. Louis", one of my favorite all time movies that is a MUSICAL! That's when I fell in love with Judy Garland! She was so beautiful! Okay, enough of that. I hope you all have an opportunity this year to lose yourselves in Christmas! It's harder to do the older you get, but I don't think I will ever grow tired of it all!

Our little christmas tree!





OU Weekend :(

Well, we made the trip down to Norman for the OU Tech game. Most of you know how that turned out....Besides the actual game we had a blast! One of my best friends, Jean lives in OKC so we stayed with him at his downtown apartment. I have to say that I enjoyed the city a lot more than I thought that I would. We went out the night before the game. It was cold, but it was good to hang out with everyone again! Sunday (after the game we don't speak of) we visited the OKC Bombing site. It was pretty amazing. Sadly, this was not my first encounter with a memorial like this. My family went to NYC not even a full year after Sept. 11th. The amount of people and the heaviness in the air was indescribable. This was eerily similar just on a smaller scale. It is hard to put these horrific acts into perspective until you witness the scale of it first hand. The visit put us behind on getting home, but it was definitely worth the lost sleep. There are so many pictures that I wanted to share but I had to pick a select few. I hope you guys have a wonderful weekend!

Me & B

Ty was a little excited the night before the game

Walking with Jean in Bricktown with the crew in the back



Brian thought it would be funny to wear just his long johns at tailgate....it wasn't.

That little white dot is the outback blimp.

Walking into the game

The stadium was massive!

In the game...this is the last pic from that sad night :(


Downtown Bricktown, it was beautiful!

Message on entryway of the OKC bombing memorial

They built a chair for each person killed....

The smaller ones were for children (the 2nd floor was a daycare)

Memorial Fence outside of the federal building

On the fence, recently added...

Friday, November 28, 2008

Shootin' Stuff

We spent a weekend with the Bessires out in Sylvester, TX, getting back to nature. It was really fun and I experienced a lot of new things. For one, I shot my first hand gun. Yikes! Is it weird that I am more afraid of handguns than shot guns? I like to talk with my hands...a lot.... and I just know that when I have a small gun in my hand I'm going to forget about it, start waiving it around and probably shoot someone in the leg, if I'm lucky. So that was a huge thing for me. I also shot clay targets for the first time! This was more up my alley since the shotgun was so heavy that I would never forget that it was in my hands. The next morning I felt like I had been in a losing bar fight though and was bruised up from the recoil of the shotgun... I don't even know if that's the right term. We fed their cows and donkeys and rode four wheelers all day saturday. I bonded with a cow, it was pretty awesome. We stayed up and played poker, which Bets insisted that we all wear hats to play, and sat around the fire pit catching up. It was really beautiful out there. I don't think I will be shooting anything living anytime soon ( I make B take spiders outside & not squish them), but it was a trip that I am looking forward to making again!

Me & B

4 Wheelin'

Feeding cows

The Donkeys

Target practice

Crazy hat poker

Wrapping up the weekend.....

Sunday, November 9, 2008

O.S. Who?

My parents came in for OSU weekend! We tailgated and went to the game. Me & Mom's feet hurt so bad after the game! All in the name of looking good I guess. If you call looking good walking back to tailgate with your shoes in your purse and your socks covered in coke & peanut shells. We were all so tired that we called it a night after the game. Poor Brian had an awful time trying to come pick us up! What a sweet guy to deal with that traffic so we didn't have to walk. We slept in this morning which was AMAZING & went to grab lunch before they left town. It was nice to spend a weekend with my family, and we will spend next weekend in Midland with Brian's side. We are VERY excited for OU weekend even though we will be the enemy, I think it will still be a good time. I will post again after this weekend at the ranch!

The Family (sounds like the mob)

Me & B

Me, Dad & Ash ( I made her dress! It's cool to see something you made out in public!... I'm weird, I know.)

Me & Mom

Scoreboard

Friday, November 7, 2008

Halloween & UT weekend

We had such a fun weekend. Trevor, Stephanie, Tad and Blessing were all in town and we had a few people over for some costume fun. The game was AMAZING! I am so glad that we did not sell our tickets after all. I love spending that time with Brian because it is something that we can do just the two of us (and 55,000 other people). We will be going to the game tomorrow, my parents will be in town and their tickets are on the row behind us so more than likely we will be able to sit together. My friend Jean has free season tickets at OU through his work so we will be making the trip to that game and staying with him. On the off week we are heading to the ranch in Midland then after the OU game is Thanksgiving so we pretty much have a full month! As soon as we know it, it will be Christmas! YIKES! I will have more pictures to post soon! Have a great weekend & Wreck 'em!

Me & B, that light spot on the shirt makes me look pregnant!


Terry Reno 911, yep he wore skates in the house....

Me & Steph/Audrey H.


Ironman & Tad


Me & Ash


Me, B, Blessing and Shawn


Band before the game


Stadium before kickoff


Scoreboard


Me & B


Wreck 'em!

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Pumpkin Carving!

Brian & I don't have kids yet mainly because we are still kids ourselves.... but that doesn't mean that we can't still have some Halloween fun! Brian's birthday is Halloween so it is always a good time. We have been super excited this year because we knew that it fell on a weekend and on UT weekend at that. We have a lot of friends coming into town so we will be hosting a Halloween party Friday night. I would tell you our costumes, but sadly, we are nerds and like it to be a surprise at the party. We seem to be notorious for always having a hilarious costume. I love to craft and like handmade things so our costumes are usually one of a kind. I will post the best from the years past and this year's costume later this week. Tonight was pumpkin carving. Brian was like a little kid, I think he finished his a good 30 minutes ahead of mine and then I pouted enough until he finished mine. I used the time to start "decorating" (that was my excuse anyway) and managed to hang one spiderweb on the fireplace. You know you have a good hubby when he will carve a pumpkin for you. After we were finished he immediately left to United to buy 2 more pumpkins. I convinced him to wait until later this week to start on his new creations. I hope you are enjoying the fall weather as much as we are & I will have much more to post soon!

My handsome Hub


The 2 he rushed out to buy...it was cute. I hope he doesn't read this, he'll kill me!



My Pumpkin... an homage to TTU Red Raiders....Wreck 'em!


Brian's Pumpkin


My Hubby doing laundry while I blog & take pics....whatta guy

Mr. Opie Sanchez....he's kind of an emotional dog...wouldn't look at the camera

Miss Mia, I had to hold a treat under the camera for this one...