Blissful Boredom

Well, I think my title says it all. We have been on the move for so many weekends that it finally caught up to me this weekend! However, I have had absolutely NOTHING to do....with the exception of answering customer phone calls at 7:15 on a Sunday morning, but at this point that is a given. Being bored is not usually my thing, in fact normally I am on the brink of insanity if I am not on the move. BUT I am getting the hang of this sitting around doing nothing thing for the time being and I think that it is WONDERFUL! Granted I will probably have to entertain myself in someway next weekend, but for now I am enjoying a glass of wine and "Horton Hears a Who". I will be traveling to Guatemala two weeks from today for a fishing trip that I won for a sales contest through my company. Who knew selling so many tomatoes to Chick-fil-a & Jason's Deli would send me out of the country. Normally, I am not much of a fisher-woman but any excuse to travel for free and be sans laptop and cell phone for 5 DAYS is welcome. I will definitely be posting pictures from that trip! Until then, I am just not that sure if I will have much to blog about....and for now, that's a great thing! Take care!

5 Christmases!

I haven't posted in a few weeks due to the insane amount of traveling we have endured since my last post. We started at Nana's house for the Bessire Christmas on the 23rd, then Slaton with the Lewis clan on Christmas Eve, then traveled to Amarillo that same night to be with my family. We came home on Christmas Day because B had to work the following morning. We packed up Saturday the 27th and spent a couple of days in Plainview with B's family until sunday the 28th. We were then home for work for 3 days then back to Amarillo with our friends Tad, Tanner & Mary for New Year's Eve. We woke up the next morning and drove from Amarillo to Dallas for the Cotton Bowl on the 2nd. We got home on the 3rd and Brian left this morning (the 4th) and will be gone for 5 days visiting San Antonio, Houston & Dalhart for work. I am already missing him but I have to say that it is very nice to be home! ALL of the Christmases were wonderful and we enjoyed seeing everyone so much! We are definitely blessed with some amazing family. As for the cotton bowl.... let's just say the trip was doomed from the beginning. First of all, I THREW OUR TICKETS AWAY! Yep, FOUR cotton bowl tickets, in the trash. It was a complete accident, but we had so many USPS envelopes from online gift ordering that it was thrown away with the rest. We replaced them, not sure what we would have done if they were just our tickets, but they were Tanner & Mary's also and we had made arrangements to go together, so it is what it is. An expensive lesson learned. I will try to post some pictures from all of the events in a later post. I didn't have my camera a lot of the time so I am waiting on copies from Mary. I hope you all had a safe & wonderful New Year & I will post pictures soon!

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...

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.....

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

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!