Goodbye October

Hello November!! I love that the whole month of October we wind ourselves up for the goblins and ghouls and focus on the scary and insane but then BAM November 1st shows up and its time to get in the sweet Thanksgiving and Christmas spirit.  Nothing makes me happier! I hope I don't sit on a stump this month like I did in October and actually put some decorations up.  It's so not like me but I just got lost in other matters and never got around to it.  I promise I will do better this month!

This past weekend was a busy busy one.  My lovely husband turned the big 3-1 and we had our annual Halloween party which turned out great and really tame.  I won't bore you with all the stories, mostly because there aren't any stand out ones.  It was just a good weekend with good friends and family.

Please enjoy my weekend through pictures.

The Birthday Boy!

We ate at Joe Momma's Pizza.

They have AMAZING cheesesticks!

On the phone with who knows??

We celebrated his birthday at Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa.

Stoney Larue was playing.  Don't feel bad if you have no clue who he is.  He is a "Red Dirt" country singer.  I knew like one song.  It was still a fun time.

We reserved the VIP area upstairs so we could enjoy the concert privately.

My husband may or may not have some connections ;)

LUMU!!!

My boys Travis and Kevin

A little seating area.

My girls Ashley and Lyndsey

Lacy and Josh

Love them!

The entrance to Cain's

Denver, Payton and Kelli

All smiles!

He randomly breaks out in an air guitar solo.

By randomly I mean all the time.

Our view

Duh! Of course I'm taking a picture of this!

I love me some Hanson! That's no joke.

The play here a lot.  I have a post coming soon about them.

Best moment of the night? When Travis totally Broke.It.Down with this lady.

I was laughing so hard I could not catch my breath.

And the man we went to see.....Mr. Stoney Larue

Now for Part 2 of the weekend

The Halloween Party

The backyard graveyard

Hey, who invited this guy?

Party on Wayne.

Party on Garth.

Giants pitcher Brian Wilson going to the ESPY's

So, I got this idea from Pinterest.

Make a giant Polaroid picture.

I could've done better but this was my first go at making something from Pinterest.

Not bad right? I think the cropped pictures look pretty good.

Sister Lindsey

And I most certainly will have more "blurps" at the next function. 

I loved them!

Down The Road

Amber and Christy

Payton and Jennifer

"Starlite-Rainbow Brite

A little wish in the moonlight

Sunbeams sparkle and shine

You'll always be a friend of mine."

These lyrics have been with me my whole life.

Can't seem to forget them.

James and Ashley

My girls again - and Travis

GI Joe!

Hello Kitty!

My Candy Corn Dip!

Donnie and Adam

Lady Gaga!

Ace Ventura

Loved it!

Good 'ol Travis.

I guess no dancing tonight :)

I've been know to bust a move or two or three.

Someone needs to STOP me from doing the Thriller.

This is me asking for an intervention :)

I guess I just can't help myself.

Jeff Nobile baaaaabby!

Lacy as Black Swan

The End

NOT ON TARGET

It's a short week for me this week and I've been looking forward to it for awhile. Zach Rowell's *gulp* 31st birthday is tomorrow so I decided to take the day off with him for a long weekend and then thought, what the heck, I'll go ahead and take Thursday off too! :) Today has been the BEST weather day so far!! Some people may disagree with me that the best day off consists of not sleeping in(Which I did not. I was up before 7.) and a cold rainy day(It's chilly, raining and dreary and it's perfect!) Phoebe and I snuggled in bed this morning just listening to the rain tap on the roof. I really didn't want to get out of bed but I couldn't waste my day.

I had all intentions of getting myself ready and heading to Hobby Lobby to check out some scrapbook stuff but instead I found myself cleaning the toilets which led to cleaning the whole bathroom which led to doing laundry which led to no trip to Hobby Lobby. It's probably for the best because that place just gets me in trouble!! Too many neat things live there that just need a home :)

I did, however, take me a little trip to Target and I found the neatest "Command Center". I've been looking for ideas on Pintreset (Holy cow! So addicted!! ) on ways to organize the mail that comes into this house. I started with a basket on my kitchen table that seemed to collect things like keys and sunglasses and pretty much just junk. My basket "Command Center" failed. I was reading in one of my magazines that a great way to keep your mail neat and hidden in the kitchen was to put it in a bread box. Genius! What a perfect idea. Well, guess what? I don't know if they even make the old school roll down front ones any more. Wal*Mart didn't have any and Target had one but it was silver and little and dumb. My heart may have dropped a little bit. I was really hoping to find me a bread box.

So, I bought this thing from Target that has a dry erase/magnet board, 4 little drawers, a mail slot and some hooks for keys. It was awesome! And only 30 bucks! I think God eliminated all bread boxes so that I could find this amazing creation! Right? Not exactly! When I got it home I discovered that the dry erase/magnet board was all warped and awful looking. Guess what's going back to Target tomorrow? And also the cute little eraser and dry erase marker set I got. Oh, well. Not meant to be. I now have a little $6 basket I found at Wal*Mart that I think will corral all my mail. Let's hope other crap doesn't wind up in there.

I've been on an organizing kick lately and I blame Pinterest. So many dang good ideas on there! The past few weeks I have made myself put my ipad down and Go.To.Sleep! Hopefully in the next few months (maybe before the first of the year) my house will be where it needs to be. Right now it makes me sick to look at some areas because it's Out Of Control. I'm about to tackle my pantry so if anyone has any good ideas for that let me know. It's just a basic closet pantry. It's not very big so I need to make the best use of my space. Help me out.

Anyone watching Hart of Dixie? The new Monday night show on the CW? It's really cute and I'm a fan of Rachel Bilson. She is so cute and has the cutest style on the show. If you haven't checked it out yet maybe you should give it a try.

I know this post is skipping around worse than a sun warped record but that's kind of how my mind feels. I just have a busy weekend and then after Halloween I plan on getting my butt in gear and dropping some pounds. I'm the best at coming up with an awesome eating/working out plan but the WORST at following through with it. I'm that person that looks at the doughnut and says, "I'll start tomorrow." Well, too many tomorrow's have made my pants a little tight today. Something's got to give and I know it's food. It's my weakness cause it just tastes so friggin good!! One of these days I will stick to a program and hopefully November 1st will be that day. Wish me luck! Until then I'm going to celebrate my husby's birthday on Friday with a concert at Cain's Ballroom and on Saturday it's the annuall Halloween party at my brothers. My sister and I are going as Wayne and Garth from Wayne's World. We are going for the cute girly versions so let's all pray that works out and we don't look like a couple of dudes that no one has a clue who we are.

Happy Halloween to all of you!! Stay safe and warm!!

 Halloween 2010

Wine Eats and Easels

It's that time of year again for Broken Arrow's annual Wine Eats and Easels.  It's an event held every year in the fall that lets you taste all the wine and food you want from local venders.  And there's also art.  I'm not gonna lie, I never pay attention to the art.  I'm there to sample some food and beverages and enjoy being outside in the nice weather.  It was perfect this year!

Every year they have a butt sketch artist there and I've never done it before because I always thought he did a funny version of people's backsides.  Mine is funny enough so I don't need anyone adding to it :)  I was really impressed with his talent and now must make this an every year thing.  It wasn't at all what I expected.  Check out there site.  www.buttsketch.com

The turn out of people was really good this year and I had fun hanging out with my family.

Me and Kaycee

Grady Nichols

He just had to make a goofy face!

Brother and Sister :)

Pretty cool, huh?

We had to stand in this position for what seemed like forever.

My feet hurt afterwards.

Still not allowed to move.

I mean, that guy behind me is totally checking out my butt. For real :)

The finished product.

Looking forward to next year!

Child Actor?

So, this week at work this picture has been on display at my desk. 

 Last week was Customer Service Week so we were asked to bring in old photos of ourselves.  This is my sixth grade picture.  Don't you just love that DJ Tanner hair?  -I'm thinking about bringing it back :)

So far I have been compared to two child actors-Soleil Moon Frye (Punky Brewster) and Lindsey Lohan.  I don't see the resemblance but I'll let you be the judge.

While searching for pictures of lil 'ole Punky herself I came across an amazing picture.....

That's Zack Morris himself!

Who would've thought they would come together again years later on Saved By The Bell.

(Remember she was using Screech for his money from his success with the secret sauce?)

The sauce you can have but the secret, she's a-mine!

If you are a Punky fan then you gotta check out her new book,  Wait, I gotta check out her new book.  I'm not a momma yet but this book looks really interesting and I enjoy taking glimpses into the life's of the rich and famous.

And speaking of books, Miss Jesse Spano herself has a new book out.  Again, I don't have any kids but this book looks really good.  Especially if you have tween/teen daughter.  I think I might get it, read it, and give it to my niece.  She just turned 12 so she might be into it.

  I follow these gals on Twitter and they always have good stuff to say.  Speaking of Twitter (you know I geek out when someone actually tweets me back) I got a couple of tweets in the past few weeks :)

So, me and Fred Savage are pretty much BFF by now.  As some of you may know, he is a producer for the show Happy Endings - which if you're not watching then you are missing out on a hilarious show.  And the girls on there have some good fashion.  Well, I watched the season premiere 2 weeks ago and of course I had to tell my BFF how I felt about it.  I tweeted "Happy Endings was amahzing! I'm all about Year of Penny"  She's my fav! :)

He didn't respond back to me BUT he did retweet my tweet.  I love Fred!

WAIT!

There's more.....Model/Actress Amber Valletta totally tweeted me back.  You may not recognize the name right away but I bet you've seen her movies.  The one I recognize her from was Hitch.  She was Allegra Cole, the one Kevin James was in love with.

The reason I follow her is because she is a fellow Tulsan.  Yep, raised right here in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  I read that she still lives her but I'm not 100% sure.  

Our conversation went something like this.....

Me - Hello from Tulsa! :()

Amber - hello T-town! X AV

And there you have it,  my wonderful world of Twitter.  It's the small things in life that make me happy.

Since we're talking Saved By The Bell here is a pretty sight to close this post with.

Franklin and Bash is coming back with season 2.  Be on the look out.

Have a great weekend!