The Pioneer Woman

I love the Pioneer Woman.  Seriously.  She is awesome.  I love her show on Food Network and I have all her cookbooks.  I love her life on a cattle ranch in Oklahoma.  It's kind of my dream life. 
So when I heard she was coming to Omaha for a book signing, I was there.  I thought it was kind of weird that the book signing was at a Bakers in Bellevue (we have so many better places in Omaha than grocery stores!), but whatever.  Shannon and I raced down there after the school pick up.  We're driving down the road when I spot a white Expedition in front of us.  With Oklahoma license plates!  It was Ree!  I was sure of it!

I could even make out that the driver of the expedition had on a cowboy hat.  It was Marlboro Man!!  We followed them all the way to Bakers.  It was really pretty exciting!  They pulled up and guess who got out of the car?

THE PIONEER WOMAN!!!  And her boys!  They just walked right into Bakers like everyone else does!

So Shannon parked her car and we went to get in line to have our cookbooks signed.  And that's when we saw this.

It's a really, really HUGE line.  And it doubled around so it was really twice that long.  I had forgotten my jacket at home and I was wearing jeans and a lightweight sweater.  That's not warm at all.  It took me about five minutes in that line before I started to freeze.  And my nose started to run.  Shannon went inside the store to buy a cookbook to have signed and on her way in, she ran into Marlboro Man!

And she saw Ree signing everyone else's cookbooks.

I love Ree, I do.  But I had been up since 5:30 am (because I had to go to Jury Duty.  It was not fun.) I was cold and I was hungry.  It was dinnertime, after all.  So after waiting in that monster line for one hour and moving up maybe a foot in the line, we gave up.  I love her but I could not wait for six hours to meet her.  It was too much for me.  I'm sorry Ree Drummond!  So we left and came home.  And I ate dinner and snuggled with my girls on the couch.  And the night turned out ok after all. 

Sydney's 10th Birthday Party

We had Sydney's birthday party on Sunday!  It was very fun.  We had a Minecraft theme going.  Briana and I whipped up some TNT for the party favors. 

We thought they were pretty clever.  We also made creeper cupcakes and creeper rice krispie treats. 

She loved all of her presents!

Being 10 rocks!!
And, in an effort to not be left out, Briana got to get a manicure.  The girls always beg and beg me to get manicures and my answer is always NO!  I just feel like I can give them a manicure at home that is just as good and so much cheaper.  So for Briana to get a mani was a pretty big treat for her.  She loved every minute of it. 

And we got a chuckle out of this guy who fell asleep and was snoring (loudly!) in the waiting area.

Her nails turned out great and she loved them!

And I love her!

And her too!

P!nk!!!!

Last night Shannon and I saw P!nk in concert.  The show was awesome!!!  P!nk does all sorts of acrobatics during her performance which is really incredible.  The entire show was outstanding.  We had a blast. 

 

 

 

Here is P!nk's opening number. 

 



 

Here's another song I liked.

 

 

 

And just one more really incredible song/acrobatics performance.  She was so close to us!! 

 

 It was such a fun night!  P!nk puts on a fab show!!

Double Digits!

Yesterday was Sydney's 10th birthday!  Ten!  My babies are both in the double digits!  She had a fab day.  We started off with a present first thing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We picked up Krispie Kreme's for her whole class to enjoy as a birthday treat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

She opened the rest of her presents before dinner and loved everything she got.

 

 

 

We didn't forget about Briana.  She got a little something too.

 



 

I told Sydney I would make her whatever she wanted for dinner.  She chose tacos and sausage balls.  Delish.  And we had cherry pie for dessert.

 



 

 Happy Birthday to my girl!!

 

 

Happy Halloween!

Halloween seemed to rush right by this year!  One minute it was my birthday, the next it's November.  Halloween was super fun.  We saw the pumpkin tree at Village Pointe.

 

Briana celebrated Halloween at dance.

She's the one on the right who thinks she's too old to wear a costume to dance!  Sniff, sniff.
We carved our pumpkins.

We trick or treated at Mike's work.

Guess who thinks she's too old to trick or treat at Mike's work? 

She sat in Mike's chair the whole time and handed out candy. 
The girls costumes were really great this year.  They came up with the costumes all on their own and did a fab job. 

Super Mario!

Masquerade Girl!

We went trick or treating with Shannon and Savannah and got tons of candy.  Luckily, Briana's not too old for that!

Tons of candy!

Happy Halloween!

YA Author Event

A few nights ago, Shannon and I got to see some of our favorite YA authors read and sign books at the library! 
We got to see Rainbow Rowell again.  I have read every single one of her books.  They are so, so good. 

And Stephanie Perkins was there.  I just recently read her two novels.  Also really, really good.

(Stephanie on the left, Gayle on the right)
And Gayle Foreman.  I'm reading one of her books now, and I am totally into it. 
Shannon and I have met Rainbow lots of times, because she's from Omaha!  She does lots of events, and I have all of my books signed by her. 

And we got to meet Stephanie Perkins for the first time.  She's really cute and nice and I really liked her!