Bloggers party!

Last night my friend Lindsey and I drove up to Tulsa and joined about 58 other bloggers for pizza and prizes! It was so much fun to meet all of these ladies who share my passion for blogging. I pulled out my camera and for the first time in a while I wasn't the only one taking pictures of randomness!

The funny thing is that as we were leaving my friend Bonnie, who met us there because she lives in Tulsa, said she heard someone say there was one of these parties in OKC! Ha! So we drove 2 hours for a party that we could have been at in about 15 minutes. Oh well. I had so much fun and it was worth it because I got to meet Shannon from Rocks In My Dryer. I felt like I was meeting a celebrity. I took my picture with her of course! Plus getting to see Bonnie was fun too!

I will admit one of the reasons I wanted to make the drive was because they said there would be swag bags! Yep, just like the Hollywood people get only with cheaper stuff in them! And they had door prizes, of which Lindsey and I both won something! I want to show you what I won, but it will have to wait until after next week because I will be using as a decoration at a baby shower I will be hosting next Sunday and I don't want to give away the coolness of it. (Ashleigh is now wondering what it is) :)

Shannon from Rocks In My Dryer and me

Lindsey, Me, and Bonnie

Funny story about this name tag. I wanted to remember the name of her blog so I took a picture of her name tag, only it looked like I was taking a picture of her chest! We laughed, then I felt kind of stupid until other people started to do the same thing. Hehehe.

Swag bags!

Small world story. Since I won a door prize they said my name out loud (first and last). So when it was over this lady came up to me and said "are you related to Justin?" Of course I said "well yes, he is my husband." She proceeded to tell me that she went to high school with him in Bixby! I took a picture with her so I wouldn't forget to tell Justin about her. :)

The three of us went and had ice cream at Maggie Moo's afterward. Yummy!

Lindsey with her door prize. She won fancy utensils from here.

We sat with this girl, Holly. She has this blog. Turns out Bonnie had talked to her on the phone earlier in the day! Another small world story.

New find

I love to make things that require to be covered in chocolate. It has been such a mess to make it though. My hands end up covered in chocolate (don't ask me how, I think it gets on side of the bowl that I have the chocolate in and then my hands touch that, ok, so I guess you could have asked me how). Until now that it is! The other day Justin and I were at Wal-Mart and I was getting some Candy Melts (best stuff to use when covering things in chocolate). In that same section there was this set of tools to use for dipping things in chocolate! Justin actually pointed it out to me. They were not very expensive and since I still had some birthday money left I bought them.

I got to use them for the first time today! It was a miracle tool! Plus, instead of usuing a bowl to melt the chocolate in I used a pie dish. It was much easier to use and I didn't end up with chocolate all over my hands. Although, I guess there are only two ways to get that chocolate off and one of them is eating it, so that isn't so bad. ;)

Here is the finished product. Oreo truffles, requested by my husband to take to a FLOCK party on Friday night. Mmm, now the only thing left to do is make sure they last until then! So hard to resist eating them. :)

Works for Me Wednesday...

So yesterday I was cooking my Cinco De Mayo dinner and had my son, Ian, in his high chair in the kitchen with me. I put a few Little Puffs on the tray to distract him and once most of them met there end on the floor rather than his mouth I decided to give him his sippy cup. Seemed like a good idea at the time, but then he kept dropping it on the floor (which of course is super clean, so why should it matter, right? Ha, clean, yeah right!). That is when the light bulb came on above my head...attach it to his shirt with a paci-clip!!! There is nothing like using something for more than one thing to get me excited. So I found the clip and attached the part that would usually be on the pacifier to the handle of the siipy cup. This worked out great! No more dropping it on the floor!

What kind of things have you been able to get more than one "normal" use out of? Also, you can find more frugal tips (I say this is frugal because you are double using something) at We Are THAT Family.

The smell of the day

I wish so much that I could capture the smell of the day! I know that may sound weird. However just go with me here. I walked outside this morning and it was dreary out. I wanted to take a good picture of my flowers that are blooming so well again this year. So anyway, as I walked out there I felt the mist of rain on my face and then I took a deep breath...fall, it smelled like fall time! Oh how I love the smell of fall time. It makes me think of so many things, like pumpkin flavored candles, cinnamon scents and Turkey! Then it hit me, it is not fall, it is spring and while I love spring, it just isn't the same as fall. Spring means we still have a hot (and I mean HOT) summer to go through. Ugh. I am not a big fan of summer time in Oklahoma. I have been here 14 years and I am still not used to the hotness that comes this time of year. Oh well, for today, at least the next few minutes of the day because you know Oklahoma weather can change pretty quickly, I will enjoy the smell of fall and dream of turkey, pumpkin and cinnamon!

Oh and here is the picture I took of my flowers! I am so excited because this is the third year they have come up! The first year I planted them too late and only a few came up, I thought "well that was a waist of my money". But then last year and this year too they have bloomed beautifully! Now keep in mind that this picture is post a few storms, so they were even prettier before the storms!

mommy making Ian laugh...

Thank you for giving to the Lord, I am a life that was changed...

This weekend we had a reunion of sorts. The couple that taught my senior class Sunday school have officially retired from teaching. They taught for over 20 years! It was always the class people looked forward to being in. The lessons were always creative and fun.

Well the people at PCBC decided that we should have a surprise thank you party for them. They fully deserved this. So on Saturday we went to my old stompin' grounds and saw people that I haven't seen in years! I was a little nervous to be honest with you. I was excited too though. I bought a new dress that I felt very good in. I felt like I was going in looking like I had lost a million pounds! Of course then after the party it hit me that only a handful of those people had seen me at my biggest, so to them I just look like I had gained weight rather than lost weight. Oh well, I still felt good and confident!

Ian, of course, did great! He is such a show off. But he is so cute that even if he wasn't a show off we would be showing him off.

Me, Carolyn, Joe and April

Me and my sis.
Below is our silly picture, being the drama queens that we are we had to do a silly pose!


Me, Ashleigh and April. We were the only ones from the class of 99 who showed up. The only other one who was involved like we were lives out of state. All of the others were not real involved in church, they just came on Sundays and maybe a Wednesday every now and then. Not that I can talk, I think that is about what Justin and I do now.

April and Ian. He liked playing with her hair!

Mother's day giveaway...

I love me some good giveaways and with Mother's day coming up I thought you might want to know about this wonderful giveaway going on at We Are THAT Family. You should go visit her blog and leave a comment to be entered! You never no, you may be the winner!