Football on Crack

AB recently purchased the NFL RedZone and I'm not sure how his brain doesn't short circuit at the end of each Sunday. The point of this channel is to flip to an NFL game when a team reaches the RedZone (inside the 20-yard line) this enables the viewer to see each and every touchdown made during the day. While eating lunch I sat down to experience this phenomenon, only to have my head hurt after 15 minutes. It's like football ADD! Within the 15 minutes the screen switched about 50 times, sometimes showing two games at once. After the first couple of flips, I couldn't keep up with which game we were watching...it was awful! AB on the other hand loves it! He is a fantasy football fanatic so he doesn't care about any particular game, just the players and how many points they are scoring for his fantasy teams. If you have the attention span of about 3 seconds I would highly recommend it :)

Between NFL RedZone, Thunder basketball games and the MLB Extra Innings package, AB has become quite the TV hog! I've been begging him to buy a nicer TV and a 2nd DVR for our game room so I can squeeze in a couple of shows now and then. Lucky for him I'm studying and not watching that much TV, but once this exam is behind me there are going to be some issues because my love of sports doesn't exactly equate to his.

Out of the Mine...What I Would Do First

Have you been as mesmerized by the story of the trapped miners as I have? What an amazing story! 69 days. 2,000 ft underground. Can you imagine? I can't imagine all of the "what ifs" going through their head the first 17 days they went undiscovered. To know you are trapped underground and nobody even knows you are alive down there. How scary and unnerving! Thankfully they were discovered and all 33 men were recovered in decent physical shape thanks to the strict daily regimen they kept to. I’m sure there will be psychological effects and hopefully time will heal those. This ordeal got me thinking about what I would look forward to most when getting out. The obvious would be uniting with my husband and family, seeing the light of day and breathing in fresh air. Then there are the little things, like using toilet paper, brushing my teeth and sleeping on a pillow. Besides those, I think the one thing I would look forward to the most would be taking a hot shower and pampering myself with my favorite bath and body products.

First off I would scrub my hair clean and condition it with my favorite shampoo and conditioner from Bumble and Bumble

Gentle Shampoo

Super Rich Conditioner

I would then move on to all of my favorite Origins products, starting with the best body scrub ever made. This stuff leaves your skin feeling so soft, it's amazing!

Ginger Body Scrub

To make my skin even softer and to stay relaxed I would use the Calm To Your Senses bath and body oil. I can see why they named it that, it has a very soothing sent.

Lavender and Vanilla Bath & Body Oil

After my nice hot shower I would keep myself smelling good and feeling hydrated with this great body cream.

Ginger Souffle

Last buy not least, the only perfume I'll wear (most give me a headache).

Ginger Essence

You can see why I mourned the closing of the Origins store in the mall! If I were trapped underground for 69 days, I think feeling clean and smelling good again would be at the top of my list for starting my new beginning. What about you? What would you look forward to the most (besides being united with your family, I hope that is a given!)? Are there certain products or foods you would have a hard time living without?

Marshall Getting Married

As I've mentioned AB and I traveled down to Texas for a wedding last weekend. The wedding couple was AB's cousin Marshall and his new Bride Ashley. I thought I'd share this picture of the cousins when they were cute little boys. That's AB's brother Chris in the back, cousin Marshall in the swing and trend setter AB with one pant leg down and one rolled up.

We left T-Town after lunch on Saturday and made our way down to Denton, TX where the welcome dinner was held. The dinner was at the hotel we stayed in. It was so nice to enjoy the evening then walk to our rooms! Here is a picture of AB and I with the newly minted Mr. and Mrs.

This is Marshall with his mom Linda and my MIL Melissa. Melissa and Marshall's dad, Kay are brother and sister. They have another sister, Jan, but unfortunately I didn't get any snapshots of her :(

They hired a jazz band to play at the dinner. I happen to love jazz so I really enjoyed the entertainment. Kay joined the band for a couple of numbers. He has a great voice, as does Marshall. Melissa's entire family is either musically or artistically gifted (this includes my very own husband who retired from his art career to chase his accounting dreams ;) ).

Linda and Melissa were able to get AB out on the dance floor (not an easy feat). Of course, I had to get record of this!

The wedding took place on Sunday and was held at the beautiful A&M Gardens just outside of Azle, TX. This was one of the views from our seats.

This was another one :) I wish I had a picture of the back of Ashley's dress. The ribbons that laced up the back were their wedding colors, sage and chocolate. I thought that was a neat way to incorporate color into the wedding dress.

Here is a pick of The B clan. Andy's brother Chris, his wife Shawnna, their girls Elliot (8 months), Lilly (3), my MIL Melissa, my FIL John, AB and I. Of all the beautiful backdrops, we picked a camper...LOL!

Elliot is wearing the same dress Lilly wore to our wedding. It's hard to believe Lilly was only 8 months old when AB and I got married!

Thank you to Marshall and Ashley for a great weekend! It was so much fun to see everyone and we really enjoyed spending time with our immediate and extended family!

It's Fall...Sort Of

Even though it's hot outside and still feels like summer...it's fall! AB's favorite part of fall is that our yard finally dies so he no longer has to mow or water. I've really been in the mood to decorate for fall so I drug AB out to buy some pumpkins and some mums for our front flower bed. We picked out pink mums, I think they look great in my red pots!

I also added a few decorations to the porch. I found this cute owl at World Market in Dallas. I just need to add a battery operated tea light so he'll light up at night. I also made a stop at Crate and Barrel while we were in Dallas and fell in love with this spider door mat. Is he not adorable? He's almost too cute to wipe your feet on, so if you come over, maybe try wiping your feet on my grass instead ;)

While AB enjoys dead grass, one of my favorite parts of fall is Halloween! I think Halloween is so much fun and I always enjoy getting out my Halloween home decor. My MIL bought me this cute tea towel and Boo! light.

My mom bought me this cute Halloween sign. It was a little hard to hang but after a few tries we finally got it even...sort of!

What Halloween would be complete without a plain ol' Jack-O-Lantern? I like putting this little guy on our entry-way table. I'm sure the Jack-O-Lantern is not what catches your eye in this picture. I don't even know where to begin with the framed photo in the picture. It sparks a lot of conversation at our house. I like to tell people who don't know us that the guy in the picture with AB is my brother...ha!

It is actually AB's favorite rapper, Crooked-I, but I will have to save that for another time and another post :)

Milo the Kitten

Sorry for the brief blogging hiatus, I've had a lot going on in the past couple of weeks! I took another test (it was terrible) and went down to Dallas for a wedding (I'll save that for another post).

While I was away from work frantically studying and then enjoying myself in Texas, my co-worker Daisi found a tiny kitten in our office parking lot. Poor guy, he easily could have been hit by a car he is so little! Daisi already has a cat, so her boyfriend has nixed the idea of keeping this precious little ball of fur. I sent pics to AB in hopes of finding a new playmate for Tavia. He told me getting a cat may have worked the first time but it won't work a second time. Luckily Daisi has a friend in OKC that is going to take him. I just had to get my kitten fix before little Milo (she named him after Dan's baby on Gossip Girl - ha!) moves away so I went over to Daisi's yesterday and took the following video.

Is this not cute overload? I would love to bring him home for just a few hours because I'm very curious to see what Tavia's reaction would be. I played the video for her last night and she was very interested. Maybe I need to set up a play date!