the night we met PDUB

If you have facebook, you've probably seen that last night I got to meet a blogging hero. Her name is The Pioneer Woman, but we refer to her lovingly as P-Dub. She writes a fabulous blog that I've been reading for years... and just recently she was able to publish a cookbook.

Last night, at Full Circle bookstore, she and her family were there for a book signing. Jamie, Mallory, Sara, Lauren and I loaded up and went.

We got there at 5:30, signing started at 6:30 and we thought we were good. We were in line into the mall, but still relatively close to the front of the line. We had a fabulous time in line... And I'm pretty sure that we kept the ladies around us entertained.

For example, at one point during the wait, Lauren noticed PW's husband (who we in the blogging world know as Marlboro Man) was walking through the mall, right toward us.

Jamie has a fancy camera and we wanted her to take a picture... but she was on the phone with Chris. So we stood there yelling at her and jumping up and down... This is our recenactment of the moment later-

Later in the evening, her daughters came walking through the crowd. They walked right by us and Sara was bold enough to ask them for a picture. At this point we were all giddy, but still being oh-so-smooth....


Mallory said to them "I like your boots"... Then turned to us and immediately said (in the highest pitch EVER)- "I totally froze!!!" We all CRACKED up and somehow it turned into "BOOTS... PUNKS... RANCH" for the rest of the night... the lady in front of us was even quoting it by the end!

Her husband and two sons walked through the crowd a little later. Sara and I followed (read, hunted them DOWN) and were able to get a pic with them. Jamie, Mallory and Lauren were SOOOO jealous!

We finally made it INTO the actual bookstore and started to get excited... but the excitement turned into more waiting... and waiting... and waiting...


But finally... it happened- we got to meet P-DUB!

She is as cute and as sweet in person as she is on her blog. She chatted with us and commented on all of our clothes.


She loved us so much, she even put us on her BLOG!!


Anyway, to say it was the night or our lives would be putting it mildly.
And now you can all say that you know someone famous. ;)

want to bless someone?

Sara over at sara e photography is hosting a contest.
The prize: a FREE one hour photography session and a CD of high resolution photo files... but not for yourself.
Go to her blog and leave a comment nominating a deserving family who wouldn't otherwise have fabulous family photos available to them. The contest ends October 31, so go now and sign up!

What a great way to start off the holiday season!

And in case you forgot, she took this awesome photo!

back from vacay

We had a FABULOUS trip to Grand Lake this past week. Micah and I started off the week with probably the highlight of his life (besides marrying me and having little boy) which was seeing U2 in concert!! Not only did we see U2- we were up close and personal with them.

I'll post a recap and photos later, just wanted to let everyone know that I am, in fact, alive.

ideas

I need your help!!

Dilemma #1- My old comforter set got ruined... let's just say it involved a leaky pull-up and a tragedy in the washing machine. Anyway, it died. Inspired by Natalie over at The Pettijohns, I ordered a fluffy white duvet set from overstock.com. Um, how have I missed that place all these years?? It's glorious!

Now- what I need your help with is this- I now have a blank canvas of a room! My furniture is black, my bedding is white- I NEED SOME COLOR!! How should I add some color to my room?

Bear in mind the following things:

• I am poor
• I am fairly boring and bright colors scare me
• I have a 3 year old tornado son who thinks it's his job to destroy anything in his path.

SO- the cheaper, calmer, sturdier your suggestions, the better!

Dilemma #2- We're going on vacation next week (WOO-HOOOOO!!) and my all-time favorite vacation activity (besides sleeping) is reading a good book. Last year on our 3 day vacation, I read the entire Chronicles of the King series. Yeah, I read kinda fast... so- I'm looking for an interesting series/author to read through! Please give me some new ideas!

Dilemma #3- Any good road trip needs fabulous road trippin' music! What should we listen to??

Ready, set, GO! Solve my problems! :o)