SLUMBER PARTY!!!

Amy's Bouquet She Found at Bridal Fair

I know there is a point in time when you are suppose to outgrow slumber parties, but Johnny and Bryan went on a "boy's trip" this weekend so Amy and I lived it up. Our main goal for the weekend was to be as lazy as possible and to be in our pajamas as long as we could. Amy actually suggested us coming home from work to watch Saved by the Bell so it would resemble the past...Here is how it went....


Friday night: We ate sushi for dinner, went to my house, put pajamas on and watched the season premiere of Grey's Anatomy I had recorded and Say Yes to the Dress. We then read our books until we could no longer hold our eyes open.

Saturday: Chick Fil A for breakfast, watched part of the Ole Miss/Florida game (enough to see Houston out of his element running a fake punt) temporarily got dressed to go watch Nights in Rodanthe, went back to my house and put pajamas back on. Watched part of the Texas game and part of the Tennessee/Auburn game. Got Mexican takeout for dinner. Watched the Sex in the City movie, The Bodyguard, What Not to Wear (Raccoon Tail), and 4 episodes of Say Yes to the Dress. Then ran to Neighborhood Market to get some cookies to complete our night.

Sunday: We actually got dressed and ventured out of the house today. We had our Mexican leftovers for breakfast..yummy..We went to Pinnacle Hills Promenade to shop and eat Texas Land and Cattle and then went to bridal fair to get Amy's wedding planning going! We wandered around bridal fair, then quickly went back to my house to finish our weekend off right. Lying around digging through the endless brochures Amy got at bridal fair.

It has been great, almost too good to be true. We may not be able to fit into our clothes tomorrow, but are already working on sending the boys somewhere else so we can start all over again!

Hurricane Ike

Surprise!!

Kati and Alan

We spent Saturday in Fort Smith celebrating "Daddy Love's" 50th birthday. Our hotel was about 3 blocks from where we were having dinner so Johnny and I thought we would just walk. I mean we had 2 "windproof" umbrella's...Great Idea..Right?

So the party was great. Her dad was so surprised at the amount of people that showed up, in the not-so-desirable weather, to celebrate his birthday. Once dinner, the band, and the cake were gone, it was time to head to the "house". Well it was of course raining, since there were remnants of a hurricane headed for us. Which enticed Johnny even more, he couldn't wait to venture back to the hotel since he was going to get the chance to, "walk through a hurricane".

There were 5 of us that left together and as you can tell from the pictures, we started off in pretty good spirits. The umbrellas proved to be absolutely NO help. We initially found it amusing that we were trying to walk anywhere in that kind of weather. It soon became not so funny. The "windproof" umbrella's immediately flipped upside down, so we began holding them in front of us a shields. The guys just RAN as fast as they could to the hotel, leaving Amy and I on the side Garrison, not even moving we are laughing SO hard at the insanity of the situation. Amy, of course, had on heels that were not hurricane proof so we had to stop and take a break after every 5 steps with the rain horizontally coming at us. Johnny, my wonderful husband, was the ONLY guy that stopped to make sure we were ok, and he met us halfway and very slowly walked us back, stopping every 5 steps so Amy's feet could take a break.

We eventually made it back to the hotel, a 3 block walk that lasted a lifetime. We were SOAKED head to toe. A lady in the hotel walked by asking if it was raining, then she stopped, looked directly at us, and said, "OH MY", then continued on her way. The workers at the front desk were seriously lined up in a row, with smiles on their faces watching us walk by. We were very excited to be back in the room in dry clothes after that was over.

Heading for the hotel.

This may not work!

NO ONE besides ourselves are out tonight.

Stopping for a picture..halfway there!

Notice the water running down our faces.

Back at the hotel...Soaking wet!!!

I just have to also add that Johnny and I have horrible luck when it comes to trees. I jokingly told a neighbor on Friday that it didn't matter if it stormed with this hurricane because we have no trees left in our yard. When we bought our house there were 5 trees. 1 we cut down because it was growing under the house, after a series of storms over the past few years 3 more of those have fallen down, knocking down our privacy fence in the process. We got home today and a neighbor came over to tell us that a tree, from the other side of our neighborhood wall had fallen over the wall into our back yard. SO once again we have a fallen tree to deal with. I think we should for sure be in the clear now with trees, but we do have neighbors that have trees that could fall over into our yard, so we will wait until it storms to see which one falls first!

Tailgating

Johnny preparing the wings

Bryan, Amy, and Johnny....AREN'T THEY CUTE!!!

Amy, Kati, and Lindsey

A serious game of washers

Our third year for Arkansas Razorback season football tickets and nearly as importatant... TAILGATING. The main "crew" includes seven of us, which often turns into twenty-seven. The ultimate goal, one huge "LOT 57 Tailgate Party". Our first year began pretty sad. There were eight people, eight chairs, four coolers, and one grill (which we bought for $4.99 at Dollar General, leaned a little to the left, and wobbled quite a bit, but it served us well for two years!!!). Our tailgate grew quickly from this point. A tent, television, inverter for electricity, and most importantly - Washer Boards. We still "improve" a little each game (improving means bringing more stuff!!!). The boys "built" flag poles, a new set of washer boards, and decided to do chicken wings for the first time this year - they were SO proud of themselves. For the first game everyone is "anxious" to get out there, so we spent 7 1/2 hours tailgating before the game. Here is a brief recap of the day...

10:30 a.m. Arrive, set up, and eat lunch.

12:00 noon Guys playing washers, girls talking

1:00 p.m. Guys playing washers, girls talking

2:oo p.m. Guys playing washers, girls talking

3:00 p.m. Dinner time... Thanks for cooking B-Will!

4:00 p.m. Guys playing washers, girls (KATI) getting impatient.

Kati to Johnny - "We need to clean up"

4:15 p.m. Kati to Johnny - "We had better not be late"

4:45 p.m. Kati to Johnny - "Put up the washers NOW!!!"

5:15 p.m. Guys start cleaning... Kati is unhappy

5:30 p.m. We're off to the game

6:08 p.m. Arrive at game... We're late - missed pregame, Kati is very unhappy!

All ends well! We won the game (barely), Johnny is told that we WILL be leaving 1 hour prior to kickoff from this point on (since it takes 45 minutes to walk from tailgating to our seats 3 rows from the top of the stadium), and Johnny lovingly agrees!

(Johnny decided to help with this post, you can tell which part he typed.)