Deer Season 2010

What an eventful Deer Season it was....

Opening day brought some very high wind and some very cold temps.

Braxton and I headed to our stand and waited.. and waited... and waited..... nothing came out in that nasty cold wind!

Jared and Bronson headed to their stand and waited... and waited... and waited... nothing came out in that nasty cold wind!

We all decided to go home, rest and get some lunch

Then we all went back out. Jared and Bronson went to the farm, Braxton went to his stand and Braylon and I went to our stand. Braylon got tired and took a nap and I waited.. and waited.. and waited.

Finally a doe and a buck came out. I decided to shoot the buck. One shot and bam! i thought I hit him, but a buck jumped across the ditch and as I was trying to hurry up and get another shell in the chamber I felt something WARM and WET running down my face....

I couldn't for the life of me think why I was bleeding. Then I got scared... put the gun back on safety, put it up and looked in the mirror of the truck and I was bleeding. Not just a simple small cut that bleeds, but a gaping cut! The scope had kicked me right in the face and I didn't even know it. Call it adreniline or whatever, but it seriously did not hurt until later.

Braxton calls me to see if that was me that shot and I told him yes, but wasn't sure if I got it b/c I couldn't see for all the blood running down my face. After much discussion with him and Jared on the phone, I went looking for my deer. It was laying right where I shot it and I decided it must have been another buck that jumped across the ditch.

SO needless to say, I got myself a big bodied, little 9 pointer and a gash in my head to go along with it.

I had to have the gash glued later on that night, after much laughing and re-telling of my hunt!


The next morning I got a phone call from Braxton telling me he got himself a "nice buck". Once he got home he told me it wasn't as nice as what he thought. But it was... a nice 8 pointer.

For some reason those deer have ground shrinkage once they hit the ground. They always look like monsters until you get up to them, then they look small.


Braxton and I are pretty proud of our bucks. Jared and Bronson have yet to kill one. They are still out looking and hunting every evening. I just hope that Bronson does get one before the season is over.

Excitement

So, I get this phone call today from Andrea and she is so excited! Why? Because she bought me these really cool plates for my kitchen! She told me that she was really excited to give me my birthday present and to call her when I got home so she could bring it over to me. And she also told me that if I didn't like it to not tell her b/c it would make her cry!!! First off, I would never, ever tell anyone that I didn't like a present b/c that is just rude and 2nd off, I REALLY DO LOVE THEM:)

Don't you???

I'm have been talking with Andrea about repainting my kitchen, dining room, hallway and laundry room for the past year. So now I have something to base it off of and totally redo:)

Well, just wanted you to be able to share in my excitement with me.

Tag, I'm it!

I have been tagged by Hayley at Love Little Things!

Here is my daily "beauty" regime (and yes they are pretty much in the order that I use them. I am kind of weird about order:))

I use Dove soap on my face every morning

I use Thermasilk shampoo, the volumizing kind b/c my hair is so fine and flat!

My great hair lady has me using this Redken Hair cleansing shampoo a few times a week

I wash the ole bod with my Bath and Body Sweet pea or I get the Suave kind at Wal-mart

Before I blow dry my hair I put this Redken Rootful in to try and help with the flatness

I just started using Kenra hairspray. I went from Big Sexy Hair to this. I love this one!

This one is out of order... yikes, kind of freaking me out! Anyway, I use Mary Kay oil free eye makeup remover when I get out of the shower to get that extra eye stuff off that Dove doesn't get off.

Mary Kay Toner, this is to help with my oilyness, but for some reason I am still having trouble.

Mary Kay eyeliner, Black

Mary Kay eyesicles, Island Bronze

Mary Kay Ultimate Mascara, Blk

A little bath and body sweet pea to make me smell delicious

Degree deodorant to make the pits not stink

I use a variety of lotions. Whatever I can find. I use lotion on the whole body, everyday! I am thinking the Bath and Body that I have been using is a lot better and is helping with my dry skin!

I just bought this Abercrombie perfume. I switch between it and the Cool Water that I have used all my life.

There you have it folks! Now you know what makes me so Beautiful, or not so beautiful:)

I am going to tag................................... Andrea @ Box of Chocolates and Shonya @ Learning How Much I Didn't know

I'm Clothed and Accessorized

If you know me at all you know:

... i hate to shop, especially for myself

... i am a pretty plain jane

... i like solid colors

... i don't accessorize

But guess what...... I have broken out of that sterotype as of yesterday!

Michelle and I went shopping to get clothes for our cruise. We had a great day and I got lots of new stuff.

Shopping is way more fun when you have money to spend, you have a reason to buy clothes and when you are 23 pounds lighter.

Sorry to bore you with all the pictures but, I do know some of you will appreciate all my new clothes especially when you see what I bought!

~These were all my bags when I got home~

~Dress #1, my fun dress for Valentine's Night~
Jared is going to wear black pants and a red shirt that night

~Check it out! A necklace, earrings, a bracelet(on the top part of my little purse), a purse and RED shoes!~ Love it!

~Dress #2, Probably Friday nights dress. Got this dress for $7.99 at the Gap! ~
~Check it out again... bracelet, necklace, earrings and purse!~

~This is what Jared will be wearing on Sat night, he just doesn't know it yet:)
it will match my outfit~


~Dress #3, Saturday nights dress. This dress looks fantastic on!~

~Once again, my accessories. The necklace and earrings have the color of Jared's shirt in them~

~Shirt ($1.97 @ Gap) & Khaki Bermuda shorts~

~Love this shirt with the chocolate colored capris. Notice the bracelet.... it also matches the above shirt~

~The shirt that I kicked myself for not buying the first time. But got a second chance:)~

~Love this shirt too. A little dressy,but super cute to wear with denim capris.~

~yellow shirt WITH a scarf~

~my plain jane shirt,but I dressed it up with a scarf!~

~another plain jane~

did you really think I would go all day and not get myself a plain jane shirt??

~this is another shirt that looks sexy with denim jeans and high heels! yes, I did just say "high heels"~

~my super awesome 'jacket in a packet'! I thought this would be handy to have to put in my purse when we were at the ports in case it started to rain. it folds up in the pocket and makes a little bag~

~new beach towels (didn't think I really wanted to take a shrek one), my $5 Tommy Hilfiger flip flops, water camera for snorkeling, and my purse!~

~Jared's new belt, a shirt and new swimming trunks~

~Jared's shirt and khaki shorts~

~notice the print, it is fish. right up Jared's alley~

~palm tree printed shirt and chocolate brown shorts~

And there you have it folks, most of the clothes that we will be taking with us.

I still have some things I need to get before we leave in a couple of weeks. I got some new luggage tags. I am not in love with them, but I didn't think I need to splurge after buying all of these clothes on something as silly as luggage tags!

15 days and counting baby!!!!

I'm Addicted to.........

The new Super Mario Brothers game on the Wii!!!

These guys are my new friends! Mario and Luigi!

I am a little more partial to Luigi though. Him and I have gotten pretty close in the last few weeks.When I saw that this new game had come out for the Wii, I wanted it immediately. I looked, and looked, and looked and every place was sold out. So I whined and threw a little fit:) Then I find out that Andrea has it, soooooo we went over there for supper one night (work night) and Andrea and I played some Mario until 2:00 in the morning. I was addicted from the start! Then finally I was able to get my own copy. New Year's Eve we went to the Buford's and Matt and I stayed up until 3 in the morning playing. Needless to say, I got Matt hooked.

When we first got the Wii we told the kids that they weren't going to play it ALL the time that they were still going to go outside and play and such. Well then here I am addicted, looking at the tv almost every night trying to conquer this stinkin' game! I even hollered at Braxton the other day when he was outside playing and asked him if he wanted to come in and play Mario. Is that considered contradicting myself??

So some of the things I have learned while trying to conquer Mario...

1) The Bowser is not your friend!

2) Princess Peach is who you are after

3) There are lots and lots of worlds

4) You need to get all 3 of the Big coins in order to get world 9 to open up

5) You get a calloused thumb from hours of playing it

6) You tend to have a temper when someone else makes you die

7) It is a lot like the old Super Mario Brothers that I used to play on my Nintendo

8) A is for Bubble

9) The more you play the better you get

10) That not only am I a

but I am also a Super Mario brother addict!

So I am sorry if you are a loyal follower of my blog. I haven't been ignoring you. I have been hanging out with Mario and Luigi. We have gotten to World 9 so once we go back and get all the big coins in all the worlds that we have already been in and I get World 9 conquered, I will be back.

grrrr

well tonight was one of those nights where i wanted to have a pity party..... so i did, ALL. BY. MYSELF!

jared goes to this annual coon hunt on the wednesday night before thanksgiving every year. does this bother me? nope! braxton loves going with him too. does this bother me? nope! but this year bronson wanted to go. jared didn't care that he went but also knew that he would be exhausted b/c they climb lots and lots of hills. so i asked bronson if he wanted to just stay home with me and we would go to kirksville and i would take him and braylon to the movies. but he didn't want to, he wanted to coon hunt! did this bother me? not really.....

BUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

then it is time for everyone to leave and jared and i are still trying to talk bronson into not going to the coon hunt and to go with me instead. he was not budging. he wanted to coon hunt. fine.

so i decided that is fine, braylon and i will just go to the movies ourselves. so i go to get him and he throws a big fit and doesn't want to go. he wants to stay with my mom and dad. fine! F.I.N.E.!!!! does this bother me? you better believe it does! so, i leave him there and then i text jared and say.....

"guess no one wants to be with me, not even braylon!" yes, i was feeling sorry for myself!

so 15 minutes later, jared calls and said bronson wanted to go with me! tough!!! i am almost to kirksville. then he calls back.... the boys said they wouldn't go hunting they would stay with grandma until you got back and then you can rent a movie with them. NOPE, NOTTA, NO THANKS!!!! why would i want that? you have to make them feel guilty so they will spend time with me? NOPE, NOTTA, NOT HAPPENING! if they don't want to spend time with me just because, then no thanks!

THEN, braylon calls and wants to go with me. my mom says "i will bring him to you". NOPE!!! he had his chance!

so i went grocery shopping by myself and ate out by myself! it was easier but i still didn't like it.

so, i am going to prove a point and the next time they want to go with me somewhere..... NOT HAPPENING! the next time they want me to do something for them..... NOT HAPPENING!

is that bad of me?

i just want them to realize that i have feelings too and that i do a lot for them and that they don't appreciate any of it and take me for granted!

so, now that i have that off of my chest:).........................................................

have a great thanksgiving!

friends

do you ever wonder who your true friends are?

i mean when i was growing up my mom would always say " bree, i don't know why you are friends with her, she isn't a very good friend." i would say "whatever, mom like you know!" b/c you know i knew everything and she didn't know anything. i would say about 95% of the time she was right and i was wrong.

i don't understand how she could pick them out and i couldn't. i guess she had been there and done that! plus, she was looking from the outside in.

but now as a parent, i see what she means. i can see who braxton's "real" friends are right now and the ones that are "just' friends.

i have had several friends, best friends, true friends and not so true friends in my 30 years. i am still in contact with some of those friends. we may not talk everyday, or see each other EVER, but we still have that kind of friendship where we could pick up the phone and call California and start talking like we lived right next door. that is a "true" friend to me. i have that "best friend" from back in the days, i have that "best friend" now, i have "friends" that i can call whenever i just want to chat and then i have those "not so true friends" that only talk to me when they need something from me and then there are my "true" friends.......

when i moved to lancaster, i thought i would never make friends. here i was 18 and all the kids my age were going away to college and the older ones already had their "friends", so they didn't need me. but slowly, i started making friends. they may have been the girlfriend or wife of jared's friends, but friends nonetheless. after living here for 12 years i feel i have made several friends, best friends, true friends and not so true friends.

i know i haven't been the best of friend to lots of people but i also know that i have been a great friend to others. i have had friends that we have just grown apart for reasons unknown.

then sometimes i feel like i am the only one giving and not receiving. and i have to think "is that really the kind of friendship i want?"

then somedays i feel like i don't really know who my friends are and then there are days that i feel so blessed to have so many great friends.

so tell me, what is it that you look for in a friendship?

Windy

I've always been told I am windy, but I didn't know I was this windy!

This weekend is the Antique fair in Memphis. Braxton's ball team is setting up shop and trying to raise money for their traveling ball team next year. They are having a pop bottle toss, duck pond and sno cones. So today on my lunch hour I blew up 84 bats! and only 4 or 5 of them didn't stay up. I blew these all up in less than an hour! Aren't I awesome?!?! Not really, the air compressor is awesome:)

So now my van smells like a big fat rubbery baseball bat! and look at how full it is!

Isn't that red baseball cooler neat? I got this so we could fill it up with water and put the ducks in there to float around. I hope it works! But the problem is, we don't have the ducks yet! Whatever happened to little miss organization?

So if you are in Memphis anytime from Thurs-Sat, stop by the STIXX tent and help them out.

Treasure

Look what Andrea brought home for me last night! She went treasure hunting at Annette's and they thought I needed this! So thanks guys:)

If you don't know what it is then you have never worked a baseball field!

It is a chalker to put in the base lines and batter boxes! We are hoping to have our very own baseball field someday, so this will come in very handy. Until then, the boys will use it to make their wiffle ball field.

I LOVE IT!!!