Halloween Costume Reveal | Blogtober ’14

The story. So obviously this isn’t my costume, I’m not 0-6 months old :). So a year ago October Tbug and I were walking through the store trying to find hubby when we veered off looking at the Halloween costumes. I should add he found us because we got distracted :). So I saw this costume and fell in love. I even said something to Tbug and then took a picture. I wasn’t pregnant at the time or didn’t know I was anyway. About a week later was when we found out I was… odd right? Then when I found out I was like dang I wish I would have bought that but at the same time, I just found out so… definitely didn’t know if I was having a boy or a girl. After we found out in January then I was like, dang it why did I buy this. Well they just so happened to have it this year! Yey! So we bought it back in like August or whenever the Halloween costumes came out into stores because I knew that’s what I wanted this beautiful baby girl to be 🙂

Helene in Between

Facts About You | Blogtober ’14

Oh goodness, what haven’t I told you the many many times it feels like I’ve shared facts about myself…

How about instead of listing facts about myself, I list posts containing facts about me…

  1. A letter to my Younger Self via October 2014
  2. My Pet Peeves via October 2014
  3. Things that make me happy via October 2014
  4. Secrets via October 2014
  5. A letter to 41 Year old me via October 2014
  6. 45/99 Things I’ve done via October 2014
  7. How about the reason I don’t push Carts via August 2014
  8. 31 things about me via July 2014
  9. We can do a him vs me set of facts too via February 2014
  10. How about the School Edition of me… Via October 2013
  11. Want to see a list of firsts that comes to mind via January 2013
  12. btw, I’m That Girl via August 2011
  13. I’ve described myself via numbers via March 2011
  14. Does handwriting tell you something about a person via February 2011
  15. Who Am I via February 2011
  16. If you really knew me, you’d know via August 2010
  17. There’s a list of 15 things that make me happy via July 2010
  18. There’s also a letter to 20 year old me via July 2010
  19. A Sampling of myself around 20 years old via May 2010
  20. 100 things about me on my 100th post via April 2010

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Your KC Chiefs Recap Post!

This last Sunday hubby, baby girl and I were able to attend the Kansas City Chiefs game versus the St. Louis Rams. OMG what a game! Definitely worth going to that’s for sure… not just because the Chiefs won, #winner but it was one heck of a game!

So the game started at noon which meant we had to be there in time for the gates to open, duh :). Tailgating is a big thing, however I want to state that we’re not drinkers so if you want to see drunk pictures you’re not at the right blog for that. Gates started opening either at 7:30 or 8am… I can’t remember as I was up at 4am trying to get around so we’d be ready to catch our ride. To say I was tired would be a bit of an understatement but it’s all good!

We went with Breakfast Burritos for the tailgating food. We had Bacon, Sausage, Plain eggs, Eggs with onions and green chilies, Black Olives, Salsa, Cheese, Tortillas, and Blueberry Muffins! Holy yum!

Now as you know the KC Royals are fighting for the World Series title currently (tonight is the last game, Go Royals!).

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Most Embarrassing Moment | Blogtober ’14

Sometimes I live my life as an embarrassing moment :). I swear I’ve done more stupid things it feels like… So the most recent one that I keep getting harassed about is I was at our local dive shop recently (well a year ago now probably) and the last lady left. It was an abrupt leaving with no warning or anything that she was quitting. She also took a lot of things with her, one being a fish bowl that they used to take collections up in for dive club meetings. So the following Friday I made the comment to Earl that since the other lady whoever she was took that, I volunteered her last night to make a new one. Sadly though… this lady’s husband still works out of the other business in there and well… I don’t know who he is and I said it in front of him. Dang it!

Open Mouth, insert foot!

Helene in Between

Things You’re Superstitious about | Blogtober ’14

So I show horses… I think I’ve mentioned this a time or two or twelve…

So my superstitions kind of revolve around that.

1. Never EVER put your cowboy hat on the bed. OMG, that is a total nightmare. My mom once put my dad’s hat while it was in the hatbox on the bed and oh goodness…. you just don’t do that.

2. Never wear yellow when you’re on a horse. When I showed at the AQHYA World Show back in the day, there was a guy who also made the finals. He and his family went to lunch the day of the finals and thought they’d want bubble gum so they put their quarter in the gum machine. It kicked out a yellow gumball. He left it and decided to try his luck again, maybe it wouldn’t hit the yellow. The second gumball it kicked out was yellow as well. They decided to just leave so they left both gumballs and walked away. I can tell you he went on to win the show that year…

Helene in Between

A Letter to your Younger Self | Blogtober ’14

Dear younger Nicole,

Let me start off by saying that life hasn’t exactly gone the way you planned but it’s definitely GREAT! The ride to get here has been quite interesting with some bumps in the road, but still, it has made you stronger. Don’t get discouraged. Oh and at one point you made the comment you needed to get a PhD… yeah scratch that. We’re doing good to get the Masters and I think we’re done. Ask me in a few years how I still feel about that though :). Baby girl says hi although you weren’t ever sure you wanted kids, she’s pretty darn great!! There are some things as an adult that looking back now I wish I would have done differently such as gotten my head out of my butt and went to Oklahoma State or dumped the stupid boy but still, if I had done those things differently then I might not be where I am today… married to my best friend, which always sounds so cliché. And don’t get me wrong, there are days we get under each other’s skin but it’s totally worth it. So, just know that that boy finally gets his head out of his rear and asks you out again, it only took him 10 years to do so… whatever. You both had to go make your name in the world and actually write your name in the world. His is written on a wall in Afghanistan and yours was written in the sand in Costa Rica. Life has a way of surprising you so just hold on and know that even now it surprises the heck out of you!

Love,
Old Lady Nicole 🙂

Helene in Between

Pumpkin Carving #3

Hubby and I were finally able to carve our pumpkins on Friday night. Now Thursday night I started carving on hubby’s, I gutted it so that it would have time to dry up a bit since we were also going to use it for Baby Girl’s photo shoot. Friday night he was able to cut some leg holes for her.

And then baby girl screamed. I wasn’t able to get a smile, but I at least lucked out and got one where she wasn’t screaming. Note to self: warm pumpkin up next time!

Then we went back in the house, put her onesie back on her and she sat in the Bumbo on the table with us while mommy and daddy carved pumpkins.

We chose to use patterns out of a book. Poor Tbug didn’t have that option because we had to buy a new book, we lost the other one :(.

This one cracked me up. It was either a level 3 or 4 and I must admit that the first time I remember carving pumpkins was when I was a senior in high school. I might have with my parents when I was a little kid, I’m not sure. I should ask sometime. But the first time I remember, I was a senior in high school.

Someone decided that they were tired and it was nap time…

Hubby’s is the one on the left, mine is the one on the right.

We’ve tried to keep it a tradition since we’ve been married to carve pumpkins. So how did we do?

Past Pumpkin Carvings: 2014 – Tbug, 2014 – Underwater, 2013 – Family, 2013 – Underwater, 2012 – Family, 2011 – Hubby & me2010 – Family,

Who'd play you in a movie | Blogtober '14

Truthfully if someone were to play me in the movies, I want an no-named actress who will get her big break and would be known as me. Example: Katherine Heigl is in a lot of movies so yes she might draw people to the box office, but I think casting her as Stephanie Plum in One for the Money was a bad mistake. If they were to make any of the other novels into a book, a) she might not play Stephanie Plum the next time but b) she’s more so known as Izzy Stephens from Grey’s Anatomy. I would want some actress to make her big break playing me, because obviously I’m going to be famous someday and everyone will line up to play me!

Helene in Between