Project 365 – October 2014 – Day 31-61
31/365 – Happy First Day of October and Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I was sporting the pink!
32/365 – Dive Club Meeting. We had Baked Potatoes for dinner, YUM!
31/365 – Happy First Day of October and Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I was sporting the pink!
32/365 – Dive Club Meeting. We had Baked Potatoes for dinner, YUM!
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 🙂
I must admit that Halloween never really has been exciting for me, and maybe that’s because I grew up in the country so we didn’t really trick-or-treat, just family and that was it. But this year I had it in my head I wanted to go to a Pumpkin Patch and I didn’t quit until we did… lol. My Mother-in-Law, Mom & Dad, Hubby, Tbug, Baby Girl, and I went.
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…
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!).
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!
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…
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 🙂
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 & me, 2010 – Family,
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!