Whew I made it.

I had this crazy Idea that I wanted to go shopping this morning (Black Friday) so we could get the clothes we need while getting more bang for our buck. So after a lot of begging and convincing Carter of the geniousness of this plane he finally agreed and let me take 150 bucks with me.

The alarm clock went of this morning at 3:30 and I begrudgingly (sp?) rolled out of bed, got dressed, brushed my hair, and tried to look decent. I got into more car and happily turned on the Christmas music and journeyed down the dark empty streets until I pulled into the very full parking lot of Kohls. When the doors opened at 4 I worked my way in and proceeded to shop for stuff for us, and try things on for the next hour. Well that was my mistake, I should have gone in and out but that doesn't work so well for me. By the time I got in line at 5:15 I knew it was going to be awhile because the line wrapped all the way around to the back of the store, but little did I know that I wouldn't check out until 6:45 even after moving to the "faster" line.

By the time I walked out I was fully expecting it to be bright and sunny but nope the sun was still breaking through. However, when i got home with all my goodies, including a few christmas gifts I added up the actual price of them and discovered that they were all worth around 495 dollars. I was shocked, I would never be able to spend that much on clothes at one time normally. But, don't worry my friends because I only spent 187 and that includes the $19 dollars of tax. So despite my busy long morning it was ALL WORTH IT because I'm one for a bargain and saving $308 totally makes my day!!

Happy Thanksgiving

We hope you all have a great Thanksgiving full of family, friends, good food, and of course thankfulness. We will be spending tomorrow with our friends in Ponca City and I personally am looking forward to stuffing myself silly since it's the one day it's allowed.

We'll Miss Texas Roadhouse

One of the places that we'll miss when we move back to the West is this yummy restaurant. They have great tasting food, especially their steaks for great reasonable prices. And, their rolls with cinnamon butter is to die for!! I know that some of my family who are reading this are nodding in agreement since when they came down for our wedding I took them here and then they liked it so much they went back after me and Carter were honeymooning. So this is my tribute post to the Roadhouse, you will be missed but I know we'll eat you again one day!!

Carter and I after our date night at the Texas Roadhouse on Friday night.

Carter enjoying his huge steak and sweet potato.


My humongous, yummy loaded sweet potato. This is the first place I've had them and they are delish!!

Quick Trip to North Bend

In case you didn't know last week we made a quick trip to Oregon. We flew in on Thursday and out on Monday thanks to some great families who wanted us to make it out before we officially came in December. It was a quick and fun trip that helped us to rekindle our excitement, although we were still excited it was nice to refresh it since we hadn't been there since june and visit while not being interviewed. The weather was absolutely gourgeous while we were there. It was perfect sit on the beach and soak up the sun weather, but we didn't make it to the beach at all. But I guess it's okay since soon I'll have years to visit it as much as I want!! Although I toted my camera around with me the whole time we were there I only took like 5 pics, whoops, I've really got to get better at that!

On the main route from Eugene to Coos Bay there is an Elk Reserve with tons of these guys just loafing around. These were the smart ones since Elk season opened while we were there. I can just imagine the hunters salivating as they pass these guys on the road.

We went bowling on saturday, followed by tacos and kung fu panda. here are some girlies at the alley.

On our flight from Okc to Portland we flew over mount hood and this was our view. It was absolutely gourgeous!!

Oh wow, it's been a while.

Just wanted to quickly let our readers know that we are alive and well. We had a quick trip to North Bend over the weekend that went great and we are now counting downs the days until we leave with eager anticipation. Hopefully I'll get a longer post on here soon!

My last hope

I have not been feeling well for over a week now. I have this awful cough that doesn't seem to want to go away and I'm all nice and congested and have gone through way too many tissues. Not only is this cold/whatever the heck is it annoying, but it is zapping my energy. I've tried a few different medicines and at the insistence of some women at church that this stuff works, emergen-c is hopefully the immune boost I need to get my system right again. Especially since we're flying to Oregon Thursday, I really really don't want to be sick while we're there!!!

What a great guy I have!

On Saturday morning I got up and went to volunteer at Free Shop at church dreading the thought of coming home and cleaning up our apartment. It really was the last thing I wanted to do and I was wondering how long it would take me to do it so that I could get a nap in. Well, as I walked in the door everything was magically clean. Well the magician himself was sitting on the couch and informed me that I had a suprise in the fridge as well. To my delight I found some chocolate truffles made by Sweet Shop that I love but can never justify spending money on. These are some of the best chocolates ever and you can make one piece last a whole day they are so rich!! Anyways, it was super sweet of Carter to do this for me and I was thrilled at his making my day easier and better!!!

I kinda ate one before the picture...Whoops!!

We did it

Well our votes are cast (note the stickers) and we just need to see who ends up winning this thing.

Tomorrow

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