OH EM GEE

Whoopsie!

Well, life happens and I forget to blog.

I dont' forget....

I am just consumed by other crap...

and work

Forgive me.

I am horrible.

I do read your blogs...

I just don't leave love...
YES I KNOW....
That makes me a SUCKY BLOGGIE friend.

SO.... Here's the scoop.

We had babies...

They have all now flown the coop.

They grew so fast...

I could sneak in behind our honey suckle and get good pics....

Check that little guy out looking at me....

He cracks me up!

He looks so freakin' mad at the world!

These are the last two that hung around....

These are nest mates... I can't tell what kind of birds they are...

or even if they are the same kind?

The one on the top step still just makes me laugh.

Poor little fella

We have also been dealing with esophagitis.

google it....

The crap sucks butt....

and many hours in the ER.

and then there are the dental appointments.

Hate it when you see a dentist for years...

Then find out they suck and they did more damage than good.

Tomorrow is back to the doctor....

The kid can't catch a break.

Did you know that although there are several

pediatric grastroenterologists in the phone book....

there is actually maybe 1 in our town.

They can't see her for 4 weeks?

UGH!

I have also been getting together with some other bloggie friends from the area....

Stephanie

Brandy

Sheila

IA, who was going to bring JennyKate, but a no go because she will be in antartica....

and planning a get to gether thingy...

So who wants to come to OKC the last Saturday in July & join us?

Hails Bells

Two posts in one week.

Don't Faint.

'Tis OK

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This is Oklahoma...

We gather to watch the storms...

You totally know the storm is a good one, when you go out to look...

and all the neighbors are coming out to look also.

YUP

This is Oklahoma....

We tend to be mesmerized....

We stand out to "LOOK" at rotations in the clouds.

This is dirt from the fields being sucked up into the storm....

(up draft)

This usually means...

There is a nader 'bout to form.

Last night was pretty cool.

We had a hail storm to the South...

AND

one to the North.

They hit right over our house....

This is actually the picture of the North storm sucking the life right out of teh South storm.

Totally amazeballs to watch!

Every good Oklahoman knows though.....

When to run and hide....

Party in the storm shelter...
{She would not take a serious picture}

Yes there were tornado "touch n go's"

like 4 within 5 miles of our house....

One was 1 miles NW of our home....

Someone watches the radar on the tv

until the very last second....

After all 3 storms and all the hail passed....

Finally got to sleep....

Then the alarm goes off.

I hear thunder.

Seriously....

*SIGH*

Then hail.....

It hailed for a good 20 minutes...

Marble sized hail.

Then....

came  golf ball size hail

UGH!

We get an instant replay tonight.

Lucky Us....

May or May Not.....

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OK... now on with the show.

Going to link up with IA and Shawn for TTUT....

You should check them out...

Totally crazy Chickies I say!

Speaking of crazy....

I am so crazy far behind on blog posts....

I am not ever going to catch up!

SO.... that means today....

I may or may not be posting just a bunch of randomistic

junk that may or may not have happened...

I just can't remember!

Deal with it....

We may or may not have  had some friends over for Cinco De Mayo.

Had a taco bar thing going on...

OH... I made some of the most YUMMIEST enchiladas ever.

Funnest night in a while....

We may or may not have had way to many Margaritas.

Our blender will never be the same.

We may or may not have ended up drinking said Margaritas from penis shaped straws....

We may or may not have gotten a demo from a gay guy on how to "properly" suck on a penis straw....

We found a local fav place of ours does a Taco Tuesday....

Totally to die for!

As much as I love Mexican Food....

Nobody would possibly believe I am Canadian-French.

I may or may not have got my hair did....

It was about dang time.

I suck at taking self portraits....

Just sayin'

We may or may not have ended up at the annual mud bog again this year.

Just call me a redneck.... but I just love go to these things!

Yes we sit out in the middle of a cow pasture for hours and hours....

and watch silly boys men try to drive through 4 feet of mud!

The starting line....

Where this one ended up getting stuck half way through....

What it looked like after being towed out......

I may or may not have got totally to much sun and dirt that day....

 The wind was blowing 25+ mph

I am still peeling

 Sometimes trucks got stuck and had to be pulled out with the tractor....

And sometimes the tractor got stuck and had to be pulled out by the truck....

And sometimes....

The field got cleared out...

With everyone running to catch a glimpse help...

A truck rolling over and catching on fire.

No worries...

Nobody was hurt.

 The Hubs and I may or may not have started bowling on a FUN league on Wednesday nights....

This league does not award prizes at the end for the best....

But... we are in 2nd place and I am keeping track...

Yes I am a competitive biotch like that...

really though...

 it is a 9 pin no tap league with colorama twisted in.

That means.....

On your first ball if you hit 9 OR 10 pins....

it's a strike

Also, they have colored pins...

Depending where those pins are...

You can win some money.

I won $7 last week...WOOT WOOT

 I may or may not have had a couple few of these things while bowling last week....

I may or may not have posted "BJs and bowling balls" with this pic on my facebook....

I may or may not have removed it the next morning... lol

OK....

I think I am done boring you....

Now go link up and check out the others in TTUT!

Catchin' Up is Hard to Do!

There is no way I am ever going to get things caught up on the ol' blog.

I keep finding pictures on my phone and thinking....

OH, I was going to blog about that...

Then...

My work has been so crazy,

I don't have time on my lunch to post.

But things are slowly going back to normal.

I will be better.

I am going to sound like a broken record here... but please...

Go add your blog to my awesome bloggers tab.

These are the blogs I look through first.

These are the blogs I read when I am short on time...

This is where you can find other bloggers you might find awesome!

I have mentioned it before...

But for a while now...

I have been bowling on a league each Monday night.

A friend needed an extra person on a team.

I volunteered.

It was crazy times....

and very rough to keep up during tax season.

but worth it in the end...

The newly developed team of 4 strangers finished in first place.

AND I SUCK at bowling!

I do get lucky every now and again.....

Like in this no tap game...

I had my highest score ever bowling with the Hubs on Saturday!

Reality Check

First of....

Please go add your blog to my sweet readers tab :)

Much appreciated!

I have totally great intentions on being back to blogging regularly now...

Work has still got a death grip on me.
Grrrrrr

I had a really fun blog post planned for today.

Then something happened over the weekend....

AND

I must share.

For part of my Mother's Day....

I decided I wanted to go bowling with the kiddo and the hubs.

Rare thing for us to do something together.

The alley I bowl in...

They have 2 hour specials on the weekends.

From 6-8, 8-10, or 10-12.

8-10 it is....

Decided to go early so we could eat before.

They have the YUMMIEST food.

Screw the diet on bowling night....

Kobi decided she wanted to take a friend.

No problem.... But said friend was at a wedding and wasn't going to be at our house until 7:15.

Fine... take your own car.

At 7:30, I text Kobi.... yup the friend is running late.

8pm.... still no friend.

8:30...... I am extremely irritated.

8:45..... leaving rather she is there or not.

The friend finally showed up at 8:45.

The owner of the bowling alley said they could just do their 2 hours from 9:30-11:30.

I was still kind of hot under the collar. 

I mean, this was supposed to be a fun thing

for all of us....

So the girls leave....

On the way, Kobi called...

She was having issues getting through on the road.

It was blocked with 2 fire trucks and a bunch of cops.

I told her no worries, it was probably just a wreck.

Country back roads, people speed....

There is always an animal out somewhere on that road.

They finally made it through....

Everything worked out.

I was still kind of mad though...

That just took more time from our outting.

On the way home, there were news crews set up where Kobi had saw all the cops and fire trucks.

So I got home and looked on teh computer to see what had happened.

NOTHING

Sunday morning....

I found it.

A news story of what had happened.

After we had driven down that road to go to the bowling alley....

A gunman started shooting at a car as it passed.

Cops responded, a chase started,  a shootout happened....

The gunman dies.

If the girls saw fire trucks and cops....

and more cops on the way....

and no ambulance....

that means

IT HAD JUST HAPPENED!

I don't know about where you are...

but here, the fire trucks are first responders,

they get to the scene first.

Then EMSA(ambulance) comes in to transport.

The fire trucks usually leave once the ambulance arrives.

OOOHHHH MYYYYYY GOOOODNEESSSSS. 

THAT COULD HAVE SO BEEN ONE OF US!

I am so not a religious person.

But, I do believe in God.

AND

I do believe God made Kobi's friend late...

and kept them safe.

http://www.news9.com/story/18367161/police-shoot-kill-gunman-in-yukon-saturday-night

Kobi and I both get easily irritated when things do not go as planned.

So....

I asked her what our "life lesson" was out of this....

Her response....

"It's a good thing to be late".

UGH!

I told her....

It's ok if things do not go as planned.

God has a reason.

Just go with it.....

Hope your Mother's Day was as blessed as mine!

Life Happens

FIRST:  I would like to ask you to go add your blog to my sweet readers tab up there^^^^

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So help me out here...

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I have been meaning to start up the blog posts on a more regular basis since tax season is over.

However, life happens....

Work is more busy now than ever.

Kobi is now enrolled in college classes

(yes she is only 16 and will be a High School Sr. next year)

Kobi ran in her first 5K and placed 3rd in her age group!

We had a multi family garage sale....

Bowling is coming to an end

(Bowling in the Championship on Monday)

((Yes I am a nerd like that))

Yard work and house work has taken over the fun....

This weekend is Cinco De Mayo

any local peeps want to come...

hit me up.

I will try to post pictures.

Kobi went critter crazy....

While setting up for the garage sale, our neighbor brought over his sugar glider...

Kobi is DEATHLY afraid of birds.....

I was surprised she did this!

(she may or may not have tinkled in her panties here)

If Kobi could raise giraffes.... she would.

Always been a favorite animal of hers.

Now at our local zoo... they allow you to feed the giraffes.

She is lovin it! 

OH wait!  That's not one of Kobi's critter pics....

We caught Peter.

We are now rabbit free.

Yeah!

They were all turned out to explore the feild near our house.

NOW FOR MY RANT.....

The one year anniversary of THIS is approaching....

The tornado that came so close to our place....

Although it is only the cousin of a BFF of mine, who lost her babies....

It still haunts me.

I didn't even know her, or the children.

But they were just a few miles from my home.

I helped my BFF struggle through the situation...

Up on the phone  all night with her a couple of times....

both sitting on our own back porches...

miles apart...

drinking away our cares.

The deaths brought up alot for her.

She had not gone to a funeral since her daddy's funeral...

She wasn't going to go...

She didn't think she could handle it.

I am glad she did.

This event had a large impact on many people in the area....

The news stations are even starting to "remember" the anniversary of that horrible day...

http://kfor.com/2012/05/03/the-heroes-of-falcon-lake/

http://www.news9.com/category/116601/video-page?clipId=7055176&autostart=true

My BFF's cousin was pregnant at the time.

She took shelter in a bathtub with her other 3 children...

Pulled a mattress over top of them.

This is what we have always been told to do.

However, it just wasn't enough.

It's just not fair.

Every since then, every time I hear....

I took shelter the bathtub...

Or we went in the closet....

I cringe.

Get a storm shelter people.

Oklahoma is in freakin' tornado alley!

I see people spend money on vacations...

Expensive cars....

Swimming pools....

Shelters are not that expensive...

It could save the life of you or your child.

Don't wait until it's to late.



Everyone Likes Little Peter

A while back, the Hubs n I discovered we had a rabbit living under our deck.

Fine...

OH wait...

There are two of you...

Even though the veggie garden is gone this year...

I still don't want the bunnies around to munch on things

or poop in the yard

or torment our old blind dog with their scent.

So we tormented the bunnies.

Every time we saw them, we chased them with an air horn.

*smile*

No more bunnies.

So we thought.

THEN

I noticed the flowers in my flower bed were being ate up.

oh crap... they're back and they brought reinforcement.

That evening ....

this thing appeared on my back patio.

Isn't he just adorable?

So I left him be....

Sat down and with a drink and a smoke...

{yes I smoke... don't judge}

That was one stiff drink let me tell ya...

I started seeing double!

Ummmm Hello.... we have a problem here.

SO I did the most logical thing I knew...

I called my Momma.

Luckily, she was coming to the city the next day....

She brought me one of these....

 Well something pretty close to it....

I stuffed what seems to be their favorite in the cage....

Lots of honeysuckle flowers...

A few baby carrots also.

My Momma also told me I could catch it by hand
AND
Don't be afraid to hold it...
{like I was?}
She asured me that it would not bite...
But also avised to keep my finger out of it's mouth?
Just in case....

The next morning we had a bunny.

WOOT WOOT

The Hubs went and took him about 6 blocks away...

To a nice creek and park area.

Now to get the trap back out for number two.

Number two now has a name....

 Peter

{or little $hit}

kind of depends on who ya ask...

He has also eaten a half package of baby carrots.

He loves him some carrots.

I had to go get more yesterday!

Peter is so tiny, he doesn't trip the trap.

So every morning and evening...

and when ever I see the cage is empty....

I add 5-6 baby carrots.

I figured....

If I keep feeding him, he will eventually weigh enough

to trip the trap.

ALSO, by feeding him, he has left my flowers alone.

Peter is so tiny.

And fluffy.

And cute.

He eats every morning...

He will sit about 2 feet from the cage

while I put in more carrots...

Then hop right in and eat them.

Then he sleeps in the morning sun with a full belly.

Hopefully we can catch the little $hit Peter soon.

There is a sweet family down the road that wants to take care of him.

I am all for that.

I actually felt guilty coming to work today....

He so expects me to keep that trap full of carrots for him.


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TODAY is the DAY!!

Today is the day!
YES!

Finally!

Tax season will be officially over.

I can now get back to my regularly scheduled

blogging program....

LOL

If I had one.

Going to start by joining back in with Talk To Us Tuesday....

Adding a little Shawn & IA into the mix never hurt.

ALSO

Today I would like to point something out....

I have been slowly working on my blog.

I have a new tab up top^^^^^

It says "Sweet Readers".

Guess what!
That's you!

I have made this into a little linky page

so that you all can add a little pic and your name.

Kind of a new little meet and greet

for bloggers.

Pretty Kewl

Well I think so.

So go add yourself!
Have some fun checking everyone out!

Just don't look at my other tabs yet....

They are still in the works.

I will get there soon.

Fun & Games

If you live in Oklahoma, you will TOTALLY understand this post.

If you live elsewhere....

You will think I am totally nutso. {I am but that is beside the point}

Here in "the metro" we have been pumped with "be weather ready" tonight and FOR SURE tomorrow night.

This is how a true Oklahoma person will be handling this little situation....

We will have lawn chairs set up in the drive way----

about 5 feet from the cellar door.

We will have the garage tv on....

watching the weather.

And watching the actual skies...

Drinking

and

Smoking

Don't judge...

Gary England is a weather man for a local TV station.

He is a FAMOUS weather man.

We have a game we play when we watch him...

goes a little something like this.

Gary England Drinking Game

Pregame

1. Everyone selects a storm chaser other than Val Castor. Every time Gary talks to your storm chaser, you take one drink. Take two drinks every time we see footage from your storm chaser. Take four drinks if your storm chaser says "tornado on the ground."

2. Everyone selects a county other than Pottawatomie County. Every time Gary mentions your county, you take one drink. Take two drinks every time we see footage from your county. Take four drinks if a tornado touches down in your county.

One drink

1. Take one drink every time Gary says the following:

"Hook echo"

"Updraft"

"Metro"

"Doppler radar"

"Wall cloud"

"Ranger 9"

"Underground"

"Mobile home"

2. When Gary gives a list of counties, take one drink for every county in the list.

3. Take one drink every time Gary interrupts a program. Take one drink if Gary says "You're not missing any of [program name]." Take one drink when Gary says "We'll keep you advised."

Two drinks

1. Take two drinks every time Gary says the following:

"Baseball-sized hail"

"Waterloo Road"

"Pottawatomie County"

"Deer Creek High School"

2. Take two drinks every time Gary mentions the following towns:

Altus

Burns Flat

Dill City

Gotebo

Hydro

Lookeba

Meeker

Mulhall

Oktaha

Olustee

Shattuck

Slaughterville

Tryon

Vici

Waukomis

Wayne (or Payne)

Weleetka

Wetumkah

YES - we have awesome town names in our state

3. Take two drinks every time Gary talks to Val Castor.

Three drinks

1. Take three drinks if we see footage from Val Castor.

2. Take three drinks if we see footage from Pottawatomie County.

3. Take three drinks if Gary mentions the following:

"Immediate tornado precautions"

"National Weather Service"

"Mesocyclone"

"Portable Radio"

"Take shelter"

"Tornado warning in effect until ..."

Four drinks

1. Take four drinks if Ranger 9 must land to refuel.

2. Take four drinks if Gary issues his own tornado warning, not recognized by the NWS or says the following:

"Will someone please answer that phone?"

"Do you see power flashes?"

3. Take four drinks if a shirt-less tornado victim is interviewed.

Finish your drink

1. Finish your drink if someone uses the word tornado as a verb or if Gary mentions the nearest cross streets to you.

2. If Gary says "We've lost Val," pour a little out for your homies and finish your drink.

Basically, you are totally schanizzled by the time you have to get into your shelter....

It's totally better that way!

 

PS: OK... this is already getting out of hand... The schools have the kids all rattled up now... I just got a phone call from Kobi - making sure she wouldn't get hailed on while driving home....

She also asked what she should do if there is a tornado while she is at work.   I better grab some more to drink on the way home.  It may be a long weekend.

 

 

 

 

REALLY PEEPS?

Who the heck puts a prom in the middle of tax season??

Is some one trying to give me a nervous breakdown?

Well, I survived...

What a tricky, chaotic, but fun mess!

Here's my favorite pic from

last Friday night!

The end is near...

I will be back soon!

Time for a Quickie....

Time for a quickie on the lunch break!

Going to join IA & Shawn for a little TTUT.

You should too...

I am totally counting down the days until

HELL

tax season is over.

I have been doing great on my snacking and eating this year.

I am proud to announce, I will not be going up another size this year...

Like I have been every year for the past 3 years.

When I quit teaching I was a size 2-4ish....

Each year the middle has expanded.

Only the middle now... How odd am I...

My arms, legs and ass don't gain any inches.

I now struggle to wear my 10's now.

This weekend we went to the Heat-Thunder Basketball game.

TOTAL FUN!

We met some friends at Toby Keith's to eat and hung out in bricktown for a bit.

I totally figured out how to make people not notice my belly fat/muffin top....

Just let the girls hang out a bit!

oh don't you go all judgemental on me now....

It is Instant MAGIC!

Nobody notices the muffin top...

OR the circles embedded under the eyes thanks to tax season....

I totally got into the game and forgot to take more pics....

But yup... we were close.

ONE MORE THING....

Before I go...

Some of you already have...

But please go vote again.

HERE

For TYLER ZANDER...

You can vote every day :)

You can see my post about him

HERE.

On a Mission....

I am on a mission right now to help a local teen.

Well, local to where I grew up....

A television station in Oklahoma City gives away a "free ride" every year to a deserving teen.  It is a free car from a local dealership and a $25,000 college scholarship from a local bank.

Here is the link to the page for you to check it out....

http://www.koco.com/high-school-playbook/30612728/detail.html

I am asking all my bloggy friends to share however... facebook, blog or twitter...

But PLEASE go vote for Tyler Zander!

This young man lost a leg in a grain elevator accident, trying to save a coworker.... Here is his story from the Enid News & Eagle, written by Austin Prickett.

A full crowd was on hand Friday morning at Chisholm High School as Tyler Zander recalled Aug. 4, 2011 — a day that changed his life and that of another teen. Zander and Bryce Gannon both lost legs in a grain auger accident that day while working for Zaloudek Grain Co. in Kremlin. He presented his story and pictures to students, family and friends. Zander began the presentation by saying everyone seems to get the wrong idea about the accident.

“The lessons I have learned and the opportunities I have gained are so much more than a leg to me,” Zander said.

He said he remembers hearing Gannon yell out as he went into the auger, and after yelling to a co-worker to flip the emergency shut-off switch, Zander decided to help Gannon.“I just couldn’t stand there and watch,” Zander said. He then straddled the auger and began helping Gannon. Zander said he must have slipped in, because he soon felt himself pulled into the auger, too. The machinery was stopped, and paramedics and emergency responders were called in to the scene to extract the teens. Zander was stuck in the auger for an hour and 20 minutes. He said remembers seeing the bad expressions on the faces of emergency responders.

“That’s when I got calm,” Zander said. “I wasn’t worried. I kept thinking that I should be more worried.”As the emergency responders freed him, Zander described almost passing out from the pain. He was flown to OU Medical Center in Oklahoma City and given a 50/50 chance of surviving the accident. Zander suffered a split pelvis, multiple infections and a tear in his bladder. “My trauma surgeon told me my split pelvis was the worst he had ever seen,” Zander said. Though Zander said he felt hopeless at times, he stuck to a motto he heard from a fellow amputee: One more thing, one more time.“I was told I would be in the hospital for a year, but after two and a half months, I came home,” he said. Zander, who had been told he would be in a wheelchair for an extended period of time, is walking with the aid of crutches. “It was a reawakening at 17 years old. I realized I wasn’t in control of everything,” Zander said. One of the things he takes the most joy from is meeting with fellow amputees and helping them with their problems.“If this didn’t happen, I would have been someone who found happiness in the wrong things,” Zander said. Prior to the presentation, the crowd sang to Zander in celebration of his 18th birthday, which was Friday.Zander ended the presentation on an upbeat note.

          “It’s not what you see,” he said, “it’s how you see it.”

Now, here are some other links if you would like to see stories about this that was in the news.

http://enidnews.com/localnews/x541065053/Teens-critically-injured

Here are some pictures the local news paper posted that were taken by Cass Rains.

This is the story of his homecoming

http://enidnews.com/localnews/x1372397377/Tyler-returns-home-Injured-teen-welcomed-by-Chisholm-High-School-students

Did you follow all that?

If you are still here reading...

I THANK YOU!!!

Now PLEASE go vote for Tyler Zander!

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Please share!!!!