Your'e Never Too Old To Dress Up For Holidays

I worked on Halloween this year and we were encouraged to dress up in costume.  I hadn't planned on dressing up so i had no costume ready, so last minute I pulled together this little number.

I wore Cody's chaps and spurs, which i quickly found are not the most comfortable thing to be wearing when walking for 5 and a half hours.  

Despite the sores on my feet when i got home, I did get many complements on my costume, and even had an older gentlemen follow me around for a long while telling me about his days as a bull rider and shooting.  Im guessing he assumed by my outfit that I was into that sort of thing? Or enjoyed hearing other people's stories about that sort of thing?  
 

Halloween Nails

For Halloween I painted my nails.  I think they turned out kind of cool!
 

Pumpkin Carving

Tonight we carved Pumpkins with my sister-in-law Kory and our nieces.  We went to a pumpkin patch and got to pick out our pumpkins.  Our nieces got tiny pumpkins and painted them, while the adults carved.

Cody and Steve gutting their pumpkins.

Cody wanted to carve a diesel truck, so I found a picture of one online and played with the black and white saturation. It turned out great!

Kory told the boys before started that she'd kill them if they broke her knives.  Not 10 minutes later I managed to break one of her knives in half inside my pumpkin! Whoops!

Cody's truck turned out really good, he used toothpicks to make the grill.  Unfortunately before I took this picture some of the grill caved in.

I started out carving a really cook spider in a web, but quickly learned the web was too intricate for me.  The carving kit we bought came with a book of patterns, so I ended up just picking one of them.  

The sky is falling!

Sunday night my roommate noticed water dripping from one of the lights in the kitchen. We figured out it was coming from the upstairs bathroom, but we couldn't find a leak anywhere! I called the plumber and it turns out, the upstairs toilet was leaking, but into the tiles and through the floor, so no one noticed a leak until i t started coming out our ceiling. He fixed the toilet for $433, but wanted $1,960 to fix the ceiling. Lucky for us, Cowboy can fix it for under $100!

We made a huge mess. Making the mess was much more fun than cleaning it up was.

.Ramzi

Gone Shooting

Yesterday Cowboy, brother, two of cowboy's friends, and I went shooting. We shot shotguns and my dad's glock. We shot at clay pigeons and i shot one on my second try with the shotgun! We played some shooting game, and i ended up getting brother and one of cody's friends out by shooting a piece of the broken skeet just before it hit the ground..granted it was mostly dumb luck. My shoulder is super sore now,i can barely raise my arm, but it was still fun.

.Ramzi

Be Mine, Valentine.

This valentines day was the best ever! Didn't do anything too fancy, but spent it with my boy, and it was awesome!

Cowboy bought me my own candy machine. It might be a tad juvenile that I still get excited about putting a coin into the machine, twisting it, and having my hand filled with delicious chocolate, but, it excites me. The idea of having a candy machine in my living room, with the candy of my choice makes me a little happy. And i just think it looks cool.

He even filled it with candy for me, and left me plenty of coins to enjoy.

Cody has a playing card collection, so I customized a deck of cards with his favorite picture.

I also took a regular deck and on each card i wrote something i love about him.

Cody took me to see the vow! i have been wanting to see this movie since i heard it was coming out, and he remembered and took me, even though it was not his kind of movie. bless his heart.

For dinner he surprised me with a pizza, cut into the shape of a heart! <3 what a sweet heart.

Best Valentines Ever!!

.Ramzi

Ugly Duckling Syndrome

For those who have never heard of Ugly Duckling Syndrome , Urban Dictionary explains it quite appropriately as:

A Girl who grew up all her life unattractive until High School or College when she then "Blossomed" into a really hot girl. Unlike naturally pretty girls though, her self-esteem is pretty low (As it'll almost permanently be for life) but, she has a good heart, personality, and soul because that's all she could afford to have when she was unattractive.

Why am i bringing this up you ask? Because the other day my 13 year old sister came to the conclusion that we are both sufferers of Ugly Ducking Syndrome.

I was talking to her on the phone and mid sentence she burst out laughing.

Yez: HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

Me: What?

Yez: HAHAH, wooh, He he he, wahha *starts choking on laughs*

Me: Calm down and tell me what is so funny!

Yez, hahahahah, hahaha, haha, hah, ha... I Just saw the most awkward picture of you ever! You're wearing blue pants that are an awkward length, and a black shirt that isnt... flattering, and one of those weird hats with no tops! Hahaha.

Me: Send me the picture i want to see it!

Yez: Ok, its really funny. If you look at your face you look really pretty, but if you look at your body... it just dosn't match!

Me: Yez, i think that is the meanest thing you have ever said! (In a joking manner)

Yez: I didnt mean to be mean.... it was just your awkward stage.... you grew out of it! ..... I had one too!

Here is the picture that caused so much laughter. Unfortunate proof of my extremely awkward stage that lasted from 4th grade until senior year of high school. But hey, at least i grew out of it!

.Ramzi