But last week I got to meet The Pioneer Woman!!! If you don't know who she is, you have to go check out her website. After you're done reading this post, of course.
Ree Drummond started her blog a few years ago, and has become a blogging celebrity. Her website has five different blogs ranging from her life on a cattle ranch to cooking to photography. Recently, she wrote a cookbook that is now a New York Times Bestseller.
So last Tuesday, she was coming to Dallas to sign her cookbooks, and a couple of friends and I wanted to go meet her because we love her recipes. It was an adventurous day because we had to be at the bookstore when it opened that morning to get a colored wristband to reserve a spot in line for that night. Confused yet? In retrospect, I am so glad we did this because, although we were in the first color group, we still had to wait an hour and a half to meet her. She ended up signing books until 2:30am!
Once we had a wristbands, we didn't have to show up until that night before it started. What a relief!
Finally, the Pioneer Woman herself came out, said a few words, and then got down to business signing all those cookbooks.
I am so glad I had friends there with me to talk to and eat with after we were done. It was such a fun night!
Erin, Carrie, Pamela, and me
waiting in line
The Borders employee who took our picture managed to completely leave Pamela out, but otherwise I think its a good picture. And, we spent all of ten seconds talking to her, but they were so worth it to have my cookbook autographed. :)
Believe it or not, I've never had a Christmas wreath to hang on my front door.
This year I saw a very easy tutorial online for a wreath made out of ornaments. Using a wire hanger we already had and a few tubes of dollar store ornaments, voila! My own wreath that the kids helped me make. It's not perfect, but it adds some festivity to our front door.
Click here to find the tutorial.
Now that we're snapping away with our new camera, we've caught some pretty funny pictures of faces. I couldn't resist posting a few of them.
I finally got Andrew to look at me when I told him the camera had turned blue.
My niece, Clara, on the trampoline at Thanksgiving.
What a surprise to wake up to snow flurries yesterday! We got all bundled up and went to check it out. Well, I stayed on the porch to keep the camera safe. The kids were really excited, and it was so pretty while it lasted.
Of course, we had to have hot cocoa once we were done. Corinne just wanted to eat her marshmallows.
...but a new camera will make a girl do crazy things.
Like take a bazillion pictures of her beautiful daughter eating yogurt.
Then share them with the internet.
Enjoy!
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