SWEET 16!!!

The only real excitement in my life right now is via the CYCLONES! It's been super fun (and expensive) going out and watching all of the games so far.

Last Sunday vs the Tarheels was no different.

My cheesy grin here captures how happy I was! What you can't see is that I was jumping up and down and shouting. Luckily, we were at the Field House with the ISU Alumni Association, so the majority of the people there were jumping and shouting. 

The Alumni guy gave us some pom-poms, but it was "unlucky" for me to hold them, so these girls did the job. Miller, my resident Hawkeye friend, was waving one too!

And here I am trying to pull it together. We took about 8 photos before we could get one right.

And yes, I know that I always have the same clothes on in all of the pictures. Yes, it's because I'm superstitious. No, I haven't washed any of it. No, I don't plan to. 

It's only crazy if it doesn't work, right?!

Whoops

Well, it seems I forgot to post all week. Not much happening, anyway.

This is the kick-off to Spring Break ice cream cup! :)

And here's the best two days on my calendar yet this year. We've been off yesterday and today, and I'm making the most of the two days. 

Yesterday we reserved the unconference room at the library and played a game called telestrations. It's kind of like telephone meets pictionary. It was really fun & there were lots of laughs at some of the drawings and guesses.

This is what everyone drew when the clue was "librarian."

Then we headed over to the Divergent movie premiere. We stood in line for 2 hours. Luckily, there were games and other activities.

These represented the 5 factions in the book/movie and the choosing bowls for the choosing ceremony.

There was also a fear wall, and a secret truth wall where people wrote their fears and truths.

This is a shot of everyone who was in line for the 8pm showing--it was sold out!

And here's our group. There were 17 teachers/students. It was a fun way to kick off Spring Break, even though the movie didn't quite live up to my expectations--the book is just so good.

And now, off to cheer for an ISU victory! (Wearing the same outfit, of course.)

Cyclones!

The Cyclones won the Big 12 Conference championship yesterday. Went out to watch the game with all my friends!

I'm a bit low on groceries--this was my late afternoon lunch of champions.

We were going to do some bowling before watching the game, but the bowling alley was crazy busy, so we went to do some indoor mini-golf instead. The place had moved to a new building we had never been to and it was quite the let-down. The old place was so much better. This picture is literally the entire mini-golf course. We were the coolest people over the age of 9, though.

My only other real Cyclone friend!

And one friend who is just really great and bought an ISU shirt at the secondhand store an hour earlier. I'll take it!

I bought us a victory shot after winning to thank all my great friends for coming out. This was half the group.

I spent all morning this morning watching videos of the trophy presentation & the post-game stuff. Too awesome. Now, to prepare for Friday!

I got a tattoo!

Okay. Its a fake one. But it's a fake one of the real one that I actually want. The internet lets you order anything, I swear. I'm thinking that I might just order 30 more fake ones instead of getting the real deal.

But I really, really love it.

Eats & Pets

These Dr. Pepper licorices were a tasty treat. I've now been 45 days without soda (except one minor slip up at the bar one night when I let a friend determine what we drank). This wasn't exactly a good substitute. Come April 5, I'm having a pop!

My dad whipped up this cherry vanilla frozen yogurt with his new ice cream machine last weekend. I could eat this every day.

Maxine was not wanting to get her picture taken.

She was much more interested in begging for food. 

I put these glow-in-the-dark footprint stickers on my bed when I was in elementary school. They are still there, and still bright. Best money my parents ever spent?

Grandma had her slides out. I don't know the last time I saw a slide!

So much good food. Probably the last day for soup for the season--bring on Spring!

A Pioneer Woman day: corn chowder & olive cheese bread. Two of life's better things.

On Monday I matched shoes with a 6th grader! Thanks, Target.

This is what happens when I don't want to get groceries: breakfast for every meal! However, eggs, turkey, bacon, tomatoes, and yellow peppers is a meal I could eat all the time. Except now I'm out of eggs...

Could I have a more handsome cat? 

Quite the Week!

Well, in case you haven't heard, Bobby Bones sent out my blog on Sunday afternoon. It has maxed out at about 16,300.

Read that again.

Yes, 16,300. Plus a few. It's still been climbing about 30 per day since slowing down on Tuesday.

To put that in perspective, the majority of my posts don't get to 30. Many of them are lucky to get to 10. The only way I break 10 is if I share it on my Facebook page & make it look real pretty.

If you listen at about the 6:10 mark of the clip below, Bobby asks everyone if they read it. Amy says that she thinks it was so funny! He doesn't mention my name or Katie's name, and the clip is only about 8 seconds, but still. Did I mention he is winning an ACM for national on-air personality of the year?!





Alright...enough about Bobby Bones.

Here are a few pictures from the week...hopefully they aren't seen by 16,000 people.

Our little adventure to the curling club got Miller her picture in the paper! Score!

One of the kids at school read the first Little Sister book. Luckily for her, these were some of my FAVORITE books and I own many of them, including this one, which she borrowed. The inside of this thing is as yellow as a book can get. 

I don't really love getting mail, but this was a fun package to get--our Live Healthy Iowa challenge t-shirts. I could always handle getting mail addressed to the Gym Class Heroines.

I was really hungry tonight, so after I ate some eggs, I remembered that I bought some popcorn. What I didn't know was that I accidentally bought the single serving size bags. This was hardly even a sample of popcorn. Which means I'm still hungry.

Pacino loves leaving presents in the sink(s) while I'm at work. This picture is from a few days ago. Today, this same brown mouse & a white one were in the bathroom sink. He's so thoughtful.

Carrot cake m&m's...these were awesome. And healthy? Carrots?

My leg has a very strange bump on it from skiing. I'm thinking that its just because the bruise was so deep in my shin bone and that this is part of it's healing process. But, it is causing me to have some severe shin splints when I run. Which is problematic, because I already hate running. Excruciating pain makes it even worse, hence, the alcoholic ice pack.

Madison Wisconsin, Part Two

I had to write a second post about our little trip to Madison to recount the fun adventures we had besides meeting Bobby Bones, which was obviously the best adventure. I sent that previous post to Bobby & Eddie on Twitter, and it now has over 85 hits. Famous!

Here are some other pictures from the trip:

Yes, I did take this whole suitcase for a 24 hour trip. I couldn't decide what to wear, so I had to pack lots of options. At the last minute I found a shirt I had to have bought early last Fall that still had the tags on it. (This is why I'm not buying any clothes until after my birthday.) Then, I ended up wearing that and didn't need the other 18 options I packed. One can never be too sure when meeting famous people.

Fancy toilet paper always cracks me up.

We are such grandmas: the guys working at the front desk at the hotel gave us free cookies & tea when we got there. They were the first of many helpful, kind people. 

The menu at Gray's Tied House where we ate and watched the concert was intense.

We figured we had to do one Wisconsin-ish thing while we were there, so cheese curds were the easy choice. These things were melt-in-your-mouth delicious. 

On the way back, we stopped in Mt. Horeb, WI which for some reason has a lot of trolls in their downtown. Naturally, we had to tromp through the snow to get some pictures. There were also a few gift shops that we stopped in. This sign was hilarious.

We also stopped at the cutest little tea shop in downtown Madison and got some seriously awesome tea.

I loved this little milk carton that was at the hotel for breakfast. It reminded me of being in elementary school. And, I even got it open on the first try!

We made a stop in at Trader Joe's to get some treats. 

The troll house inbetween the two gift shops we went in to.

This was one of the gift shops. It was a little scary, and FULL of trolls and Norwegian things. 

And here are all of my treats from the trip: two new teas, some specialty beers & a cherry cola, agave nectar, chocolate covered blueberries and cherries, and a bottle of honey. 

And, finally, here is the picture that was taken by the radio station at the meet-and-greet. 

We could not be ANY cuter.