heat warning

The weather forecast for this week...

I copied this off our local weather channel forecast:

An Excessive Heat Warning has been posted throughout West and Central OK through at least tomorrow evening.  The combination of high temps + high humidity = feels like temps between 105 - 115 each day for the rest of this week and probably through this upcoming weekend. A weak cool front will try to push south into northern and central Oklahoma on Thursday with a slight chance for t'storms but not much if any cooling this far south.

The heat goes on next week. Eventually the atmosphere will dry out so the heat index will drop...but then the actual air temps will rise. It's a trade off. So in a nut shell, it just stays hot with little chance for rain and or relief.  Please remember your summer heat safety tips because this heat can be dangerous if not taken seriously. Don't leave kids or pets in parked cars for any period of time!

Holy popsicles... seriously!  I think Mother Nature is trying to make everyone in Oklahoma melt or something, geez.  This is really ridiculous if you ask me.

I think now would be the perfect time to own a snowcone machine.  What do you think?  Oh come on... who remembers the Snoppy Snow Cone Maker?  Talk about totally awesome back then.  Oh how I begged & begged for one of these back n the day, but nope... never got one.  Dad would always say "you don't need that".  Well of course I didn't need it... I mean what child really needed anything, right?  I wanted it real bad though!  I think I'm scarred for life... because still to this day, I want one... just maybe a bigger more adult version though.  Those little mini snowcones wouldn't work for me now days.

Even though little miss Kayla isn't here yet... I think she would want a Snoppy Snow Cone Maker... maybe I better start my search for one.  I wouldn't want her to still be scarred from not having one 33 years later.  I'm going to add that to my list of things my child shouldn't live without.

I'm totally normal, I promise.

bugs be gone

So this morning started off like any other typical work day, until the bug people came to spray our building for bugs.

The smell was atrocious!  Within a few short minutes it started to affect me in horrible ways.  Light headed, dizzy-ness, felt sick to my stomach then a headache.  Apparently at some point I passed out/blacked out for a brief minute.

What good is it to be at work when you can't function?

I left for about 2 hours in hopes the air would be clear when I returned.  A fan was placed in my office & doors were opened to help clear the smell out of the building while I was gone.

After a brunch date with my sweetheart at Cattlemen's & returning back to work with the air smelling fresh again... well then I needed a damn nap.  Go figure.

I feel completely worthless somedays because all I want to do is sleep.  What happened to my energy?  Where did it go?  Is baby Kayla stealing it from me or what?  Well if she is, I want it back!  It's just hard to function all day long when your eyes keep trying to close on you.  I swear if I could somehow sneak an hour nap in during work hours I would do it & it would make me function a lot better in the afternoons.

Go figure we have errands to run tonight too.  Wal-Mart here we come!  Again!  I swear we should have some automatic Wal-Mart discount card for shopping there so much.  It's almost like we live there.  It's really bad when you have every single aisle memorized & can assist other shoppers in their search for items in the store.  That might be the first sign of going to Wal-Mart to often.  Who knows.

sticky bugs

It's sticky bug season again & oh how I hate them!  They're real name is June Bug... but I call them sticky bugs because if they land on you they seem to just stick.  Yuck!  For some reason they like to land in my hair & that's just totally gross if you ask me.

They should actually be called drunk sticky bugs.  The fly around like they are completely lost & in an erratic flight motion.  Completely crazy.  So it just appears they've had to much to drink & can't seem to fly straight to save their life.

Wish there was some type of automatic air mist spray you could put outside that would keep them away from the surrounding areas of your home.  That would be ideal.

I wonder where in the world they got their name at anyways.  I mean it's not June... it's July for Heaven's sake.  Maybe June is when they first start really showing up, BUT... I think that they should all expire by the last day of June if that's the case.  On the last day of June they could all just explode into a thin powder or something.  That would be awesome if we only had to deal with them for a month then POOF they are gone!

no more dress shopping

Come on & say it with me... Hallelujah!  I don't have to go dress shopping anymore.  After trying on about 50 billion dresses, last Wednesday night I officially purchased the dress I will be wearing to walk down the aisle.  Thanks to my bff Kat driving all the way from Stillwater to assist me in this process.  Otherwise I probably would've backed out & not gone to try on dresses that night.

I was completely worn out when we were done & towards the end I was starting to get grumpy/bitchy & to top it off I was hungry too.  Not a good combo.

I had to order the dress, it should hopefully (everyone please cross your fingers) be in next week.  It needs a few alterations done but other than that... it's great.  Yes, I still feel like a hippo in it... BUT... a smaller hippo then I felt like in some of the other dresses I tried on before.  Hopefully Fred likes it once he sees it.  The dress is simple, but cute.  Not a lot of fabric to trip over or mess with, which is the best part for me.  We all know I'm not exactly what you would call the most graceful person.

Now I will have to go shoe shopping... urgh.  I dread that almost as much as dress shopping, but hopefully it won't be that bad.

One major accomplishment this week was I finally was able to get all my invitations sent out for our wedding reception... that's a huge relief.  Although we still have to finish registering, so I'm hoping we can get that finished up this afternoon sometime & that will be one more thing to cross off the list!

I still have a long list of things to still take care of between now & wedding day, but hopefully everything will all come together fairly well.

I Pray For You

The other day while driving to work I heard this song on the radio.  At first I thought it was a religous country song because it started out like that, but when the chorus came, I almost wrecked I was laughing so hard.

This is funny... I just had to share the lyrics.

I Pray For You
by Jaron and The Long Road to Love

I havent been to church since I don’t remember when
Things were goin’ great ‘til they fell apart again
So I listened to the preacher as he told me what to do
He said you can’t go hatin’ others who have done wrong to you
Sometimes we get angry, but we must not condemn
Let the good Lord do His job and you just pray for them

I pray your brakes go out runnin’ down a hill
I pray a flowerpot falls from a window sill and knocks you in the head like I’d like to
I pray your birthday comes and nobody calls
I pray you’re flyin’ high when your engine stalls
I pray all your dreams never come true
Just know whereever you are honey, I pray for you

I’m really glad I found my way to church
‘Cause I’m already feelin’ better and I thank God for the words
Yeah I’m goin’ take the high road
And do what the preacher told me to do
You keep messin’ up and I’ll keep prayin’ for you

I pray your tire blows out at 110
I pray you pass out drunk with your best friend and wake up with his and her tattoos

I pray your brakes go out runnin’ down a hill
I pray a flowerpot falls from a window sill and knocks you in the head like I’d like to
I pray your birthday comes and nobody calls
I pray you’re flyin’ high when your engine stalls
I pray all your dreams never come true
Just know whereever you are, near or far, in your house or in your car,
wherever you are honey, I pray for you.
I pray for you

the results are in

Well the results are in... we went yesterday morning for the ultra sound & it's officially a girl !!

The ultra sound lady said baby Kayla is looking good so far, which is what matters most.  I was shocked at how much Kayla has grown just since the last ultra sound I had several weeks ago.  We have ultra sound pics which I will post later this week, because I haven't had a chance to scan them on to the computer just yet. Way too many things going on all at the same time.

I've been working on invitations to our wedding reception & trying to wrap my brain around everything I have to get done in just a short amount of time.

Monday I was off work.  My bff Kat & I decided to do some wedding dress shopping & well that didn't exactly go in my favor.  Talk about depressing.  Really depressing.  Every dress I tried on, I felt like an over sized water bufalo.  I was ready to throw in the towel & not walk down the aisle at all by the time I got back home.  All the dresses were more expensive then what I have in my budget to spend right now & the fact that I'm 19 weeks prego & feel like I've gained one million pounds already didn't help my confidence either.  Looking in the mirror after putting on a dress just made me wanna cry at the thought of actually walking out in in front of anyone, especially down the aisle towards my future husband & wondering what he his first reaction would be.  I would like there to be tears of happiness not tears of laughter in his eyes.

My massive chest size isn't helping me at all either.  AND they continue to grow, I'm not even sure what size comes next.  It doesn't help that my chest size has never fit my body to begin with but now that things are growing & swelling... my boobs have decided to jump a whole size & continue on the up hill walk to the next size it appears.  Just great I tell ya.  If anyone is considering implants, don't do it... I will be more than willing to donate after baby Kayla gets here.

On a positive note...

Last weekend was 4th of July weekend, which equals 3 day weekend, which also equals AWESOME!

I love days off work that we still get paid for... I mean who doesn't?

We had two birthday parties to attend.  Burgandi Dawn, my bff Kat's daughter who she named after me because she just loves me oh so much!  Burgandi turned 12 which I'm still thinking can't be right & we need to double check her birth certificate on that one... that makes me feel old.  Emily (Fred's niece) turned 2 & we had pizza Sunday night to celebrate hers.  She's an absolute doll too!

4th of July night... we didn't go watch fireworks or anything crazy like that.  We got home from a long day out & about everywhere, we worked on invitations, watched some tv & that was the extent of our fun for the evening.  Mother Nature fell off her rocking chair & made it pour rain most of the day anyways, so it was kinda yuck to be hanging outside.  At least she did remember to stop the rain long enough so Edmond could have their fireworks show.  I heard it was good.

I went to bed at 11:00pm last night but I'm thinking I should have been in bed around 9:00pm instead.  I'm absolutely worn smooth out today.  I actually dozed off a few times reading emails & I'm not even half way thru the work day yet.  All I can think about is going home after work & taking a nap.  Except that won't happen, otherwise I won't get the invitations finished up & ready to mail out tomorrow & along with having a rodeo meeting tomorrow night (which I'm debating whether I will attend or not) I also have a Jr Rodeo this weekend.  Neither of which I'm prepared for yet.

There is rain in the forecast for Thursday/Friday though... so I'm keeping my fingers crossed the rodeo gets rained out & I won't have to stress out about getting everything ready for that.  Between now, our wedding & reception... we have two rodeo weekends.  How crazy is that.  Just shoot me now please.

I'm day dreaming of a hot meal waiting & a fluffed pillow for me to pass out on when I get home tonight.

Oh I dream big, I know.  But it never hurts to dream right.

I’m Just a Farmer, Plain and Simple

I read this poem on someone else's blog & I really liked it, so I thought I would share.

I’m Just a Farmer, Plain and Simple
By Bobby Collier Adapted by Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation

I’m just a farmer, plain and simple.
Not of royal birth, but rather a worker of the earth.
I know not of riches, but rather of patches on my britches

I’m just a farmer, plain and simple.
I know of drought and rain, of pleasure and pain.
I know the good, the bad, the happy and the sad.

I’m a man of emotions
A man who loves this land and the beauty of its sand.
I’m just a farmer, plain and simple.

I know the spring’s fresh flow and autumn’s golden glow.
Of a new born calf’s hesitation and an eagle’s destination.
I’m just a farmer, plain and simple.

I know of tall pines and long waiting lines.
I know the warmth of campfires and the agony of flat tires.
I’m just a farmer, plain and simple.

I’m a man who loves his job
And the life that I live.
I’m just a farmer, plain and simple

And I’m a reaper of harvest
I’m the sower of seeds and I’m the tender of stock.
I’m just a farmer, plain and simple.

I know of planting corn and bailing hay and animals going astray.
I live in a complex world, but my faith guides me.
I’m just a farmer, plain and simple.

I am a man who works with God. I cannot succeed without his help.
For you see, I’m just a farmer, plain and simple