Meet The Parents

Steve met us at Ruby Tequila's for dinner. (I miss you so much Ruby!) Of course it was successful and my mother loves Steve. How could she not?

The next day Steve forced me out of bed around 6am. I was a little irritated because I wanted more sleep. BUT it was my idea to get donuts super early so they would be super fresh...I changed my mind when the alarm went off, but he wasn't having it. I was a little grumpy until I had my first bite of cherry donut.

The donuts were as good as I remembered, almost better. Steve did give me a few weird looks when he caught me whispering sweet nothings to them.

We spent the rest of the morning sleeping, getting ready, and doing pull ups. errr...attempting, in my case. Steve gave me the resistance bands to help. He included a disclaimer about not getting off of the bands too fast otherwise you'll end up whipping yourself. No problem! So I attempted, couldn't get past 90*, lowered, forgot about the bands and stepped off quickly. OMG. This was the most frightening things I've experienced this year! The band whipped the back of my legs, then managed to get wound up in my hair. It hurt so bad! But was also hilarious. I was so afraid we'd have to cut my hair, it was sound tight up to my head on the bottom. Steve saved the day by untangling my hair before I requested scissors.

And before I knew it, it was time for Meet The Parents Round 2. His parents are fantastic. They are really nice and gave further proof that I'm working with a good gene pool. Overall, it went well (despite my clamming up - nervous habit) and Steve said they liked me. #win

Next we headed over to hang out with Lindsey, Patrick, and meet baby Orion. I held him while he slept. He is so sweet and cute! I can't wait to see him again in a few months.

The rest of the afternoon was spent getting snow cones at Bahama Bucks, renting movies at Hastings, me managing to bust my face on a shelf while picking up a DVD, eating Sushi, and falling asleep to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. That movie was surprisingly good - I had to re watch it the next morning.

Sunday was very low key since I had an early afternoon flight. I was so sad to go, and it didn't help that my flight was delayed so I was just sitting in Amarillo, but unable to see Steve.

Awesome & Awkward Friday

What a wonderful week! (that might be a lie, I can hardly remember most of the days because I've been so busy) But I feel happy now, so I figure things must have gone well!

Linking up with Lauren to discuss.

•  I finally remembered to pick some of this up...and I love it!

• Running is finally going well. After weeks of no pain, I was finally able to work in more than one run. Working on rebuilding a base so I can rock some winter races!

• I practically spent the week in Mystic Falls. One of my fave things is sharing my fave things with others, and them liking it! Since I was able to recruit a more "believers" I celebrated by re watching Vampire Diaries season 1 this week.
• TVD season finale last night? INSANE! So many emotions! I can't wait for my fellow watchers to get caught up so I can discuss...since that will take a while there is a good chance I'll share my thoughts here in blog land.
• Beyonce cancelled a concert due to exhaustion (code word pregnancy). I started to worry that she would cancel the Houston show...and then I remembered that I wasn't able to get tickets. #fail
• And how could I go without mentioning how excited I am to see Steve next week!!!!

• Just because it makes me laugh:

The Weekend Of A Thousand Donuts

Technically 7 cherry donuts, a bite of a cherry cinnamon roll (pass), and almost two dozen donut holes.

Steve made all my dreams come true by feeding me donuts 3 times. He's the best.

Do you wanna know the best part about long distance relationships? You never get sick of the other person because you don't ever get to see them!

Kidding. I would love to see Steve everyday. But in this case the real best part is that Steve lives by Donut Stop, so I get to indulge in all of that goodness every other month. This may have contributed to my acceptance of the girlfriend offer.

After numerous flight delays that almost had me freaking out (who am I kidding, I was totally freaking) I FINALLLLLYYYYY made it to Amarillo!

Steve woke me up Thursday morning by wafting donuts in my face. Does it get any better than this? No, it really doesn't. I ate two donuts, then promptly slept until he came home for lunch. I really don't know how I managed that because I typically am always up early, even on the weekends. So now Steve thinks I'm a compulsive liar about my productivity levels.

After Steve went back to work my grandparents picked me up so I could spend a couple of days (really, like 1.5) with my family. We ate, ran errands, and I found a dress to wear to for the impending "meet the parents lunch" since the weather was much warmer than I had expected.

Baby Marsh 

Explaining to grandma how to take a picture. 

Thursday night Marsh came to Dalhart and we had dinner with the grandparents since Dad was surprised with a late work day. We even had time to get in a quick game of chicken foot...that I won. #likeaboss

After Dad got home we went over and met our niece Kimberly. She is such a doll. I loved holding and feeding her. Then I passed her off to Marshall, who looked like he was about to have a panic attack because he'd never held a baby. It was pretty funny.

Kimberly didn't seem too sure of me.

Friday I made waffles for G-ma & Papa because I'm basically the best ever. #firstnamegreatestlastnameever

And for lunch G-ma made my fave: roast. I haven't had that meal in over a year, so my stomach gladly welcomed it. And we had Christmas M&M's because that's how we roll at g-ma's house.

I spent the rest of the afternoon at my Mom's school so I could meet her co-workers to prove that 1.I do exist, 2. I am as wonderful as the pictures make me seem. Then I spent a little bit of time with Marsh before he had to head to work and the rest of the family headed to Amarillo to meet Steve.

*Cliff Hanger* How did dinner with my mom and Steve go? Does she dislike him because he was rude to me growing up? Or did he trick her into liking him with his good looks, much like he did me?

Snap Backs and Tattoos

Happy Bday B!

Back in April B has ventured into her 27th year. I'm glad she's able to test the waters a few months before I have to jump in!

We celebrated with a pub crawl: snap backs and tattoos were not optional.

I showed up after the party had already kicked off (I had a lot of errands to run that day) and without my snap back. Yeah, totally forgot to write that down on the errand list.

I caught up with the group at Little J's - a small bar off of Washington. B supplied the tattoo's and I got inked up. The weather was perfect so we spent most of our time on the patio hula hooping and playing Jenga.

Steady Hands Holly

After a few hours we moved to the next spot: Luke's Ice House. I really wish I would have ordered food here, but didn't think about it until B was ready to move to the next spot.
 

Ashley, Me, Brandon

Kat got B an awesome disposable camera that added birthday boarders.

Ashley, Taffan, Me, & Bob

I assisted B in walking the two blocks to Brixx (which I always thought was spelt Bricks) and bought us dinner. Something super healthy and classy like hot dogs, fried pickles, and mozzarella sticks with tons of water. The food options were limited, and not tasty at all.

Dinner...seriously not tasty

I suggested that we head to the tattoo parlor to comemortae the day, but B wasn't on board.

Ashley, Bob, Me, Taffs, B

I hung out all afternoon and decided to call it a night around 7:30...because I'm kind of lame.

Ashley, Me, Taffy, B

Awesome & Awkward Friday

FRIDAYYYYYYY! Is here. What a wonderful week. Knocked out some good workouts. Ate less sweets than usual. Missed spin both days because I couldn't manage to get out of bed before 6:30 :( But got in a run. Steve is here in two weeks!

Linking up with Lauren to share the highlights!

• Soooooooooooo, I got Justin Timberlake tickets! 

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• I showed Steve how to add emojis to his phone. And then he tried to mash them up with hastaging. #fail
• Made this:

• I read ahead 4 chapters (aka finished the book). Steve promptly kicked me out of book club. Who does he think he is? AND as punishment? He refuses to finish it so we can discuss all of my negative feelings about Daisy. 
• TVD: Seriously, can we just turn Matt into a vampire? I'm so over watching him get hurt and worrying if he's going to get killed off! I have way too many emotions linked to this show, and this is just making it worse! Can't wait for the season finale next week.