outtakes

This was one of the first pictures that Shannon snapped during our engagement photo session. I think we were pretending to look longingly into each others eyes and just started cracking up.

"What do we do?????" we kept on asking her. Shannon is so patient and so kind and she just let us get our giggles out until we found our "groove" (which may or may have not been helped out by a few glasses of champagne--just sayin')

I might be horse laughing just a weeee tiddly bit but I still like this picture. It's so very "us".

And then there is our Stetson Cologne ad.
Andrew was really nervous about taking pictures (I still can't believe I convinced him to do it) so I told him to just pretend like he was a model and be uber confident. Easy, right?

The outcome: a Stetson man was born. Eat your heart out Tom Brady. You ain't got nothin' on us.

I think I was trying to look "cool" and off camera but the whole thing just made us roll laughing when we saw it.

keep it real, folks and happy thursday.

"you guys are weird"

how creepy is this picture? I got carried away on Photobucket.

I usually have the lamest Halloweens. I haven't dressed up in years. Andrew doesn't really get into Halloween anymore either. I don't even remember what we did last year? (I know..you're thinking....that cat really is beautiful. I don't lie, people.)

This year, we were planning on our usually boring-ness of watching movies at home alone except we forgot that we signed ourselves up for the 4-H Haunted Forest that was being held on the farm.

We begrudgingly started to get ready, complaining about how we just weren't in the mood to dress up and stand in the woods scaring people. I started putting on baby powder and smudging red lipstick around my eyes when I noticed something...

I was getting into this. And the more makeup I put on the more I got into character as a crazy mountain woman. (probably didn't have to reach far)

Andrew had the same experience. We were practicing how we were going to scare people in the mirror while contemplating whether Andrew should have a scar on his neck or his eye.

We were in a geeked out world and it was the best thing ever. We thought we would really scare the little kids at the barn, but when we put it to the test on a little girl she just stared and said, "you guys are weird."

hope you had a spooky weekend too. :)

circa 2006-the last time I remember dressing up. I don't miss those awkward moments of being in a bar and realizing that you are dressed as a sexy flight attendant for one second. Now THAT's weird.

you should hang out with us on Saturday nights

We cranked out the fun factory on Saturday night.

Who needs to go out in the big city when you can stay snug at home and have a good ole' fashioned Yahtzee tournament.

We played about 10 games. (that's a lot of Yahtzee for me..short attention span)

These next 2 pictures are from games where I was winning. Odd that I only took pictures of these? Nahhh girl.

Things to know about.

1. I am not good at math. Yes, I somehow made it through college, many tutor sessions later, but I also developed a "fluster", as I like to call it, when I have to do math on the spot in front of someone. I just get sweaty and the walls start to close in on me. (deep, deep rooted math issues here. years of therapy awaiting me.)
Andrew is working on not calling me his 5 year old nieces name when I don't blurt out the sum of 6+3+5+1+6 .....(brainnn poweerrrrr.....mmmm..21?)

pain. emotion. embarrassment. somehow I get through.

2. Who uses the cup? I think it's unneccessary and would probably make fun of you to your face if you played with a cup in my tournamnt. And I can do that because sh%# talkin' is fair game in my professional Yahtzee tournament.

3. This was "Amazing fruit punch, Valerie. No really, taste it. Ohhhh. This is so good." I don't know why I found it so funy, but I did. Maybe you had to be there.

4. Crappy coffee table shelf full o'stuff I need to organize.

THEN THINGS GOT CRAZY NEAR ROUND 8 (or was it 4?)

We brought out the CORNBREAD and homemade HONEY BUTTER. (whattttt? yes, we did.)

I popped open a bottle of gingerale and things got all loosey goosey.

(gross. Who wants to bet we dropped this knife on the floor and continued to eat off it?)

but in the last rounds....I started to get tired. And my attention span was on a rapid decline......

We ended up tying in a sudden death face off on Sunday afternoon.

Until next time......