My Weekend

Happy Monday!

I wasn't really looking forward to this weekend since Mitch was working, but it turned out to be a lot of fun! Friday when I got off at 3, I met my mom and we went to Affair of the Heart. It is held in the expo center and is a huge craft fair!! They have so many neat things and I could of spent all day there!

Saturday, Mitch came home in the morning, went right to bed and I actually got up early and was very productive. I got my nails done, picked up Bella, made a trip to Walmart and cleaned the house! By then, Mitch was up and I spend the rest of the afternoon with him. Later that night, Natalie came over and we went to dinner and just hung out at the house. I also got my chairs back.. long story short... I have never been a huge fan of our dining room table. It was my parents when they got married and it has just been scratched up a lot during the move. So we have been trying to decide what to do. We don't really want to get another one until we have a family and are actually going to invest money in a nice one, once we are all settled somewhere. The one we have now works fine for us and our situation, it is just looking kind of banged up. So I was talking to one of my moms friends and she was having the same problem, she didn't want to buy a whole new table and chairs so she had a decorator come out and she said she has been refinishing the chairs and it makes a huge difference and gives the table a whole new look. She showed me a picture of hers and it was almost identical to ours. So I decided that was the way to go. It made ours look a lot nicer without having to invest in a nice table or something to get us buy for the next few years. I am just in love with the way they turned out!

They look awesome with my distressed red china hutch and my distressed cabinets!

Sunday, I left early for church since the Route 66 marathon was going on downtown and since I was by myself. We were told Sunday a certain road as suppose to be open and that was the road we always take so I wasn't worried about anything. Well when I took the exit, it was all blocked off... just my luck. I drove around for 30 minutes, all over downtown and never made it. I stopped to asked how to get to First Baptist and no one knew how to access it with all the roads being blocked off around it. So I headed home and unfortunately didn't make it to church. Later that morning, I went back to Affair of the Heart with Natalie and made some more purchases. I wish they would do stuff like that more often in Tulsa. Here are some of my favorite purchases from this weekend...

New monogrammed phone cover!

I got a few of these necklaces in different colors. I just LOVE them! And my favorite.. Thunder scarf!

There was a booth that had OPI Nail polish for $3.00! So I stocked up and painted my nails with two of my new colors!

Today, I worked and did some last minute packing. We are headed to Colorado for Thanksgiving!!! I'll leave you with a picture of my class!! We were on our way to our "Thanksgiving Feast"! Aren't they cute??

Have a Happy Thanksgiving y'all!! 

Urgent Care Visit and OSU Game

So this has been an interesting few days. In my last post, I mentioned I have been feeling a little "under the weather" last week and well I ended up in Urgent Care Thursday night and got some news I was not expecting.

So, two weeks ago I started feeling really sick to my stomach and having severe headaches. I had no idea what was going on and about 10 days ago I started to get this small bump on the side of my bottom lip. Well I wasn't thinking this was all connected.. Mitch and I both thought I was developing a fever blister. We thought it was weird, because I have never had a fever blister in my life. I complained for days on how bad it hurt and how it wasn't just the blister that hurt, but it was the whole area around it. It was burning, itching and just really painful! I had no idea fever blisters were like this. So by Tuesday of last week, it was soooo bad I decided to go buy the expensive cold sore medicine... it was a TINY little bottle about that size of my pinky and it was $25! I was convinced it would heal me fast. Well it only got worse and by that night I had a bad ear ache as well. I was able to work through Thursday, but felt absolutely horrible!! I would come home and go straight to bed.

So Thursday night, I had plans to go to The Market Open House with my mom and grandma and so I decided to try and go and the whole time I was miserable. My ear was killing me and my mom told me earlier in the night when I was little I had severe ear infections and since I was around kids so much, she thought I should get it checked out and I was all for it because I knew I needed some kind of medicine. Thursday while I was getting ready to go meet my mom for the Open House, I noticed the area around my chin and up my cheek had bumps all over it. I knew fever blisters were contagious, but I didn't know it was going to be that bad that fast. So after the open house around 9:00 that night my mom took me in to get my ear checked out and I decided to ask the doctor about my face as well.

Well come to find out, I have shingles! I was shocked and kept asking "are you sure" ha! It nailed all my symptoms perfectly and then when he started explaining it all to me it made sense. They are a virus from chicken pox and they said it is more likely you will get them if you had chicken pox when you were under one and I was 8 months old when I had them. They usually connect to a nerve and make a straight line- mine happened to start at my chin and go up to my ear (hints all my ear pain). Now I don't want to speak too soon, but as of now they haven't made it all the way up my face. They are just up to my nose and the doc thinks we caught it early enough where he thinks he shouldn't spread that far, but unfortuntly the pain will be there still. And let me tell you.... this is one of the worst pains I have EVER experienced!!!  It is horrible and I am on more medicine that I know what to do with. I have to set my alarm and take 3 pills every 2 hours on top of my 5 pill steroid and pain pills. The only thing bad about the pain pill is that is is so strong I can't take it during the day unless I plan on sleeping all day, which has been mainly what Ive been doing. But that is the only thing that will help my pain and I can't take it then go to school, plus I am still contagious.

So thats my long story about our fun weekend. We did make it to the OSU game- I wanted Mitch to go and I thought if i got to feeling that bad I could go over to my grandmas. I made it through the game, but came home and was in bed by 7:30. I think it took it all out of me. I spent all yesterday and today back in bed. I am going to be at home again tomorrow, but praying I can make it back by Wednesday, especially since this our last few days before Thanksgiving break!

Summer and I at the game! 

I had planned on putting all our Christmas decorations up and was disappointed we didn't do it this weekend, so when Mitch got up today he got it all down and he helped my put the tree up! I was feeling okay to just do the tree, but the mantel and other stuff will have to wait (I think I have a new idea for our mantel this year anyways). I am happy to at least get the tree up. I love decorating for the holidays and I like my house to be all decorated before Thanksgiving so we can enjoy it and since we are going to be in Colorado next week I really wanted to get it done! I know some people think it is "rushing" the holidays, but I work so hard on getting the decorations up and honestly I just love having them up for more than month. I like the feeling of coming home to a christmas tree and it makes me so excited for this time of year!

I hope y'all are having a good week and would appreciate some prayers if you think about it. I am SO ready to be over this and feel back to normal again. Thanks!

Election Day

This was my second presidential election to be a part of and let me tell you, it was way more involved than 4 years ago. Last election I was a junior in college and I voted by absentee ballot and that was the way to go ha! They sent me all my stuff in a large envelope and I filled it out and mailed it back. Super easy.
Well this year not only did we have to deal with lines, the lobby of my school was a polling pace, so it was CRAZY! Unfortunately it was not my polling place (that would of been so nice for me) we were at some church in Bixby. But Monday afternoon we had a meeting to go over all the rules and procedures since "strangers" were going to be in our school. Out of all 6 buildings at our West campus, ours building with the smallest parking lot, was chose to be the polling place. Also on top of that, my teacher was gone for a meeting, so I was able to run the class, which I do love, but it was just a crazy day!
We had new "routes" to get places, we had to go to the bathroom with every child and I could go on forever. I LOVE that our school takes such extreme precaution for our kids, but it just makes for a busy day. After going through that, I highly think schools should not be polling places! It is too much of a risk, especially for small kids like that. I didn't realize how much preparation it takes for everyone in the school to make it go smooth and a safe place for our kids.

I got out a little later than usual since my teacher was gone, and I waited with every kid that was being picked up in the office until their parents came. Our lobby was so crowded with voters. But when I got off, Mitch and I went to vote. We had to wait a little over an hour. When we pulled up and saw the line out the church doors and to the street it was so hard not to drive away, but I know this is a privilege and it was something we both wanted to do.

We finally made it home and Katie and Tommy came over to watch the Thunder game. We would flip back and fourth between the game and the election coverage. Mitch cooked a big brisket in the crock pot all day and made it into BBQ. It was sooo good! He also made homemade ice cream. I laughed when he told me because it is freezing outside, but if you know Mitch at all- he LOVES his ice cream ha!

I have been feeling pretty under the weather this week and yesterday it got really bad. Everyone told me my first year working in an elementary school will be rough and they said just expect to be sick. I had no clue it would be this bad. I feel like I am sick every few weeks, and not just feel bad a little, but multiple trips to the doc, fever and lots of antibiotics. So a sweet lady at my work told me about this stuff you can get from a natural foods store called Umcka (weird I know) and you put drops in your water, drink it and it helps you feel better immediately.

Well when I started to feel bad I yesterday, I was to the point where I would try anything. So we went to Green Acres Market and got some. I drank it and to my surprise felt so much better. I woke up today still not feeling great, but I am drinking some more right now and praying it will get me through the day. Now I have only used this once, but I think I am a believer, so if you start to feel under the weather, go get some and try it!!

I am hoping I start to feel better soon. We are spending the weekend in Stillwater for the OSU game!!