Did you ever get a walkie talkie for Christmas?

The most important thing about this picture is not that LJP and I took a picture...

Which we rarely do...

No its this.....

A great and powerful black walkie talkie!

Seriously, everything is better when you are given power in the form of a walkie talkie.

You can say things like "over and out" "umm breaker breaker this is Amy" "Roger that" ohhhh and you have to say "niner".... you just have too!

I didn't have many jobs but one of my jobs was to make sure Santa got moved outside in time to light the campus. On the WT it sounded like "Santa is on the move, repeat Big Red is on the move"

And when I wasn't acting like I was 5 years old, I guess there was a huge OC event going on.

OC Lighting of the Commons 2009

Mama came up!

I just wanted to show the cute sign... I was covered in glitter but it was worth it.

My sweet sweet girls!

I think everyone should take pictures by big trees.... It makes you look skinny.

This is my brother. Have you met him yet?

This is him. Nathan Thomas. He is precious and puts up with me.

Oh and he is a very talented photographer. I swear I am not biased.

Its just true.

Favorite Christmas Song #3:

"Baby It's Cold Outside" by Dean Martin

It must be a drunk Dean Martin.... no one slurs it like him.

Over and out,

AK

What list are you on?

Thanks Santa...

and the OC marketing department who I have deceived to believe that I am nice.

Favorite Christmas Song #2:

"When Love Came Down" by Point of Grace

(can't find it on you tube, sorry)

AK

Love

Doesn't begin to describe my feelings for this season.

The way everything looks better in twinkle lights. The fact that I can put up 3 christmas trees in my 2 bedroom apartment. How I feel like I can't wear orange or pink this month because it just doesn't match the season.

And I love the music. Through out the year, if I have a bad day, I can play my Christmas play list and all is better with the world.

So for the next 25 days I bring you my favorite Christmas songs.

We are starting off with a goodie. I have a small obsession with Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton. Not them as separate people but them together. I can tell you where I was when I was 5 and found out they weren't married. It crushed my world and could be the reason I am single.

1. "With Bells On" Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers

This is from their TV special that I had on Beta tape and would watch ALL THE TIME. Sisters do you remember??? Oh and I have no words for what is happening on the upper part of Dolly's body. :)

Merry Christmas!!!

AK

My jewelry doesn't like me.

And its totally a legit feeling. I mean I am not nice to my jewelry.

I take off earrings anywhere and shove them in my purse, pockets, desk.... The worst is when I will take them off in the middle of the night, in my sleep, and have no idea where I have put them.

I have necklaces lost in my car because they bug me when I drive.

Rings that I take off to do crafts and find in my sewing drawers months later.

This is why I don't buy nice things.

But I decided that maybe if I had a cute place to put my jewelry then maybe our relationship would be different.... you know the kind the people have in the movies.

I just want to freak'n have Audrey Hepburn's relationship with Tiffany's.

So off to Hobby Lobby.

Behold. A craft project.

I got this plastic stuff that I am pretty sure only me and 70 years olds buy.

And for 49 cents, I got two.

I bought two of these picture frames and they were half off....

***Never ever buy picture frames for full price at Hobby Lobby***

I cut the plastic stuff to the size of the frame.

Cut those backs off the frame...

but keep them because you might want to use them down the road

Use the gun.

And TADA!!!!

Then I cut little ones to hang off the frame for earrings with backs

Let the healthy, respectful relationship begin.

Holy Hannah, I have already lost a pearl earring.

I really think this one might last.... wink.

Amy K.

A fairy tale... only no prince, just a lamp.

So I am walking through Hobby Lobby.... I really should get commission for every time I mention that blessed store. This was a day when I had a list and in my mind I had already mapped out my where I needed to go and the order of the different areas.

1. Stockings (cause they were 50% off)

2. Rhinestones (cause a super cute 4th grader needed them for her even cuter christmas program)

3. Ribbon (don't remember why but I needed it)

4. Check out the 80% off isle (because why would you go to Hobby Lobby and not check it out)

I grab the houndstooth stockings and take a short cut through lamps to get to jewelry.

And there on the lamp aisle I stop dead in my tracks.

It seriously made me take a sharp inhale. You would have thought I had seen the Pope right here in Hobby Lobby.

But no holy man here, just a beautiful lamp.

It was black and white and the base was was porcelain. So I look at the price tag which also made me gasp, $90. I take one last look and then off I go. Grab my last two remaining things and then haul off to my three feet of bargain paradise.

And there waiting for me like it knew it would fit perfectly in my living room was the lamp.

I thought it was a mistake...... but no there it was, dressed in a beautiful yellow price tag.

And the price tag read....

My heart was beating.

Now you are thinking what was wrong with it.... Well friends, it was nothing my little gun (glue gun) couldn't handle.

Ok so I haven't fixed it.... yet.

So I took this lamp home....

Where it lived.....

Happily Ever After!

(Anyone want to let me know why everything is underlined)

AK

I didn't know!

First year at this blog thing.... didn't know that you are supposed to blog about what you are thankful for! This one is going to be hard... so many things... so many blessings.... so many great shoes. :)

Ok I am going to go a different route. STORY TIME!

I was a Sophomore at Oklahoma Christian and it was the Monday before Thanksgiving and it was my last class before break. I seriously thought of skipping but it was bible class and it was with Mr. Gregg. I just couldn't do it. So I got to class counting the minutes until I could head home. (You know the big hour drive I had)

As I sit down, precious Mr. Gregg started talking about Thanksgiving and how much we have to be thankful for and continued on about this for awhile. Then he said I would like to read you a passage. The then started reading Isaiah 53. My attention was captured by the conviction in his voice and the tears that appeared in his eyes. As he finished he told us this, "I don't know a person who, if they truly understand this chapter, can read this without tears coming to there eyes. I encourage you this Thanksgiving Day, to read this scripture and to understand your blessings"

Since the fall of 2001 I have read this passage every Thanksgiving. Thank you sweet Mr. Gregg for such a memorable bible class and for always rocking those awesome bow ties! You are one of my favorite teachers.

Amy K.

If you can't tame it, decorate it!

So I took a deep breath the other day and decided to leave the house with out a bobby pin in my hair. I was confident that with my backcombing skills and the amount of hair spray that I use on a daily basis, I could make sure my 1 x 1 inch tragedy was properly covered up. It took me about five steps to realize that its just not in the plan for me folks. I cannot face the world without something taming my my cowlick, buzz cut combo.

So I gave in and got bobby pins.... lots of bobby pins, oh and flowers.

(Note to self: Don't shop online when depressed about your hair... you might spend $28)

Including these super cute hair clips my sister made me. Don't know what to give someone who is bald in front, just call my sister.

The green one in my favorite

I will have a hair update next week.

AK