First Place Apple Pies!

OK y'all get ready to laugh because this is kinda a funny story.
Every year on the base we have an event called Frontiercade. Remember back in grade school when you had a field day, and did things like a 3 legged race, stuff like that? That's pretty much what this is. And there's also a chili cookoff and an apple pie baking contest.

Well, there's this woman we have dubbed the "Chili Nazi". She's usualyy a judge and us just so stinking mean! Last year, everyone lined up their chili & the apple pies were right across the tent. So everyone goes and samples the chili, but when we go to the otherside of the tent to taste the pies, this behemoth yellsat the whole tent---THE PIES ARE NOT FOR TASTING!!! Meanwhile her lard ass goes down the table and gets a piece of all 20 pies.

I decided NO MORE! I will enter the pie contest and beat Lucifer at her own game. I entered the pie contest and made fried apple pies. AND I WON FIRST PLACE!!!!!! About 150 people judged this year, there was a judging panel and a people's choice, and I won! I'd been talking all week about how angry this woman makes me, she is evil and must be crushed.

HAHA TAKE THAT CHILI NAZI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Prayer for Keri

I want to ask all of you who are reading this post right now to do something for me. I need you to pray for one of my very best friends in the world, Keri. Many of you met Keri at our wedding, fot those of you that have not, we've been friends for over 20 years now and I consider her more like a sister to me than a friend.

Keri and her family are going through an extremely difficult point in their lives, and I ask each of you to pray for strength, perseverance, hope and closure for Keri and her family. They need that now more than ever. Thank y'all so much! Tell everyone you love HOW much you love them today, and give them a hug!!!!

Rainy Day

Just a rainy day and got some cool pics of a a rainbow that was right over our home. And this is one of Oscar's favorite places to sleep. Curled up on the backpack that he pulls under the coffeetable. For some reason he loves sleeping on bags. Workout bags, in our suitcases when we are getting ready to pack, laptop bags, you name it.

Using today to clean the house really well, we've both been working alot and I haven't been able to stand for a long period of time to help much. SO we both had the day off together which is a luxury, and we slept in, I made pancakes & bacon for breakfast and we cleaned. We're gonna go see SuperBad tonight, I hope it s good!

Fat cats make great pillows!

Relaxin at home with Senor Oscar Cat

A weekend in Vegas--a true story of dancing, a hotel shooting, wildfires, burning cars, and the infamous NippleMan

Well for 4th of July weekend Hannah flew out and then we went out to Vegas to celebrate. It was going to be one last hurrah for summer and before I had my first foot surgery. We had such a blast. We stayed at the New York New York. Our first night we went to a Cirque du Soleil show, 'Ka' and it was fantastic. The sets constantly changed and it was really amazing. On our way back to the room however, the hotel was blocked by police and crime scene tape!? I thought someone had made off with some loot, but come to find out some dude went crazy and started shooting from a balcony AT PEOPLE in the lobby playing slots!!!! I'm glad we were at the show!

The next day we walked around town and had sushi at Todai's which is an all-you-can-eat sushi buffet. YUM!!!!! On our way back we see choppers circling the strip and we're like what's going on???? A car had burnt to the ground in the middle of the strip! It caught on fire with a family inside, they made it out safely and then it was Disco Inferno! A tourist we talked to said people started running like Godzilla was coming, b/c explosions were coming from the car!

Went to MGM grand later that night and danced the night away. The next night we went to a piano bar in our hotel and it was so much fun. But at one point Andy and Sam had gone to the bathroom, so Hannah and I were dancing, when this guy comes up beside us. He then proceeds to give us the worst pick up line I've ever heard...
He lifts up his shirt, shows us 1 of his nipples and says "look what I've got" haha! and we looked at him and said wow that's great. Then he lifts up the other side and says 'there's plenty more where that came from' HAHAHA!!!!! It was so funny, Hannah and I just laughed and laughed and dubbed him "The Nippleman"

Our last night we went to the Palms Hotel where we went to 4 clubs inside the hotel. By far Rain was the coolest club I have ever been to. There was this flamethrower that would come down over the dancers and just go to town shooting fire from the sides, it was so friggin cool!

On our way back home, we were detoured in Utah for 4 hours! Lighning had started a massive wildfire, and it ended up burning over 150 miles! So it was quite a long car ride back, but Andy kept us laughing pretty much the whole way. He comes up with the most random funniest stuff I have ever heard, I'm so glad I married a guy with a crazy sense of humor!

Sorry it took so long to get the post up, but enjoy the pics!!!!!

At Rain in the Palms

Lucky Sam
Andy on our way into the Ghost Bar
The flamethrower in the rain. This thing came down over the crowd right above the dance floor and shot flames out the sides--very cool, but made it VERY hot.

View of the Strip from the Palms Hotel

This was on the 53rd floor in the Palms Hotel. We got tickets early and were able to see the entire strip!!!

This was a real sign, I kid you not!!!
It was really hot this weekend, so hot in fact that a car caught fire and burnt to the ground. Part of the car melted on the ground!
Front of MGM Grand
A night at the Piano Bar in the NYNY. This is my favorite pic of the weekend!!!!!

Andy and Sam
Front view of our hotel, The New York New York
Night at Cirque du Soleil show "Ka"
Water show at the Bellagio

Inside MGM Grand