Happy Halloween Weekend!!!

Gosh it's been a while!!!

I am so excited about Halloween!! I have a love hate relationship with being scared... this past week a couple of girlfriends and I went to see Parnanormal Activity 3. It was a STUPID idea. I used to have a hard time getting over scary movies I would have nightmares or feel like somone was always in my house, so I gave them a break for a few years. This year I felt like a big girl and thought I could handle it...not true. I have had an uneasy feeling every night since I have seen the movie. Buuuut it's Halloween so I guess it's ok!

Anywho, I am going to a halloween party this weekend and I wanted to share with you all and appetizer I am going to attempt. Oreo Eyeballs!! I have made the infamous oreoballs before but never made them look like eyeballs I'm excited!!

What Ya think??

I have talked my main squeeze into dressing up 80"s style. I'm usually a fan of homemade costumes so I made a trip to goodwill and picked us up a couple of old school nylon windsuits. I will show you picks next week of the full outfits! I have some pretty good ideas in my head though, yes I know tomorrow is the party but I work great under pressure :))

What are your plans for the weekend?

Just Call me Picasso.

Hey Ya'll!!! This weekend a freind and I had the wonderful opportunity to attend a painting class in Monroe, LA.  I am not a painter by any means but I do have to say that I was pretty impressed with my abilities after this class.

I found out about this lady through my friend Paige who is a regular reader of Melanie's blog and has been for some years. This lady is AWESOME she was an open book and just allows random strangers to come into her house and take painting and craft classes. She is talented I tell ya and I have become obssesed with her life and if you read her blog you will quickly see why!

Oh and her craft room... well it is to.die.for. I was the creepy girl who wanted to take pictures of her whole house..but I just settled for the craft room (it was less obvious)

See for yourself.

This is Melanie, Me and Paige with our pumpkins

My Pumpkin :)

Mine and Paige's pumpkins

Whay ya think? I think they turned out pretty great! oOh and  the pumpkins have glitter on them (kinda hard to tell in the pics... makes them even more AMAZING!!! Go check out

Melanie's blog!

Have a great one :)

It's A Farm Life

This past weekend I got to enjoy some quality time with the boyfriend. I enjoy these days since he has been so busy the past couple of months with harvest.

FC is part of his family farm which consists of his grandpa, dad, and uncle they have had the farm for over 50 years and grow rice, soybeans, cotton, and corn

Since I am absolutley clueless an expert on farming  pay close attention... you may learn something new :)


This thing here is called a "combine"... this is used in rice, soybean, and corn farming. Today we were harvesting soybeans. FC was on his way to pic me up in this pic :)

Side view, this thing is HUGE I wish I took a picture beside it so you could tell, and of course green is the ONLY way to go! I do know that much!

This big pointy thing is called a "header" It is used to strip the beans from their stalk and push them into the combine where they are seperated from the hulls. And that little ice chest is full of ice cold Bud Light... I'm so jealous he gets to drink on his job haha 

Then once the beans are seperated from the hulls they are sent to the back of the combine. This picture is from looking toward the back glass of the combine.

                                            

Once the Combine is full the Grain Cart driver pulls beside the combine and the beans are transferred into the cart. Once the Grain Cart is full it then empties it into the grain truck, once in the grain truck the beans are taken to the mill.





                                  

                                                       Me driving the Combine!!! I was a nervous wreck...but i still had time to smile :)

  

Farmer Chase doin his thing!





Thinking it over...






Of course something ALWAYS break down!!!

 


Finally after a LONG day on the farm we got to enjoy dinner with some great friends!



                                                       





And of course we made the men do the dishes :) After all we worked hard on the farm all day! haha

  

                                                            Stay tuned for Cotton Harvest!!!

Time to break the Stalker Kit out.

OMG!!!! Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon are filming a movie called "Mud" on the Arkansas River in Pendleton, AR the end of the month for 8 WEEKS... which is 15 minutes from where my boyfriend lives. 2 of my friends Paige and Stephanie are already planning our headshot photo shoot and will be submiting our applications for movie extras this week (this is serious stuff). My goal... To lick Matthews entire body.. yes i am aware he does not wear deoderant... but it's Matthew does it really matter?!

In other news....

Lacey and I had a Yard Sale this Saturday... and who new so many people loved to buy other peoples crap?!? We had a steady flow of traffic.. starting the night before our sale even started!! I sold my whole college life and it was bittersweet, Lacey sold random stuff and at the end of the day what we had left Lacey loaded it up in ONE box to resale at her moms yard sale. All in all the Yard Sale was a complete WIN!!! I am ready to stard hoarding more crap so I can have another one... in about 10 years. It was some hard work! Oh and Lacey and I stayed up all night crafting... below is our finished products. I love me some craft nights :)

My Wreath

Razorback wreath by lacey

HOGS Tutu Wreath by me and Lacey



Saturday night me and two of my friends Paige and Stephanie decided we were going to have a girls night we went to the Sandbar (which is on Pendelton where the movie is being filmed) our plan was to eat dinner then ride the levee and enjoy a few beers.... heres what actually happend. We ate dinenr took about 10 shots each I had to call my boyfriend at 2:30 am to come pick us up (he was NOT happy) phone calls the next morning that started with "what did we do last night and how did we get home" lol. We had a great time from what I remember.

The death of us.

She NEVER does this. This is how bad it was

Me and Paige!

 

 

 

Sunday morning well around 11 I woke up and I felt like it was going to be my last day of life.. I felt terrible. I talked with paige and steph we rehashed the night... well what we remeber.  I stayed in bed all day and watched lifetime and loaded down with BC powder. I'd say I had a pretty succesful weekend! Hope you all did too!

 

Julianne

Lake Time

Hello all!!!

How was your weekend? Mine was fabulous!!!

Friday the boyfriend and I made our way to Hot Springs to stay at the lake for the weekend and visit with some friends. We grabbed a quick dinner at On the Border and of course I had the watermelon margarita (soooo yummy). Then for the third weekend in a row we made our way to the casino (I promise I am not addicted to gambling and neither is my boyfriend)  I am usually pretty lucky in these places and here is proof!

this was made off of $20!!!!!



We all had a great time and all 6 of us came out ahead!!! We then made our way to the condo to get some shut eye and slept in the most comfortable bed EVER!!! Oh and did I mention it was storming its bootay off I was so worried I would not get any sun on the lake Saturday!

Saturday I drug Farmer Chase (FC) out of bed to join our friends for a delicious breakfast at Cracker Barrell. It was still storming but being the troopers that we are we went out on the boat anyway to wait the storm out. Our persistence paid off the sunshine came out and I am proud to say I got some tan lines :))

That night we went to an all you can eat crab leg buffet and I made a fool out of my self but it was OK because everyone did! After dinner we played a round of putt putt golf which I love but suck at and of course I came in last place but we still had a blast!

Sunday we joined our friends at the Arlington Hotel in downtown Hot Springs for brunch (I feel so fancy saying that) oh and yes I had to explain to the farmer what brunch was, oh my. Let me tell you about this brunch... they had everything from eggs Benedict to boiled shrimp!!! This place was amazing they even had a pasta bar and an omelet bar needless to say I was in heaven and that was the only meal we ate all day.

After brunch I dropped my non shopping boyfriend off at the hotel and I indulged in a little retail therapy since I had some extra spening money and all.  But of course when I have money I never find anything to buy so i settled for some picture frames and some much needed sandals for FC.

We made the trip home and slept like babies last night! which is a good thing since this has been a tough Monday!

I hope everyone had a great weekend, until next time.

Julianne

Happy Monday!!

How was your weekend?? Mine was wonderful :) Saturday me and the boyfriend woke up and decided we needed a lake trip so we loaded up the dogs and ourselves plus the usual tag-a-long (John Curtis, oh how I wish he would find a good girl) and headed to the lake house in Heber Springs.

I didn't take many pictures just a few of the furbabies :)

Cotton Man!

    

Bailey Girl

 

We had a great time as always and I got to much sun once again. Sunday morning I cooked breakfast and tried this concoction out lets just say it got raving reviews :) I didn't take any pics but here is the recipe.

Breakfast Pizza

1 pkg of crescent rolls

1 package of sausage

7 eggs

 White gravy (to your liking) I just used instant

bacon

cheese (to your liking)

In a casserole dish roll the crescent roll dough out like a pizza crust. Brown your sausage just like hamburger meat. Prepare your gravy like the package, in a separate bowl whisk eggs together and add salt and pepper to your taste. Spread the gravy evenly over the crescent rolls top with the cooked sausage, next pour your eggs evenly over the dish. Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes place cheese on top right before it is through baking. I added crumbled bacon to the top of mine once it was done cooking. This dish was sooo easy and sooo yummy great way to venture out from the normal breakfast!