Good Thing my Husband Never Reads my Blog...or Checks our Bank Account....

So I have definitely been itching for weather a bit cooler even though it is currently perfect for a good run and laying out by the pool without sweating. I just really want to put my on boots and tights on for church and not find 90% of the girls still wearing summer dresses and sandals. Who can blame them, the high is still mid 70ies to 80? But who can blame me when things like this have found their way into my closet the past few weeks:

1. Banana Love

2. More Banana Love

3. Old Navy

I got this coat in grey but I saw this in a super cute red worn by the girl we all use to love to hate and now don't care about anymore. (I quit caring after Laguna and hated the Hills when she came on) I digress, and can't argue with the fact its a cute coat. I couldn't believe it was Old Navy! They have that place in LA? Problem is I got a short red coat for Christmas last year from my super stylish mom who kept telling me I should look at longer coats and I didn't listen and now here I am.

4. Gap

Perfect reflection of military with out being Michael Jackson or ringleaderish

5. Anthropologie Boucle De Souffle Jacket

Half the time I buy their crap just for the fantastic names. And the other half I'm to broke to buy

6. Lovely People Piper Bootie



I have to say the main fad I am currently having trouble with (besides tights and open toe heels) is the Jeggins. Or as my husband would say 'Jeanageens'. I hear they are comfy so maybe I should give them a try but J HATES them. In his defense the first pair he saw were the tightest pants I have ever seen. He literally was freaking out cause he thought he was seeing one of those painted ladies they have at fancy Vegas shows and Playboy mansion parties....but we were at Thai Cottage. I had to continually assure him they were Jeggings. And that Jeggings are pants. And OH MY GOSH THEY ARE JEGGINS NOT JEANAGEENS JUST STOP TALKING HUSBAND.

The Biggest problem was not they tight, but they were acid wash.

I honestly thought the girl was stylish enough to kinda pull it off. You know the type, you would NEVER wear it but you could she how she thought it worked and clearly makes bold statements like this often. But they were to tight.

On our drive home Jay made me promise to never purchase a pair"Jeanageens" Little does he know that's impossible. CAUSE THAT'S NOT A REAL THING.

Party Time

Jay and I are throwing a Halloween Dress Rehearsal Party Party tonight for our apt. (Go CARES!) Why are we throwing a Halloween Dress Rehearsal Party Party instead of just a a Halloween Dress Rehearsal Party? Well cause lets just say our strong suit isn't graphic design....or editing....enter our fliers:

After flyering 300 doors and then finding our little mistake I said, hey I know God can work in mysterious ways so a freggin' Party Party it is...

Luckily our strong suit is the food. Well, Jay's strong suit. I would have to say my niche is putting out the plates an napkins. This time was unusual because I actually planned most of the menu (for Jay to cook). I was just finding so many cute Halloween inspired things out in blog land I decided to create a proposal to present to Jay. He usually has all the say in what is being cooked well because he has to do it but you see the title of the email in which i sent my proposal said:

LOOK WHAT I DID! Complete with list and duties assigned. No changes allowed.

And he said ok. cause that's how marriage works. Ok not really. Ok really not really with Jay but that is a story for another time titled 'the necessity of warming your pancake syrup for your party guests...and how crazy a man can get when his woman buys syrup too big to fit in the microwave'. Luckily this time he was feeling a bit uninspired and I knew it so I took advantage of him. cause that is how marriage really works.

So for any of you interested out there I give you a few highlights from my proposed Awesome Halloween Party Party Food:

1.Spooky Spider's Nest: Spider Web 7-Layer Dip

2. Pumpkin Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

3. Sherbet and Sprite Punch

We are also have witch hat cookies, spooky fruit kabobs and scary raspberry chipotle and cream cheese spread but i am tired of uploading pics and some of that isn't' even halloweeny i just added Halloween words to the names. Cause along with chronic indecisiveness i also suffer with sporadic I am so over thisness. Spacing on blogger when uploading pics is definitely a trigger!arg!!!

Oh and Jay and I are fruit.

Banana Jay

Kylee Grapes

Unless while blowing up balloons I have an attack of my so I'm so overthisness. But hopefully not cause then I will a girl in a green leotard and one green balloon pinned to my side and a stick in my hair. Lady gaga?

Happy Halloweeeeeeeeeeeee!

My List

So this week at Kelly's Korner it's all about baby/kid rooms. So I am going to cut to the chase and show you my furbaby baxter's room:

Now that we have that out of the way, I figured that I would link up to some of my favorites out of the 200+ blogs that linked up. NO, I am not so stalkerish that I read every single one. I tend to gravitate toward the ones that say something about traditional classic or vintage have cute baby names like Rhett. I stray from people who use descriptions like neon, princess, dinoland, theme room or name their child Jubilee.

Note: I don't mean to make fun as everyone is entitled to their own taste. I mean I would LOVE to name my future daughter Weslee and decorate her room all white with burlap accents but apparently my husband thinks I might as well be suggesting the name Serial Killer and painting poo on the accent wall. But did I mention my husband wants to name his son Jack? Our last name is Daniel people. Moving on...(for now)

Most really 5 stars for the blog in general not just the baby room.

1. http://oldgeorgiahouse.com/2010/05/day-3-of-my-home-tour-the-nursery/

LOVE! This is a historic home and I LOVE that she knows about all of the old owners and history of the house. The nursery is beautiful but I had fun touring her whole house. I prefer a little less antiques but she pulls it off quite nicely.

2.http://www.definitelymaybebaby.com/2010/08/day-dreamin.html

I really like the first nursery she posted and then I looked around to discover that she is an anonymous blogger trying to get pregnant and she wanted to talk about it but didn't want her friends to know yet. I thought that was a really good idea then I realized she started this summer and already has like a million followers! How do people do that?

3. http://mgwalton.blogspot.com/2010/10/updatednurserypost.html

This is a TX girl which is always fun to find and another one where I love the whole house. And I love the crib.

4. http://lifeinperfectharmony.blogspot.com/2009/03/rhetts-regatta.html

Like I said before, not so into the theme stuff but this one is pretty cute!

OK 4 is kind of a weird number to end at but I got bored after a while so this is where I am ending it. Have a good weekend all!

Show us Your Life: Office

Ok so over at Kelly's Korner she does "Show us Your Life" post and I have always wanted to participate but last year I didn't have a blog. This year she started over with rooms in your home and I got super excited to participate but then I realized I hate the IPAD and can't upload pics so the weeks have gone by and I have already missed dining room and living room so maybe one day I will just do one big post showcasing my mediocre decorating skills and all my white walls cause I am lazy and we rent so I don't want to paint and have to repaint and even more awesome I am cheap so I'm not paying anyone else to paint something that I will probably grow to hate 3 months later because I have that pesky gene known as CHRONIC INDECISIVENESS. Thanks mom. So now that I have you all pumped up and on the edge of your seats about all the inspiration I have hiding in my apartment, today will be a teaser of how wonderfully talented I am because today is "Show us Your Office" (okay Friday was, whatev.) and I did figure out how to email myself pictures off my IPhone so I feel kinda bad cause I'm totally gonna show Jessica up when it comes to photography skills (sorry girl but don't worry I can help you out sometime). LADIES AND GENTS......

OUR OFFICE

OUR OFFICE CABINETS

I know I know, how do I do it? Oh wait, you are literally asking how do I work in my office without at chair? Well, I don't. I have been looking for the perfect $3 chair to spruce up (read: I am cheap) but I have been looking for, oh about 16 months and I remember going to goodwill once with no luck. How do all these ladies find such deals and places to find such deals?

Let me show you where everything came from cause I know you are dying.

1.) Silver frame was actually a wedding present and is really pretty and my only legit fancy frame not from TJ max clearance shelf. It has a pic of Jay and I at our wedding rehearsal or as I refer to it our "skinny picture". Which is fun to look at but when someone you met more recently comes over and takes a look I know they are thinking....whoa my how things have changed. Luckily mission 'get back to wedding weight before the next big family wedding in November' has been in full force for a few months now and we are almost there!! Why are the last three lbs always the hardest? And why is it my husband able to bench press a paper clip twice a week and still loose 5 lbs?

2.) Its tragic that I don't have a closer shot but next to the frame is a painted rock that says Texas Tech Rocks. Its a wonder I haven't thrown it at the TV this season but we haven't really watched any games at home.

3.)Paper Organizer Tray Potter Barn wedding present from my Boss.

4.) Really slow computer cause it has all sorts of Auto CAD programs cause my husband spent 6 years in school for Landscape architecture. His job in Medical Sales/Management is going just fine thank you for asking.

5.) I had to include the open cabinets because they are newly organized! Cause I am awesome. Organizing boxes are from IKEA and are too big so the doors don't shut all the way but I had them when I moved in and did I mention I am cheap so I decided to just think like Tim Gunn.

5. Yes my dell that died 1 year and 2 days after I bought it is up in the top corner. Don't ask. Why? Cause I just explained.

So I promise the rest of my house does not look like a dorm room and maybe someday I can get my husband to remove the junk from his computer so it doesn't take me thru Sister Act I and II to get a single picture uploaded but clearly he needs that Auto CAD so I hate to ask for such a sacrifice.

FALLen' in Love

You see how I did that? I'm so clever with the Fall and Love and fallen stuff. This post is dedicated to Fall and what I am excited about this year!!!

1. STEW - my mom makes the best stew and we are going to Dallas for the Tech game and she has promised to make it for me!!

I also bought all the ingreedients to make it not knowing she was already planning to make it so now my modivation for trying to make it on my own is gone but i have $9 of meat in my fridge to make it...Who will win?! my lazyness or my love of stew. I will let you know. Heck, i might get crazy and post a recepie. Gasp, but I would feel like a fraud considering its like the 3rd thing I have ever made in 15 months of marriage. Heck, in 25 years of life.

2. Football

Wrecked Tech- Yeah whateve I know support your team no matter what, move on from Leach blah blah. Well guess what, I was born and raised in Lubbock, went to jr high with Coach Leach's daughter, went to and graduated from Tech at the peak of the crazy awesome Leach era. I saw the rise and fall and the fall still hurts. I am more sad for all us wonderful Tech fans out there who had their joy stolen by some greedy power hungry idiots (take your pick, meyers, hance, craig james, adam james....). I can't help the what if's of what our record could have been this year and what if i had driven all the way to lbk for a win against Texas and what if I wasn't shaking in my boots that I paid money to go see us play Baylor. Does that make me less of a Red Raider? NO. I bleed Red and Black. It just hurts to right now and I'm not going to pretend it doesn't or that I don't doubt this Tuby guy. He knew what he was getting himself into. He has to earn my love just like Leach did. Oh and this is my blog so I can think and say what I want. So there.

Oh Cowboys, my grandfather Big Daddy would roll over in his grave if I ever spoke ill of you or cheered against you. However, I have never been closer than when you played the Texans whom I have grown to love over the last 4 yrs (half of thier existance so I think that makes me a pretty legit fan). You just make it so hard with your crazy overpriced tickets and your consistant

inconsistancy(ha). It will be a lifelong battle to love you but I will never give up on you. For better or for worse.

3. Weather - I have already said my peace about Houston weather so I am loving it so much I ran 4 miles and walked three on Saturday. YEAH, bout that. I don't really do that FYI, but it was just so perfect I wanted to keep going. Although it isn't always a super drastic change of color, there are trees here to admire too....

4. This year we have a few fall weddings which are soooo beautiful. I often thought that had I not had to wait on Jay for 9+ yrs to get married, I would have held out 4 more months to do a fall wedding. I stand firm in the belief that the look of sanity on my sweaty face that blistering hot and windy June day was more beautiful than anythink I might have mustered up after waiting one more second to tie the knot no matter how may cornicopias of wheat bouquets and huntergreen bridesmaid dresses, orange yellow and burgundee flowers I could have hid behind.

5. Halloween! Last year Jay and I were John and Kate plus 8. Renting 6 kids is EXPENSIVE. Ok not really I made kids out of cardboard. Then I ended up in the church quarterly mailout and you couldn't really tell it was a costume. I just looked like a mom, it was scary. Where do we go? Oh Second Baptist Houston, it's not like its one of the biggest churches in Houston or anything... but even more awesome was my friend in the picture who was a positive pregnancy test. Case of double mistaken identity. A mom and a nurse? No. Kate Gosslin and a positive pregnancy test. This year I asked Jay if he would be Snookie and I could tell he legitimately thought it over. And thats why have FALLen in love with him. (Yeah I know, but corn is fallish too.) (Okay I really promise to now stop with the lame jokes)

Wreck em' Tech em'

As a blog stalker I get quite annoyed when people stop posting. And when the blogs who post daily skips a few days I feel a little part of me die. (By they way, HOW, HOW do they do it? I can't think of something interesting to say on a weekly basis.) Anyways, so it has now been like a while since I posted and I would hate to think I am causing all my readers out there to wallow in the anguish of not knowing whether I did absolutely nothing this weekend or met and had an affair with number one on 'my list' (ehem, john stamos). Although I am sure both of those prospects sound incredibly interesting to you, I'm gonna let you guess which is true.

Moving on, I have composed 3 full blog post about or recent vacation complete with horrible jokes and a bunch of blah blah I relaxed a lot, blah blah I saw beautiful things, blah blah I ate bone marrow (ALL TRUE) but lack the photos. Unfortunately Jay bought us an IPAD and apparently I cant upload pictures to blogger via IPAD. Reason number 387 I think IPADs are pointless not to mention the fact the name still makes me uncomfortable. And he had to buy the more expensive IPAD so we could run the Internet on 3G and cancel our home wireless Internet but now I have to bootleg our neighbors if I want it to work on our crappy laptop but right now theirs is not working (hi Joe and Lisa-how about yall get on that?) so that was all you didn't need to know about why i have not posted my on my blog in a while.

So lets bypass the vacation posts for now and sometime around Easter you can see what we did.

Whew. Now we will be moving on to the 'what I've been doing lately' portion of the post:

1. A few Sundays ago we went to the Ballet! It was Jay's first time and I kind of had to pull him away from the Texans game by telling him he would get to see the Cowboys play tonight (yes now we wish we had not wasted precious sleep hours to watch the Cowboys shoot themselves in the foot again-what kind of Cowboy does that like all the time- and instead watch the Texans beat the Colts)

Our neighbor, Peter, who dances in the Houston ballet got us tickets and he was INCREDIBLE. He had pretty major parts in all three pieces and just blew me away. Ladies he is single, straight one of the nicest guys I've ever met and wore something like this in the first segment

Yep. and he looks pretty much like this guy with blond hair. A few days later Peter came down to the pizza party at our apartment and Jay was all like, "So you can eat pizza and still have all those muscles we saw you have going on last weekend? Man, that first outfit was a doosie!"

My name is Kylee and I am married to a man. A man who could make a grown heterosexual ballerino uncomfortable.

2. This past weekend we made the drive to Lubbock, aka Satan's highways. I try to think of it like I often take "the road less traveled" which is supposed to be a good thing.....but let me tell you what.. THERE IS A REASON PEOPLE DO NOT DRIVE FROM HOUSTON TO LUBBOCK AND BACK WHILE DETOURING TO DALLAS BOTH WAYS TO GET THEIR MOTHER. Especially when your football team has a new really boring, offensively challenged coaching staff. My new fav blogger Mr. Batch is in a better place than I so that is all I am going to say about that. But it was wonderful to be home even if for a short while as I got to have a one guys calazone and spankys fried cheese. Halleluia amen for God's country.

3. I started a new bible study yesterday! I am really excited to feel connected again. You see once upon a short time ago Jay and I got married and joined the newlywed class at our church and met all sorts of great friends that were in the same stage of life and looking for friends! We had quite the little group going between us and 3 or 4 other couples! BUT THEN stuff happened. Wonderful stuff like house purchases in the suburbs and babies and new jobs in new cities for everyone (but us). We found ourselves back at church one Sunday pretty much at square one not knowing anyone. So we have joined a new Sunday School class and we LOVE the teachers and the people are so sweet. At first Jay was worried cause all the other couples were so cute and seemed so cool. I just had to remind him that we were too. I know, I lied in church, whatev.

4. We will be out of town again this weekend for a church retreat about an hour away and we are really excited to see what God has planned for this weekend of restoration and learning! (And swimming and concession stands and trust falls)

The Real World

The real world is hard. I'm not talking about the MTV show cause that's not hard. Living in a fancy house rent free for several months with no responsibilities to speak of - besides making sure you roommate doesn't vomit on your stuff while stumbling to the community bathroom after a long night-is not hard. But I don't like to talk about that show cause I use to watch all the old people who didn't have to answer to their parents (at least they weren't acting like it on the show) and were so mature and good looking and had great style including but not limited to overalls, doc martins, denim vests and bangs. But now all I see are hopelessly insecure really unstable kids put in a very unsafe and unhealthy environment dressing quite scandalously. They must have changed the casting strategy (OR I AM JUST FREAKIN OLD NOW).
So back to the real real world....
Sunday night at 8:00pm Jay and I returned from a PERFECT 9 day vacation and getting up for work on Monday morning was brutal. Then stepping on the scale to asses the damage was more brutal then showing up to work with a weeks worth of work piled up and a full week ahead was most brutal. Once I get back on central time so that waking up at 5:30am doesn't feel like 3:30am, I will be sure to have posts full of trip pics cause everyone loves to look at how much fun someone else got to have, right? Besides this is the first actual newsworthy event I have had to blog about since I started this thing!