When blogging falls short...

Obvs I'm referring to when blogging falls short

in comparison to my Instagram obsession...

whew...girlfriend needs a 12 step program!! Yikes!

I haven't even read any blogs, much less attempted to write 

a post in atleast 2 weeks, maybe 3. The last time I sat down to write a post

was the day of the SandyHook massacre. I just sat

there reading posts that people had so eloquently written

and I just couldn't put any words together.

I've always said the blogs I most enjoy and admire are

the blogs that are written with gut-wrenching and

no-holds-barred honesty...but turns out that

reading those blogs and writing one of those blogs are two

totally different things.  For 1 in takes much more thought and 

blatant talent but for 2, you have to consider the fact that

any Yahoo you work with might read your blog and all your

blogging business....not cool.

But anyways, the holidays are over, 

(THANK YOU GOD-I COULDN'T BE HAPPIER)

and I'm ready to get on with the new year.

I was already feeling scrooge-tastic heading into the holiday

season and then Christmas turned into a nightmare.

(oh yes....second year in a row) 

So while I grumble under my breath looking at everyone's

posts with their idyllic Christmas trees and family

festivities I try to remind myself not to compare my

behind the scenes with everyone else's highlight reels...

Words to live by....

I saw that on Instagram, go figure.

So here's my uber lame attempt at catching up...

I'm going to go the route of posting random pictures with 

brief explanations below them.

Bonfires at mom and dad's

Playing with goats at Kelly's

Halloween!

I really don't care much about Halloween, but I 

do love to dress up and I'm down for any opportunity to

wear a wig!!!

Annual Halloween Wig-out at work

Such a great turn-out!!

I attended a co-workers baby shower where we

donned moustaches of course!!!

These make me laugh so hard...

Alicia...your moustache is falling off...

Charlie Chapman??

Welcome James Jr.!!

Thanksgiving was at my sisters house this year....

Roy and I went to his cousins house initially but then I left

and headed to my sisters to spend the rest of the day with 

my mom & dad.  It was just the four of us which seemed

strange, but we made the best of it and managed to

get some family pictures.

Note to future self: do not wear billowy blouse to family photos...

 My favorite shot of the day

I ate pizza with friends....

I've been watching a lot of The Walking Dead lately, and

Alicia frighteningly resembles one of the zombies in this picture...

 Post-work breakfast at McDonalds with Rach

Roy turned 31...

pardon me while I freak out cause I still can't get 

over the fact that he's 31 and I'm 28!!!

I went to first fridays where I found a helpful little

kitten who kindly held my coffee for me...

Roy even said I could keep him,

but alas he was $5 so he got left behind...

sorry kitty!

I celebrated with Alicia for her 30th birthday....

we failed to get a decent picture...Rachael you're reminding

me of a turtle pulling into his shell in this picture...

we sampled the whipped cream off of fancy martinis

I don't even know what was happening here...

but I love it!!!

Alicia the rat

I swear we weren't trashed, don't let the bloodshot 

eyes fool you!

Christmas Shopping at the legends with mom & Kelly

And the few pictures I took at Christmas were from
Christmas Eve at my  Uncles House. I had to work Christmas Eve
so I was dressed in my AMAZING ugly sweater...

what you can't tell from this picture is the fact that it had bells

all over it that jingled when I walked---perfect!!

Kelly & I

Cousins!!

Sarah, Brianna, myself and Kelly

So that was my lame catch-up post.

I'm going to try to do a post revisiting my New Years resolutions from 

last year, however after some examination I'll probably

realize that I fell short of most of my goals...Eeek!

Oh well, theres always 2013!!

Friday Phone Dump

So lets be honest, I'm a blogging novice.

I just FINALLY figured out what this 'InstaFriday' 

business was all about.

I downloaded the app and I've been loving it!

It makes my boring old iPhone pictures look a lot

 cooler than any pictures I could normally take.

Unfortunately, I still don't know how to 'link' my

blog to any other blogs-which is something I see

everyone else do when they have their 

'InstaFriday' posts....oh well...

forgive me bloggy world--I'm merely a babe in blogging.

Here's my dumping of photos from the last week...

#1-3) My sister's barrel race last weekend...

which btw, ended in me having an asthma attack

and having to leave before I even got to see her race...lame.

#4) New granite in the guest bathroom! I'll finish these

stupid house projects if it's the last thing I do!!

Update:

I think I might have figured out how

to link my blog to something....

this is human evolution in progress folks!

(oh wait, I don't believe in evolution..hehe)

Well than it's Beth's technological evolution in progress!

I'm beaming like a proud girlscout who just 

sold all her cookies...

Yippee!!

It's been a long time...

Soooo....remember how I used to have a blog??
Aaaand I really liked to update my blog and I blogged about trivial little things that happened to me...
I liked to post pictures....
I liked to try and pretend like I was interesting and funny...

And then remember that my wierd husband googled himself (who does that??)....and he didn't care much for the fact that pictures of him from my internet blog were popping up on google images... (SO not a big deal!!)

Anyhoo...I deleted my little bloggy....

...until now!!

I merely explained to him, that since I'm not on the FB...I have no way to show people all the not awesome trips that we're not taking and non-existant cool things that we're not doing!!!  NOT FAIR!!

He didn't necessarily agree...but he didn't disagree either....so that was an "O.K." in my book!!

Now....all I need is something cool to blog about....dangit....

Well for starters...here's a few things I've been up to this summer...

My sister started working at Deanna Rose Farmstead in April as the Animal Care Manager (this is SO right up her alley..) so I've made couple trips to hang out with her...

                                              heres me feeding...errr...getting mauled by goats..

freakin' cute little baby goat...

We've had some good times with the family....

Including Christmas in the Summer when Grammy finally came home from

the rehab hospital!!

Grammy and Kelly....whys Grammy gotta be the cutest old lady in the world??

I just love her to pieces!

Timing was perfect cause some of our family from Colorado was in town

for a visit....

Cousin Brianna, Uncle Steve, and Cousin Jane from Colorado

Mom and Aunt Barbara

On July 3rd we celebrated mom and dad's 30th wedding anniversary!

WOW!!!  Tell us your secrets...PLEASE!!!

On the actual Fourth of July Holiday, I decided that we would be super-patriotic

and head to the WWI museum, which I've been wanting to go to for years!

I love museums (cause I'm dorky like that...)

The entrance from the top of the tower...

Down town KC

After the museum and dinner we hopped on our bikes and rode to corporate woods

to see the fireworks display!! 

Lets just say I'm a genius...cause riding your bikes into that 

parking madhouse is definitely the way to go!!

Some crazy lady had her poor dog dressed up like a patriotic farmer....poor little

thing tried to run away in shame atleast once while we sat here..

(I took this picture just for you Rachael :)

Great way to end the Fourth of July!!