Out from under my rock........

Seriously is it September 22nd?! Where in the heck did this month go?

Well it has been some time since my last post, so to catch everyone up to speed here go's........well the PK broke his ankle the night before my birthday (so b-day plans were cancelled and Jess, Mama Cat and B came to us)-don't worry about the PK though he is a man that will not be deterred from hunting season which begins Oct. 1 and a bear hunt in SE Oklahoma is first on the agenda.......what can I say?

After that Jess, Sarah and I had a great trip to Scottsdale, AZ for some much needed girl time at the Valley Ho, who knew there would really be some Ho's there if you know what I mean. After that it was back to work and then this last 7-10 days I have been down with bronchitis (which I have been blessed with once this year already); missed 3 days of work and am in the midst of playing catch up this week! Whew-so that is where September went......

Oh and some of the most exciting news of all- Sugar Stache- is on the scene (sort of), but is has been officially revealed here and I will let you read all about it! Too exciting!!!

So that is about it for the PQ/PK land; trying to keep up and keep on moving on :)

Birthday weekend kick off......family style :)

The following are pictures from this past weekend in Dallas and our "family" get together. We always celebrate Jani Jan's birthday along with mine, since we are a day apart and who needed a reason for margarita's on a Saturday!

This past weekend was so much fun and it was great to visit and spend time with my mom and poppie! Grant made the trip with Andrew and I, and for a 1st I would say it went very well!

Hope you all enjoy the pictures and here is an extra special birthday wish to all of the other September birthday babies out there!!!!

The Potato Royalty :)

Our Matriarch

Martini cake-How very appropriate! (Sugar Stache is better-stay tuned)

Brenda and I-Love her!

Jenn! Awesome Mama!

Presents!!!!!

P.S. No I haven't received any kind of jewlery (wink wink) for my birthday as of yet-I doubt it happens this birthday......maybe XMAS? ;)

And these are the days of our lives.........

It's a rough life isn' it?

Happy Sunday!

The beginning.......

The PQ beginning that is......as you all know I went to Tulsa over the weekend with the PK to visit papa and so everyone could meet Andrew. The trip went really well and I was so happy to see papa and granny! I can say that papa was in good spirits and I think our visit did him some good-although he tired easily and that is expected. Everyone loved Andrew, as I suspected they would, and we ate and ate and ate and ate some more-as Jess likes to put it (and I love this) "have some gravy with your gravy" and believe me we did! Granny did us proud!

Anyways back to my title-Andrew and I decided to go to Claremore and see where it all began for me in a sense-well where I grew up. I have to say that things seem so much bigger when you are small; like my house and the neighborhood and even the roads..........it was bittersweet in a sense. It seemed like it was a lifetime ago and another life altogether. But it was real and I could remember every thing about growing up here, right down to the powder puff 3-wheeler and the driveway I used to speed down-oh and my lemonade stand!

I took some pictures, but really everything looked run down and old-but I guess that's what happens when time moves on; I can't explain how weird it felt to be in this place I grew up but it seemed like it was not me that was there-but I was the one with all of the memories of it. So as we progressed down memory lane I started to get real emotional-well OK I started to do the ugly cry in the car. The PK hung in there and we talked it out, but you have to realize this was like a smack in the face of what life used to be like and that would involve my dad.......needless to say I was happy to see the place but just as happy to leave it behind. I guess in a sense running again from the reality of what my parental situation really is......just not ready yet to get all of the skeletons out of the closet, it sits so close to the surface yet feels very far away.

Times they are a changin'

I guess in more ways than one.....let's see where do I begin? Hmmmmm with the PK and the cat-let's start there.

Well for my 2+ readers you all know that we acquired a cat-I thought it was a girl and "she" had a pink collar and was FORBIDDEN in the house. Well after last Friday things have changed and fast-the cat is actually a boy-who knew? I had to take him to get fixed to figure that out, hence I have never had a cat before. And now the PK has really warmed up to the cat, Hobo; he has even been making appearances in the house. This was after no begging on my part; the PK just came in one night and put him in my lap and said "I thought you may want to pet him for awhile". Ever since then the cat has been hanging out with us in the night time and him and Sam are HILARIOUS-they play play play the entire time. OK enough on the cat-the PQ prevailed as we all knew I would ;)

On another note and not one that is very peppy-but on my mind and that's what this blog stuff is all about right-a diary for all the world to see?

My papa is not doing well-this man-I don't have the words for how much I love him and how important he is in my life, and always has been, since the day I was born-literally almost in granny and papa's living room :) you know me-impatient as ever. But anyways the PK and I are headed to Tulsa this weekend for a long over due trip to Tulsa for PK to meet the family and my #1 guy-papa. Its very important to me that they meet before life takes another turn......and by turn I don't mean in the good way. Well not for me or the family. Basically hospice has been called in to help granny several days a week; this doesn't mean that things are changing tomorrow but it definitely puts things in perspective and reality right in your face. All I really want is for him to be at peace and for him to not worry about us.

I have never had a loved one this close (when I have been old enough to realize what is going on) die before. My moms parent's passed and I loved them very much but I was young and didn't understand the magnitude of it or the loss my mom would feel. I can feel this in every inch of me-they say that you are prepared when you know it is coming but I don't think how much you know it is coming that you are prepared.......I am sad. Very sad; but happy that the most important man in my life will meet the other most important man in my life, and soon.