If Only I Could Travel Into His Brain...

If only I could travel into this child's brain....What would I find?  What would I hear?  What would I see?  Who knows the answer to all those questions but let me inform you that it would be quite the HILARIOUS journey.  

I could blog daily on Owen funnies and don't do this as often as I should.  This boy has me laughing nearly everyday.  He also has me yelling most days and running ragged by the end of the day but that day is also filled with lots of laughter and hugs and kisses from him (if you've never experienced Owen loves than you are missing out).  

Let's see...just this weekend he said a few funny things.  1.  While at Bass Pro with his Pappy he informed him that he wanted to go into the bathroom so he could take aim at the "sinks and toilets".  Who knows where these things come from?  Of course, since he was with Pappy he was allowed to do just that and the above picture is him in action.  This boy loves ALL THINGS outdoors and that even means he has to practice in any bathroom wearing any Daniel Boone hat he can find at any given time.  Why not?  

2. He also informed Pappy and myself that he wanted corn.  Right then, the child wanted corn.  He wanted it with melted butter, on the cob, and he wouldn't eat it with his feet (like Curious George), he would eat his corn with his fingers.  Allrighty then.  Glad we got that figured out.  Since he was with Pappy again, guess what the boy came home with?  Yep.  You guessed it!  A bag of frozen corn on the cob, straight from the grocery store, instantly cooking as he got home, and devoured shortly after by both boys as they finished playing at Nini and Pappy's.  This boy cracks me up!

A Week of Firsts.....

 1. This was Owen's first time to have a Thanksgiving feast and be a "Pilgrim" at LCS.  It's difficult to properly fit a giant 5 year old so his hat was a little snug...

 2. This was the first time I have ever had a place mat made for me out of my child's footprint:)

 3.This is the first time I have ever had a child who can sing "All I want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth" and it actually make sense. FYI...the Tooth Fairy just randomly grabbed into her coin jar and collected money.  Once the morning rolled around Will counted $4.05 worth of jingle.  A little pricy (in my opinion) for a tooth but that fairy was sleepy and didn't feel like counting the money before donating it to Will's tooth fund.

4. This was the first time I ever had to dress up my child like a "dirty snowflake" for a musical.  It was super cute by the way and he actually sang and did the motions the whole time (that surprised me a bit).

My 23 Minute Miracle

 See that medal?  Yep!  I FINALLY did it.  I reached a goal that I have been striving for for quite a long time.  I got 1st in something! My boys always ask me when I come home from a race, "Did you win?"  They don't realize that most people that win the races I run are professional athletes.  They are racers from all over the world that pull off spectacular times to win these Marathons.  "Did you win?" is most often answered with "No, but I finished and I hit a goal time for me, and I didn't quit, and I kept going, so that's good enough for me."  They walk off saying, "So, you didn't win."  Well, that went over their heads!  

This last Saturday I had a chance to run in a much smaller race, hence much better odds that I could actually place.  It was bitter cold and super windy but it was only a 5K and honestly that helped me out a lot because I don't think I would have want to keep up that pace much longer than 3.1 miles.  I finished the race in 23 minutes and some change...

I was the 1st woman in my age group to cross the finish line and the 2nd woman OVERALL to cross the finish line.  I was proud of that one.  1st woman to cross was a 27 year old cross country running teacher at Jenks HS.  She runs for a living.  Every day of her life.  I just run when I can.  Not a cross country coach here:)  

My good running buddy Kristi ran this race with me too and she also earned a medal.  You only got a medal if you were top 3 in any of the categories.  She won 1st place for her age group too.  I was so proud of her!  She's worked really hard, is a mom of 2, and also has a full time job.  She gets out there and does the training and I couldn't be more proud.  Shout out to Melinda (our other running buddy) who heads up this race every year and does such a great job for a wonderful organization! 

Get out there today and set a goal for yourself.  It feels pretty darn good when you reach it.  And YOU WILL!

A Family Affair

 The Kueny side of the family has had a very busy (some might say stressful) two weeks.  It actually all started about a month ago when GG (Steven's loved grandma) took a fall and broke her hip.  This all happened when everyone was in town for Elizabeth's (Steven's cousin) wedding shower.  People rushed from the shower to be with grandma at the hospital.  

Fast forward 3 weeks and it's the weekend of Elizabeth's wedding.  Grandma had just turned 89 and died one day later on Nov 5th.  Everyone again rushed to Tulsa to handle the duties of taking care of Grandma and preparing her funeral all while attending the wedding celebration of Elizabeth and praying that Bridgett could hold onto that baby in her tummy until the week of the funeral.  All while at this wedding, Rachel (Steven's sister) fell on the dance floor and tore her ACL while she was attempting to rock a move.  That surgery will be scheduled later in the year.

Bridgett did get to hold onto that baby a little more and this past Wednesday she delivered sweet 6 lb Haylee.  I got to see and hold and smell that sweet 5 day old baby all weekend.  Owen LOVED her and asked if we could "buy one".  He held her the most out of all the grandkids.  

These past few days we took the boys out of school and headed to Norman to celebrate two lives.  The life of GG and the life of Haylee.  It was amazing to get to spend some time with the Kueny side of the family.  The boys relish the times they get to spend with their Uncle Daniel who lives in Hawaii.  Since he lives so far away you can imagine we don't get to see him too often.  They love to tickle and tackle and hang all over that man.  It's so sweet:)

Our weekend was filled with fun, some tears, laughter, some more tears, a little drama, games, swimming, snow, and family.  It was perfect and we enjoyed it.  Hope you had a great weekend too.

If I Were to Marry Steven Again....

 If I were to marry Steven again I know the dress I would wear.  Would I be brave enough to buy it online and not even try it on first?  Nope.  Elizabeth was though and for that I give her major props.  She was wearing the dress I would wear if I were to marry my hubby all over again.  Lace, form fitted, and elegant all wrapped up into one.  She was exquisite and her wedding was gorgeous.

Saturday Will had the rare opportunity to attend a TU football game with his Pappy.  They have had the tickets all season so I would have felt very badly if I told him he couldn't go cheer on his team to attend a "girly wedding".  We compromised and he missed the wedding but was able to attend the reception.  I thought that worked out pretty nicely.  And, to top it off, TU won their game on Saturday (that only makes 2 this season) so Will know believes he is their good luck charm (maybe he really is:)

The wedding was a great opportunity to see some family that we don't get to see enough of.  I love family celebrations for many reasons, but that is one of my top reasons.  With all of lives business around us sometimes it's hard to set aside time for loved ones.  This wedding brought us all together this week and weekend and I love that.  I love that I had my house filled 4 days out of the week with family.  Family that I am not even blood related to but they love me just the same.  That is the true definition of family in my book!  

Hope everyone had a great weekend too.  Congrats to the happy and very blessed couple.  Many years of happiness to you.  And, P.S., Elizabeth if you are reading this....I might borrow that dress in a few years for a vow renewal.  That is if you don't mind:)

The Last of Fall

 Whelp...that was pretty much it folks!  We got about 1 1/2 weeks of Fall in Oklahoma and now starting Tuesday we are moving into Winter with it blowing in fast and hard on Monday night.  Monday it's supposed to be 73 and then Tuesday welcome to COLD with high's in the 30's all week and forecasting SNOW by the weekend.  Gotta "love" Oklahoma!

Before the cold hits my Mom and I decided to get one last walk in through our favorite neighborhood last week.  We saw this tree on our first round of the walk and on the way back (even though we were in great sprinting mode) I thought the tree was beautiful enough to warrant a stop.  This picture was NO FILTER also.  This tree was actually this shade of red and gorgeous.  Fall is beautiful but we in Oklahoma just don't get enough of it.

Speaking of Fall...I saw this picture of Owen at school last week.  His picture (along with many other kiddos) was hanging on an "I am Thankful" board outside his classroom.  What cracks me up is the order of items.  His teacher said these were the exact things out of his mouth and in the correct order.  See where Norman ranks?  Yes, it's before his own brother.  Oh, that's so funny and many times true of this boy.  He loves that dog to no end!

This weekend (and a lot of the week) we got to spend some quality time with Steven's side of the family.  Unfortunately, his grandma died this week at the ripe young age of 89.  She lived a great life and due to some traveling family needs to do in order to make it back to OK we will be having her funeral on the 17th.  

THIS weekend was all about Elizabeth (Steven's cousin) and her wedding though.  I have many more pics from that wedding that I will blog about later.  This one was one of me and my man.  He's handsome:)  Congrats to Elizabeth and Mitch!  It was an amazing wedding!

Quick Wardrobe Change

 Friday night was Halloween and lucky for us in the state of Oklahoma Friday night was freezing!  Our first really cold night of the season where we woke up Saturday morning to a freeze of all our flowers (that were thriving just last week in the 80-90's mind you).  28 degrees is quite a contrast to what we have been having for October weather so far.  Oh well!  No real fall...just straight to Winter here.  I "love" Oklahoma.  

I digress...Friday night was Halloween and as per tradition we had the cousins visit us on this night because our neighborhood is OFF THE CHAIN when it comes to Halloween or 4th of July.

This year we had a Greek Goddess, Sofia the First, Luigi, and like most every year, a Football player.  Will and I had to compromise because as any good parent I choose to pick my battles.  Personally, I'm sick of him being a football player but since Halloween falls every year during football season that is what is near and dear to Will's heart come every October 31st.  So, I pleaded with him to at least stay in his Mario costume and let me take lots of pictures before he switched into football gear.  Like a good friend said, "Hey, you want to squeeze all $300 we had to pay for that equipment out!"  I guess she is correct.

After my adorable boys took their pictures as Mario and Luigi they began to complain about how their mustaches were itchy.  Steven took care of that.  Somehow he created a "Bigfoot" look with the leftover mustaches.  Sadly, it got too dark too quickly for people to even realize he had hair all over his face.  All he really received were a few strange looks!

I hope everyone had a great Halloween like we treat!  Happy Harvest!