Stress + wine

Blah.... It has been way too long since I have posted. I swear, I did not think life could get any crazier in the Rogl house, but it seems as though it won't slow down!   Last weekend, we decided to make a quick trip back to Colorado to attend my grandparent's 50th wedding anniversary party! It was such a nice celebration and it was wonderful to see our families before we head back over Thanksgiving. My absolute favorite thing in the world is traveling with my hubs. We get the time to sit down and talk, which we hardly get to do during the week!  

I am always the girl who takes annoying air plane pictures and pretty proud of it.   Side note: Thanksgiving in two weeks, Christmas in six and a half?! Whhhhaaat?  

  Here are my grandparents that we celebrated this weekend! They had these pictures taken for their 50th!   I thought I would also take this time to introduce my other grandparents who are currently residing in Johnsonville, NY! They celebrated their 50th Anniversary a few years ago, but here is a family picture from their anniversary celebration!  

They are in the middle of all the kiddos!

    We are surrounded by so much love and we are so lucky to have such an incredible line of marriages to look up to. So, no matter how much stress we are going through and how many changes we endure over the next year, we have so much reassurance that no matter what, love conquers all and we will always come out stronger in the end.   Ok so now it is catch up time with everything else going on in our lives!   I have come up with a new way to organize my pantry so that I don't have random boxes of food spoiling or going to waste...AKA.... Now they are placed in boxes so Ryan and his friends don't just leave shiz everywhere!  

The labels say: Quick lunches, Rice & Seasoning, Rice & Seasonings again, Breakfast meals, and Snackies.

 

I have all my cereals in boxes on the bottom shelf: Grapenuts, Special K, and Wheaties. And I have my pastas in containers as well!

 

I also like to keep my pastas and Bisquick in containers and just have the cardboard recipes cut out and tapes to the side of the container.

 



Ryan loves his chipies ^^ but I would never usually

keep that many chips in the house.

We were definitely having a party!

 

 

 

FACT: We love estate sales.

 



While our families were visiting, we went and checked out a few Estate Sales around town!!

We ended up at an older house in the north end of Enid whose owner used to work on the railroads. This stuff was amazing! He had every single vintage railroad item that you could imagine including hour logs, train car locks, caboose keys, railroad ties, railroad bond certificates, and post cards from every place they had traveled (some dated back to 1906).

 



One of my favorite finds was my train car numbers! They are pretty delicate and eroded, but I found car numbers that went with our wedding date. I am going to put together an "Established in" sign when I can find some vintage lettering/whenever I can flipping find time.

This is a vintage caboose/cargo lock that amongst 100's of other locks. We picked up a lock from the lot of them so place on the Love Lock Bridge in Paris when we travel there next year at some point!

 

 

I also found this amazing rowing...thing... I decided I had to try it out, but in the end, it just wasn't meant to be.

 

 

 Halloween came and went very quick... It didn't help that I was working in the city all day of the 31st, but I didn't get back until 7 that night, and we were almost through our first bowl of candy at that point! It would our first Halloween in Enid and I was definitely not disappointed. Halloween is one of my favorite celebrations because of the little kiddos. The ones who are dressed at princesses or little bity pumpkins. I squeal everytime my doorbell rings. Ryan absolutely loves watching me as I go bounding towards the door to greet the little kids. I had to dress as something to greet the little kids, so I threw on Ryan's flight suit and my Ray-Bans!

 

 

 

One last thig to update on, I promise! I got my 2013 Erin Codren Life Planner!!!

I freaking love this planner.

         So I have some fun stuff on the agenda for this weekend. I am giong to video a makeup tutorial and I am going to post my favite healthy banana bread recipe! Off to beautifying and cooking I go!