Wednesday night Zach, Jonathan, David and I met up with family and friends alike at Cowboys Dance hall for some boot scootin' and socializing. :-) Here's Zach and I waiting for other people to arrive.
My cousin Christina had suggested the get-together. I wish we lived closer so we could hang out more!
Carissa and Faith also came. So much fun!
Thanksgiving is always a time where lots of family comes over to our house in San Antonio. My mom, grandma and relatives do a great job of cooking all our favorite Thanksgiving dishes. We eat food all day, watch football all afternoon and usually go to the movies in the evening. This year didn't disappoint, and we had more family than usual!
My cousin Justin and his girlfriend Erika came all the way from Houston! Here's Justin with me and my brothers.
Christina brought Rock Band the video game over, and a bunch of us played for a while. So fun!
My phone started acting up recently, and I was due for an upgrade, so I went to the AT&T store in San Antonio last Wednesday to research my options. I didn't like any of the regular phones, and the iPhone has actually come down in price to where it wasn't too bad.... I debated between the iPhone and the Blackberry for a long time... I think all my family got sick of it, but I finally decided Friday to get the iPhone! I have to say that I LOVE it! It's changing my life, slowly slowly. It's got a planner on it. It syncs my calendar, contacts and music with my computer. It has an iPod player that not only plays into headphones, but also plays out loud and when connected to a tape converter. It's got headphones that are also a handfree device. Text messages are like instant message conversations. It has the weather, youtube, maps, the internet and a host of awesome free applications like shazaam-- hold the phone up to any source of music and in 10 seconds it will tell you who sang the song, what its called and links it to your itunes. The first thing I did with it was book my rental car for work using the internet. You can watch music videos from itunes out loud like a little tv and its so clear! Its like a little mac computer! Dang, I could go on and on but I LOVE my phone. :-) I got a nifty rubber case for it too-- looks just like this:
Anyway, enough about the phone. :-) This next photo is just random. Zach and I went to Wal-mart with his mom to get some DVDs and we found an acorn tree ornament.... love it!
So, to explain why I'm in Oklahoma City. I am the special events department at APHA by working the APHA booth at the National Reining Horse Association(NRHA) Futurity. If a Paint gets 1st, 2nd or 3rd in Open I get to present a hefty check from the Association to them!
I love this show and I've always loved coming to watch, but now that I'm a grownup with a job instead of semesters, I haven't gotten to come recently. So it's been fun to be around the show and watch my favorite event to my hearts content.
However... I'm working the tradeshow. If you knew me when I was growing up, you know my family sells books at homeschooling conventions for my mom's business Drills Skills & More. She still has a booth, and when I was young we traveled all over the country for the conventions. We had something like 6 booths together chock full of product, and set up /tear down took 7 hours each sometimes. They were usually 3-4 days long. I quit doing bookfairs when I was about 18, and I haven't worked a trade show since... until the World Shows for the Paint Horse Journal booth and now. At the World show I worked a max of 4 hours a day because we split shifts.
I got here Sunday and I'll be here till this next sunday. I am at the booth all day. All my memories of tradeshow days past have come back. :-) The good news is that it's 1 booth with 3 banners and a table of promotional materials and hats for sale. I've done memberhips, hat sales and things like that. It's a lot different than my mom's booth, but people are the same. Vendors still visit, people still peruse the aisles at the same pace, I still straighten product, ring up sales and answer questions. It's just about horsey things and horsey people! It's not too bad, but I am happy that I don't do it all the time! I didn't set up the booth because I came in later, but I anticipate tear-down to last about... 30 min, max. :-)
Anyway, today has been really fun though, because the NRHA FEI international reining competition is tonight. Literally everyone I've helped today has been from another country: Belgium, Germany, Italy, Mexico. I think it's so awesome that reining is so popular all over the world!
Well, I better go. Hopefully it will warm up soon. Today's high was 40 and the low was 27... its going to be 44 and 28 tomorrow! At LEAST the wind died down today. I've been SO cold this week!
YAY! iPhone buddies! I LOVE that our text convos are like instant message convos. YAY! love it.
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