Thursday, December 3, 2009

Pioneer Woman field trip!!

As many of you know, I Heart Pioneer Woman! AKA...P Dub, Ree Drummond, etc. So does most of Dallas apparently!! Ree came to Dallas to do a book signing at a Borders on Tuesday night and there was no way you could keep me from going! My sister, Sara, and I along with my older girls loaded up in the car on Tuesday and headed to meet her. I had all sorts of things in my head that I was going to say to her when we got to the table. So did my girls! Emily and Natalie LOVE her!! I mean....LOOOOOVVVVEEEE her. I find them surfing her website often to find a new recipe to cook. And all I have to say to the men in my life is "Its a PW recipe" and they'll eat it!
Anyway, we arrived on Tuesday along with 2.7 million other people and collected our color coded wrist band. Orange is such a pretty color. Unless its the color wrist band you received that night which happened to be the 5th color group. With about 100 people in each group it didn't look so good!! We stuck it out until about 10pm but when we realized we weren't even to the halfway mark and had already been standing in line for 3 hours we decided to go home. My girls had school the next day!! But we had a lot of fun that night, anyway. We stood in line with some girls who had gone to ACU so that was fun connecting/reconnecting with them. And we did get some pictures with her. Well, not really WITH her but close enough!

After we got our orange bracelet we headed to eat some dinner...

Sara passed some time by playing games on her phone. Have you ever played Word Warp? Fun!!


This was my view from my place in line. We were at the very back at this point.

Bored. Hey, lets take pictures of each other taking pictures of each other!!

Aunt Sara got the girls some chocolate!!

We did get to see PW's daughters too! I believe Natalie and Sara stood behind the oldest daughter in line at the coffee shop and Natalie made some "loud" statement about her. Like "THERE she IS!!!". This is her oldest daughter...

Her youngest daughter...

And there is REE!!! Apparently she really took her time signing all of the books and making people feel welcome. Sweet!!

As we left we snapped some shots from afar!


We love you, P Dub!

7 comments:

Kristi said...

Sorry you didn't get up to the table, but at least she came to your neck of the woods. I'm still waiting for an announcement that she's even coming to NC!

Erin said...

I just found your blog through the Pioneer Woman's post, and I know your husband through Liz Scardello! What a small world! My husband is a resident with Liz, and we met Brian to talk about Northstar several months ago. Anyways, sorry to hear you didn't get to meet Ree! Great to *meet* you on here!

camille said...

Wow, Amy! P-Dub love you more 'n her luggage-she posted your website! So sorry you guys didn't get to stay. We had a great time with you! Hope your trip to China is coming together nicely!

Britney K said...

Most importantly did you cut your hair!!!!!!!!!! It looks A-dorable!

Lolly said...

I was just looking through PW Blogs links she had and saw yours. Fun night wasn't it. Sorry you didn't get your book signed. I was just looking at your pictures and saw myself. I am in your 8th picture getting my book signed. That was at 10:00 and I was about #212 in line.

Amy Woods said...

How fun! I don't know how I got on PW's blog list but thats cool! Yes, Britney! I got my haircut!!! And Lolly you were 212 at 10pm???? Oh dear. I was like 500something. It would have been 3am before I saw her if I'd stayed!

Camille!! So glad I saw you! Yes, trip to China is coming along! We have plane tickets now!

Amy said...

I would have gone to see PW too. LOVE her. Congratulations on your TA. Hope you get good news on your travel arrangements soon.
blessings,
Amy