You know what happens when you begin the holiday season in October?
January comes along and your pants don’t fit. They’re not just a little snug like they are every year after the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. We’re talking about the type of tight where you have to lay down on the bed to button them, and 3 hours later you have to put a belt on just to hold them up when you decide that you can’t stand to have them buttoned anymore. That’s a little trick you learn in the early months of pregnancy, before you succumb to the comfort of the maternity pants, and are bound and determined to wear your normal jeans. It’s right up there with the second trimester ritual of using a rubber band to hook the button closed.
But, the problem with this scenario is that I am not pregnant. Just that I have eaten too much food and enjoyed too many cocktails starting with the birthday season (October 2013), continuing through Thanksgiving, and compensating for my crabbiness during Christmas (see last month’s blog post).
The reason I tell you all of this is because it will explain why January’s post is so BORING. We didn’t do a whole lot, or at least as compared to the previous 3 months. January is a time to get back to basics…school, the gym, normal grocery shopping trips, 8-hours of sleep, water instead of wine (what?!?!).
Now, before I sound incredibly righteous and boring….I can’t just quit cold turkey, and neither can John. In fact, he doesn’t “pay the piper” for food and drink sins until sometime around the first of March, because it would interfere with his annual golf vacation in Palm Springs. Also, there’s a little thing called the Super Bowl (more on that later).
So, in an effort to have a little fun, we took our annual trip to the National Western Stock Show.
Our day started like this….
And ended like this…
See what I mean about food and drink sins?
John and I have a deep love for the part of the stock show with the Infomercials and Product Demonstrations. Give us a few beers, a funnel cake, and we’ll buy anything. Case in point….in years past, we have come home with the following:
- A Keystone Light fanny-pack-type contraption that holds 6 beers around one’s waist (you’re welcome Jodi;-).
- The Slap Chop- imagine getting out your frustrations while at the same time chopping an entire onion. What a time saver!!!
- A customized Christensen Brothers Inc. sign, even though neither of us worked there and the details (i.e. phone number, type of steer on the picture) were foggy at best.
This year, the best thing we came home with was a pair of new boots for Jackson. He is so proud of them, and has worn them more often than I ever thought he would. Good thing, because they were more expensive than some shoes that I own.
I am REALLY sorry that we didn’t come home with this:
Either way, we had a great time, as evidenced by our selfie. Note: Our children were in good hands:-)
You know what else I am going to talk about this month? The Broncos and their trip to the Super Bowl. Because even though it is not chronologically correct since the Super Bowl wasn’t played until February 2, I feel that it’s fitting since this post is titled the BIGGEST LOSER EDITION. What a disappointment, especially considering that I stocked up on all sorts of game time food:
