Pioneer Woman Visits AUSTIN! December 2009

When Jeannie & Sara both told me about Pioneer Woman coming to Austin, I didn't think much of it. Oh, I love Ree Drummonds blog, but I don't do these crowd things so much! The week of the signing Jeannie calls and is so excited about this that I couldn't help but jump on board with excitement. Jeannie writes about all her preparations here. Let's just say that she totally cracks me up!

We had a lot of time before the the signing to look around. Anthropology happened to be next door. Wow what a store! They have a lot of very beautiful...very expensive stuff. We had lots of fun playing around.
Melinda and I waiting in the dressing room for Cheryl to try on a fun dress. The dressing room was ginormous!

The signing was at a cute bookstore in downtown Austin.

Jeannie and Melinda...so excited about putting wristbands on!

Thinking that now is about the time that I should pay for BOTOX!

Jeannie had the awesome idea of bringing her gifts. So I whipped up a board that had the name of her blog on it (in the same font and all!) I think it turned out pretty cute.

We all took turns signing it. Jeannie took forever trying to think of the most perfect thing to write for her.

This is what we all wrote:

I loved Jeannie's cheesiness this whole night. Her energy and nervousness made it all the more exciting and entertaining! You can read her post about this experience here.

Sara and Melinda were too cool to sit by us...really they had better seats!

There were loads and LOADS of people in this quaint bookstore.

We were thrilled to hear that she was going to do a Q & A session. It was pretty entertaining. She is so down to earth.

This is a picture from one of her blog posts. Jeannie added our names to show where we all were.

After the Q & A we got in our line according to wristband color. We were lucky enough to be in one of the first groups.

The beautiful sign that ChattyWalls made. (That would be me!!)

Okay...really?? Which way do we look?? :)

The group of fun girls that we went with. Melinda, Jennie, Jeannie, Cheryl, Me, Sara & PW

The girls with part of the Drummond Family.

Me and Marlboro Man.... :)

This was sooo funny. Cheryl pretended to pinch his behind and we were hysterically laughing because he had no idea!

After the signing, we hit a little mexican restaurant. Good food, good friends!

On a side note, I was reading PW latest posts and look what is in this picture....MY SIGN!! WOW :) Of course this was the before...my sign didn't make it into the after, but I am sure that it is in another special place at their house. SO COOL!
Thanks ladies for the invite. It was so much fun!