Perspective

This has totally put my life into perspective. I only hope there is something more I can do for these precious people than just pray.

You can donate $10 to the Red Cross by texting Haiti to 90999, they just add the money to your cell phone bill.

On the Wings of Love

Okay, so raise your hand if The Bachelor is your guilty pleasure (hand raised). What can I say, this is the 14th season and I've only missed one, and that was because it was on when I was living in Vienna. Needless to say, I love ABC. I have been looking forward to this season in particular because I LOVED Jake when he was vying for the love of Bachelorette Jillian Harris on the last season of the Bachelorette. He's from the Dallas area and he just seems like a nice southern gentleman. I mean, I would definitely date him, just saying. So anyway, Monday was the big day, the reveal of the 25 lucky ladies who would spend 6 or so weeks trying to win the love of one Jake Pavelka. Amy K came over to watch with me, its a tradition for us, we've been watching the show together for like almost 8 years, since my freshman year of college. I had obviously looked through their profiles online beforehand and chosen my favorites.



These girls are hands down the trashiest girls that have ever walked through the doors of the Bachelor mansion. I can't even begin to tell you how many bad pilot jokes these girls came up with (because our Bachey is a pilot) and how many of them flat out embarrassed me by what they said. My favorite would have to be Channy from Cambodia who said something to Jake in her native language and told him to find her if he wanted to know what she said. And do you know what she said to him? Brace yourselves, this is bad, real bad. She said to him "You can land your plane on my landing strip anytime". Yeah, she went there.



Nothing, and I do mean nothing, will ever compare to the moment when she said that to him, he was obviously speechless.



To end the show we like to have our own special drinks during the rose ceremony, our favorite, peach Bellini s(recipe here).



Oh, did I mention that we like to get really dressed up to watch the show? Yeah we do!
Come on over on Monday nights at 7 to enjoy this embarrassment to women all over the world with us.

All My Bags Are Packed

I'm ready to go...hopefully this snow/rain mixture doesn't stick so our family can head to Tulsa for Christmas with my grandma tomorrow and then onto Florida on Friday morning. I am trying to pack in a carry on bag for a whole week to save $25...its not an easy task let me tell you.

Also, the fabulous Amy K got me some reading material for the plane rides...thanks AK!

Drumroll please

I decided to draw for the winner and post it early. And obviously I chose to draw out of a measuring cup.

Mixing up the names with my man hand so its fair of course

And the winner is...

Congratulations Summer! Email me at baileybakes at gmail dot com and let me know when you want the muffins and where you want them delivered. Also let me know if you want a gift tag on it, or if you just want to keep them to yourself!

Thanks to everyone for entering the contest

GIVEAWAY!!!

As I mentioned in my last post, I am hosting a giveaway in honor of my 50th post (yes, it took me this long to get to 50). I am giving away an order of Mini Pecan Pie Muffins for you to enjoy, or to give to someone else to enjoy!




All you have to do to enter is leave a comment in the comment section, even if you've never commented before! The contest is open until midnight on Saturday, December 12 and the winner will be announced on Monday.

Good Luck!

Christmas Treats

Do you need teacher gifts for Christmas? Coming up short on ideas for friends? Look no further, I have your treats right here. Get your orders in now and I will get them to you ASAP.

Bailey Bakes Holiday Treats

Puppy Chow $6
Cinnamon Candy $4
Chocolate Fudge $6
Peanut Brittle $5
Divinity $8
Chocolate Turtles $6/dozen
Chocolate Fudge Pie $9
Apple Pie $12
Pecan Pie Mini Muffins $10/2 dozen

Buy 2 items; get the third item of equal or lesser value half off!

Please send orders to baileybakes@gmail.com. All orders should be placed no later than Friday December 18. Deliveries can be made Wednesday December 23, or before if needed.

Also, be looking for my next post, it will be a giveaway in honor of my 50th post.

6 Days of Basketball

It's kind of like the 12 days of Christmas, only not at all. Starting last Wednesday and ending last night I went to at least one basketball game every day. It all started when I won some OKC Thunder and OU men's basketball tickets last week via Twitter (@baileybakes). So Wednesday night I headed to the Thunder game with friend Ryan. The following night was an OC double header, women's game at 6 and men's at 8. As long as I can remember my family has been going to the OC games and sitting in the same area, even when we didn't live in the city. So its just kind of natural that we have continued to go to the games.

Friday night the Thunder were playing the Celtics which was going to be a huge game, and some friends decided we should try and get tickets. They found some online on Friday afternoon and we headed downtown that night for the game. To say parking was a hassle is putting it lightly, we were 40 minutes late for the game, but we still had a good time.

Did I mention we were on the top row? Oh yeah we were, I think I got altitude sickness from being that high, but the jury's still out on that one.

A picture of friend Matt, friend Pip and friend Ryan at the game. Matt, why do you look so creepy?

Saturday I was invited to watch some of said friend's church league basketball game at 10am. I set my alarm and showed up at the church at 10 only to find out that their game wasn't until 11, awesome! I was able to kill some time at a Gotcha Party down the hall for precious baby Mariah Kingcade, then made it back to the game at 11.

Later that day I went to some more OC men's and women's games and got to see the cute cheer clinic girls perform their cheers and dances.
As mentioned before, I won tickets to an OU men's basketball game along with the Thunder tickets and that game just happened to be on Sunday vs. Arizona. My brother-in-law had been wanting to go to an OU game, so he and my sister came up from Tulsa and we headed south to Norman along with my dad, to watch the Sooners duke it out with Arizona. We ate at my favorite BBQ place, JR's in Norman on the way, and it was delish as always.

We didn't know how stinking great the seats were going to be until we got there, this picture is not zoomed in at all folks!

Bro-in-Law Kendall got up close and personal with Sooner

We saw Toby Keith across the court at the game

And Sherri Coale was there too

I finished out my 6th day of basketball at yet another OC game. Or two. They both won their games, but the men's game was certainly a close one!

The Lady Eagles in action

Baby M (my foster sister) and cousin Nora playing during the OC Men's game

Jason Taylor at the free throw line during the last minute or so of the game, and what an intense minute it was!

And there we have it folks, lots of basketball and lots of good times with friends and family.