I think I'm in Heaven...

A few weeks ago I disclosed my absolute obsession love of PBR. At the time my friend Becky commented that it would be nice to see Colby Yates play guitar and I mentioned that I would like to see Justin McBride who also plays guitar (stay with me, they are both bull riders).

It should come as no surprise to you that I read the PBR blog. So, picture me opening this post today:

Past PBR Champs Make Appearance at Paso Robles Film Festival!!

from Professional Bull Riders, Inc. News

2005 & 2007 PBR World Champion Justin McBride and 1997 World Champ Michael Gaffney will be in attendance at the first annual Paso Robles Digital Film Festival. On Friday, November 21 at 5 p.m., the documentary, "This Is Not A Rodeo!" will screen at the Paso Robles Inn Ballroom. The film, produced by Joe Loverro and Erik McMichael, chronicles the story of the 20 bull riders who broke away from professional rodeo in 1992 to form the Professional Bull Riders. Loverro has produced the PBR on VERSUS and NBC for the past 5 years and has produced several other major sporting events like the Tour de France.
Also attending the screening will be PBR Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Randy Bernard and World Champion cowboy Larry Mahan. Tickets for the screening are $23 in advance and $30 at the door. The "Pioneer Troubadour Guitar Pull" will be held immediately following the screening at Martin & Weyrich Winery with a concert by Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Norm Stephens, and will feature a special guest appearance by McBride. Tickets for the concert are $45 in advance and $50 at the door. For more information on the screening and the concert, please visit www.pasoroblesfilmfestival.com .

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Eff me! There were no words. Hyperventilation began. Then I realize "Oh crap oh crap oh crap!" November 21st Jerad got us a room at Sycamore Mineral Springs in Avilla (about 40 minutes from Paso) and made all sorts of romantic plans since my company was paying for us to stay the next night as part of our Christmas party. That way we could have a little mini vay-cay instead of just one night...

How could I do this? Well, its around our anniversary... I know he would be stoked too... especially about the concert. Lets make a quick recap:
Ramblin' Jack Elliott- Mentored by Woody Guthrie. Huge influence on Bob Dylan, featured in many of his songs.

Norm Stephens- Played guitar for Merle Haggard. Huge influence on country stars like Randy Travis and George Strait.

Justin McBride- Eye Candy. Jk. He's actually really good.

Also appearing:

Ronee Blakley, Louie Ortega, Larry Mahan, Gary Leffew, JACK TEMPCHIN & FRIENDS with Very Special Guest BURN DOWN THE BARN

You can google them all if you care to know more.

Jerad would be STOKED if I bought tickets to the film showing and then hoedown afterwards... But what if he already had plans for us? I went around and around. Beth and Jules made me feel really guilty... and by "really guilty" I mean for a second I paused... but HELLO, Justin just retired... its not like I am ever going to see him again!



So, I called Jerad and asked him if we had any specific plans for that night.

He said he wasn't sure yet.

I asked if it would be alright for me to surprise him with something for a few hours.

He sounded intrigued and said yes.

I asked if he was suuuuure I wouldn't be messing anything up...

He said "noandI'minameetingandactuallyneedtogo."

So, Score right? Right?

Then, after all of that I realized that I'm an idiot. The Paso Film Festival is in NOVEMBER. Our Anniversary and Christmas Party... yeah, DECEMBER.

The good news is that I'm def not messing with any prexisting plans now. And we won't be driving from Avilla to Paso back to Avilla and wasting precious hotel time... come on, there's hot tubs in all the rooms!

The bad news is... now I have $160 worth of tickets that it will be a pretty big stretch to count as an anniversary present now that we are celebrating the week after our anniversary instead of the week before. Then again, he can deal, its a pretty kick ass present. Maybe I'll do that and then something smaller later? Something bomb ass from NY? Since its right before Christmas I don't want to be crazy crazy.

Anyways, Phew, lucked out... and YES IM SO EXCITED AND ITS THIS FRIDAY!!!!!

Except as I typed that I remembered another problem... Jerad was maybe working in Bakersfield this weekend. Oops. It would be over $1000 so he can't skip it if it works out.

If that happens, who wants to go with me? I have two tickets now... Jerad will pay for us to have a good time. A PBR fan would be nice. Or Justin McBride fellow obsesser.

Tina: yes to what you are thinking right now, you should sooo drive down for this...

Halloween

And as promised, here are a few Halloween pics:

Halloween night costume for handing out candy to to kids:
And the par-tay the next night:

Cowboy Jerad:

Dorothy (couldn't find a brown wig):

Didn't Jerad do a good job making my shoes?

Nurse Melinda and Prisoner Larry:
Obama-Zombie Jeff (he's super conservative... I thought it was pretty creative)

And a couple of randoms:





I don't know why I didn't take more pics... there was a band, caterer, bartender, and some GREAT costumes.... I think I was too busy getting my Irish Coffee on:)

Happy Halloween everyone!

Round 4 of the PBR World Finals is on tonight, 9pm EST. Join the fun!

PBR how I love thee...

Since Halloween dared to fall on the first day of the PBR finals, we stayed home this year which was more than fine by me. First of all, I could care less about Halloween. I'm saving my enthusiasm for when I have kids who I can torture dress up and parade around. I did don a costume and threw the candy out the door as fast as I could so I could get back to PBR.... er, I mean lovingly placed sugar in each adorable baby/child/teen/adult's basket, commented on their costume, and slammed the door... our little neighbor Cody was sooo stoked that I was wearing a costume, he made his parents check it out. Haha awkward!

Anyways, PBR! Last weekend was the first weekend of the finals. As you know, I am OBSESSED with Professional Bull Riding... hmm, actually I just checked for a post to link back to explaining my obsession and there isn't one. Just a little mention at the end of this one. I think that I couldn't put it into words. Lets just say, imabigfan. It is the only sport I follow. I check the rider stats, bull stats, injury reports... OBSESSED.

This year, the new PBR Team Shootout format came to our fair. Obviously, we were front and center. It was the second ever event in the Shootout tour, and the first hadn't even been televised yet... so VERY EXCITING! Also I got to meet Adriano Moraes 3 time world champ who is retiring this year. YES!

Back to the Finals, they were amazing. Justin McBride has announced that he will be retiring right after the finals. Wow. He is in the prime of his career. Crazy. Thanks for the 2 weeks notice, sheesh.

Round One (place, rider, bull, score):

1	J. B. Mauney	Ricky Bobby :		92.25
2	Renato Nunes	Nasty Mike:		92.00
3	Kody Lostroh	Cat Man Do:		90.25
3	Guilherme Marchi	Scaredy Cat		90.25

Round Two:

1	J. B. Mauney	Troubadour		93.50
2	Guilherme Marchi	Copperhead Slinger		92.25
3	Renato Nunes	Nervous Waters		92.00

Round Three:

1	Brendon Clark	Pearl Snap		90.75
1	Ross Coleman	Outsider		90.75
2	Reese Cates	Firewater		90.50
2	Justin McBride	Gonzales Black		90.50
3	Chris Shivers	Flash		89.75

And some Round 3 pics!

Brendon Clark's 90.75 ride:
Ross Coleman's 90.75 tie for 1st:

Reese Cates's 90.50:

And Justin's 90.50 tie for 2nd:


And a few pics I've taken (I won't post all 59,000 mmmk?):

Me and LJ Jenkins.... I sort of didn't want to let go....


Me and Adriano Moraes because we should just stare at him again....


then a few other things:



So, now you know, if you ever want to see me amazingly excited, mention PBR. And if you ever want me to be at party, make sure it doesn't coincide with a big PBR event:)

Since we did turn down all Friday Halloween invites, we went to a party on Saturday night instead (after PBR round 2 was over:). I'll post pics of that soon.