My Mom began following Ree Drummond quite some time ago (and got me hooked soon there after). Ree is a city girl that fell in love with a cowboy and now lives an amazing life on a beautiful ranch, homeschooling her 4 children, cooking up lovely meals, and taking stunning pictures of it all! You could easily spend hours on her blog surfing through recipes, pictures, and stories. Her writing is so down to earth and easy to connect with. Bazillions of people follow her and her blog has become one of the top in the nation! She recently published a cook book that includes tons of the wonderful photos and stories we all know and loved, sprinkled throughout YUMMY recipes.
Here are some pictures from this great adventure that I set out on all by my lonesome! It didn't take long to make friends in this crowd of P-Dub fans!
This was my first view of her speaking to the crowd. She said "I am soooo nervous!!! I am sweating like crazy! I am blogger, not a public speaker so I will keep this short....are there any burning questions?" Some one screamed "Where's Marlboro Man?" She laughed and said "he is at home teaching the kids while she is away." She was very gracious and starting signing quickly.
This is the book and my line ticket! Thank goodness I went to the bookstore last week to pick these up, I was in group 7 and when I got there tonight someone said there was a group 27!! Super glad I thought ahead on that one!
This was my first good view of her as we rounded the corner in line. She is super pretty!!
That guy works at the book store and his job for the night was to take pictures on our personal cameras--him and all these ladies!
But wait! Another guy! This cute couple got their picture taken as a couple with Ree. There were several other guys at the event, but mostly toting bags and taking pictures for their wives. :-)
YAY! I made it....I had soo much I planned on saying but I couldn't find a word when I got up there. I said thank you a lot...and stuttered something like, "My mom wants to be you when she grows up." She said, "How sweet!" Then I explained that I made a puffy paint sweat shirt that says "Look Mom, it's P-Dub!", but the arrow is pointing the wrong way... Ha. She once again said, "How sweet!" and asked if I wanted to slide to the other side of her so the arrow would be right and I said "Yes Please!"
I crawled around all of her gift bags and made it to the other side so my arrow would point to her. She laughed and said, "Well, you had a 50/50 chance of being right." Of course, I would pick the wrong way. Hah. We posed for this great shot and I am sure I said thank you another 5 times.
Taking a closer look at my sweater as we say goodbye....and thank you again...and how sweet.
This is Kelly, my friend in line for 2 hours. She was kind and we debated about The Biggest Loser while we were in line. Thanks to my Mom and Allyson P. for The Biggest Loser finale updates via text messages. Thanks to Kelly for keeping me company.
Tagging along in Music City were Ree's sister and friend. There are many great stories about them on the blog as well. They signed too! And they handed out the pretty t-shirts to everyone.
This is a closer look at the puffy paint goodness for my Momma. I was hoping to make P-Dub's website wearing this lil ditty, but no one was taking pictures for her :-(
This is the pretty t-shirt that we all got for free :-) Pretty awesome, especially since I didn't have money to get a book for myself! I ended up with a parting gift and lots of fun stories.
What a wonderful night! Soo wish Mom and Karen could have been there with me, but thankful that I was able to go meet her in person. She is a pleasure to follow online and I hope you will check her out!!
