28 years...

The month of October for the Gipson household is a busy one filled with birthdays and anniversaries. Lots of family members birthdays, friends birthdays and friends and parents anniversaries.

I was swamped with birthday cards, gifts, phone calls, and emails this year for my birthday! I am so blessed with great friends and family! Thank you so much!

This year my birthday was on a Friday so I actually got to celebrate with friends on my actual birthday. It feels like when you have to wait till the weekend to celebrate when you birthday falls during the week, is just not the same as actually celebrating on the day of!

Ricky and I and some great friends we have made here celebrated by going into KC to Buca Di Beppo for my birthday. It's a wonderful Italian family style restaurant! Their salad is to die for! We had a blast, some of our friends had never been, so it was fun to introduce them to the place.

After eating, we walked around and went shopping. We got a little crazy in one store looking at stocking stuffers. Some pretty odds gifts. Such as some really weird motorcycle goggles that of course, we all had to try on. We had tears we were laughing so hard. After making a scene in the store (which no one offered to help us that worked there, wonder why?!!?) we headed down to the Cheesecake Factory for dessert. Can never go wrong with cheesecake. All in all it was a great night spent with friends and laughing the night away!

Other news....

Ricky and I received our blue belts. So we are training for our high blue belts now.

Soon, Ricky and I will be going on a little weekend vacation to Cedar Rapids, Iowa for a Taekwondo tournament. I will just be watching but Ricky wants to participate. It's only about 2 hours away from us but we are making it a small little get away for us.

The food that I received from the Angel Food Ministry has been wonderful! We have only been dissapointed in the bratwurst but everything has been great. We had some of the steaks last night and they were so delicious! So if you have access to an Angel Food Ministry I highly recommend it.

Oh speaking of good deals. I can't remember how I found this website and I haven't purchased anything yet, but it is makeup and most of it is only $1. It's called E.L.F Makeup. Stands for eyes, lips, face. So check it out.

The weather here is really cool now. The leaves are changing pretty colors and I haven't had the air conditioner on for a good 3 weeks now, no heat on either. So our bill is gonna be a good one!

I guess that's all for now. Enjoy your week!

Love ya,
Ashley