Stepping Up For Ouachita.

Thursday was a fun day for us at Katherine Grant Salon.  We arrived at work early to style 8 ladies' hair for the Dillards fashion show during the 1st annual "Stepping Up For Ouachita" women's luncheon. 

I was honored to be asked to serve on the "Stepping Up" planning committee this year.  When the idea for a fashion show came up at one of our meetings, I saw an opportunity to help by providing our hairstyling experience at KGS to polish off each model's look.  Both Laura and Kate also have OBU connections, and were gracious enough to also volunteer their talents to help.

Kelsey's hair styled by Kate for the style show.


Katherine Grant Salon and Jenkins Enterprises went in together to purchase a table at the luncheon.  Our table held: My mom, Gary's grandmother (Betty Jo Grant), and his Aunt (Shirley Hardin), Brooke Hayes, Laura Shaefer, Molly Banks, Karen Watts, Kate, Laura and myself.



Brooke and Mrs. Laura.



Molly, Mrs. Watts, and Mom.

Me with Gary's Aunt and Grandmother (both OBU Alumni).

The luncheon was held at the Chenal Vallley Country Club, and the money raised will go toward providing scholarships for the women of OBU.  During the luncheon, the Dillards' style show featured fall trends modeled by Ouachita women.  Miss Arkansas (OBU Alum) closed the style show, modeling a purple formal gown.  Rebecca Jones, the style show emcee, was kind enough to give our salon a shout out at the beginning of the show.  All of the women looked beautiful, and we were all proud to be a part of this new OBU tradition.

After the luncheon, Kate, Laura and I enjoyed a glass of wine and appetizers at YaYa's, followed by some down time shopping at the Promenade at Chenal, before going back to work at 5. 

Friday night Mom and I had a mother/daughter date with Brooke and Mrs. Laura.  We had dinner at the Capital Bar and Grill, followed by shopping at the Jr. League's annual Holiday House.  I didn't buy much, but I enjoyed spending time with them looking at all the neat stuff. 

Yesterday after work, I watched the Hogs whoop up on South Carolina with the fam at Mom and Dad's house.  John Allen came  home with two friends from OBU and Jessica brought her new boyfriend, Richard. 

Today is a lazy Sunday for me and the animals.  Gary has been in Gatlinberg, TN at the Smokey Mountain Gift Show since Wednesday.  I'm looking forward to having him home Tuesday night!

Gameday Superstore.

What a busy weekend! 

Many months ago Jenkins Enterprises signed on to provide all of the Razorback Merchandise sold at War Memorial, and man all of the booths and tents at the Little Rock Hog games.  What a big undertaking!  They all worked very hard to organize everything and get the merchandise to and from the first game.

Yesterday I worked at the salon until 2, then headed over to War Memorial with Laura and Caleb to help the family sell Razorback merchandise to all the Hog fans at the first Little Rock game.  Gary left to help Dad set up the 9 booths and 2 super tents at 6am, and he didn't leave War Memorial until midnight last night! 

Laura, Caleb and I worked a booth inside gate 8, and Gary helped Mom, Dad, John Allen and Jessica with the super tent outside our gate.  We stayed busy from the time the stadium opened at 4:00 until everyone was gone around 10.  We sold everything from seat cushions to t-shirts to hog noses and hats.  You may have seen some of us scattered around wearing "Gameday Superstore" aprons.  If you missed us, no worries, we'll be back for the LSU game in November.

Today we got some much needed rest,  went grocery shopping, caught up on laundry, gaveLola a bath, attended church service at Epoch, and watched the Cowboys loose their first game of the regular season. 
I'm looking forward to another busy week at work and the Epoch Women's retreat to the White River this weekend.

Razorback Let Down.

Tonight we went to Amy and Ryan's for Ryan's birthday party. Check out the super cute cake Amy had made for him! We ate lots, and watched the game. It started out so good, but ended up being a let down in the end. Either way, the company was wonderful.

It rained all week, so we didn't get to run much. We did go for a 4 mile run today after work. When I started this I couldn't even run one mile without stopping, now I can do 4! It feels great!

Tomorrow Krisitn leaves to go back to Delaware. I've enjoyed spending time with her and Meghan the past two weeks. It's gonna be said to see her leave.

Not much more to report. Ready for some sunshine. All this rain and gloom makes me tired.