Rustic Boot Company

     Well my lil sis is finally following her dream :) She has been into blogging forever and is so great and talented at it. She now has opened her own online store and is starting to get some great products in. So what is a proud sister to do but help promote the crap out of it! I have already bought a shirt & pretty sure i want to get about 1 of everything that she has for sale so far! Well enough of me going on & on, i'll let you check it out for yourselves!

Here is her blog: http://www.therusticchick.com/

And here is her shop: http://www.rusticbootcompany.com/

She is just getting it going and there will be more stuff to come so STAY TUNED!!!!

Riding

    Saturday morning I had to run a few errands and what better way to do it then on my motorcycle :) I know its not safe and I was nervous taking these but they turned out pretty good. Here are a couple pic's you might enjoy :)

Headin down the highway... Looking for adventure!

This is a reflection from my headlight of me riding! LOVE this one :)

Sturgis 2013

      Well this year i was able to finally make it to Sturgis! It was a pretty good time :) We stayed at The Legendary Buffalo Chip. It was ok, it was nice that we got to see some pretty cool bands/artists at night. We camped in tents and the campground was ok but man we are used to Algona. Algona is all loud, wild and hard to sleep. I think our group of 13 were the loudest group there! I think we made a few neighbors mad but hey we are at a bike rally :) It wasn't to bad. We did a ton of riding and got to see some very pretty scenery. I could almost move there! We did Spearfish canyon, Needles Highway, went to Deadwood, The Stone house saloon, Hewlett WY, stopped at Wahl Drug & went through the badlands on the way home too. Im sure there were other spots we hit too but hard to list everything that we did. Here are a few pic of our trip :)

Well when we first pulled up we saw this dude... Paul Sr!!!

The Chip

Kid Rock was AMAZING!!! And it rained/poured on us & he kept singing!

Spearfish Canyon

Some lake that was pretty cool :) This is the whole group.

My man & I at the lake

Needles Highway - Rode it :)

Toby Keith - He did ok but didnt really put on much of a show :(

Devils Tower - all of the bikes in the group

The Stone House Saloon

People have signed all over in this house so i had to add us to the mix :)

BEST show of the week Rob Zombie! This is Sick Bubblegum

Saw all the bikes in this Bike show.

Brantley Gilbert

Lynyad Skynard

And this is a shirt i saw that sums up about every bike rally we go to! LOL LOVE IT :)

We had a great time with some great friends! Dont think we will go every year but i could go about every 3-4 years :) The scenery was so amazing! I loved just looking around at it and taking Gods creation in :)

Girls Night

Well last night my friend Kimi & decided to venture out together on our bikes just the two of us. What a great night. It was SOOO much fun just us gals on our motorcycles hitting the town. She has had her bike for about a year and then as u know i just got mine about a month ago. So now we can just ride if we want. We have a whole group of guy friends that have bikes but sometimes its nice to just hit the road with your girl! We went out to a bar called Buschwackers, it is a country bar but outside in the back they fenced it off and made a nice outdoor arena/beer garden/concert area. They call the outdoor part the Steele Horse Watering Hole. Love the name :) On this steel horse i ride... LOL like the song ;) Then we headed back a little closer to home & met up with my cousin and a little bar called Rodeo. It is also a country bar. It has some really cool decor. The bar stools are actual horse saddles, they can get a little uncomfortable but its still a good time. Here is a pic of us from last night.

From the left: myself, cousin Brittany & Kimi

Although the bar was pretty dead we chatted up the nice bartendress gal & just carried on among ourselves :) It was nice to saddle up with the gals LOL

Buzzz....

     Well i have been riding my bike for about 4 weeks now. I have come across a few things that i really enjoy about it and a few that really BUG me...
Lets get the bad over with... Well i do not have a windshield and that doesn't bother me but man those bugs can really hurt when ya hit them. I have gotten pelted quite a few times and once it even made my cheek bleed a lil, not a lot just a tiny lil scratch. I guess my worst bug story so far would be from last Sunday. We were out for a ride and i was following my boyfriend and am trying to get better at staying closer to him. Well all of the sudden a bug of decent size flew up my nose then proceeded down my throat! I instantly started gagging and about puked. I was trying to spit the son of a gun out and everything. We get to a stop sign i put my bike in neutral and told him just a sec with drool & slobber all over my cheek and shoulder proceed to try to puke the lil bugar up! He just starts laughing at me and asks what happened. Oh that was horrible and hope it never happens again! Then yesterday i rode my bike to work for the first time. I work in the big city of Omaha, NE. I was a little nervous but i did pretty darn good if i do say so myself :) Well on my way home (about a 45 min. trip home) i was just about home and was cresting a hill when a dumb bird flew right in my path, thank God it just hit my headlight & handlebar area and fell off to the ground. I about freaked out! I'm glad it didn't hit my body or face or something, i would have really freaked out! LOL Well those are actually the only two gripes i have. I know you all are pry just going to tell me i need a windshield LOL, but it ain't cool LOL ;) I will invest in one eventually im sure :)
Now for what i LOVE about riding. I just love the sound of my pipes, the wind in my face, the freedom you feel when you ride, the thrill of the ride, the funny looks you get because i am a girl riding a bigger bike lol, and the anticipation in every turn or swerve of the road. Some might think i don't know what im talking about and frankly i don't care once you ride your own then you will understand. I guess you gotta live by this:

So don't fear dying fear not living and this is how im living.... Let's Ride :)

My New Baby!

Ok i know what you all are thinking... OMG is she prego, does she have a bun in the oven?!?!? The answer to that is HECK NO! LOL ha ha ha Not that i'm opposed to one day but sure as heck not now LOL! So here is comes.... Drum roll please......

I finally have my own bike! As in hog, sled, scooter, iron horse... MOTORCYCLE! Not just "a" motorcycle, a HARLEY DAVIDSON 2006 Soft tail Springer! Oh man i am SO beyond pumped and just want to ride everyday but that is not always possible :( When i bought it there were only 8,043 miles on it, its like brand new! Since i have had it the last 3 weeks i have put over 1,000 miles on it! I even have done my first long trip. We went to the Algona Iowa Freedom Rally. Its about 4 hours away from home :) I think i did pretty darn good :)

Well now to get out there and put many more miles on my new iron horse :)

Busy Busy Busy....

Hey there everyone! I am so sorry that i have not posted anything for the last few months... Well actually since last August! OMG can't believe that it has been that long!!!! I am horrible :(

Well i will try to do a quick summery of the last few months.... Not much has really went on except one thing. Beginning of December we found out my mom had 2 tumors on her brain. We were first told that she had brain cancer! After further tests we found out the were no cancerous and a relatively easy surgery. It was still not an easy journey. We had noticed something was not right with mom for a little while now. She was not communicating very well especially for only being 59 so we took her to the doctor and he ordered a MRI. That was on a Thurday she had her MRI on Friday and right after the MRI the guy told us to go to her doctors office he was expecting us. That is when we were told about her tumors. He admitted her right then. There was a ton of swelling in her brain from the tumors which was causing her communication problems. He gave her some stuff to help reduce the swelling and she was scheduled for surgery for Monday... She was all prepped for surgery they took her down and ended up having to reschedule until Wednesday (12/12/12) because the machine they used wasn't working. So we just had to wait some more. Well the surgery went great she ended up having to stay in the hospital for about another week then was released to go home. Man it was like night & day after her surgery. Mom was back to normal, well almost. Her speech had gotten a lot worse but the doctor said it would get worse before it got better. Each day it got better and better though. It has now been 6 months and mom is back to work full time she had her 60th birthday in February and has totally the same old mom as she was a year ago! I am so thankful for that!

I'm Famous ; )

Well if you all don't know i have a wonderful lil sister who is my BFF, well she has an awesome blog. She has so many followers and just has a way with words. Well every Friday she does a "Going out with your boots on" post and features one of her followers or just anyone. Well this week she has featured Yours Truly : ) You can check out the post and i HIGHLY recommend you follow her wild country wanderer adventures! 

http://www.therusticchick.blogspot.com/2012/08/going-out-with-your-boots-on-my-sister.html

This you may wonder is a picture of my lil sister throwing me over her shoulder! We are only 13 months apart but she is 4'11 1/2 (don't forget the 1/2) and i am 5'8. So she is in more ways than one my lil sister. Though she is small she is so MIGHTY! This was a good night. We went to the Carson, IA rodeo then hit up a lil bar and had a good time. It was girls night and we sure did it up right : )

A Lil' Whiskey

Man I love this outfit!!! I already have the shirt & a lot of similar accessories, wish I had everything that is in this set. Looks like i'm gonna rock this outfit tomorrow night when I hit up the Carson, IA rodeo with my girls!

 

P.S. If you cant tell Red Stag is my FAVORITE ; )

Rebel Cowgirl

Here is another fun Polyvore outfit i created : ) Man if i could just blog, do Pinterest, Twitter & Polyvore all day everyday i would have a blast ; )

Poker run & Algona 2012!

Well a lot has happened in the last few months... We bought a puppy, bought a house, have been slowly (I mean slowly) working  on the house, been on a few poker runs and went to a bike rally. It has been VERY hectic around our place so far this summer....

Here are a few pic's from the poker rides and our annual Algona Freedom Rally: 

Poker Ride: 

 

 

Me & My man : ) 

 Man do we have some crazy funny friends! (They didn't actually ride this way, just a photo op)

 

The crew...

 

A wonderful day for a ride!

  

Our friends Krissy & Sean... He let her drive! He was "holding on" here LOL

 ALGONA 2012

The girls... Kimi, Ashley, Me & Kelsie

 I was SO excited my best friend was able to come & we had so much fun!

 Me & Andy : )

 Our very AWESOME friends that we met in Algona. They are from MN and now we camp next to each other every year! Whitey & Kris, they are GREAT people!

 Here our friend that does not have a bike wanted a ride, well they didnt want to look dumb (2 guys riding together) So this is what they came up with. With the help of Ashley : ) 

This is our baby, Lilly.... We got her a lil kiddie pool and man she sure loves it on these hot days!

Well those are a few things that have been going on so far this summer. We are going on another lil trip over Labor day & Lilly is coming with us, so it should be eventful! Hope you all are having a great & safe summer so far!

Adventures with Lilly

     Well this last Sunday afternoon Andy took a trailer load down to the new place. I stayed at home & tried to pack up a few things then i was headed down to drop them off.... I took Lilly with us & here are a few recent pics of her : )

 

This one of her driving LOL just kidding : ) 

 

 This one i just LOVE!

     So yesterday evening Andy went & mowed the new yard (it was in DESPERATE need!) and he took our lil Lilly. Well we have a fenced back yard so he put her in there and let her run around while he mowed. I was bartending last night & i get a text of this pic saying "Lilly is Hulking out" She was running around so much in the tall grass that it turned her legs & belly all green! HA ha ha... Needless to say she got her 2nd bath in 2 days. I had to give her a bath because when i turned my head when we were outside she was standing belly deep in a big mud puddle!That was on Sunday. Oh the adventures we are going to have with this little one : ) Well until next time!

Meet Lilly

     So my boyfriend & I have always wanted a French bulldog but didn't really want to spend over $1,000 for a dog. We have been looking and since we are moving into our own place thought it was time to expand our family by 1, 1 dog that is. No babies for awhile! ha ha ha.... Well last week we found a cute Boston terrier on Craigslist and they were going to hold him till Saturday. So Saturday comes & we call them & they say oh well we sold him! We were pretty bummed but what do ya do its not like we had and money down on the dog or anything.....

     Well yesterday i was looking on Craigslist & i found the cutest lil doggie. 1/2 Boston 1/2 French bulldog, 7 months old, potty trained, kennel trained, all shots, micro chipped & totally in our price range. I instantly fell in love with her!!! The only problem was she was about 2.5 hours away. Well in my mind i was like well I'm not doing anything tonight ROAD TRIP! SO i text the guy & originally there was someone else suppose to come look at her that night well i said if that falls through let me know, i love her already. Then about 10 min later he asks can you come tonight? So what do i do get a hold of my boyfriend tell him all the details. At first he was like Do you know how far that is? I said about 2.5 hours away lol he was like well if you want her. He had to work late so i instantly get a hold of my WONDERFUL sister (who i work with) and tell her about it & say so wanna go on a road trip?!?!?! She was like man your crazy & YES I'm down! Man i love her : )

     So she gets off work at 5pm and was at my house by 5:30 & we were on the road by 5:45! We had such a good time laughing, joking around & just some good ol catching up. It so nice to be able to do random road trippin. Well this is a pic that she took of me & our new lil gal Lilly. She is SO adorable, i will get some more pics of her and put up. This top pic she looks huge but she is a lil stocky thing : )

 

     We ended up pulling in my driveway about 10:30 so we really made great time and Lilly did great on the way back. My boyfriend (Andy) got up and was checking her out. I think he likes her a lot just like me. I was sure hoping that he liked her too since he wasn't able to ride along to go get her : )

     We made her a lil blanket bed in our room and she was just busy checking everything out. She ended up trying to jump up on our King size, tall bed. I felt bad for her so i put her in bed with us & she did great! No accidents and slept all night. I woke up this morning to her snorting & grunting/playing with Andy. He got up & let her out. She is so stinking cute! She would just follow us around the house while we were getting ready for work this morning. I cant wait to go home & play with her! Here is a pic of him with her this morning. As he was putting her in the bathroom he says Tell mom bye! Awww.... So we are now Mom & Dad to our lil girl/puppy Lilly ha ha ha... Yeah we are going to be "That" couple that treats their dog like a kid LMAO!!!

Small Town Living

     Well i have lived a few places in my life. I started out as a wee one in the city then mom & dad moved us to a lil itty bitty town called Goosehaven where we lived for quite awhile. Well up until 3rd grade when mom & dad decided that me & sis needed our own rooms so back to the city we went. While living there not even a year or two mom & dad decided to bless us with our lil brother. So back to sharing a room with sis. I lived there until i went off to college & stayed in the dorms in Olathe, KS for about 2 years then moved back home. I was back to sharing a room with sis. Man i missed being on my own so i moved into an apartment complex across town that my parents owned for a few years then sis wanted to spread her wings so we moved into together. That was great, we literally lived off of icy pops for an entire summer with no air conditioning! Then we decided we needed more room moved back across town into a lil & man i mean lil house (so much for more room) but it did have a yard. Then i started dating my now boyfriend of 3 1/2 years. Well he asked me to move in with him & his roomate. So i decided to go ahead, so back across town i moved, where i have been for about 3 years. My sis moved to the real country and is doing fabulous, check her out at

• http://www.therusticchick.blogspot.com

     We have been looking for a house for the 2 of us to start out in and have not found much of anything that has suited our needs. He is kind of a motor head ha ha, he has his toys (i.e. Harley, 4 wheeler, gonna fix up his old bronco & start building his rat rod) so we need at LEAST a 3 car garage. Well needless to say after looking for a lil over a year and zig zagging back & forth across town we have found it and what do ya know its in a small town! Well dont blink or you'll miss it ha ha ha! My BF is from small town so he will be used to it and i have always wished we would have stayed living in good ol Goosehaven. So small town living here we come!

Here is a picture of our cute lil house : ) We have a lot of stuff to do oh like pack for 1 ha ha ha..... We will/hope to be moved in by mid May. We are super excited for this next chapter in our lives : ) Hope your ready for us Silver City Iowa!

 

This will be a great lil starter house for us. It needs some work & some yard work. But we have a vision and cannot wait for it to slowly come to light. I think this will be so much fun working together on something that we are going to be living in and sharing. Im sure there will be some GREAT times and some times we are going to want to ring each others necks but we are all in and no turning back now. So we are ready to get started. Let's do this! If any of you have any advice or tips on painting, carpeting, flooring or pretty much any advice/tips on new home ownership holla at me! Until my next post..... : )

My Sister's Guest Spot

Hey for those of you who do not know my sister is a WONDERFUL blogger with so much country wisdom & funny wit to share. She recently had the opportunity to share some of that with an online community called Rural Women Rock. I am so proud of her. I have told her time & time again that she needs to write a book or something ha ha ha... Well you should all swing by and check her out at:  
  http://www.therusticchick.blogspot.com  You can follow her daily/weekly blog here but
                                                         
 if you are interested you can also check out her guest blog here http://www.ruralwomenrock.blogspot.com/