Christmas Club!

This picture was taken minutes after a fiasco before club... The short version is a truck peeled into the parking lot, going way to fast, where we hang out with all our friends before club. He parks in front of the liquor store and gets out yelling at all the kids for being in the middle of the street (but its not a street but a parking lot). So of course, Will walks over to try and explain what's going on. He doesn't want to hear it. He starts yelling at Will, as Will says over and over about 15 times, "Hey man, let's have a conversation." Then the Thai lady that owns the liquor store comes out and she's yelling who knows what. My mind goes to worst case scenerio... this man or his friend is about to pull out a gun and shoot my baby daddy. Will's outfit didn't help the situation...

These are 2 of my faves...Chelsea and Marty

and the gang.

We went to the Yardhouse (our favorite late night hang out) after club with some other  yl staff people and of course Will had a story to tell.

Noise Complaints...

Last weekend we got our 4th noise complaint from our downstairs neighbors... 

to them we are moving furniture 24/7. Well, I had 6 girls sleepover and it did not sit well with them down below. These girls were "noisy from 7-11 on Saturday night and early Sunday morning"

We made these that i saw on Pinterest. Some turned out good and not so good but this one was Chelsea's that turned out the best. (sorry I didn't rotate it)

Will went and talked to management on Monday. He tried to see if we had any options of moving apartments or getting out of our lease early but there weren't. I told Will that both of those options would be a pain in the butt right now. I say, it's their issue not ours. If they're having such a problem, they can move to a 3rd floor apartment.

We're working on loving our neighbor, literally.

Mama needs her milk.

Caught!

Westside Hoedown

Last night we had a hoedown for YL club! We had a "Rockytop"n', cricket spittin', joke tellin', overall wearin' good time! In this picture left to right is Reese, me, Marty, and Megan. We sent this picture to Megan's younger sister, Anna, who couldn't be there. I've started to find my niche at Westside... Reese, Marty, Anna, Bailey, and Erin are some sophomore girls that I've fallen in love with. They are all so funny and a joy to be around! I'm having them over to our apartment for a sleepover next saturday and as an example of how great they are we are going to have an "Arrested Development" marathon.

YL has become the thing to do for a bunch of foreign exchange students... Julia on the left lives with my friend Sasha. Julia is from Germany and she's so funny and delightful. Everytime I see her she asks how Knox is. I told her that we had a party for the baby and she got so confused because the baby couldn't enjoy his own party. I knew she would be even more confused if I said baby shower. Next is Beatriz from Brazil and Marie who is also from Germany. I don't know them as well since I don't know their host families.

and yours truly! I really wanted to wear my overalls for the hoedown, so I did, but by the end of the night I felt like I was going to burst! They were so tight around the belly! After club I unbuckled,  layed on the floor, and complained about how uncomfortable and hungry I was as Will, Nsen, and Ben (2 of our beloved leaders) cleaned up. 

Will doing Mr. Chicco skit with Ben. Yeah a whole raw chicken on his arm as a puppet...

comedy gold people.

Mexican Dinner

Two roasted Black Forest bacon wrapped, cream cheese filled jalepenos.  Brown Rice and homemade black beans topped with poblanos, onions, and sautéed lemon cilantro spinach.  Finished of with a little tomato and avocado... I (Wodie) got the one out of four jalepenos that didn't get seeded all the way... put a whoopin' on me.

Happy Halloween!

A week and half ago, Will and I went to Tennessee/North Carolina for about 4 days. Our friends Whopper and Caris got married in Asheville. We tagged on a few more days to be in Knoxville and be with our family. Here is us and Will's roommates from college and their wives, also our favorite people to be around in the world, after the rehearsal dinner.

Saturday, as the boys were off doing the things groomsmen do, us girls sat around the breakfast table at windy gap talking and drinking coffee. We then strolled through Asheville and we ate a yummy lunch at the Early Girl. My time with them was really great for my heart.

Here's Whopper standing waiting for his beautiful bride! Loved this whole wedding!

 Here's Will and I with our friends the future Mr. and Mrs. Kelly Corum!

Love them!

The Bride and Groom!

And my favorite thing about this wedding, besides the people, were all the flowers!!

My camera, sadly, then died. 

We had a baby shower for Knox the next day in Knoxville! I wanted it to never end, all these people in one room, there for us and our new family member. I started to weep then and do again now as I realized that these people won't be in Knox's everyday life and Knox won't be in their everyday lives. I don't know who will really know Knox, other than Will and I down here in Houston. It was a hard thought to take in, sitting in front of 60 people, with all eyes on you. I'm thankful for that moment and those people, their generousity, their hearts, our excitement, our nervousness, and our time in tn/nc.

The weeks here go by so fast. Every Monday I think, "I can't believe it's Monday again already!" It's already half way through October. Good Gosh. Here's to another beautifully crazy Monday Night!

Will and I are way past juicing and gone to eating the real thing. We read this book called, Food Matters by Mark Bittman. Basically he says eat less meat, don't eat processed foods, and eat a lot of fruit and veggies, that way you'll help preserve this earth and your bodies. It just got us thinking.

 

So, on his birthday this past Monday, we joined a Co-op. We reserve a box about once a week and pick it up at the park. This week we had eggplant, romaine, spinach, cucumbers, zucchini, carrots, avocado, lemon, thyme basil, apples, oranges, kiwi, pears, tomatoes, and green onions. We went  straight from the park to my all-time favorite grocery store, Central Market. We brought our How to Cook Everything Vegetarian Cookbook along with us and planned our meal based on what was in the box. This week has been fun, basing our meals on what veggies we have left. My only complaint is I've had a enough zucchini to last me awhile. We made a veggie ratatouille (which also had for lunch the days following), zucchini pancakes, and zucchini bread. I bet Knox loves it too. 

Oh yeah. After too many conversations over meals, in the late night hours, in the car, as we're watching tv, and on the phone, we decided on a name...

Knox Wilson Odom. 

We had a top 5 but neither of us were crazy on one name, so we let it lie, hoping one would catch our attention, hopefully before the birth. Knox  wasn't even in our top 5, but then one day as we're eating sandwiches, Will asked, "What about Knox?" We had brought the name up early on in the pregnancy and I had shot it down. But sitting there at Which Wich, I said, "I think I really like it!" After thinking about it for a few days, we put our stamp of approval on it. I was excited for a few reasons but mainly to just have one picked out and to not to have think about it anymore! I had no idea  that I would feel so much responsibility about a name!