Happy Wednesday y’all! We’re halfway to Friday! Here’s what I’m loving this week!

I’m loving that I only have five (counting today) working days until I’m off for Thanksgiving! I’m definitely needing a break from work and a chance to get out of OKC for a few days. I’m excited to see all of the family too! Pine Creek Thanksgiving 2010 cannot come fast enough!

I’m loving that Bristol & Mark are in the DWTS finale!

I’m sure that a lot of people are upset that Brandy is gone because she was the better dancer, but I just love Bristol & Mark! I don’t think they will win, but I’m excited they have a chance to be in the finale.

I’m loving my adorable new gloves!

Those plus peppermint hot chocolates are the ONLY things making this cold weather bearable.

I’m loving these blog awards from two sweet bloggers!

From Annie

From Katie

Thanks so much girls! Y’all are awesome! I’ll try to do my posts and pass these along sometime this week!

I’m loving Aly & Molly’s First Annual 12 Days of Christmas Blog Challenge!

It sounds like so much fun! Check out either of their blogs for more info! I’m definitely participating, and I’d love to see y’all play too!

I’m loving that my Daddy won a gold medal in sparring at his Tae Kwon Do tournament over the weekend!

So proud of him!

I’m loving this new song from Carrie Underwood!

There’s A Place For Us-Carrie Underwood

She cowrote it for the new Narnia movie, and it is a great song!

What are you loving? Link up with Jamie and show us what you love!

Hello dears! Hope you all had a lovely weekend and a great Monday. It’s gonna be a weird week, I can already tell. I’m going to apologize now for probably being a bit absent this week. I’m definitely ready for Thanksgiving so that I can have a little bit of a break, both physically and mentally.

Before I get into my weekend update, I want to thank all of you for the prayers and the sweet comments on my post about Tracy and her babies. Things are still not great, and they would greatly appreciate your continued prayers.

Alrighty, Friday evening, I went up to the hospital and spent a little bit of time with Tracy. When I got home, I was super exhausted from a crazy day, so I curled up in bed with my kitty and spent the rest of the evening with Ricky Bobby.

In the few months that I have been blogging, I have been amazed at how the blogging community rallies around people in need of prayers. I’m asking all of you to do that now!

If you follow me on the twit, you may have seen my tweet asking for prayers for a friend. I got permission tonight to talk about that situation, and I wanted to bring it before all of you. Tracy, my coworker and precious friend, is 24 weeks pregnant with twins. Last night, she went into preterm labor. Her labor has stopped for now, and she is in the hospital, possibly until the babies come. Please keep Tracy, her husband Matt, and their sweet babies in your prayers. I would greatly appreciate it, and Tracy and Matt would as well!

Last night was the CMAs! The show was pretty great! I love country music and I love award shows, and the CMAs didn’t disappoint (except for no EOTY nomination for Carrie, but we won’t go there right now).

Here are my favorite moments!

We’ll start with my girl Carrie! Again this year, she had such awesome dresses! I loved all but the yellow one!

And my absolute favorite…

Beautiful dress!

Now, my favorite red carpet looks…

Carrie (of course!)

Miranda Lambert

Hillary Scott from Lady Antebellum

Kimberly & Karen from Little Big Town
Loved Kimberly’s dress, but didn’t care for Karen’s

Meghan from Steel Magnolia

Katherine Heigl

Joanna Garcia

There were awesome performances!

Carrie, Brad Paisley, & Keith Urban-“Songs Like This”

Carrie-“Mama’s Song”

The Band Perry-“If I Die Young”

Blake Shelton-“All About Tonight”

Jason Aldean & Kelly Clarkson-“Don’t You Wanna Stay”

Kenny Chesney-“Boys of Fall”

Lady Antebellum-“Hello World”

Reba-“If I Were a Boy”
I heard a lot of people didn’t like her singing this, but I loved it!

Taylor Swift-“Back to December”
She did awesome!

Little Big Town-They didn’t really perform, but as they were presenting Album of the Year, they sang part of the chorus of Taylor’s “You Belong With Me”. I loved it!

Can’t forget about the awards!

Lady Antebellum won Vocal Group and Single of the Year for “Need You Now”

Sugarland won Vocal Duo

Zac Brown Band won New Artist

Blake Shelton won Male Vocalist for the first time! He also won Vocal Event for “Hillbilly Bone” with Trace Adkins

Brad Paisley won his first Entertainer of the Year!

And this year’s big winner, Miranda Lambert!

She won Female Vocalist, Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Video of the Year for “The House That Built Me”. I was really excited for her! She deserved it all!

It was a great night! Did y’all watch?

Sorry I haven’t been around this week. Between a crazy work schedule and a migraine, it’s been kind of a weird week. I’m hoping things will settle down a bit pretty quickly, and I can get back to posting and catching up on all of you!

I’m loving that I’m off work tomorrow for Veteran’s Day!

I think it is awesome that we have a day set aside specifically to remember veterans! Also, not gonna lie, I’m glad that we have the day off!

I’m loving playing Words With Friends!

I think I’ve got four games going on right now! I’m kind of addicted. I’m not very good, but it’s still fun! If you play, come find me. My ID is Ashleyo24.

I’m loving this song!

Reba McEntire-If I Were a Boy

I’m loving that I get to hang out with Tracy Friday night!

I’m loving this post by Ashley at Little Miss Momma!

She’s one of my favorites! Great tutorials and great stories, and she’s super super crafty. Plus, she has a stinkin’ cute little boy! If you don’t read her blog, you definitely should!

I’m loving that the CMA’s are on tonight!

Y’all know how much I love my country music! I just love award shows too, so the country ones are just awesome! Plus, I’m loving that my girl Carrie is cohosting again! :)

I’m loving this little guy!

He’s been very cute and snuggly this week! It makes me happy!

What are you loving this week? Link up with Jamie!

I am FINALLY getting around to posting about my boss’s baby shower! The pictures were on my brother’s camera, and he finally took them off and emailed them to me! I’m excited to share them with y’all!

The table

Our theme was milk and cookies! An awesome bakery made these adorable cookies! Love the little milk bottles!

Tracy, Holly, and me

Holly and her momma

We had such a great time! The baby is due very soon, and we are DYING for her to get here! Can’t wait to see that sweet baby girl!

I love his books, and I’ve been dying to read this one!

4. Reba’s new CD!

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I’m super excited about their cute Christmas cards! There are so many to choose from! I just love photo cards like these!

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I am absolutely loving these awesome gift tags! So cute and so much better than the store-bought ones.

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Hey y’all! I haven’t done a 10 Tracks post in awhile, and seeing everyone’s iPod posts for 30 Day Blog Challenge is making me want to post one! :) Here are ten songs that are on repeat on my iPod right now.