Walmart

This past Saturday I worked an event in which it was a Safety Awareness Fair.

Which is really just a fancy title for four tables set up in an aisle of Walmart which myself, a weird guy who was an EMT, another wierd guy who was a nurse, and two people from our Utilities Company here in town who looked like mad scientists due to the fact that they both combed their hair straight up and looked like they had been electrocuted.

So there I was smooshed between mad scientists and weird EMT man who kept on looking at me and smiling and trying to think of something creative to say. I smiled and nodded and thought to myself how did I get signed up for this.

Well now I am not knocking the people who shop in walmart cause I shop in walmart. However if you spend a whole day in Walmart just looking at people you run into some pretty interesting people to say the least.

I will include for your viewing pleasure a few different types of people I ran into personally.

there really was a woman whom I spoke with on Saturday that looked like this picture below. However the woman I was speaking with had bright pink eye shadow and fake eyelashes on, fake eyelashes are great if they are not on crooked. I was trying to not keep myself from laughing cause all I really wanted to do was pull the eyelashes off of this woman just so she could see. She talked to me for 15 minutes...long time for katie :o)

I saw a plethora of men like this at Walmart on Saturday who each had their own variances. However all the same awkward, wierd, insecure men who feel the need to come up and tell me the most random story or fact. How does one respond to this??? Smile and nod.

I have become a professional of the maneuver.

I am thankful for normal people in my life. I love all different types of people do not get me wrong I just had a little to much of the odd ones this weekend. God is good and funny to me sometimes ;o)

my joy...

She is the joy of my life. My precious neice Kendall. Just thought I would share. How can you not smile at this picture?

jen's birthday

It was Jen's birthday this Saturday and we had a little fun with lunch and then nothing other then bowling. Here are some pics from this weekend. Enjoy.

jen doing her x for strike

kevin showing his moves

me with my moves and I almost got a turkey (that is three strikes in a row)

this was a just a picture from outside my apartment from this weekend

Jen and Cathy, for jen's birthday lunch

me, rachel and jen all smiles from us

apparently jen is excited about something, although she does tend to me a bit dramatic just like me :o) so it could have just been over knocking one pin down.

That's all it was a weekend full of jen's celebration of her birth, today hanging out with friends for our Octoberfest Celebration of beer and brats and Prison Break which has become mine and Rachel's new addiction. I have never watched so much tv in one weekend. My goodness. Thanks erin for getting me addicted. It really is a good show though.

this always makes me laugh

I feel mildly famous and important :O)

This week in Colorado Springs EXTREME HOUSE MAKE OVER IS HERE!!

here is the story. the sheriff's office I work for has been doing the security and escorting of the stars. So I, thought hmmm how do I as a non sworn person get close. Get one of the officers to take me. I did. Got right up next close to the house where regular people were not allowed. still however not close enough for me.

Then my friend Emily, who has been donating her services (she is a chiropractor) all week to the construction workers came up to me and we started walking around. A man named "sam" came up to us and was like have you toured the house yet? We promptly answered no.

He asked do you get your blue shirt yet when you checked in?

"No, I didn't get it yet.''

(katie may have been telling a little white lie cause I was
not really volunteering just there for the day)

Sam, said go get your shirt and tell em you are with sam and
if they have any problems have them call me and I will take care of it.

Got my shirt. then emily and I got to tour the house!!!

FYI: No one got to tour the house except for the people who were building it.

Katie felt special :O)

So here are my pictures. No I didn't get to meet Ty he was not there.

me in front of the house

These guys were like why are you taking pictures...but I was excited!!

Ty's "special" project
House from side view

In the middle of this picture is one of the famous designers, I forgot his name but he was hot and earlier on site he even checked me out :O)

I also sawEd Sanders.....I didn't want to be stalkerish so I just waved and smiled.

I am so happy and excited to be in the house with my blue Extreme Makeover t-shirt and hard hat. yes excited!

Notice the shirts, and the one lane bowling alley to the bottom right.

The reason I got to even to tour the house, my great friend emily. Thanks again so much em for letting me by your "volunteer"

Like I said I am mildly famous, got checked out by a famous designer (i will let you know when i find out his name :o), got to tour the house for a deserving family, and just had fun when I was "working" for the Sheriff's Office. All in all a pretty sweet day in the life of Katie Polavin.

Issybella a.k.a precious baby girl

I want to introduce to the world Issybella, one of the most beautiful most precious babies EVER!!! She was born on September 17th to the proud parents of Shawna Marie Hudson and Cameron Patt.

She loves her mommy
and her daddy
babies need LOTS of kisses...funny I am the same way :O)
She was just relaxing
She already loves her aunt Katie :o)
Shawna and Issybella, I think she was trying to eat her nose
can she get any cuter?

Shawna has already been great with her. It is very natural for her to be a mom. Granted she is only 20, but Issybella has brought nothing but joy and is a blessing from our creator. I praise the Lord today for precious Issybella. Shawna, also three weeks later after having a baby does not look like she even had a baby....already down to her cute little body again. Gotta hate her, she never even bought a pair of maternity pants.

concert this weekend

This is a video of Over the Rhine. Their music I had fallen in love with a long time ago.

I went to their concert this weekend. As I was sitting there in the dark in a small room in Denver, listening to sweet, smooth, sultry voice of Karen, it brought me back to the fall days in Michigan. It reminded me of the fond smile and beautiful eyes of someone I loved long ago.I love OTR. Enjoy!