One of my favorite ways to de-stress is to sit and read about someone elses crazy life. Enter, the Pioneer Woman. Her name is Ree Drummond, and she has a blog about her transition from black heels city girl to domesticated ranching wife, and its always an entertaining read. She’s got great stories, beautiful photography, and amazing recipes that even I (the non-cook) can tackle.

Her cookbook The Pioneer Woman Cooks came out this fall, and she did a book-signing at the Mall of America yesterday! My dear friend JuneBug and I made the trek to the MoA, and stood in line for four hours to have her sign our books! It was actually quite fun, we got to know three fun women in line with us, one of whom was getting the book signed for her daughter in Australia. After the long wait, it was exciting to finally meet her- and she is even sweeter in person than she seems on her blog!