3rd Annual OU/TEAXS Trip

What a great weekend! Yes the Sooners lost, but time spent with family and friends makes up for that any day of the week. Lonnie and I have been going to Big D for the OU/Texas game for the past three years. We never actually attend the game which is kinda weird. We go to Humperdinks which is a great place to watch the game since 90% of the people who are there are OU fans. Even the wait staff wears Crimson and Cream. Mainly for the sake of good tips but I like being surrounded by our colors!

This year Kaleb, Kendra and Kate got to make the trip with us!
As for the boot on the tower of beer...Lonnie did that last year so why break the tradition lol! It was suppose to be the game changer, but that didn't happen. We lost and all I ended up with was a cold boot!
After the game we headed to the Fort Worth stockyards. We love that place...Lonnie and I even got married there! We had some amazing Mexican food at Los Vaquero. We can't go to the stockyards and not go back to eat at the place we were married at! I haven' been feeling well for the past week so Lonnie and I called it a early night and headed back to the motel while the kiddos partied like rock stars! Sunday was a different story though. I was bound and determined that I was going to have a fun day regardless of me not feeling well and we did just that. We started with a steak at Cattleman's. We laughed so hard we had tears in our eyes. It was awesome! We always have to get some kind of souvenir. Last year it was huge sombrero's and fake mustaches this year it was huge Hulk hand beer holders!

Another favorite place to go while at the stockyards is The White Elephant Bar. If you ever make it there you have to get the Banana Pudding Shot! Pretty tasty lil suckers!

We even think we found the next big band! They reminded us of The Pistol Annie's

We had such a blast! Here are some more pics of our crazy family makin memories! I hope you had a great weekend like we did!

 



Our new home.

Well here it is mid September and this is the first blog I have posted about our new home. Actually this is the first blog I've posted in a long time. We are in full swing at work and have been putting in 10 to 12 hour days. Oh well...We are blessed to be busy.

We had our home built this past year and even though it is all brand new there is still a lot of work that needs to be done. To save money I opted to paint all of the spare rooms, kitchen, laundry and our master bedroom and bath by myself!! Really not sure what I was thinking but as of now I have only managed to paint the laundry and the kitchen. Pictures of these rooms will have to come later for the simple fact that they are not 100% done!

Since we have had such a pleasant summer I have really focused on our yard. As you can see it really needed some personal attention!

I'm pretty good with having an idea of what I want something to look like. So we headed to the greenhouse. We got some amazing deals. We don't have a pick up so this is how we got to ride home with all of our new accessories.

With a little help from the neighbor and his lil tractor ( and Kloie)  and a lot of sweat and sore muscles we have a start to a great looking yard.

I'm liking the way things are coming along.

Before

After! The potato plants took over the azalea bushes but I like the way it looks.

Stay tuned for more house pics.

 



In need of Momma's touch

This past weekend Lonnie and I headed to Medford to help the kids with their house. Kendra has been asking me to come help her for quite some time now but we were so busy with school pics that I wasn't able to help until now. Kendra and Kaleb live in a very cute 2 bedroom house that is in need of a lot of TLC! The potential is there, it's just finding the time and money to give it what it needs. Kendra wasn't sure what she wanted to start on first because every room in the house needs work! Inside and outside! We decided that if we didn't get some shrubs and flowers planted it would get too hot for that so we decided to start outside. Here are some before and after pics. We still have a lot that we want to do, but you have to start somewhere Right?

 



We left plenty of room to add more color with flowers.

 



We were even able to get work out of both of the boys. Kendall Replaced the porch light and Kaleb assembled the porch swing.

 



We decided that the porch swing needed a little color! Who doesn't love a porch swing?

 

                                                           And a nice relaxing chair.

 

I think it turned out nice. We even gave the mail box a face lift.

 

                          Did you notice the Medford Cardinal perched on the mailbox post?

Ivy loved the water. At least Kendra will never have to water her yard alone.

 



I hope everyone had a great weekend.



 







 





Oklahoma and Tornado's

 

 

As many of you know through local and national media, Oklahoma was hit very hard this tornado season. Yes...here in Oklahoma we have a season for tornado's. It comes around every year just like summer, fall, winter and spring, we Oklahoman's just expect it. On May 20th it was no different. All of the local weather stations had been warning all of us for days that we were in for a very dangerous day. They had even pin pointed the estimated time that the storms would hit. On this day Lonnie and I were in Ardmore miles away from the danger but my mom and several of our employee's were at the studio. I didn't want to take any chances so I called mom and told her to get to my house. ( We have a safe room) And I called the studio and sent all of the employee's home. Lonnie and I were able to watch the news on my I-phone weather app while we were on the road. Now, I have lived in Oklahoma most all of my life and I have seen many tornado's come and go and I have seen the devastation that they leave behind...BUT I have never witnessed anything like what happened in Moore!!

Lonnie and I live in Norman, which is about 15 miles south of Moore. We do a lot of shopping, dinning and of course we frequent "The Warren Theater". As the night went on and we continued to watch the destruction and began to hear about the fatalities we were shocked! Shocked could not even describe how we felt when we actually saw the damage for ourselves.

 

 

We use to go bowling here. The building is completely leveled!

 

And of course, if you follow me on facebook you know we go to the Warren Theater often. It is still standing and has since opened. Lonnie and I went and watched "Fast and Furious" last Thursday. It was so different.

 

Just when the clean up started and we didn't think it could get any worse than that...May 31 happened. Again the local news had been warning us all day about the possibilities of tornado's. Living in tornado alley you know that most tornado's track north-northeast. I've never heard of one hooking back south. Well there is a first for everything and it just happened to be a little to close for comfort for me!!

My cousin Barbara is a Red Cross Director and was in town for the May 20 tornado. We had plans to go out to eat at a Japanese Restaurant. I wanted to take her to one in the city but with the storms north of us Lonnie said that we better stay around here. Again we were keeping up with the weather via my I-phone weather app. We got seated and ordered our meal. Everything was going well...glass of wine...Japanese chef entertainment...then we heard the sirens! Ok, ok I thought, they are being very cautious from the last storm, no need to panic! Right? Um..Wrong. The weather man is telling us that the tornado took a sharp right hook and was headed right for us!! Still I was calm. We paid our bill, chugged our wine and headed to the car to go home. ( The safe room!) Again I have seen a lot of tornado's but the feeling in the air and the look in the sky's were very different! It was very scary!

 

I was still very calm at this point and then we came around the corner and saw bumper to bumper traffic!! Apparently everyone was headed South to try and out run the tornado!

 

Ok at this point people were acting a fool and cutting other people off, jumping the median to drive the wrong way on the wrong side of the road, and ... well, this is the point I panicked!!  The sirens were going off,  people were honking and there was no feeling what so ever in the air. That's the best way that I can describe it! We made it home safe and sound just very shaken, but we were alive and safe.

The rebuilding will continue for years! But it will happen! That is one thing you can say about Oklahoma is that we do not give up! We will rebuild and come back stronger!

GOD BLESS OKLAHOMA!