I vow to help you love life, to always hold you with tenderness and to have the patience that love demands, to speak when words are needed and to share the silence when they are not and to live within the warmth of your heart and always call it home.

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Spring Break 2017

Our last Spring Break for the parents!  Next time it'll be because of the kiddos, crazy!  This year we kept it pretty low key.  No crazy topless beer fests!

The first weekend we stuck around Tulsa and winded down from school for a few days.  My husband and I both had job interviews that Friday, then we got to visit the Tulsa Air and Space Museum!




Norah really enjoyed the "airpanes"!  My husband might of liked it more though.  We also finally made it to a Donut Date Night at our favorite local donut shop in Sand Springs, Livi Lee's!




I didn't want to keep to Tulsa the entire week, so we decided to take a mini road trip and head north to Kansas City, MO!  We stayed in a hotel adjoining a huge indoor water park.  We enjoyed the water park for a few hours, ate some must-eat KC BBQ, hit the Truman Presidential Library Museum, Union Station and a yummy pizza joint!

















Our favorite stop was the only National WWI Museum in the country.  It has a huge look-out tower, indoor poppy garden and so many exhibits that my poor husband had to quickly make his way through.  The whole family loved it, and we could definitely go back and see more.







Afterwards we met the grandparents and dropped Norah off for her FIRST overnight away from Mama and Dada.  We missed her, but we knew she was in good hands.  The sleepover allowed me to finish up my 3rd CrossFit Open workout, then we hit downtown Tulsa for the CrAzY St. Patrick's Day Festivities!  We had a blast!  We met up with my nursing school girlfriends and even ran into my husband's old army buddies.  First time we went to bed past 2am in a LONG time!







St Patty's Day Breakfast


The next morning we slept in, ate a quiet, peaceful and hot breakfast on Brookside then anxiously drove to OKC to see our girl!






All in all, a great Spring Break full of family time and even a little date night for Mom and Dad.  Now just 6 weeks until this semester is over for us!



Sunday, March 5, 2017

Christmas 2016

Our first Christmas together in Oklahoma!  We decided to forgo the crazy travel agenda and keep home for Christmas Eve and Christmas morning.  Christmas Eve we baked sugar cookies, parents drank wine and we watched our favorite "Family Stone".  Norah also had to taste test the cookies before we laid them out for Santa!






The next morning we opened gifts and watched Norah open hers!  She LOVED her ride able car she got from Aunt Michelle and Uncle D.  She knew exactly what to do with it!  We even had to take it for a spin in our jammies outside.  We ate a huge breakfast, then headed to Arkansas to Great Grandma's Farm for Christmas #2!







Christmas Morning Post Milk!

















Norah loved the pond, chickens and seeing familiar faces!  Then it was onto El Reno, OK for Christmas #3!












This girl LOVED her new wagon, and even made her Nana sit in it to watch cartoons.  Later in the week she got to see her cousins for a few hours and loved following her big cousin around.  She's quite the copy cat these days!









Yukon lights!







LOVED her wagon




All in all, great Christmas down in the books!