We have enJOYED an eventful month...
On October 10th, Ben and I took advantage of the beautiful weather and had lunch on the Blue Rose deck along the Arkansas River. After eating a delicious club sandwich, we decided to share our left overs with the Canadian Geese.
This brought back one of my favorite childhood memories...feeding the ducks and geese at the city lake behind our home...
...with my mom and sister...
That evening we attended our 3rd Journey concert. We ABSOLUTELY loved the show... All 3 bands can still rock after all these years!
Outside the BOK Center
The new lead singer of Journey, doing what he does best....BUT
missing Steve Perry....would have liked to have seen him in concert once.
Our sweet "Perry" waiting for us when we got home from the concert.
BOOMER SOONER....Sooners BOOMed Texas!
It was definitely a s-mack-ing good time celebrating with our awesome friends at Julie and Terry's house.
What a game..63-21...!
HAPPY Birthday Husband!
FINALLY, I could buy Ben a "husband" card....I was so excited...I actually purchased it a month early. I drove back from my OKSDE training to celebrate his 35th birthday with him.
Opening gifts at home before dinner...
We ate a delicious dinner at Smoke on Cherry Street.
Our appetizer was to die for...Pâté and Rillettes which consisted of
Smoked Trout, Duck Liver Pate, Smoked Pork Belly Rillette, with dried fruit Compote
For dinner we had the Tomato Braised Lamb Ragout
We highly recommend this place, and I've heard their brunch is great too!
LOVE you...Ben!
Weekend of Sports
After a long week of training, I came home to a very sweet surprise from Ben...
tickets to the Thunder Game and an adorable necklace from RSR...aka: Rockin' Sooner Ranch Merchantile on Brookside... I LOVE receiving a "just because" gift...made my day. The preliminary game sold out the BOK center.... we thoroughly enjoyed it.
An additional bonus.... we didn't have to use binoculars like the last time we saw them play in OKC.
The very next day we left town for Sooner Football and our favorite place...Norman, Oklahoma!
Riding the trolley from our hotel (NCED) to the dorms. It always give me chills to see my old dorm, Walker Tower (525 E. to be exact).
Campus Corner gets busier every year but we still enJOY every minute of it.
We ate a ranchhand burger at O'Connell's before the game and the entry to the restaurant was one in, one out...crazy busy!
And, YES, we still made it to our old stomping grounds as well. I even found some pictures of familiar, friendly Zetas on the wall...won't name who?!?!
BOOMER!!!
You know you're in your thirties when...
You go to Campus Corner after the game and it's too wild, so you decide to walk around campus and take pictures of the beautiful new buildings instead.
This is the new college of education.... wish I could have gone to class in this place!
Cookbook Club
It was my turn to host our Pioneer Woman Cookbook Club.
We had a small turn out this time but weren't short on good food and laughs!
REE fans....Deana, Casey and Daisi and myself....thanks girls~~~~it was fun!
Been home on this cold, fall day in my warm pajamas working on a power point I have to get finished before Monday. I honestly had a bit of separation anxiety not seeing my teaching friends (and my little friends, too) everyday after starting my new position with the OSDE. It seems now, I am getting adjusted and enjoying going into different schools making these presentations and meeting new people and learning new ideas.
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."...Wm. Butler Yeats
....No more "Fear the Beard" for Thunder....Ben and I were wondering why he wasn't playing when we watched them play at the BOK....assuming he was still negotiating the contract of $40,000,000-$52,000,000. which he turned down...guess now we will follow him in Houston when he is not playing against the OKC Thunder....Thunder Up fans.....!....we may now literally be fearing the beard!
....Was so pumped to see our Sooners come out with a win against Notre Dame....but that didn't happen...tough loss..questionable ref calls but that's the game of football...keep your head up Sooners...BOOMER SOONER!
love & joy ....and HAPPY Halloween week.....
