Grandma and Sarah Jane

This week my mom's mom came down to visit.

We hung out all day on my day off. We started out at the health food store then made our way to Sunfest Market for a few things.

Grandma and I then headed back to my parent's house and we hung out the rest of the day there.

At supper Eric looked at the three of us, me, my mom, and my grandma and said that he could see what I would be like in all stages of my life. Now is that scary or what?!

The Wind In My Hair

Jack's new favorite thing to do, now that he is big enough, is to stick his head out the window as we are driving in the car. Especially now that he is taller and he can stick his head out.

Eric really enjoys looking back and seeing him stick his head out.

Okay, so he doesn't just watch Jack stick his head out...

Eric has taken to joining him...

Like master, like dog, right?

O-K-L-A-H-O-M-A

Oklahoma, you're okay...

This weekend Eric and I took a surprise visit to see Tim and Jenni in their three month apartment in Oklahoma. It wasn't necessarily a surprise for them, but more for me. On Wednesday Eric came home from work and said, "Hey, let's go visit Jenni and Tim this weekend." What a great idea!

We had a great time time. If any of you have ever been to OK you know that there are several toll booths. What a hassle right? Well, not for Eric and I.

One tradition that Eric and I have started over our year of marriage is to read books when we take long drives. Obviously, I read them outloud...Anyway, we were carrying on our tradition and it was a really great book (and the Shofar Blew, if you want to read it) so I was at a really good part and Eric was listening intently. All of the sudden Eric says..."am I supposed to be over there?" I looked up and we were driving right by the toll booths...Oops...he had accidently taken the PikePass lane.

Now what? Neither one of us had ever done anything like that so we weren't really sure what to expect. Would there be a cop waiting for us at the next toll booth? Did we just get our picture taken and we would get our ticket in the mail later?

Not sure what to do I called my dad and told him the situation. He offered the advice that we just wait till we get to the next booth and tell them what had happened.

So we drove on, both a little paranoid about missing the next toll booth.

We finally made it there and when we got to the booth, thankfully the man was super nice. I am sure that he has gotten people who have done that before, because when we told him what had happened he really wasn't surprised he just gave us the solution.

He said that the fine is $25 and that it would come in the mail. He said if it didn't come within 60-90 days we probably hadn't gotten caught, but if they did send us something, he gave us a number to call and told us to tell them that we had paid at the next one.

Shew... We were very relieved after that, but I must admit, the rest of the trip there and back everytime we were passing a toll booth I would look up from my book just to make sure we were in the correct lane.

So we had a great time with Jenni and Tim and are so glad that we were able to go. Saturday morning the boys went to play Disc Golf. We girls went and did what girls do best. We went shopping.

After everyone returned from their various activities we all went to the Witchita Mountains and hiked. (i will post those pictures later)

Another fun part about our trip was our dinner at Red Lobster. Mmmmm....Delic. I think Eric especially enjoyed it. He ate appetizers, all of his food, finished off my meal and Jenni's, he ate probably 4 garlic biscuits, salad, and then began to look at the dessert menu. He didn't get any dessert, but later, once we got back to the apartment, he said that he wouldn't mind eating a shake. He decided to wait though,until lunch sunday afternoon.

We had a great time in OK.

Can't wait to show you pics of our trip to the mountains...who would have thought that OK would have such beautiful mountains?!

Running & Swimming & Fetch, Oh My

So I have been feeling very lazy these last few months. So after getting myself motivated decided it would be a good idea to start running again

As mentioned several times in the past we live right next to the lake. And beside this lake there is a beautiful trail that goes along beside it. This is actually the same path that Eric and I took our roller blading adventure on.

Anyway...as I said I have been feeling very lazy, exercise wise, so I decided to start running again.

Right after getting off of work, I dash home, change, grab my free IPod, get Jack's leash, put Jack in the car and head off to the lake. When we get there I run the trail with Jack, so far only going a mile and a half each time. (Hopefully I will get up to the whole 5 mile trail eventually.)

After we are done running Jack and I go down to the lake, do a quick lap to the bouy to cool off and cool down. I then convince myself that I feel bad for Jack that I dragged him with me to go running. So I play a quick game of fetch with him. Then we are off to our lovely home before my hubby even gets home from work.

It has been wonderful. I forgot how much I enjoy running.

When I took these pictures, good ole' Jack just kept sitting there giving me these pathetic looks, like, "are we done yet." I am just practicing for when I have kids, trying to get them to sit still.

Picnic At The Parents Pagoda

Parents plan the perfect party prior to parting ways. People were planning on protecting pastimes but instead puttered around the pastor's home for the better part of the prime period Picnicking patiently in perfect weather and prattling precociously to precious pals.


Nolan and Ashlyn previously met and perpetuated their partiality in a pulp outside Pastor and Patti's home!

Bee Discount

What a beautiful day it is here in town. Lovely weather and the perfect afternoon to get taken out for lunch.

This afternoon that very thing happened. My parents took me out for lunch, just because.

The old downtown here is so fun. It you have never been, you should. Just taking a walk down the sidewalk and looking into all the stores is a pleasure and it is reminescent of the good ole' days.

So anyway, we went downtown and ate lunch at a cute cafe'.

The cafe' where we ate used to be my dad's very favorite place to take us kids when mom was out of town.

The same ladies work there now as did years ago.

As we left the cafe' we recalled a woman from our church worked at one of the little shops. It is a quaint store. Tons of little trinkets that one can look through and bring home to show off some touristy things that they purchased.

As you can observe, mom and I had a blast looking at all the fun things.

I also found some fun rings. I was thinking about using this ring and substituting it for my lost engagement ring...what do you think. I value your opnion. If the answer is yes, I can go back and buy it for only $.99.

Great Deal and Great Day!!!

Promised Pictures...

These are the pictures of our old couch and the new couch.

Also a picture of my lovely new lamp...if you look closely you can see our makeshift side table.