Houston!

I was lucky enough to take a weekend trip to Houston to visit Ms. Lauren.

Lauren has been a best friend of mine for a few years and she has been living in Houston for a little over a year now. It was great to see where she is living and explore a new city. The weekend was filled with good food, good drinks, and good conversation. It was great to catch up and see how well she is doing in the big city! Surprisingly Houston is really nice (at least where she lives).

Thursday night we had a great dinner and then went out for some drinks. I got to meet some of her friends and it was a great night reliving ladies nights at OU. A favorite past time of our Norman days.

Friday was a great day seeing some of the Houston sights. After a power breakfast of Mexican food and margaritas it was off to a house covered in beer cans. A house seriously covered with beer cans. I can't imagine the time it took to do or why anyone would do this but it was really cool to look at!

Next up was a brewery tour at Saint Arnolds. It was a really neat place and the beer was delicious. It was my first brewery tour and actually pretty informative!

I had so much fun and can't wait to visit again! Thanks for having me over Lauren!

Easter

We had a very fun Easter this year. It was filled the usual dying Easter eggs, Easter egg hunt, and family. Saturday night we went to Kenny's mom and had a great dinner. Kaleb was happy to get an Easter basket a day earlier.

Easter cupcakes from Nana

Courtesy of the Easter Bunny

Later in the day we headed to Mom & Dad's for another great dinner the family.

My parents hid some eggs for Kaleb in the backyard and he had a great time finding all the eggs. My Dad is an expert egg hider but luckily I remembered some of his tricks to help the kid out :)

Yes this is a pink basket...it was mine when I was little

Hopefully everyone had a blessed Easter!

February

The Month of love...

It was a busy one as always around here but February held some fun events!

Valentines Day of course...although I wouldn't say it was a romantic one we had a great time taking Kaleb to Disney Live! He was glad to spend a little time with Audrey and was so excited to see the Toy Story gang perform!

It was a perfect day and so much better than a traditional Valentines Day!

Next up was celebrating my parents 28th wedding anniversary. We had a great dinner we are all happy that they are so happy after all these years!

Here's the happy couple!

Lastly February was the start of Kaleb's first soccer season.

Although I don't think he's the next Pele he has a great time with the other kids and I am sure eventually his interest in soccer will pick up. For now it's playing with his teammates and shooting the opponents with his imaginary Buzz Lightyear laser.

I hope everyone else had a great month and is looking forward to Spring as much as we are!

Christmas

Christmas this year was one to remember!

We had Kaleb's first White Christmas and then some.

Traveling the streets of Tulsa Christmas Eve was reminiscent of a zombie movie. Abandoned cars were everywhere and it was quite an adventure to make it home for Santa's visit.

Kaleb decorating cookies for Santa.

All the goodies for Santa and his reindeer

The Tree

Finally Christmas morning came and Kaleb was so excited to finally open his presents.

As usual Santa and family were very kind to Kaleb....

After opening presents at home and having our wonderful maintenance crew shovel our car out we headed to Grandma's and Papa's.

More presents to open and more food to eat....

After visiting Grandma & Papa's house it was time to head to Nana's

Kaleb loved seeing Baby Carson and his aunts and uncles from Dallas.

Saturday night we went out to celebrate Kenny's birthday.

It was great to get everyone together to end the holiday weekend!

I hope everyone had a happy and safe Holiday and we're all looking forward to the New Years and all that it will bring!

Halloween!

It was a pretty lowkey Halloween here. Kaleb had a little bug so we just took him trick or treating in Papa & Grandmas neighborhood. Kaleb had a blast despite being a little under the weather.

He wanted to be Buzz Lightyear again and had fun running around in his suit.

After trick or treating Kaleb stayed with Papa & Grandma and Kenny and I went out to watch some football.

Kenny decided to dress up sexy for the night...apparently I wasn't impressed.

All in all it was a great night. Kenny's Yankees won, OU won, and OSU lost. Hopefully now the mouthy Cowboy fans will be silent.

I hope everyone had a great Halloween!

Pumpkin Carving

Kaleb had fun carving pumpkins this year but apparently he didn't like the smell!

And the final result...an ok looking Buzz Lightyear!

Visit's from friends

This fall we've had a couple of fun visits from good friends.

First up was Ms. Lauren in town from Houston. I loved getting to spend some time with one

of my best friends that I don't get to see enough of.

We always have a great time together and it was good to catch up.

She is doing great in Houston and even though I miss her I'm so happy

she is doing so well in the big city!

Next up we had Erin, Jon, and the adorable little Riley! Kaleb loved spending time with Riley who is already 3 months old! He was so good at our house and we loved having a baby around!

The weekend was spent watching football and taking the kids to the pumpkin patch.

We had great time and the kids looked adorable!