Frontier City family fun!

Well, here is the 3rd day of fun that I mentioned in my last post or two. I thoroughly enjoyed my family being out here. They have all returned home, and I'm trying to get life back to normal. On June 1st, Blake's 7th birthday, my whole family, plus a couple extra friends all went to Frontier City, in Oklahoma City. It was Blake and Taylor's first roller coaster experience, and they did remarkably well. I remember my first experience was when I was 11 and my Dad was trying to get me on a roller coaster for about 15 minutes, and I whined the whole time. Then when I was done with that first roller coaster, I've NEVER stopped wanting to ride them. But both of the kids were very brave, and had so much fun. The funnest part about it was being with a big group, and the fact that I haven't done something fun with my family like that for a long time. It was a day to remember!

The group (minus Sue, who was taking the picture)The group getting ready to get on our first ride of the dayBlake had a fun but very exhausting day!

Truck touch

Hello everyone. I am sorry that I haven't been on here a lot. I have been going through a lot of turmoil in my life lately and I just haven't been in a blogging mood. I am still going to work, and am supposed to start Monday. I will be a full time worker, so I definitely won't have any time, except if maybe the evenings and weekends, I can steal away and blog a little.

Today was a pretty fun day, my kids' school organized a "truck touch". That's just basically where a lot of different vehicles park their trucks, etc... and the kids can get in them and see what they are like on the inside. They actually landed a helicopter and the kids got to get in it. They had fire trucks, ambulances, cop cars, cranes, semis, etc... It was nice to get out and be able to do something as a family. They also had a car that had been wrecked, and they let people hit it with a sledgehammer (25 cents a whack ;) Ryan and the kids all hit the car a couple times. They gave away tons of items to the kids, everyone likes getting free stuff, right :D The kids had a really nice time, it turned out to be a great day for our family.

My first baseball game

Last night my family, along with a few church friends (probably about 15-20 altogether) went to a Tulsa Drillers game. I had not ever been to a game in a stadium. All I've ever been to was High School games and Ryan's softball & Taylor's T-Ball games. Oh, and my brother-in-law, Steve's softball games also. But anyway, it was a lot of fun. Taylor and Blake had a very good time. Honestly, we all had a blast! The best part about it was it was FREE. QT (a convenience store) had free tickets sitting on the counters. They played music here and there, and some of it they LOVED was: "We will Rock you", the "Cha Cha Slide", "If you're happy and you know it", and of course, the baseball theme "Take me out to the ballgame". They really got into it. Blake met Katura the other day and has quite a little crush on her. Well she was there and he kept looking at her and when she would look at him and smile, he would cover his eyes, he's so bashful! It was funny to watch him. I really hope that I can go to another one again. I think what made it so fun was being with everyone that was there. The Tulsa Drillers ended up winning, so that made it even better, it was such a great evening! I had a blast!

We picked a GREAT place to live!!!

We picked a great place to move! Our house is 2 blocks from a REALLY nice park. This park already has 3 different playgrounds, a lot of miscellaneous playground equipment, and a splash park, which is a BLAST to play in on a hot summer day! It is the ONLY splash park in town. Even adults LOVE it, at least I do ;) Well about a month ago, I found out that there are plans to put a public swimming pool in this park! I was very excited, but wasn't sure if it was just a rumor. Then I have since then heard that they are trying to raise money to build it. I was very excited. First of all, there are no public pools here in this town, only the Salvation Army has a pool, and you have to be a member to use it. So needless to say, we needed a public swimming pool. Then to find out that it is planned on being in a park just 2 blocks from my house, how awesome! However, it is not going to open for 2 more years. But still... I'm pretty excited about it! Here is a computer drawing of what it is supposed to look like:

One of the 3 playgrounds

Taylor getting SPLASHED from the water in the bucket. By the way, that house DIRECTLY behind Taylor used to be Lee and Cherrie's house.

Me and my neice, Kayla also getting spashed from the bucket, it is FUN!

And Blake about to play in the splash park.

E I E I Oops

Last night we went to Blake's program. It was the cutest thing ever. They had a farm scene. They had different groups: Horses, pigs, cows, sheep, chickens. Blake was a sheep. They basically just sang some farm songs, yes including Old McDonald ;) Then afterward they had a slide show of all the Kindergartners. I can't believe that he is almost done with Kindergarten. He's going to be a 1st grader, that is hard to believe. They're growing up too fast :( But anyway, back to the program, They also did these cute little dances, which included tilting their heads side to side, it was adorable! I really enjoyed it!!! Then afterwards, my good friend Velvadene came over to see me and we went to see Sis. Deanie. PLEASE remember her! She needs it so badly. They wouldn't even let us in her room, because she is so bad. It breaks my heart to see someone I love having to go through this. She has been so sweet through this trial. She always greeted everyone with a smile. Just remember her, pretty please...

Here are pics from Blake's program:

Awesome movies!

Last weekend (the weekend before we went to Dallas), Ryan and I went down to Ollie and Sharon's to spend the weekend. Well they have the Hallmark Channel and Sharon had turned on a movie on that channel. First of all, I'm not big on Westerns/Frontier movies, and that is what this movie was. I watched it here and there, but didn't really sit down long enough to see what was happening. I helped Sharon clean her house, and I had just mopped the floor, so I was basically stuck in the TV room, so I decided to go ahead and watch it. Wow, it was actually interesting...HMMM, what do ya know, I do like movies that take place in the Frontier days (1800's), hehe. It took quite a while to let the floors dry, but the rest of the house was basically done, so Sharon and I sat down to relax and watched the movie together. Ryan had to work that day, and wasn't going to be there until later. And Ollie got a call from Paul D. and he wanted Ollie to come and meet him in Shawnee, so Ollie was gone all evening. So....the TV was ours to control ;) This particular movie is a part of a 6 movie story. It happened to be #3. I started watching it in the middle of #3. So I definitely got into this movie. Then after I watched 3-6, it was done on TV, so I HAD to rent the first 3 to see what led up to when I started watching it ;) It is such a GREAT christian movie series. They were very religious people in the movies. It is a love story about 3 generations of a family. It is written by Janette Oke. And directed by Michael Landon Jr. It honestly makes me wish I would have lived back in that time period, weird huh? But I really do... I wish life wasn't as fast paced as it is now. Oh well, I can just keep watching these great movies and keep on wishing, LOL. But if you ever get a chance to watch these movies, I think you'll love them!

1: Love Comes Softly

2: Love's Enduring Promise

3: Love's Long Journey

4: Love's Abiding Joy

5: Love's Unending Legacy

6: Love's Unfolding Dream