January good times

Welcome to 2010! Can you believe it has been 10yrs since everyone was freaking out about Y2K? :-) The holidays seem like they came and went like a flash. There was so much to do and then poof, it was over. We didn't do much on New Year's Eve this year since we have a new baby. My friend had her little boy's 1st birthday party on that evening and that was fun then we came home and went to bed. I was in bed by 10pm which is kind of lame but I value my sleep these days! We had some good family time at the Omniplex on New Year's day. We love it there and can spend all day looking at all the cool science stuff and playing. Our membership really comes in handy. After that, we went along with his parent's, to Jeff's brother's house to play Wii and eat BBQ. It was great family time.

Jorden's first OU outfit handed down from brother- BOOMER SOONER!

Jorden being cute with a Binky in his mouth which is rare- he doesn't care for them much

Jorden being a big boy like brother sitting on the spiderman couch

We got Jensen Sponge Bob jammies for xmas and he wants to wear them everyday. By the way, I like Sponge Bob but it's not educational so Jensen usually only gets to watch it with Daddy every once in a while. I don't like for him to watch too much tv but if he does I at least want him to get something out of it.
I am so excited that you can drive a Segways at the Omniplex and even little kids get to. I have loved these things since I first rode one at Disneyland in 2004. It would be so cool to have one and ride around all the time on it!

Jeff took 2 days off last week since he has vacation time and they are in between busy holidays. We were thinking about driving to Texas to go to Ikea and stay overnight but since our niece or nephew will be born any day, I didn't want to go too far. Thursday Jensen went to school then we took him to Chuck E. Cheese to play. There were only a few people there since it was the middle of a weekday so we got to play the games and had a great time getting 490 tickets. After that, we went to visit Jeff's Grandma Cassie then to dinner at yummy Los Tacos. We had Braum's ice cream on the way home for desert too sheesh! Friday, we got up and went to eat at a teeny tiny diner called Nic's. A coworker of mine took me there years ago and they have huge delicious onion burgers but I had never been there for breakfast. It's a crazy busy place especially since the food channel did a story on it on Diners, Drive-ins and Dives but it wasn't busy at all for breakfast.


Notice a trend of eating out? Yeah Jeff tends to talk me into eating really bad food so I need to get a handle on that or the baby weight is never going to come off! I did work out this week for the first time since I was 3 months pregnant so I hope to do more of that.


After breakfast, we went to Norman to the Sam Noble Natural History Museum. I had taken students there a long time ago and remember it being a little boring but I thought Jensen might like to see the dinosaur bones. He has been getting more interested in dinosaurs lately. Jeff and I were surprised that he seemed to like all of it. He was impressed by the dinosaurs but also really took his time looking at all the exhibits about animals, forests, caves, and pioneers. He made us go in the cave exhibit 3 different times so I think that was his favorite. I was surpised too at how good he was at guessing which animal belonged to the skins they had on display.

The museum had a discovery room with a dinosaur bone dig where you have to wear goggles and dig the dirt away from the bones.

Saturday Jeff was still itching to get out of town and he had been researching places in OK to go and he decided we should go to Lawton to sight see. I was a little sceptical since it was chilly and rainy and we didn't really know what was there. It took us about an hour to get to a town next to Lawton called Medicine Park. They have a quaint little tourist area along a river with different shops and and bridges. Of course its January so there was not a lot going on but we had lunch then Jeff and Jensen walked along the water and over the bridges near the waterfall. I had to stay behind to feed Jorden but they had a good time. We wanted to stop at a well known candy and ice cream shop but were sad they were closed. Next, we went to the Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge where they have mountains and free roaming buffalo and long horns. We drove up Mount Scott which is about 2,500ft tall and it had a great view. It was foggy and chilly but the sun came out right before we left and it warmed up some. We looked at the view then Jeff took Jensen to climb on some rocks that were at the very peak. He had been there for a college class years ago and showed Jensen some medallions that were embedded in the rock to mark the height of the mountain. Jensen absolutely loved climbing up the rocks and was a little too brave at times but it made my heart smile to see them having such a great time. I climbed around some but mostly stayed with Jorden who was in the stroller. Jensen was busy being a billy goat and didn't want to leave. We came down the mountain and went to the visitor's center which was new and very nice. They had lots of hands-on exhibits about the wildlife. There was a dark room that had recordings of different nocturnal animals and you had to guess the animal. Jensen got a kick out of that and went in twice.

Jeff and Jensen on Mt. Scott in Lawton, OK

Jeff and Jensen at the very peakOur little billy goat climbed out on to some big rocks

Being deer at the visitor's center

We have really enjoyed having so much family time lately. The last year and a half was filled with never ending home improvement projects so we never felt like we had time to do anything fun. We still have lots to do on the new house but we are not in any hurry so we are living life again.

I told Jeff that while I like all this family time, I miss my friends! After we got home from Lawton I was able to meet some of my girlfriends in Norman at the Mont. It was a good turnout with about 10 of us being able to make it. Since Jorden is sleeping through the night now, I can do stuff again and it feels so good to join the land of the living! Jeff is great too about taking good care of both boys and getting them to bed easily..

A few of the girls- Bec, Stephanie, Me and Crystal