Thunder Opening Night

Tonight was the big night...Oklahoma City's first NBA game with our own team.We were all there, Toby, Karla, Dad, Sherry, Brent and I. If you look closely in the background, you can see Blake Griffen. He happened to be sitting across the aisle from us.
I caught this awesome dunk by Kevin Durant. Unfortunately, these sorts of good plays by the Thunder were few and far between.

Ultimately, we lost by 11 points, which was actually quite a rally from our 20-something deficit.

Despite the loss, it was a ton of fun, and I am so happy that we have pro basketball here in Oklahoma City.

Gas Under $2

I can't believe that gas in OKC is under $2!

UN Party

Last night, we went to Toby and Karla's UN Party. Yes, I said UN party. Toby and Karla like to take the minor holidays and throw parties for them. Everyone has a 4th of July party, but not too many people have a Groundhog's Day party, but Toby and Karla did. Yesterday was UN Day, so Toby and Karla had a party. Everyone had to choose a country in the UN, bring a beverage from that country and optionally dress in the attire of that country. Toby claimed to be from Estonia. Pretty scary, huh? His coworkers were trying to get him to were the mohawk to work on Monday. I don't think Chesapeake is a mohawk kind of company.

Brent was Canada...scary thing is that the hat was the only piece of this outfit that Brent did not already own.

I was Jamaica. If you look very closely on the right side of my head, you can see the beaded braid. Fun times!

OSU vs. Baylor

Yesterday, Toby and Karla took us to Stillwater for the OSU - Baylor game, which also happened to be OSU's homecoming. We ate a yummy lunch at Hideaway before the game.

Even though Baylor lost pretty substantially, and it was hotter than expected giving us all sunburns, we did really enjoy the game.

Brent and I were slightly outnumbered in Baylor gear, but the Cowboy fans were really nice to us anyway. (We think it may have been pity.)

After the game, we ate a delicious dinner at Shortcake's. All in all, a good day.

Thursday Night at Mom's

Thursday night, we went over to my mom's. Some family friends of ours grilled us some delicious steaks. Here is their 7-month old son - Joe. He is too cute!!! And my mom is going to kill me for posting this one, but I thought it was hilarious. We had a nice steak dinner, and poor Tasha only got to lick the plates, and she wasn't even supposed to do that. :)

Thunder Preseason Game

Last night was the first and only home Thunder preseason game.
Brent and I came decked out in our "Thunderwear."

Here are Toby and Karla and Brent at halftime. My dad was in the row behind us for part of the game, and then he sat with a friend of hours whose tickets are right at midcourt.

During halftime, they had a trampoline slam dunk contest with some of the Thunder spirit guys and just some normal people. It was awesome! The Thunder guys did some impressive dunks, and I don't have any pictures of the "normal people," but some of them came pretty close to seriously injuring themselves. As Brent said, this was a lawsuit waiting to happen. But it was pretty funny.

Well, as you can see by the scoreboard, the Thunder didn't win, but it was still a lot of fun. Hopefully, the results will be better when we get to the regular season.

Backyard Olympics

Yesterday, we went B's (Ryan and Alex Buersmeyer's) party over at Alex's house (actually his brother Adam owns it, but Alex claims it as he pays a small amount of rent for his room). The day included football game watching, and "Backyard Olympics." The backyard had a variety of games set up, even one that Ryan invented involving two poles, two bottles and frisbee. I did not attempt that one. Alex grilled us up some burgers, which were actually pretty good. :)

All and all a fun party, and Brent and I even beat Toby and Karla at the bean bag toss game.

Slow Day

Alex and I have been spending our morning waiting for one of the managers to return to the office...you can see what good spirits Alex is in...possibly sarcastically. Well, there are worse situations to be in. It looks like I will be either back in Watonga or out to Anadarko, which are both not too bad.

Good Cheesesteaks in Oklahoma City?

While Brent and I don't miss living in Rhode Island, we do really miss some of the food up there. The Italian is amazing...nothing here compares. The clam chowder is delicious, and you can't find anything like it in Oklahoma City. The pizza is so good, but we finally have Falcone's, which is getting close. The cheesesteaks are superb, and until now there was nothing that was even in the same ballpark. This last Tuesday, we tried a pizza and sub place called Perri's...it's at Penn and Britton. The pizza is good, but the cheesesteaks are amazing!!! Ok, the picture doesn't do it justice. For some reason, pictures of food are never very appetizing, but trust me...it is so yummy!

They are so good, in fact, that we had to go back last night...two trips in one week, and I'm still craving another one.

Traci with the Fringe on Top

I got my haircut yesterday. I told the hair stylist that he could do whatever he thought would look good, but I was still a little shocked when I ended up with bangs, or as he called them, "fringe." I haven't had bangs since Junior High. Well, I was a little shocked at first, but I think I'm warming up to them...maybe. We'll see...hopefully, they will grow on me. (No pun intended.) I ran into a friend at City Bites after the appointment, where I was picking up some sandwiches at lunch. He first admitted that it looked a little "punk rocker," but by the time that we left, he said that he was warming up to it. I called Brent to warn him, but he was still a little surprised at first, but said that he thinks, he will like it when he gets used to it. If we don't warm up to it, atleast, my hair grows really fast. ;)

A is for Art Walk

A few months back I read a book called, "Alphabet Weekends." It wasn't that great of a book, but it gave me a good idea. In the book, two friends agree to plan Alphabet Weekends for each other, activities or whatnot that start with a different letter of the alphabet, and end up falling in love. Brent and I are already in love, but I thought it sounded fun, so I took the first letter, and last night we went to the Art Walk in the Paseo. The Art Walk is the first Friday of every month. Basically, they open up all the galleries in the Paseo, you can walk around, some of them have champagne and hors d'ouevres. There also tends to be live music, and there were even some people preforming poetry. We went with Toby and Karla and ate at the Paseo Grill first, which is yummy! Then we met up with our friends John and Taniya afterwards for a little bit. It was dark, so my iphone pics did not turn out wonderfully, but you can see Toby and Karla and Brent in this one. (Brent thought it would be funny to take a picture of me, while I took a picture of them.) Quite a bit of the art was neat, and we will probably buy some things down there when we start decorating our new house, but this group of paintings cracked me up. I had to take a picture of the one that I thought was the craziest. I mean, who doesn't want a picture of a green werewolf head over a confederate flag hanging in their living room?

Despite this strange painting, I think the evening was a success. And I can't wait to see what Brent comes up with for "B."

Working in Watonga

After our Due Diligence project ended, I got a section to work on in Watonga. It's a great place to work...large vault in the courthouse, delicious cheese soup at the Noble House, and you get to come home every night. Here's a little bit of the scenary from the drive.
The section that I am workint on is Held By Production, which is some of the more difficult work, and I am training Alex on it. You can see here, that he is quite a character.

Karla was with us on Friday. She is very adept at blocking anyone from taking her pictures, as can be seen here.

My Godson Is Too Cute!!!

This is the Thank You note that I got for my godson's first birthday. Isn't he the cutest thing ever?