Over the holidays, Brent's family taught Tyler and Ashley to say "Touchdown." Here is Ashley as we prepared for the last Vikings game of the season.
P. S. Yes, she is wearing one red shoe. Ashley loves shoes! If she doesn't already have shoes on, if she finds one, she will bring it to you, and insist that you put it on. She particularly loves this pair. Shiny and red, what's not to love?
The Ford Center was crazy! I have never been to a sporting event quite like this. We've now tied up the series 2-2, and guaranteed another game at the Ford Center next Friday. Go Thunder!!!
Well, this picture was actually taken before they clinched it, but our little buddy is too cute in his Durant jersey, isn't he?
Well, if you follow football, you know that the Vikings lost on Monday night, so we are planning to ask him about some more games and put some money on them. ;)
We went with Toby, Karla, and my dad. We went ahead of time and tried to go to Eskimo Joe's, but it was to busy, so we settled for Hideaway.
After the movie, we went over to see the ball rise. Yes, in OKC we don't drop the ball we raise it! Interpret how you will.
Afterwards, they have a pretty impressive fireworks show. My iphone doesn't quite capture it, but if you've seen good fireworks before, you get the picture.
All in All a very fun evening.
We got to spend quite a bit of time on Friday and Saturday walking around campus, remembering fun times, and seeing how much things had changed. One of the many changes was the new Bear Habitat.
Homecoming was fun when we were in school, but they've kicked it up a notch. They had Friday night festivities in the Fountain Mall area, including a mini-carnival,...
a pep rally,...
and the traditional bonfire.
The game was a lot of fun, even though it was hot....high of 82. I remembered one of the things that I liked about Waco, the warm weather. You can go outside late at night during most of the year and be perfectly comfortable.
Unfortunately, we didn't win, but we came really close. It was an impressive performance against a nationally-ranked Missouri.
Overall, an awesome weekend! I even got a chance to sit in Judge Baylor's lap.
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. 
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.)
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.
Alex grilled us up some burgers, which were actually pretty good. :)
After two awful defeats this season, the Vikings finally won Sunday's game. We finally made the change from Tarvaris at quarterback, and even though Gus Ferotte is far from a savior with the help of some good runningbacks in Peterson and Taylor and a defense that can do a little scoring of their own - if you saw the game on Sunday, you saw Winfield's awesome sack, fumble caused and touchdown return, maybe we might win half our games. Ok, that's a little optimistic, but I only said, "maybe." On the bright side, we have been on TV every week so far, and we are scheduled to be on for the next two weeks, so atleast, I don't have to go to a su-par sports bar to watch the Vikings. Oh, the joys of being a Vikings fan! Brent tried to warn me before I married him, but I didn't listen.
Just kidding. Apparently, those front row courtside seats, which they call "Hollywood" seats sell for a little over $100,000. Yikes! Our actual seats are shown here. They are lower-level corner seats. They are actually a really good view, we sat in them and tested them out, and a little more reasonable.
Oklahoma City announced the team name and logo of our new NBA team yesterday. I wouldn't say Thunder is my first choice or that the logo is amazing, but I know that I will warm up to both of them. Brent and I are elated to have an NBA team in OKC. We were able to go to a number of Hornets games with my brother through Chesapeake when they were here, and we were hooked. In fact, here's a pic of Toby and Brent at one of the games.
We go next week to pick out our season tickets for the Thunder. Yippee!!!
While both of our spouses have had professional training (if summer swim lessons at the Glasgow public pool and/or YMCA count as professional training), neither of them were willing to participate in these competitions. Toby and I, however, did participate in competitions of all four swimming strokes. (Though claims could be made that neither of us actually did the butterfly, despite significant efforts made.)
If in these pictures, it appears that our efforts to preform these swim strokes brought us perhaps closer to drowning rather than further away, you are actually getting an accurate flavor for the competition.
Looking again at these pictures, they may convey more about the pasty white condition of skin than the swim strokes that I attempted, and in some cases did quite well. (The breaststroke was my best, while Toby excelled in the freestyle, but come on, anyone can do the freestyle...except maybe, me. LOL)
In the end, my dad could not even stay out of the competion, and jumped in to attempt one freestyle lap. Much to Toby and I's embarassment, he beat both of our times. However, Brent was the timekeeper...we did not have Omega touchpads, so I'm not sure about the accuracy.
Despite my standing as dead last in all strokes...I had a lot of fun!
I love the Olympics! I've been glued to the screen since the Opening Ceremony, which by the way, was the best Opening Ceremony ever.
