the 3rd and 4th of july

Well, the third of July was actually more eventful for us than the fourth. We were both off on friday, the third, and had a fun day together. That night some of our friends from church got together for a cookout and went to see fireworks in a small town outside of Tulsa, called Keifer. I had never even heard of this town, but the fireworks were really impressive. Saturday, Marcus made ribs in his smoker and we had a few friends over and played games. We weren't planning to go to any other fireworks displays, but there was one at a nearby golf course that we could see from our driveway. Nice!

Marcus remembered to buy my favorite flavor sno-cone, wedding cake, while we waited for it to get dark. What a nice surprise! : )

visitors!

We recently had some great houseguests. Michael and Ashleigh brought the boys to Tulsa for the first time. We went to the aquarium and of course, went to some yummy restaurants. What a fun weekend! Asher is such a happy and loving baby- he's pretty photogenic too!

Marcus isn't really sleeping, but I told him to pretend. : )

John Mark got to feed the turtles, but his favorite thing at the aquarium was the hand that was coming down from above, cleaning a tank.

really behind!

I'm so behind on blogging. I really haven't fallen off the face of the earth. Hopefully in the next few days I'll post about Marcus' new smoking habit (smoking meats, that is), one year of living in Tulsa, and a visit from our nephews.

Happy Fathers' Day to my wonderful dad! He's the best and we always have so much fun together. I wanted to put up a picture of us, but I don't have a good one on my camera. :(

We LOVE the ice cream man!

Marcus' first words when he came home from work monday night were, "ice cream man, ice cream man, ice cream man." I had just looked out the window and seen the festive van stopped a few houses down. I grabbed my wallet and we power walked/jogged down the street. The group of ice cream buyers consisted of us and two eight year old boys. We paid four dollars for a bomb pop and a strawberry sundae crunch. The kids were asking the ice cream man, "Are you coming back tomorrow?" I was kind of hoping he would, but haven't seen him since.

Happy Mother's Day!

I am so lucky to have a fantastic mom. Here's my favorite picture of us. This was the morning before my wedding. Hope everyone has a great mother's day!

babysitting night

Marcus came up with a fun idea this week. He sent an evite to our class at church and offered for us to babysit kids friday night so parents could go on a date, run errands, etc. Potentially we could have had like 15 kids, but we ended up with 5. There were two 1 year olds, two 2 year olds, and a five year old. We ate chicken nuggets, watched Cars, read books, and played elefun. My therapy toys always come in handy when kids come over. They were very well-behaved and it was alot of fun. I told Marcus that we could definitely handle having five kids. HA. Maybe more like 2, but it was great for one night.

Marcus captured everyone's attention with "Lilly the Lamb".

Ethan was quite a fan of my ABC book. He is so cute and loves letters.
One of the moms, Becky, brought Elefun. It was a big hit!
Little Lorelai is adorable. She makes me want a baby. She gives kisses and does all kinds of cute little tricks. She thought the butterflies in the game were hairbows.
Marcus taught Alex and Landon how to wii fish.

Elijah was content hanging out on the couch and watching Cars.

the past month or so

I just haven't had much to blog about lately. Here's a quick rundown of the past few weeks.
Good things:
-The highlight of the past month was definitely our trip to AR for Easter.
-Another good thing lately has been a girls' bible study that I've been going to every other monday. It is a great way to start off the week and I love the book that we are reading.
-My allergies have not been acting up. No stuffy nose in the spring is a very good thing!

Not good:
-We had to pay a yucky amount of taxes and then a week later had to have Marcus' car towed and repaired after a simple "do it yourself" job went bad.
-We have termites (hundreds) in our house. It is really gross, but at least since we are renting we don't have to pay for getting rid of them. I took pictures, but I won't post them-that might be kind of weird.

So now you see how boring my life is and why I don't have much to blog about....
Tomorrow we are having a (very small) kentucky derby party. I just might post pictures if anything exciting happens.