Recovery time....

Last week I might have been a little busy.... Yeah I know you're thinking and that's different from any other of my weeks how? Well Monday Kellyn, Drew, and I made a trip to Edmond for women's day lectureship at MRCC. My mom was on a panel so I wanted to support her. All of the women were great speakers and then I stayed for She Speaks....if you do one thing a year at OC, it should be She Speaks. The speaker was Nika Maples and she was fantastic, everything about the event was wonderful!



She gave everyone her book Twelve Clean Pages, I read it, you should too if you haven't!
The. I decided if I was going to be in Edmond on Monday I might as well pick up all the food for the Fall Carnival at Sam's. So I did, and we had the fall carnival, how is it already October? The carnival went well, we raised about $2500, so I guess that's decent for Newkirk.
























Unfortunately Maddie woke up sick and missed school on Friday....but I thought she was better for Ballet on Saturday....she proved me wrong when we forgot her belt and she had a melt down. We left. Then we had plans with our Newkirk Family to go to UCO's football game to watch Connor play. He scored, twice, in overtime! So that was super exciting! These pics are of us at Connor's last home game we went to.



I love it when he holds my babies cause Connor makes them look so small!


We headed out right after the game to get dinner ready. We all had tacos after the game over at my parents house. It was such a fun night with everyone!



So another busy week/weekend in the books! The kids are in school tomorrow and they've got Friday/Monday off for Fall Break. So we are doing a little family get away with some surprises for the kids! I'm so pumped!

Weekend Fun

This past weekend we went to the Peace, Love, and Goodwill Festival at the Myriad Gardens. It was a nice little festival and I wish I could've stayed to hear Tony Lucca play that night. This kids had so much fun at the children's tent, but unfortunately Anna and Elsa were running late so se missed them!















Oh and the Ballet cast for Sleeping Beauty was posted at ballet! Maddie is a bluebird (her entire class is!)



Saturday night we were due back in Newkirk for dinner with our new friends....the girls loved riding in the Barbie Jeep!



Luckily Elsa made a visit to Octoberfest in Ponca City..... So Maddie wasn't too upset about missing her Saturday!






Overall a great and busy weekend!

What's missing?

What's missing from this picture??




If you guessed diaper, you're right! Kellyn potty trained herself....yep you read that right, all by herself! Hopefully I'm not jinxing this amazing development by blogging about it!



"I did it!"

Pumpkin Painting

Newkirk hired 2 new coaches this year and both have kids our kids age. So we have a moms walking club in the morning which has been great! I love it! For instance today I needed to run our dog to the vet and since Kellyn is terrified of our dog I could leave her with another mom while I did that. It's so nice to be able to get out of the house everyday with some other adults! A couple of weeks ago we did a little pumpkin painting!

The Spence

So ever since Top Chef 4 I've been a huge fan of Richard Blais. I think he is so innovative, but makes food I'd actually eat. So I was fortunate enough to eat at one of his Flip Burger Boutique a couple of years ago, but Drew and I visited the one in Buckhead for my birthday, where we shared a Nutella Shake! (No pics of that cause they were nice to charge my dead phone so I could get to my hotel) I was so excited to visit April so we could experience The Spence, which is his first "finer dining" place. I love that it's considered an eatery cause they want you to be able to experience new things, we were there for 2 glorious hours! The only thing that would've made it better is if the man was there himself, but he is currently very busy. Catch him on his new Food Network show Hungry Games Oct 20th and he's also a judge on the upcoming season of Top Chef Boston! We decided we would try some different things, I'm so proud of ourselves cause we did, and it was all amazing!






The Spence is pretty much part of Georgia Tech's campus, so it's pretty modern. They've got an open kitchen and you can sit at a chefs table and experience a 5 course meal.... Which had Drew not been with us I would've been tempted to do!





Sea Salted Parker house rolls with this amazing coconut butter!





Goat Empanadas and Beef Tartar (yes raw beef, it was so amazing!)





Strip Steak ( okay not that different but it had a smoked potato purée) and pan roasted duck ( I savored every bite) and corn cream brûlée





We tried 3 out of the 4 desserts....a lemon curd with graham cracker and toasted marshmallow, blondies with coffee ice cream, and this chocolate peanut brittle with ice cream, all of which were amazing!






It was a great experience, their menu changes daily so I can't wait to go back and try some more stuff!











Drew says looks at all this good food and I'm stuck with this purée in a bottle.....





Next up maybe I'll make a trip to his newest venture Juniper and Ivy in San Diego!

Happy Birthday to me....

About a week before we headed to the beach I got a text from my dear friend April saying we should come to Atlanta. I had a brilliant idea of saving that extra 12 hour car ride and taking Drew along for a visit on a plane. So I set out about making my birthday present to myself happen. My parents gladly purchased my ticket with points and I started looking for a deal on a hotel room and car. I found a reasonable deal, got the other kids settled and Drew and I flew to Atlanta for a long weekend girls vaca! April has just moved to the Atlanta area while Zane is getting his Masters at Emory University. So we did a little sightseeing, eating, hot tubbing, and vampire stalking while we were there! It was such a great time! She said it made her want to get out and explore, which is great. Atlanta is a great place to visit; can't wait to go back myself!


















We also ate at The Spence....which deserves it's own blog post!

Never have I ever....

taken a child to the er.....until last week! I was trying to wash Kellyn's hair and she slipped in the bath and busted her chin on the side. It was borderline for me about needing to get it closed up. But I felt like it was spread pretty far apart. So after my mom consulted with the docs at clinic she, Drew, and I headed to Edmond.
When the only open Mercy after hours said they wouldn't see her since they weren't equipped to stabilize a 2 year old we had a consult with her doc and he sent us on to children's! He felt like they'd probably sedate her to stitch her up. Well they ended up gluing her skin together after us waiting 2 hours. That held til Friday afternoon when we were too late for stitches. So some glue and steri-strips held it til Monday. Now we are just praying it heals nicely cause right now it's Kellyn 3- Doctors-0! It's closing and hopefully it'll close better then I expect! But chances of me ever taking another kid to the er....slim to none unless obviously
I have no other choice!










(That's a blurry pic of her chin from yesterday.)