Restaurant Review

So, Landon and I bought gift certificates for seven different area restaurants for a really good deal. We've been to some of them, but not others. We are ridiculously excited for our little restaurant adventure!!

The seven restaurants:
1. Cafe Pranzo
2. Galileos
3. 1492
4. Mamasitas
5. Chicas
6. Deep Deuce
7. Dan O'Briens

Pretty much, we can both eat whatever we want, and we will pay $11 total. We got $25 gift certificates to each restaurant... and we only paid $1 for each gift certificate. There is a minimum restaurant order of $35, which includes food, non-alcoholic drinks, and gratuity. Hence the $11 total. Hope that makes sense...

We'll do a review of the restaurants as we use the gift certificates!

Nines

Since today is 09.09.09, we thought a random list of nines was in order for the day.

1. We both love rain, thunderstorms, snow, etc. We can sit and watch Gary England (and listen to Val Castor) for hours.
2. Boomer Sooner. We are so sad about the game last Saturday.
3. On that note, how can PPV charge $40 for a football game. And a crappy one at that. OU vs Idaho State for $40. Even these devoted Sooner fans will trade the TV for the radio for this game.
4. Even though his hair is buzzed, Landon gets really bad bedhead in the mornings. It cracks me up in the mornings.
5. Landon says that when I say "I love you," it sounds like "I nove nou." He makes fun of me for this every single day. :)
6. Everyday, we talk about how grateful we are for our new home. It is seriously perfect for us. One thing we love is driving by horses, cows, ponds, etc on our way home. We live so close to the city, but those last couple of miles feel like country.
7. We feel like we took the vacation of a lifetime when we went to Alaska.
8. Babydog Lucy is going through some "behavior modification" right now. She tries to lick everything, and I think it is disgusting. Landon might think I am overreacting.
9. Neither of us really like the number 9. Landon's favorite number is 7, and Jen's favorite number is 13.

Boomer Sooner!

Guess what time of year it is... Football season!!! We are so excited for the start of the college football season tonight and for the Sooner's first game on Saturday. Make sure and wear your Crimson this weekend!

We will leave you with a little song...

Boomer Sooner, Boomer Sooner, Boomer Sooner, Boomer Sooner, Boomer Sooner, Boomer Sooner, Boomer Sooner, OK U! I was Sooner born and Sooner bred and when I die I'm Sooner dead! Rah Oklahoma, Rah Oklahoma, Rah Oklahoma, OK U!

And another...

O-K-L-A-H-O-M-A--our chant rolls on and on! Thousands strong join heart and song in alma mater's praise: of campus beautiful by day and night, of colors proudly gleaming red and white 'neath a western sky. OU's chant will never die. Live on University!

Zoo

We went to the zoo with the Small family on Saturday. It's been at least 10 years since either of us had been, and we had so much fun. The weather was perfect, and the girls were really cute to watch.

Here is a picture of Landon and the giraffes. We learned that giraffes have high blood pressure. Interesting fact!

Jen and the Small family watching the giant tortoise. No one believes me, but I saw a tortoise about this size crawling across the road by our house. Believe me, it really happened. Sweet Jasmine watching the bear feeding.

Savanna loved the camera. She kept smiling everytime we go the camera out. So cute.

Landon and I were totally oddballs for not having children or a stroller. :) I think we saw one other couple that were there without kids. It was definitely a great way to spend a beautiful Saturday though!

Furniture!

Our new living room furniture has arrived!! Finally! It was supposed to take 3 weeks from order to delivery, but instead it took 9 weeks. Before the new furniture, we were using a guest mattress to watch TV or relax in the living room. :) To say we are thrilled would be an understatement.

The furniture looks perfect in the room. A few things we still have to do in the living room: put throw pillows on the couch and chairs, hang things on the wall, finish the trim work/staining/painting on the wall Landon built, and decide what coffee table/ottoman we want.

We are so proud of our new home! And, so excited that things are finally getting finished! There are only a few big projects that we have left in the whole house...yay! In the evenings, Landon has been working on making that weirdo nook space into a closet, and I think he will be finished with that in the next week or so.

Let Your Kid Ride the Bus

So, my usual 17-20 minute drive to and from work has become torture. Like 30-40 minutes of torture. It all started last week when the little rascals in our area went back to school. We didn't realize until now that every major street on our way to the highway has an elementary school or a larger private school on it, meaning that we have lots of traffic to manuever around. Additionally, there is road construction that was already going on. SO. MUCH. TRAFFIC. I've decided to stop working for the 9 months that school is in session. Okay, not really.

Today I'm calling each individual school (of course...all are in different school districts or private), to find out when they start school in the morning and when they get out for the day. This will determine my daily drive times to and from work and hopefully make my drive a little less torture.

Big News

One of my BFFs has finally started a blog!!! Yay! Erica is one of my most wonderful friends, and Kevin and Erica have been such a positive model of marriage for Landon and I. We love them!

Check them out: http://kevanderica.blogspot.com/