Our first Enid Snow

It's been snowing and icing here all week! This first storm was very interesting. It snowed sideways. The mazda is under the carport. Completely under, yet it's covered in snow. For a second I though gravity decided to switch things up. Seriously, the snow was going left to right the whole time. It was blowing so hard it got under the door that is under the carport! Did I mention that door was shut?
Somehow my Texan at heart was still able to grill that night. I think he made all Texans everywhere proud:)

Work Bench

Ta daaaaaaaaa. Matt and I made a work bench for him to use in the little storage shed. There's an awesome place on base where you can work with wood. There's every kind of saw imaginable and they provide all the tools you could ever need. You only have to supply the wood and go to town! There were some pretty amazing pieces of work in there. People make huge entertainment systems, bookshelves, cribs, chests of drawers, etc. All kinds of things! And there's even a place to stain everything when you're done. It's awesome and Matt did a really good job on the workbench!

Orange Bowl Bound!

Get out your oranges, Ladies and Gents, we're headed to the Orange Bowl!!! Woohooo! GOOOOOO HOKIES!!

Our First Christmas Tree

We got our first Christmas tree last week and it was so exciting! We love our little tree. He may not be perfect, but now it smells nice in the house and it feels like Christmas!

In the nude:)

We couldn't find a star so a little bow will have to do.

Or my head...hee hee hee!


Hugs!

Fun times with our tree.

We're like a little family. I'm gonna have a really hard time sending him outside after Christmas!

The Week of Thanksgiving

Mom and Dad Lund and Amanda came up to celebrate Thanksgiving with us. It was SO nice to have family in our home. We are so blessed they could come. We had a blast all weekend.

They arrived Wednesday afternoon so we showed them around the base. Half way through grocery shopping at the commissary the power went out. Thinking, "no biggie" we walked home only to find people on the street and cop cars all over. No one knew what was going on and the power was still out. We went out to eat and on the way back as we approached the base noticed the power was still not on! Frustrated, we asked the guard who informed us a squirrel jumped into a transformer and fried himself and the power. (Wow, what are the chances?) We ended up spending the whole night in the dark. Luckily, the power came back on in the middle of the night so we could cook the next day! We were definitely thankful for electricity on Thanksgiving!

Not yet!

Father passing along crucial turkey carving info to son.

And yes I made everyone write on a leaf, it turned out really nice!

Aw, our first Thanksgiving!

So apparently sweet potato killing jeans can be passed along from mother to daughter. OK, 1) The marshmallows are pink because and only because that's all they had at the commissary. 2) I made the potatoes a couples days before so there'd be less to do on Thanksgiving, so after I heated them up the marshmallows just melted on the hot pan instead of "browning" like they're supposed to. Then when I tried to brown them they ended up getting huge instead of crispy and they spilled over. Kinda like when you put a marshmallow in the microwave (very fun BTW). 3) Lesson learned, just make the potatoes on Thanksgiving:) The smell was making me have flash backs of when Mom set the oven on fire with the sweet potatoes a couple Thanksgivings ago...

It was their 26th anniversary too! Congrats!

The fam.

I am so addicted to guitar hero, I love it! It's the best game ever! Maybe except for DDR:)

Thanks Matt!

We finally got Dad to play!

The boys had a squadron basketball game last week.

Matt and Micah

Matt and Micah again.



Hmmmmmm...


We put the VT flag up so everyone will know who we root for!
GO HOKIES!!

This is for Julie mostly, I know she's interested in the wildlife. Matt found this little guy in the garden last week. I had no idea we had scorpion!

Oklahoma City

Flatness.

The Skyline. Oklahoma City is neat because there aren't too many high rise buildings. It reminded me of DC a lot in that respect. It's a big city, but most of the buildings were low and there was a lot of suburb.


So far for the fiberglass statues we have, Blacksburg = Hokie Birds, Winchester = Apples, Dothan = Peanuts and Oklahoma City = Buffalo. I'm sure we'll end up with quite a list.

We were in a part of the city called Bricktown. A very nice experience. This is a picture of the AAA Baseball Park. Matt actually had a tournament here in High School. He recognized a lot of this part of the city and was telling us about what he and his Dad did that trip.

This guy just looked like he needed help.


This is a local Brewery where we ate dinner.


The Boys.

I sense a little rivalry. The Thunder were playing the Rockets (from Houston) that night, so yes, we were the odd crowd rooting for the "wrong" team.

Nose bleeders!

Eventually we moved to better seats.

Military Wife

The guys come over and play XBOX 360...I watch.




So I had my first duty as a military wife last Tuesday night. Matt informed me that evening that he needed to wear his BDU's (the camo uniform) the next day and didn't have his rank sewn on. So guess who comes to the rescue??? Me! Above some pics of me handiwork...pretty good if I do say so myself.

Verizon Wireless

FYI the cell service here is not the best with Verizon. We don't get any Digital service, but I can still receive and send calls. I have a hard time checking messages too. I have a few on my phone now that I can't check so I you've called in the last week I apologize for not getting back to you. We looked into changing providers, but it will be way more expensive since we'd have to buy new phones. Most of the people we know are on Verizon so we'd have to up our minutes as well to be able to talk to family and friends. We've decided to stick with Verizon for now and if it gets completely unbearable then we'll switch. So please bear with our phone situation, when in doubt...email!