Finally Got Pictures Developed...

Back in February, I bought a disposable camera because our digital camera was on the fritz. Of course it took a month to use it and then another couple of weeks to get the film developed. Here's some events my blog missed...
(1) Tulle's 1st Birthday party...she's a cutie!
(2) Lauren's personal shower. It was a fun evening full of laughs and stories from lots of beautiful women of God. (One is of me with the bride-to-be Lauren and the other is me with Chancey and Sharbee at Goldie's for dinner.)
(3) Josh and Wes playing at their last night of basketball - the team won the league!
(4) When I babysat Tulle one morning...funtimes! Padme was so sweet with her, but after awhile I think Padme got tired of Tulle hugging her so she sat up on the couch for awhile before she finally retreated to the backyard.
(5) Trey and Lauren's wedding (I already put a couple of pics from that. Here's some more pictures. One is of Matt and Melissa and one of Cassie and me. The others are Josh and me with the groom and bride.)
(6) Tonie came over to eat lunch with us after church on a recent Sunday. We had a good time visiting and she even sang us a song while she played Josh's guitar.

Lake With the Dogs

After Josh got off from work (yes, he had to work on his Birthday), we took the dogs to the lake. We hadn't been since last Fall before Padme's surgeries. We walked (and ran some) around the 3-mile perimeter then the dogs went swimming. Padme did really well on her legs (she had two hip surgeries). Newman will retrieve for us - today we used a water bottle. Padme usually will just go after Newman gets the bottle and take it from him. Usually, Padme does her own thing in the lake which involves swimming like a seal. BUT she didn't do that today (the whole reason why I brought the camera), but she was funny with Newman. She was aggressive with him and tried to get him several times. They both were worn out afterwards.

I Love my Niece!

I had a good time with my niece Montana. We played power rangers (yes, those characters are STILL around) and went for a walk. We played basketball and cheerleaders. Most of our games started out with her saying, "Okay, let's pretend we're sisters and...." It was a fun time. I think I have more and more fun as Tana gets older. One of the funniest things Tana said recently was when Sheri was doing her hair and taking a long time. Tana tells her, "Let's stop this cow-milking and move along." Where she came up with that, I have no idea. She says she made it up. That girl!

Make-Up By Tana

So my 5-year-old niece wanted to do my makeup. Last time she did it, it was wild. But this time...well, you can see from the pictures, it was even more! She also did my toenails. I then did her makeup to match mine...we were a sight!

Pregnant Cousin

Josh's cousin Jourdan (or as Tana calls her, JuJu) is having a baby boy in late May. She's a cutie pregnant woman. Tana imitated her JuJu before she got there.

Visiting with Family

There was a lot of people at Josh's mom's. Grammy and Josh's cousin Jourdan and her husband came down as well. We had a good time visiting and catching up!

Josh's Family Bday Party

We went home this weekend down to see Josh's family. We had a really good visit. Since Josh's birthday is later this week, his mom had a party for him on Saturday night. Tana had to help Josh blow out the candles because they were trick candles! She also "read" his cards for him...which were great. I think Hallmark should hire her to write the birthday cards.

A Top Security Saturday

So this past Saturday, I had a local chemistry meeting in Ponca City. Ponca City is about 45 minutes away from here so it wasn't a bad drive. I just rode along with another grad student so I didn't have to drive. Nothing like waking up early on the weekend. The meeting was held at the ConocoPhillips facility. Talk about top security. We had to go to the correct gate and get checked in and told where to park. Then we park and there's another worker that is there to tell us where to walk towards. Then we get near the building where the meeting is at and another employee is present making sure we go that building and not run off somewhere trying to plant a bomb. As we go into the conference site, we are checked into the meeting. We have to go upstairs to where the presentations are held, and we pass by an escalator. There is another security guard babysitting the escalator (even though its roped off). I think the basement held all their trade secrets. I was hoping someone would have tried to make a dash for it into some forbidden area. I wanted to see somebody get tackled.
All in all, it was a pretty good local section meeting. I had the best lunch I've ever had at one of those meetings. You would think ConocoPhillips might have some mula or something. That evening Josh and I drove to Blackwell to meet my cousin Annie for dinner. It was a good visit, and we laughed with her as usual.

Why I haven't blogged in awhile...

Last week was the annual Research Symposium. I decided to be an overachiever and chair the judges portion of the Symposium. I had fun for the most part, but it was a lot of work leading up to the Symposium and the week of. I'm thankful I had a good committee.
So the Symposium ended Friday; I got home about 7 PM, and Josh and me picked up my cousin Pamela, her husband Jeremy, and 3 college students at 10 that night. At our church last weekend was the Campus Encounter - a big rally for college students in the surrounding areas. Since Jeremy is a college minister, we were able to house 5 people that weekend. We ended up having a great time. It was good to catch up with Pam, get to know Jeremy better (like now I know he's a leatherman-wearing guy), and laugh with Hilary, JoAnna, and Gavin. Saturday we went to El Vaquero for dinner (I think Jeremy and I were exchanging words/looks in the picture below haha) and then that night, Josh and Jeremy were nice and went on a Braum's run for us. We stayed up way too late that night - Sunday we were all pretty tired so there's no pictures from that day. Ha!

Wedding

About 2-3 weeks ago, Josh and I went to the wedding of our friends Trey and Lauren. It was a nice wedding and a fun reception. We got to visit with other friends from church and enjoy great food...there were ribs and a chocolate fountain. What more could I ask for? Here's a picture of Josh and me and then one of Seungeun and me. I haven't gotten my pictures developed yet (these are Seungeun's) so when I do I'll have to post ones of the actual bride and groom!