Frugal

Had lunch with my sweetie at this place....


Two Hippies Beach House
They take extra care with their ingredients and try to be as organic as they can be. They are expanding to a lot of little spots here.
Two Hippies Breakfast Joint
Two Hippies Dropped Out of College and Opened a Pizzaria

you get the idea.

Good food, extremely casual, low $$. They have a special from 4-7 for 89 cent steak tacos which got me thinking....if you were on an EXTREME budget, you could eat there pretty inexpensively....which reminded me that I always think that if I were homeless, I would save up any money that I had for a yearly Costco membership. A person and their family could eat there every day on all of the food tasting displays.

Indians and Bagpipes

My son, Aaron graduated from the University of Oklahoma in May.

It's a big deal for me. First of all, I always assumed my children would grow up, go to college, and become successful adults. Well, Aaron gave me just a little bit of a challenge in his high school years....and I was slapped with the "reality check" that kids don't always do what their parents have planned for them. (Duh) I really struggled with this, though. I never even thought is was a remote possibility--and to have to let this go was tough, **TUF** tough. I really didn't know if he would graduate from high school, let alone go to college. Not because he couldn't handle the education piece, mind you....he is very smart. However, he made some, shall I say, poor choices in extra-curricular activities that caused him to have to go through a harder route than he could have. So, in May 2010 he made it through the School of Mass Communications and Journalism as a Sooner with a degree in Advertising.


Now--the festivities! Only in Oklahoma could you attend this event and see a bunch of Bagpipers fully kilten clad and bagpiping up a storm
while an entourage of Indian chiefs in full regalia come marching down the aisle.

I will say that I enjoyed the speakers at this commencement so much! The first evening was a Pulitzer Prize winning author and presidential historian named Doris Kerns Goodwin. She was one incredible lady and speaker!
She was so interesting and talked a mile a minute and never even looked at her notes or anything! Full of great stories....she also knows a TON about the Brooklyn Dodgers! Quite accomplished, very educational, enjoyable...just all around special treat for what is usually kind of a dreary pomp and circumstance kind of event!!
The next day was for the individual college...and the speaker was an OU alum that invented the Happy Meal! It was a very interesting story of how it came to be....(too bad that it was a precursor to the rampant childhood obesity we face today-not to put a damper on things--I'm just sayin'....)

Anyway...it's on to bigger and better things for him! Austin, Texas is where is he heading now! Congrats to Aaron!

You Can't Fence Time

What were you doing 30 years ago?
Thirty years ago today for me was life changing. I was 3 weeks out of college, almost 23 years old. I was scared, confident, excited, hopeful, ready.
You never forget that moment when they hand you that wrapped up, 8lb.6oz bundle and your life is forever different in ways you have never imagined.

Today is the big Three Oh for my beautiful daughter, Lindsay.
Lindsay. The name I thought NO ONE would have but her. :-)
Famous nose, freckle face (that's how many friends she has), big blue eyes and now a family of her own. I thought it would be appropriate to share bits and pieces of how she has grown and changed the past 30 years.






Do I see moves like Boston here?


A fashion show model at almost 5:


She helped our dog deliver 2 litters..this was the largest pup-Sir Charles Barkey. How about the large Suns hat Aaron is sporting?


























Aaahhhh..the 3rd set of braces.








DRAMA--- Cherokee heritage I guess.



First grandbaby and GRAM


Going to all the trouble of a spiral perm









It started here:


It went way farther up than this looks before they came down!!!




Nutcracker Suite Tonight





Broken Arm after the top bunk mishap!


Asymetrical Haircut


Time for bed but you had other ideas

Orange Crush










White on White Handsewn Quilt from Gram





Martina





I had stacks and stacks of photos to rummage thru...she was the first baby you know.
Awesome memories. All of those feelings she now describes for her own little ones I have all over again as I look at this third of a century.

I am so proud of her. She is fun, smart, a college graduate and almost done with her masters, a good mother, has found a really good man to share her life with, and she loves God.

My little pony-tailed girl grown up to be a woman
Now she's gone in the blink of an eye.



Happy 30th to my little girl.
No, you can't stop time.