Come See The Animals At Arbuckle Wilderness

On Sunday, I woke up extra early to pick Pauline up from her apartment. We were headed to...Arbuckle Wilderness! I told her about it when she first came to Oklahoma and she really wanted to go. This was one of the last weekends I have free before she leaves on October 1st, so we grabbed some breakfast and hit the road.

I had forgotten how much fun this place is.

There were camels,llamas and an alpaca that spit on us in the car.





There were antelope looking things.



Our favorites by far were the crazy zebras, who came right inside the car to eat the feed from our hands. It was a bit freaky when the food was gone and they were still looking for it...you can't just roll up the window to make them get out!






This picture cracks me up because Pauline didn't know the ostrich was behind her. She is terrified of them!!! There were tons of them roaming around, and every time she saw one coming up to the car she would freak out, shriek and try to roll the windows up really fast. I have a video of this happening several times. It's hilarious!!



The rest of the assortment of animals...





These giraffes stretched their long necks from the fence and were eating from her hands and licking the windows! It was so cute/gross!



I just love that place.

Baby Bojangle Rose

Abby Rose is one of the few on my favorite people list in OKC. I'm friends with her through Jana, and we hang out often with their other high school friend Savanah who lives in Dallas and a girl named Beth. Here we are all together:



Abby and Dayton tried to have a baby for over a year and it was heartbreaking to watch and hear her talk about it. We didn't ever think they would get pregnant. And then one day, voila! Just when they had been talking about trying to use science to conceive. Very cool.



Abby is having a boy named Jordan, and he is due on Ryan's birthday- September
14th. She is the cutest pregnant lady ever. She has always been very small and fit, and she told us she has been working out, even until now. She does elliptical and low impact aerobics every day. She has hardly gained any extra weight, besides the baby bump. It's amazing!

We played a lot of games at her baby shower, which was on Saturday afternoon. Jana and Savanah were the hostesses, and we played "Guess the Circumference" of the baby bump using a string of yarn and then measure it against the real bump to see how close we were...



"Guess that Goo" where we had to smell/taste labeless jars and figure out what food it was (GROSS!!!)



We guessed the number of safety pins inside a glass jar. And of course, there was baby gift Bingo. Then after she unwrapped her gifts, we played another game where we had to make up a baby name using the letters in Dayton and Abby's full names. You could only use those letters and Abby got to pick her favorite. I thought of a funny one, and we were cracking up at the ones everyone else came up with. "Agile Bot," "Jail Bait," and mine..."Bojangle." I was laughing so hard I was crying. Abby picked mine! I won a cool reed diffuser.

I got her this teddy bear and an infant "Sleep Sack." You put the baby inside it when it sleeps and it looks like a baby burrito!



Look at all the great food we got to chow down on too! I didn't know there would be food, and I was starving before I arrived...so I had just eaten lunch at The Spicy Pickle and then I had to eat again. Haha! Mmmm.





Here's the group:



Congrats Abby and Dayton!!!

Weekend Review

Once again the weekend has passed way too fast.

Friday night, Ryan and I rented Hot Tub Time Machine and watched it while we ate dinner. It wasn't very good, but it was about what I was expecting.

Saturday, Ryan was on call. I had a secret shop to do at lunch, and I met Liz at Mama Rojas after I was done running a few errands and getting my name changed at the bank. The food was soooo good! I think it was my last secret shop for a long time though. I don't have time for them anymore, because the reports take so long to do. Liz was very entertaining, as always....we caught up and talked about me watching her pomeranian, Wolfie, while she's gone on vacation to Florida.

After lunch, I went out and did a bunch of errands. I went by Dillards to get my work jeans, and I went by two different places in search of Ryan's birthday present. One of our friend's has a pair of Vibram Five Finger shoes, and Ryan thought they were really cool. I had no idea what to get him, so I think these will work. Apparently, they're in high demand because there were only a few pairs at each place. I'm happy with the pair that I found though, I hope he likes them!



I went home to get ready for Diana's wedding. Rebecca was my date, but she hit construction coming from Tulsa and so she was running way behind. We sped to El Reno and got there at 7 on the dot. Good thing the wedding didn't start on time! It was an outside ceremony, and it was sweltering. Diana and Kevin were so cute, and she looked beautiful. Her colors were pink and green, it reminded me of Jenny's wedding a little. The reception was fun, we spent some time hanging out with our PR friends and eating chicken fingers and mashed potatoes :) Rebecca wanted to drive home to Tulsa the same night, so we left right after the first few dances.

Here are a few pictures from the night.

Goal!!

Our second indoor soccer game was last night. It was later, which was nice because it wasn't as hot inside the building. We had all of our girls there, so everyone had a sub.

Halfway into the first half, Blake crossed the ball to me pretty hard and I made contact...and scored!! It's so thrilling. Why wasn't I playing midfield or forward in high school? Oh, that's right. I still can't dribble worth crap. But it doesn't matter as much in indoor, because you can use the walls and the field is so short. I love it! I was high on that goal all night, and we didn't score again until later in the second half so I was secretly hoping that my points would win us the game until that happened. Ha.

Wedding Packrat

I have so much stuff cluttering up our guest room from the wedding...but I don't have the heart to put any of it in storage!

I actually took pictures of some items Monday night and made a "For Sale" link on my Knot bio....a girl already wants to buy my starfish and sexy little bride tank top. It's sad, but I know I have no use for them now. The other stuff....my garter, cake toppers, bouquet charm....what do I do with this stuff? I want to look at these beloved things all the time, but they don't have a place anywhere.

My dress is still hanging in the garment bag. I suppose I'll have to save up some cash and get it preserved (or maybe I'll wear it to do the dishes in sometimes).

A Great Surprise

Our firm recently signed with a media clipping service called Factiva. They're part of Dow Jones, and they track where our clients are showing up in the news and then I can create reports from the results. I did a lot of research into the company, and worked closely with an account manager named Jennifer.

We signed because I convinced the bosses it was absolutely superior to our current clipping service, so we switched last month. Last week, Jennifer told me she was applying within her company for a higher position that would allow her to service our account through the entire year, and asked me for a recommendation.

I wrote her up one on our company letterhead...it only took a few minutes. She's been so helpful and patient with me while I learn the system, it was the least I could do.

Today, these were delivered to my office:



With a note that read: Andrea, thank you again for doing me a giant favor! ~Jen.

So nice!!!!!

Fighting Chickens

I signed up again for indoor soccer with the same team I played with in the Spring- the Fighting Chickens! Our first game was last night. I was half anticipating it, half dreading it because I'm pretty sure I haven't done anything physical since before the wedding.

There are 6 girls and 7 guys. Three girls have to be on the field at all times, so it's important to get all of them there to each game. We had a girl end up not being able to play at the last minute, so I asked my new friend Kristen to play with us for the season. She's from Kansas City, and she's looking for a PR job. We met back in April at the PRSA convention here.

The game went about how I expected. We lost....5-1. It was pretty rough, and I needed to sub out a lot. But it was still fun, and I was happy to get a hard workout in. I'm pretty sore today and I hurt my foot a bit taking shots. Our next game is Monday, so I need to rest up and start running on off days.