Secret Weekend Getaway

Jesse and I have become quite the travelers. The one advice we almost always hear from "older" married couples is "travel, travel, travel while you are a young married couple, because once you have children it will become more difficult to travel." We took that advice to heart and NO we are not ready to have children at this time (Just to clear that question up).

Jesse surprised me with a weekend getaway to St. Louis Missouri! I was allowed one question a day and he told me one clue a day, I never guessed it right.

Our first stop: Lambert's Cafe. Located in Ozark MO. A famous restaurant where they throw rolls at you. Lots of food...I think I gained weight just from that place.

Second stop: The Gateway Arch in St. Louis MO. Great view of the arch from our hotel room.

Jesse and I at the base of the arch.

The elevator to ride to the top of the arch was tiny! It was called a "pod" and you could not even stand up in it. This was a challenge for me but I survived.
View from the top of the arch.

Jesse and I drove across the river into Illinois, I have no idea where we were at but we wanted our picture in Illinois so we just pulled over and took one. Not much to look at.

These trees were everywhere and I loved them.

These are the blooms on the trees. Anyone know the name of this tree? I want one!

Third Stop: The Anheuser-Busch Factory. Jesse likes factory tours, I had never been on one and it was free! Three great reasons to go. It was sad however to see so many parents (with their kids on their hips) were already inebriated before the tour even started, we saw a lot of "white trash" America.

A great Photo Opportunity...

Final stop: Six Flags! We are still kids at heart.

More House Photos

Jesse and I went on a weekend getaway this past weekend (all of which I will blog about on my next post). Our first stop was our house (well almost) in Bartlesville. We just stopped by to take a few pictures of the exterior since we did not have any. Enjoy!

Front view.

Contract pending, that's us!

Side yard.

Back yard. Back yard, facing house.

The house already has great landscaping.

Stay tuned for the post on Jesse's secret weekend getaway for me!

St. Thomas, Virgin Islands

This past week Jesse and I took a wonderful vacation to St. Thomas, Virgin Islands with his parents, sister and brother-in-law.

View from our house

Another view, Jesse even took a kayak out to those islands, I didn't think I could make it so I did not go
View from our room

It is hard to see but in the clouds there are two tornadoes

A little closer look

Beautiful Sunset

All of us about to go on a all day snorkeling tour

Feeding the sting rays

In our snorkel gear- tour guide Jacob on the right

On a boat on our way to St. John

View from St. John- St John has a beautiful national park

Oh and this is St. Patrick's day so Jesse and I wore our green :)

Building a sand castle on Megan's beach

Where we ate a very good meal, I am beginning to love sea food

Mike and Kim climbing the "99 Steps," which is actually 103 steps. I forget the steps importance but it was a tourist thing to do and it was free!

This is a brief summary of pictures. We also were beach bums a few days of vacation and we did some shopping.

Iguanas were everywhere, weather was in the 80's ,never rained on us during the day and waters were crystal clear.

Great trip, would recommend St. Thomas to anyone!

Our First Home!

Jesse and I bought our first home last night! We went house hunting on Sunday and did not really expect to find anything we both agreed on. Jesse likes the brand new houses and I favor the more charming older homes. After several hours of house hunting and after looking at 12 different houses one house kept coming back into our minds and we began to compare all of the other houses to it. So after a restless night of sleep Jesse and I both woke saying "we have to have that house." We rushed back to Bartlesville that night after work took one more look at it, made and offer and BAM we had it!

We got a 3 bed 2 bath newer home, but it still has plenty of charm. This house we hope to be in for a long time, well as long as Conoco Phillips does not send us to another location.

Living Room

Looking from entry way into dinning room. Living room on left. Kitchen is on the left of dinning room

Love this kitchen!

More cabinets

Upstairs media room

Guest bath, looks similar to master bathroom sink

Master bedroom

Master bath shower, small tub but we love the rain shower heads

Jesse and I are thrilled and blessed to have this as our first home and we hope we can share it with all of our family and friends and create some wonderful memories in this home.

Rock Climbing Fun

This weekend Jesse and I stayed in the Ponc and hung out with friends. Friday we had dinner and hung out with our friends Katie and Logan and their three-year-old son, Hank (he is so adorable). Then on Sunday afternoon we drove to Stillwater and went climbing on a rock climbing wall at the Colvin Center on Oklahoma State University's campus. We had a great time. Jesse climbed a few times, once was enough for me. It wears you out! My arms and legs will be feeling it tomorrow.

Before our adventure

Just getting started

Made it

Jesse mastered the wall

Hank had to show us all how it was done

Katie and Logan with Hank swinging on the ropes in the background

After a few hours of rock climbing we went to Orange Leaf, so yummy. I thought it was called Orange Tree, so I wonder if Orange Leaf is a branch (no pun intended) of Orange Tree. Anyone know the difference?

I Love New Hair Cuts!

Today was a big day for me; I got a new hair cut. I was nervous, the lady who cut my hair has only done it one other time and it was just a trim. I really liked her, but you can't really mess up a trim so it was hard to judge if she would do a good job. However, she did a wonderful job and I am very pleased with the results.

Reasons for hair cut:

1. It was time. I had been putting off the after-wedding hair cut for to long.

2. Jesse and I are taking a trip to the Virgin Islands and I wanted something cool (as in temperature and style) and something that would not take long to fix.

3. My hair was just getting to long. I would get rats nest in my hair around my neck when I wore it down...gross.

4. We live in an apartment and our shower pressure is terrible. It would take forever to wash my hair, almost to the point to where I did not look forward to washing my hair at all.

Before Pictures

I will miss my beautiful, long hair, but it can always grow back.

After Pictures

Total damage: 6 inches cut off!

The best part about it was I got to donate my hair to the non-profit organization Locks of Love (http://www.locksoflove.org/), which provides hair to children with long-term hair loss conditions. I have always wanted to donate, but my hair was never long enough. They changed their regulations from 10 inches to 6 inches. I just barely made to cut, no pun intended. I checked the website and it still says 10 inches but the hair stylist said it has changed, so if you are interested I would get all the facts straight. The stylist said even if my hair is not long enough then the organization can still sale my hair to wig companies for money. Either way, glad I could help.

I am in love with the new hairstyle! I am glad I got over my nervousness and finally cut my hair. I might even go shorter with it next time.

What do you all think? Like the look? Think I could go shorter?

Happy Birthday Jesse!

Yesterday(2-13-10) Jesse turned 24 years old. We started the day off right by sleeping in and then eating cinnamon rolls, yummy. Everything Jesse did that day was followed by him saying "It is my birthday." I guess that meant he was allowed to do anything he wanted.

Jesse's Birthday balloons.

Present time!

Jesse was pretty excited about the GPS.

After a full Saturday of doing nothing but watching basketball and the Olympics we went out to eat at Red Lobster in Stillwater. I had the coconut shrimp (so good) and Jesse and some steak and shrimp combo. And of course we took leftovers home and we made sure we had plenty of those biscuits in our to go boxes.

All dressed up for dinner.

Happy Birthday Jesse!