pizza... again

so, lawton has opened its own version of chuck e cheese or incredible pizza... it's called... laugh out loud pizza. ever since bryan told the girls about it, they have been asking when we were going. paul and his kids were planning on coming this past weekend, but due to some crazy weather in kansas, they had to postpone their trip. well, not only were the girls crushed that they couldn't see their cousins, they were pretty sad about not going to mt. scott either.... so we planned a trip to laugh out loud pizza. they had a great time! bryan took the girls around to play on the games and their fun jungle gym thing. i hung out with jack and watched mizzou lose to connecticut...

dentac birthday ball

so, it was time for another army ball. how fun. this one was much smaller than the meddac ball at christmas and only for the dentac. we had a fun time. bryan and cpt. michael hoffman were the mc's and they did a great job. they call themselves... 'hoffpool'... nice.


and here is laura furdek, me, and paige dahlke. this is our lovely book club... small numbers, but big time fun!

gotta love him

ah, the zoo

so, last week we went with some people from our ward to the oklahoma city zoo. what fun! the kids loved it and the weather was so nice. unfortunately, carting around 3 kids didn't allow me very many opportunities to take pictures... and i guess that is a good thing since the kids were not interested in taking pictures anyway. see below.


at least the animals were interested.



we did see the sea lion show, which the girls thought was entertaining and all in all, the trip to the zoo was a success. however, i think their favorite part was... playing on the big rock (i was taking raegan to the bathroom when the pictures were taken, but shoot yourself over to kim strupp's blog to see the pictures on the rock!)

happy birthday bryan!

yay! bryan turns 30 today! unfortunately, today his day will be spent at work... attending a ce class tonight... and on call. nice. well, at least we got to celebrate on saturday with his awesome chuck norris themed birthday party! (don't you love our shirts?) yes, we love chuck norris... just a few tidbits you may not have known about chuck norris.

*when chuck norris was born, the only person to cry was the doctor. never slap chuck norris.
*chuck norris' smile once brought a puppy back to life.
*chuck norris doesn't take showers. he takes blood baths.
*chuck norris' tears cure cancer. too bad he has never cried.
*chuck norris destroyed the periodic table because the only element he recognizes is the element of surprise.
*chuck norris does not need to mow his grass. he simply stares at it and dares it to grow.
*there is no use crying over spilled milk. unless it is chuck norris's milk. because then you are going to die.
*when the boogeyman goes to bed, he checks his closet for chuck norris.
*chuck norris doesn't sleep. he waits.

happy st. patrick's day!

and this is how we spent our saturday afternoon...

... sleeping in various places.

grace fell asleep while watching a movie...


raegan fell asleep while going to the bathroom...


and jack and i fell asleep on the couch...

it's finished... almost

at christmas, my dad and bryan began a project of making grace and raegan some bunk beds. my dad brought all the wood and materials, as well as the tools needed to get some bunk beds made.


they worked so hard to get the beds done and by the time their trip was over the beds were pretty much ready to be put together. bryan only had to do a few more things to get them ready to assemble. so, bryan has been working in his spare time to finish and about a month ago he got everything done. all we need to do was put a polyurethane varnish on the beds... the catch? for the varnish to set you need ideal weather... it had to be above 60 degrees and no wind. hmmm.... as most people in the lawton area know, in the winter when the weather gets above 60 degrees we also have high winds (20 - 30 mph) and fire danger. it is a rare day when the weather is warm and it's not windy. so we waited through a month of warm and windy days here and there. then, last tuesday, finally, it was in the 70s and no wind. luckily, bryan had been home sick that day (we were passing around the rota virus in our family) and i told him we had to get the beds done. and we did! yay!


so, when i say they are almost finished... we are still waiting for the stairs to be made (my dad is working on them in missouri) and the rails for the top bunk. so, grace and raegan are sleeping on the bottom bunk together. and all i can say is... they love them. around 7 at night grace will start to say that she wants to go to bed just so she can sleep in her new bed. thanks dad and bryan!

and this one's for the grandparents....

who keep asking for more pictures of jack.

oklahoma sky

we had some thunderstorms a few weeks ago, and bryan took this picture. there is a rainbow in the sky and the storm had just passed us, you can see all the dark clouds behind grace and the sunlight shining on the grass. it is pretty fun to see how much the sky changes as the storms pass by.

happy valentine's day

ok, so i tried to get these pictures posted a little closer to valentine's day, but i guess that didn't really work out. so, here they are. on saturday we decided to make some sugar cookies and decorate them. the girls love to exercise their creativity by decorating with sprinkles. yum.