Thanksgiving in Tulsa!

We are off to Tulsa / Norman today for 5 days and could not be more excited. We are bringing AW so this could be an interesting trip. The last couple of days have been crazy with not only packing for our trip, but packing up our entire apt so we are ready to move when we get back. We spent last night moving everything from the 2nd and 3rd floors to the garage. It was exhausting but will pay off when we get home at midnight on Monday and have to be up at 8 AM Tuesday to move!

The thought of eating El Tequila for dinner is the only thing getting me through today! It is exactly 9 months since we drove out of Tulsa and this will be our first time back. Time sure does fly.

Hope everyone has a very happy Thanksgiving! If you're in the Tulsa / Norman area the next 5 days we'll be seeing you soon!

love
a and k

First pic with glasses

There won't be too many of these so enjoy it while you can!



p.s. we will be in OKLAHOMA in 5 days! we can not wait. we would LOVE to see as many people as possible! This will be our first time back to Tulsa since we moved 9 months ago. and we will have AW with us! Have a great Friday. and yes I am going to see New Moon tonight!

Love
us

Latent Hyperopia

i.e. farsightedness. Yes it's true I am the newest member of the glasses club. I have been having really bad headaches for months now and have just always said it's stress and being in front of a computer all day and finally went to an eye dr. about it. I went on Friday and did all the tests and he told me I was not only farsighted...but pretty bad at that. He was surprised I had waited as long as I had to get in to see someone. I am a +2.5 in the right eye and +2.o in the left eye. I have been wearing my glasses as much as possible over the weekend and although the headaches haven't gone away and I had a really bad migraine Saturday night, I am hoping to see some improvements soon. I haven't taken any pics of me with my new specks yet (and will probably try to avoid it) But I'll try and take some so you guys will recognize me when we come home! Which by the way is in 10 days!!!!

I will post pictures of what we did this weekend tomorrow but wanted to let yall know my new exciting news! Hope everyone had a fabulous weekend! only 2 more weekends until Thanksgiving.

Love

4 eyes and my (as he will forever remind me) still perfect eyesighted husband!

How we spent our weekend

The pics are pretty self explanatory, but this is the entry way and hallway of our house! It was actually a really ugly light pink color and I knew I wanted to get ride of it asap. We went and picked out paint and agreed on a color immediately! This was our first time to paint together and it was a lot of fun. He didn't realize how good I was at it...must be in the genes ;-) We spent all day Saturday and most of Sunday at the house. And I had to be really careful to not get any splatter on my new glasses!

The hallway has all the bedrooms, bathroom, office, and 3 hall closets. The doors were the most tedious part and with the front door there were 8 of them. and then the double doors at the other end of the hall leads into the living, dining, and kitchen areas.

Before








After

And this pic is just to show how great i did on the ceiling! I did it all by myself!

Finally found a house!

We have been painstakingly looking for a house here in Orlando. We really thought we wanted to buy a house and with the market the way it is we thought it would be a good time. Without going into long details, we never really found a house that we loved enough to purchase and things just never seemed to work out. So we decided to just look for a rent house. After looking just 1 week we found one that we are going to rent! It is a different house (not one that I would ever buy) and I recently learned what the term "mid-century modern"means. It is in Winter Park, FL and it's a great little neighborhood and we are right across the street from Lake Killarney. And there is a huge fenced back yard (hard to find in Orlando) and a big screened in back patio! AW is going to be in little doggie heaven. We are really excited about it and get to move in December 1st. I can finally unpack all the boxes in my garage! I will send out our new address along with the Payne Christmas card.

Hope everyone is having a great week!

Love
me and kp

Road Trip to Athens, GA

On Friday Kyle and I hopped in the car and headed north about 7 1/2 hours to Athens, GA. Kyle's cousin Jason is an assistant golf coach at The University of Georgia and offered us a place to stay and tickets to the football game so we took him up on his offer. And we got to spend a wonderful weekend with family and you can't beat that. We got in pretty late on Friday and pretty much went straight to bed. I wish I had taken pictures of their house because it is beautiful. They have done a lot of remodeling and it looks like a perfect southern country home. Their kitchen is so beautiful I could spend all day in it! And the decor looks like it came out of the Pottery Barn catalog...I knew Angela and I would get along great. ;-)

On Saturday morning we got up and got dressed in our black and red for the game. I must say Georgia has some pretty cute collegiate clothes and as long as you are wearing red, black, and white you are good to go. Jason made us some yummy pancakes and we watched some sports center and I got to meet the other Angela in the family. We headed to the game to do some tailgating and we had so much fun. They make this dip that is to die for. All it is is some pepper and onion relish from Harry and David and cream cheese and viola...really good dip!

Angela and Jason Payne

The Dawgs were playing Tennessee Tech and it was a blow out. By time we got to our seats it was 14-0 but it was nice to get to watch some live college football. The stadium is bigger than OU's and it holds something like 92,000 people. Around the field they have hedges and they call it "tween the hedges" because you can walk around the field inside the hedges and it's pretty cool. We walked down there and got to see UGA the mascot! such a cute pup.

UGA!

And Jason and Angela have an english bulldog too named Dooley! We left the game early and it was nice to be a fan of a winning team that day. I won't talk about OU losing to Nebraska and I'm certainly not going to talk trash about the OSU game because there is a possibility that we might lose to them. ugh.

Angela Payne and Angela Payne!

Kyle (how cute is he in his Georgia gear!) and Jason

Oh and there's a tradition that SEC teams have that I think OU / the Big 12 needs to adopt. All the sororities and fraternities have stickers/ buttons that they wear saying (insert sorority / frat here) loves the Dawgs. So of course I ventured towards the student section to see if I could find me some cutie Chi O's and get a sticker. I found a group of them and asked if they had any extras and they didn't. That or they thought I some crazy old alumni! Either way I ended up finding a mom that had a sticker on and took a picture. I think it is such a great idea! See not everything about the SEC is annoying!

Saturday night we went back to campus and ate at a pizza place called The Mellow Mushroom. It is Hideaway's long lost cousin. It was really good! Then we walked around campus and got a tour from Jason and Angela. They have some pretty cool traditions. They have a bell tower that you ring after winning a game. People just walk up to it and ring it all night long. So we gave the bell a ring since they won the game that day. They also have arches around campus that stand for wisdom, justice, and moderation. If you walk under the Arch while you are a freshman, legend has it that you will never graduate. (sound familiar...clock tower). We saw the field where the first football game was played and their campuses are divided between north and south campus! Very similar to Norman!

oh and had to stop by this place of course...

Then we went back to their house and roasted marshmallows and made S'mores. Perfect ending to a perfect day. They have an amazing fire pit and it was pretty chilly in Athens so it was nice to bundle up next to a fire with great company. Jason and Angela are the first and only family members on Kyle's side of the family that I've met and vise versa. It is so nice to reconnect with family. I hope to get to meet more of them in the future. Also, Angela is expecting their first child in April and they find out this Friday what they are having. We can't thank them enough for a wonderful weekend and hope to do it again soon.

Love,

AP and KP

Texas Hold'em Girl and a Nerd

That is what we were for Halloween. The best part is we spent all of $5.00 on both our costumes. I borrowed mine from a girl at work and all we had to buy were Kyle's nerdy glasses. We went downtown to the Wall Street Halloween party and had a lot of fun. Hope everyone had a great Halloween!!

Get it...haha. i thought it was pretty funny!

Jaya, Me, and Kelly

Heather and Hunter

Jen and Kyle

The jumbotron from the Cowboy Stadium!

Reed (one night stand) and Kyle

Deanna and Me