Crazy weekend!

After living in a hole for the past two years, when I have a free weekend I am going to take advantage of it! Thursday and Friday we went to Country Fever in Pryor. It is a four day outdoor concert with 25+ bands and tons of people camp out all weekend. We went with Elizabeth and Tanner, Charley and Brad and Katie and Grant (an awesome couple that LA and T met at work). Thursday night we didn't get there until everyone else got off work and got to see Sugarland. They were amazing!

Friday Mike wanted to test out his new golf clubs and I had to go see my "little sis", so we didn't get out to the concert until 3:30. It had rained on and off in Tulsa all day, but nothing substantial. As we are coming in, we were warned by a worker that hail and 60 mph winds were coming. We spent about an hour in the Eckler's pop-up trailer playing cards while the heaviest rain came through. I had planned on rain, so I had my rain coat and didn't wear my boots, so they would not get dirty. I decided on flip-flops...bad idea! By the time we left that night I was covered in mud from my knees to the back of my head. Friday was red dirt night and the concert didn't miss a beat with the rain, mud and wind. We got to see Kevin Fowler, Stoney Larue, Jason Boland, Pat Green and Dierks Bentley!

Rain or shine, we had an amazing time and I hope that we get to go again next year!

Saturday, we had a wonderful Father's day lunch at the deVerges's. Then we immediately left to go to Norman for one of my classmate's weddings. Elise and Ben are an amazing couple and they had one of the most touching ceremonies that I have ever been to. A couple of the girl's that came had taken their Step 1 Boards that day and everyone else had just gotten done or takes it next week, so we were not a very lively bunch! That night we drove back to Orlando. We spent Sunday in Harvest-mode. Daegan loves the combines and he and I rode with Mike for about an hour. You know you have a future country boy when a 17 month old recognizes and can say wheat and combine. Mike was really glad he could spend a day helping his dad, especially on Father's Day!

Brooke and Billy's Wedding

May 23 was Brooke and Billy's wedding at Cedar Rock Inn, a bed and breakfast in Tulsa. We had stayed there before and knew how beautiful a place it was, but we had not seen the reception location called the Silo that is on the grounds. It was really neat with a high-class country kind of feel.

Daegan was a hoot dancing in his little suit. Brooke, Jenne and all the bridesmaids looked beautiful!

Fort Worth

We were originally going to spend a week in Memphis and Nashville for our vacation this year, but we had a very small window to go. Then my school announced that we were getting a free board review (Great!) the only week that could have worked to go on our trip (Boo!). So we took a two night trip to Fort Worth. I had always considered Fort Worth the ugly stepsister to Dallas, but both Mike and I were surprised how much fun we had and how great the city was. Mike liked Fort Worth better because it seemed less snooty. We stayed at a hotel the first night and a bed and breakfast the second night both in Sundance square.

We really enjoyed walking around Sundance Square testing out the restaurants and listening to live music. There was an outdoor concert going on Sunday, but it was $20 to get in and we didn't know anything about it so we didn't to go. It turned out to be an awesome line-up and we were disappointed we didn't go. We toured the JFK memorial in Dallas and the Texas Motor Speedway. The JFK memorial was neat, but too crowded. The Texas Motor Speedway was really neat. We also had to go to Pappadeaux's one night since it is my favorite restaurant and we don't have it in Oklahoma.
We had a lot of fun and had to go back to real life when we got back-Mike to his first day of his new job and me back to hardcore board studying. The good news though was that we now officially are a married couple that lives together!!

Mike's graduation

Mike graduated from PA school at Wichita State on May 16, 2006. His class had a graduation party the night before that Mike was in charge of that turned out great.

Friday we met our families and Travis and Michelle at Fox and the Hound for a pre-dinner. Then everyone headed over the the basketball arena. The actual graduation was pretty long and definitely hot, but we were so glad to be there and so proud of Mike. I got teary-eyed a few times!