First Conference in OK

We have been spending our General Conference weekend in my choir classroom so we could watch Conference on a big screen with my projector. Plus we don't have internet at home. The internet at my school is super fast too and we have really enjoyed watching it here together.

Yesterday's talks were very good. I felt like Sister Marriott was speaking exclusively to me. She was wonderful. I also loved President Uchtdorf's talk. He always gives great talks but I especially needed to hear the one he gave this time.

Yesterday we set ourselves up with cookies and crackers and chips and dip. Spencer bought pizza too. Today I have a crockpot with kalua pork cooking in my classroom with us. (Thanks Mom for your recipe!) We are all good to go. (I will add her recipe to our recipe page too.)

This is Spencer chilling in our sweet set up :)

You can watch the 2015 October General Conference at lds.org

A Little View of OKC

This is our neighborhood.

 And here is the building where we live.

The following are a few pictures of the OU Children's Hospital where I work.

Then I walked around to get some pictures of campus.

This is part of the library on campus.

Outside of the library on campus.

This is a view of the whole medical complex. The VA you can barely see on the left, the Children's Hospital is the big one in the center. The one on the right (behind the trees) is the main OU Medical Center.

State Capitol Park Pictures

(we live very close to here)

It says 'Oklahoma Historical Center', but in front it says something about the Judicial Center.

Judicial Center thing again.

If I remember correctly from our tour, he's called 'the Protector'. I don't know why he faces South though.

View to the West

Better view to the West

This is a tribute to all of the Indian Nations living in Oklahoma. It is North of the Capitol.

View to the North. You can barely see some tall buildings way out there.

Located on the North side of the Capitol

View to the East

Another view to the West

View to the South. That one tall building downtown is the only way I can orient myself.

Veteran's Memorial, North of the Judicial Center building thing.

 This is the sidewalk to the Capitol that I use for my running route. (but from this view the Capitol is behind me)

And then the bugs (I don't know what else it would be) make weird noises in the trees that scared me the first time I heard it while I was running.

ZOO DAY!

A few weeks ago Spencer donated blood and they gave him free admission for 2 to the Oklahoma City Zoo. Since we both have Tuesdays off we made it a date. I usually teach 4 piano lessons and 1 guitar lesson on Tuesdays, but most of my students are gone this week so I moved my remaining 2 lessons to Wednesday so we could have a day at the Zoo.

I tried to get a picture with us and the Tortoise, but I cut off Spencer's head...

then the Tortoise started getting away from me.

Sorry Casey. We later learned that this sign actually means the giraffes aren't in their exhibit at all. But we did learn that a baby giraffe was born at the Zoo a few weeks ago. 

The Okapi. Kinda hard to see. But it was the COOLEST and CRAZIEST thing I have ever seen in my life! It's like a cross between a giraffe and a horse, but with hind legs like a zebra.

These were everywhere. Just running around.

I took a picture because the puppies share Aaron's birthday :)

This Peahen walked right up to us at the picnic tables.

Little did it know, we didn't have any food.

I laughed so much because in the middle of this exhibit was a windmill. HA! There were some deer too, but the windmill cracked me up.

We fed the ducks.. and the turtles.. and the fish.

They all basically fight over the food. The poor turtles were generally too slow. Either the ducks or swarm of fish would beat them to the food.. unless you practically dropped it in their mouths.

It was so super hot all day. We had a fun 5 hours in the heat though. The down side is that we were basically soaked by the time we got home. But we stopped for ice-cream at Braum's first before heading home. (As a side note: I couldn't find Braum's on the gps because I kept trying to spell it like the composer, Brahms.)