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.)

Exploring Oklahoma - Stillwater/Tulsa

Finally updating the blog with some pictures from our Stillwater/Tulsa trip. It was a gorgeous drive! I should have stopped to take some pictures of the landscape because it was really awesome. We found a few things to entertain us though.

Unfortunately the rose garden we visited at Woodward Park was suffering from some disease so we didn't really get any good pictures there. The Victorian style house we visited while there was super cool though.

Conference/Easter Weekend

My dad got tickets for us to go to the Saturday morning session of Conference. Neither my siblings or I had ever been to actually see conference. It was really cool. Cache couldn't believe how huge the Conference Center was. Mom and Dad watched it from the cushy seats in the Joseph Smith Memorial Legacy Theater.

Cache went with us after Conference. We made him wear a MUSS shirt..

..he wasn't happy about it.

We then, of course, had our annual Easter Egg Extravaganza! This year's theme was "myths and legends".

My eggs, left to right - John Wayne, Mozart, and a Princess :)

Spencer's Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox

Spencer Is Going To Grad School

Spencer started applying to graduate schools in January. He applied to 5 schools and got called back for interviews at 3 of them. All of these programs were duel degree programs for PharmD/PhD, one was PharmD/Masters. Spencer wants to get his Pharmacy degree but his plan is to go on to get a Masters/PhD so he can do pharmaceutical research and drug development. He has been working really hard and I am very proud of him. 
He almost immediately got accepted to the University of Oklahoma. The University of Connecticut  quickly followed. We waited a while to see what the University of Utah would say but Spencer has ultimately decided on going to Oklahoma. Yeah! So proud of him.

Last weekend we made a trip to Oklahoma City to check out the area and some apartments. We left Salt Lake City at noon on Friday, drove all night long and arrived in Oklahoma City at 6:00am Saturday morning. I drove the first 8 hours, then Spencer drove while I slept for 4, and we switched again somewhere in Kansas and I drove the rest of the 5 hours there. We had plenty of time to spend in Oklahoma City and got to check out quite a bit.

We visited the Oklahoma City Temple

Spencer showed me the Pharmacy school..

...and then we learned that they test the tornado sirens every Saturday at noon.