Brunch, Baseball, Birthdays, and BP

Yesterday, we celebrated Kelly Marie with a Baby Shower Brunch at Wild Fork in Utica Square! ❤

Rachel and Alex with Kelly

Group pic: Kendall, Michaela, Rachel, Alex, Danielle, Jessie, baby Gavin, Kelly, Lyndsay, me, Kinsey, and Emily!

Kendall and Jessie hosted and planned this event, and everything was lovely!  And Baby Gavin was super cute and kept us entertained!

Rachel's mom embroidered this sweater for baby Holly Marie - love it! 

My omelette with sour dough toast and fresh fruit was great... so brunchy foods are awesome even when you don't have sweets... noted. lol  The cupcakes did look fantastic, though!

I was able to catch Tate's baseball game before heading home - yay!

Sadly, I missed the game where Chet filled in for Coach Travis. lol  I love the chaos and cuteness of sports at this age! 

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Parker shunned them at first, but I'm glad I got one pic of her with the flowers from the brunch! =)

Kyndal Faith ready to move in with Mom and Dad... she packed four bags of clothes and shoes with the threat of tornadoes last night! lol

Random bumper sticker that made me think of Rachael

Thursday night, we did a belated celebration of Triston and Carter's birthdays at The Ranch in Norman!

J&K have missed Carter Lee and both insisted on sitting by him!

Hilary recommended this place, and I can see why.  Truly EXCEPTIONAL customer service and over-the-top kindness and care... I was impressed!  

Happy Birthday to Karli's mom, Melissa, today!!  She's been nothing but kind to me as long as I've known her, and I'm super grateful for that!  Looking forward to the Disney trip with them and to helping Mom decorate Bill and Melissa's house for Christmas later this year!

And happy Peloton anniversary to me... (four years since I got my own account).  This = a pic from me making the century club with 100 rides in 2020, a Station walk in 2023, and Kendall and Lauren Daigle collaborating for a 2024 ride! =)

After a long and glorious nap, I took a happy sunset walk tonight to celebrate the 4-year mark! =)

Totally random, but I took a deep dive into the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill last week.  Watched the movie for the first time and Googled so many things along the way... parts of it reminded me of Titanic in several ways I won't get into here, but I was fascinated!!  This massive rig held the world's deepest oil and gas well (35,050 feet).  And 126 workers were on board when a bad cement job (people in leadership cutting corners to save time and $) led to a massive explosion - the fire could be seen over 40 miles away (at the nearest shore, bc they were in the middle of the freaking ocean).  The fact that only 11 people died is truly a miracle.  The entire rig sank into the ocean 2 days later.  They could not cap or stop it, and it was the worst oil spill in US history (134,000,000 gallons of oil over 87 days), causing massive suffering and death to local wildlife and costing British Petroleum 67 billion dollars in damages.  There are a lot of things I don't understand about the logistics of how this occurred and how people survived certain elements of it, but I couldn't stop thinking about it for days... ocean stuff sticks with me.  Anyway, worth watching the movie streaming on Max if you wanna know more.

Today was my first Sunday in the new sanctuary at First Moore... really nice!  (They've been renovating it the entire time I've been in OKC and just finished it recently).

The Sunday school group is going through the book of Job.  If anyone deserved to write a tortured poets account of his circumstances, it was Job, but He said things like this instead... 

"But true wisdom and power are found in God,

Counsel and understanding are His...

He uncovers mysteries hidden in darkness;

He brings light to the deepest gloom."  

~Job 12:13, 22

We find what we look for. 

Happy Sunday, friends!

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