Random Shots

Here is a boat of Chahoolies at a museum somewhere near D.C.

We went out on a date with Stell and her boss Cool Fred

Ms Liz holds a baby Kangaroo in his pouch at Tuttle Tiger-topia

Race pics

MSV finishes stong for Quarter marathon at 1 hr and 4 minutes

Photographer gets a self portrait

Brock and Grace pose prior to the Kids run. They ran a mile which was their 26th cummulative mile.

Race

Grace motivates her daddy on the last half mile

Mike gasps for oxygen

Tulsa Route 66 Quarter Marathon

Mike just finished the Route 66 Quarter Marathon

Go here for his stats:

http://onlineraceresults.com/race/view_individual.php?make_printable=1&bib_num=6009&race_id=9782&type=result

Look at my medal!

ORU

We visited the campus of Oral Roberts University near Tulsa

They had a observatory prayer space needle that was a couple stories high

Aquarium critters

Nurse shark swims overhead at the aquarium

Something smells funny

Is it Brock or the Beaver?

OK Aquarium

Grace rides a giant gator at the OK Aquarium

Those are some tasty children

Base Turkey Trot

Grace won the Girls 17 and under turkey trot race.

She won a gold medal and a free smoked turkey from the Golf course grill

She is also the spokeswoman for Gatorade junior runners of Tinker AFB

Fall Cookies

Gracie and I are perfecting our sugar cookie recipe. I have always been pretty terrible at cut out cookies. I could never get the dough rolled out evenly and it always turned out to be a big mess.

These Fall leaves are our celebration of Autumn. The shapes turned out great and the glaze looked pretty good as well. Still working on the details.....

We are looking forward to Christmas Tree cut outs in December. Lucky for us, between neighbors, school and Mike's office, we have plenty of volunteers to sample cookies while we perfect our cut out cookie process :)

Love,

4Vs

Pre Turkey Trot runners

Route 66

Just a few miles North of us on I35, you can turn off the highway and onto Route 66- yes that Route 66! Within 8 miles of I35, there are two Route 66 icons...
The Round Barn

and POPS!

The Round Barn is exactly as described. You can stop there and go inside. Inside is kind of a creepy, one old man museum of round barns across the nation, strange Route 66 memorabilia and handwritten joke signs from the resident old timer that hosts the place.

Next is POPS. POPS is a gas station stop and serves hundreds of kinds of bottled sodas. Every flavor and color imaginable! It is fun to stop in and try different kinds. Outside of the gas station is a 66 foot light up soda bottle. The lights change color all night long and race up and down the bottle. The kids loved it!

We are planning a trip to Tulsa in mid-November. I think we are going to take old Route 66 on the way there and enjoy the scenic drive! Hopefully we can find more fun places to stop along the way!

Love,

4Vs

Trick or Treat!

We had a great time Trick or Treating on Tinker AFB last night. Brock was a tatoo'd tough guy and Gracie was a blue haired witch. Grandma Cone graciously made Gracie's costume and she loved it!

We didn't have as many kids come to the house as last year. Most of our street is either condemned or deployed- sounds cheerful doesn't it? But the neighbors we do have are great. Our next door neighbor went to an 80s themed party as Don Johnson-

Sadly, as the neighbors pointed out, Mike and I could provide real life cultural verification of the 1980s- We are the old timers on the block! Spooky!

Happy Halloween,

4Vs

Halloween 08

Brock dressed up like a tough guy

Grace was a witch