You might be an OU graduate...

Okay, so growing up in pro-OSU families (Ryan's grandpa had the OU logo toilet paper, saying that TP was the only appropriate place for that emblem to be placed..., Andra has equal parts OSU and Texas roots - enough said), we've been well versed in all the ribbing that takes place at the Sooners' expense.

One morning driving away from church, how surprised were we when we spotted the above sign on the road. At first glance, you might have the same reaction we did - there was an OU club in NC? However, Ryan quickly noticed something about the sign. It was so humorous to him that he turned around to go back and drive by the sign again. The sign is wrong. If we're not mistaken, the name is the University of Oklahoma.

This leads us to one of three assumptions. Either the signmaker screwed up the sign, the people in the club named the club by an incorrect name, or the club is named the OU club and someone unknowing of the true name of the school just spelled out the acronym "OU" for the sign.

All of these are reasonable. But wouldn't an organization that is going to commit money to sponsoring a highway and, if our Greek days are any indication, commit time to keeping the roadside clean from litter, wouldn't they review the sign before it goes up or complain to get it replaced if it were wrong? If we were out there cleaning up a road and saw the sign that showed our organization's name on it was wrong, I'd probably look to get it fixed. "Okie State University Club" I don't think so.

Now, some of you might say, "It's simple, the extra 2 spaces needed to insert "of" wouldn't fit, so they rearranged it." First of all, it would need 3 extra spaces, but I won't hold that simple slip up aginast you. Second, if it were too long, why not go with "Univ. of Oklahoma Club" which is 2 characters shorter and accurate?

Go Pokes!

family visit

As March Madness goes into full effect and Ryan gets his Spring Break, we cancelled our plans to go to Daytona Beach (ha! not really). Both sets of grandparents came to visit! Their trips overlapped, so we got to have lunch altogether the day the Friske's left and the Schwenk's arrived. We've been able to use webcam to stay in touch with all of our family out in the Midwest. I think everyone can agree that it is better than not seeing each other at all, but to some extent it makes it harder since you can't reach out and give hugs and kisses like you really want to.

9 months

Grayson in early March. He's got two teeth that have come through on the bottom. He manuevers quite well on his feet while he leans on things around the room. It's so fun to watch him get to the end of a piece of furniture and look around to plan where he can go next. He still isn't crawling, and a lot of family and friends believed he might skip that stage altogether.

G loves cucumbers

As Grayson moves to more solid foods, he's taking after his mom's love of vegetables. Here he eats some cucumbers. When he refused to eat them later in life, we'll have proof to show him that he did like veggies at one point in his life.

G's first snow day

Jan 20, 2009

Although it wasn't exactly like the snows we experienced in NJ, we had enough on the ground for Grayson to sit on the deck and play after his first snow. To be honest, he was probably more apathetic and slightly confused about the whole situation.

I will not smile

On our way to church one morning, we were having to delay Grayson's early morning nap, and he was acting, how would you say it, listless. So, we decided to snap a few pics because it was cracking us up. Ryan was busy playing like a fashion photographer, pretending to give Grayson some direction, "Okay, give me stoic. Great. Now you're bored. Perfect. One more time, you don't care. Awesome!"