The End of an Era

We have been enjoying Oklahoma immensely! It's been wonderful getting to know some of Jamie's family better... I like them all very much. =) We stayed with Uncle Jeff and Aunt Ginger for the first part of the week, spent a couple nights out on the farm, and are enjoying our last weekend in OK with Grandma and Grandpa Barsotti!

For most of the first half of the week we enjoyed quiet days in the house, listening to Christmas music and working on our various projects. I got two sets of stationery and four Valentine's Day cards designed for my new shop, Scoutaroo Paper Co., launching in January! Jamie got lots of maths done and all of his applications, except one which he is wrapping up. We even put in our resumes to a few places!

I watched the sunrise nearly every day... winter is great, you don't have to get up at 5 to see the sunrise. ;)

On Wednesday night we got to use Uncle Jeff's season tickets to see an OKC Thunder game! It was SO much fun... I really love live sporting events (watching it on t.v. doesn't do much for me but it's hard not to get into it when you're there). We barely won by 4 points; it was a great game!

0 - Westbrook and 9 - Serge Ibaka (coolest name award)

35 - Durant (definitely the crowd favorite)

On Thursday night Aunt Ginger took us down to the farm! It was really beautiful out there. We enjoyed being cozy in the house while a storm whistled and blustered all night against the house. We spent the day working on Christmas cards and watched "Interview with the Vampire."

Beautiful sunset with coyotes howling in the distance.

The house was full of adorable vintage tins & signs!

Sunrise!

The "Cabin"... it was really nice in there. ;)

Beautiful even in winter!

 We took Historic Route 66 to get back into Edmond. We passed the famous round barn and stopped at Pops to marvel at the enormous selection of soda...

Round Barn. People build strange things.

The Pops bottle! It lights up at night apparently.

So many pretty bottles!

Our choices... A "Grown Up Soda" Dry Rootbeer for Jamie, and a "Hippo Size" Hippopotamus  Huckleberry for me!

We got to Grandma & Grandpa's house soon after and enjoyed an evening with Uncle David & Aunt April over for dinner! Later we took a trip out to look at Christmas lights... I'm LOVING the super-bright white lights this year, they're almost silvery! And I haven't seen this tree-wrapping technique before this year, it is really classy and stunning. Of course photos of lights in a moving car never turn out quite right, but you get the idea. =)

The Chesapeake Energy Company does this to all of their perimeter & main campus trees for BLOCKS... it's really gorgeous!

Purple & silver, my favorites!

These lights would change from blue to white in alternating patterns...

Now they're white! I LOVED the white... so pretty! 

And now they're blue...

We went to one of the fancy neighborhoods of OKC and saw some really spectacular lights... this one was kind of overwhelming, haha.

Today we are going to the Lutheran church with Grandma & Grandpa, which I am very much looking forward to, and then we will enjoy our last afternoon here before we prepare to get up bright & early and head to Colorado!

And thus, the Year of Vagabonding became three solid months of vagabonding. But we packed quite a lot into those three months, and we are pining for home before our next adventure.

If you would care to follow along the rest of the way, I have a blog which is part Etsy-store-blog and part life-blog. I'll be sharing the ups & downs of online businessing and whatever interesting things are going on in our lives, and lots and lots of mail. ;) Find the new blog here.

Ta Ta For Now! Thanks for following along on our adventures from the open road!

♥ Ciara Kay