home for the holidays at dad's!

to complete our home for the holidays tour of oklahoma, blakey & i spent a couple days at my dad's!

food, football, wine, sleep... we did it all again.  & it was just as marvelous this time.

you know about my love for kendall jackson chardonnay, right?  when we arrived at my dad's, there was an entire case awaiting us in the wine fridge!  it was fabulous.  love you, dad.

ruth made some super delicious food.  really really good.  pioneer woman's shredded beef sandwiches.  {ironically, the recipe i was originally searching for the first time i made her pulled pork.  so good.  i will be making this!}  steaks & potato boats.  fried catfish.  {the one seafood we do better in 'homa.  much better.}

& i was worried about there being good food in oklahoma.  there is.  great food.  you just have to cook it :)  challenge accepted.

new year's eve was celebrated while we were in oklahoma!  not my favorite holiday, but we celebrated anyway.  three of us might have gotten a little nap in, but we all woke up in time to countdown & drink some champagne!

 {happy new year!!}

{hehe.  love our generation.}

one of our great friends from medical school was in oklahoma too & joined us for dinner one night!  so so good to see you, newton!!

after all of that eating, blakey & i decided some exercise might be in order.  an actual neighborhood & a gigantic house are being built behind my dad's house, so we went to explore.  fun stuff.  i never would've imagine my dad's house being in town.  our little city is growing up!

{the sky is so big in oklahoma}

{the insanely gigantic house with the even bigger pond}

{in the very middle of the picture, 

the right stick-looking figure is in the devon building.

yes, you can see 17 miles north when the building is that tall

& there is not much in between :)}

home for the holidays to home sweet 'homa.  

love love,

kjp.