next?

too cute to pass up

somehow this reminds me of the one and only tuna (mckenzie)...

i am...

so happy, this is a great beginning to college football season. i'm also never washing my right hand again, because i finally shook bob stoops hand on saturday...it was long overdue.

saturday we watched our very own oklahoma sooners take on miami and completely route them. after the game we were asked to attend stoops' coaches party and got to hang with all of our favorite OU coaches, including stoops and bobby jack wright.


what a great day we had...these fall weekends could not be better. sam bradford is working out quite nicely and our defense is just fun to watch. taking that number three spot in the AP poll feels good and we are on our way to a very fun season!

jay is a pimp

we are subscribers and avid readers of D magazine and somehow, someway, we missed this last month. jay made the cool-person list in the best issue ("best of big D") of 2007.



i have a feeling that adam and tim had something to do with this...thanks for making my hubby a p-i-m-p. ; )

carter albrecht

rest in peace, carter.

this is a tragic loss and you will be missed.

labor day weekend - halfway point

i love long weekends. it's so nice for it to be 3:30pm and only half way through it.

woo-hoo! what a fun time to be in norman...the first game of the season is always so exciting, and it doesn't hurt to see your team come out and play like we did yesterday. we looked good and i can't wait for next week, a chance to play miami is always fun.

the kids always make the trek

good shot by me, huh?

sooner schooner takes the field!

view from our new season tix...stoops in the center of the pic

thanks again to "the other" jay and katie for the help with the tix!

today we got up and headed to my brother's church to see my nephew, nathan, get baptized. it was a very meaningful experience to see him (a wild and crazy kiddo) in such an act of obedience as to follow through not only with the decision to become a christian, but to to God's request that we share our new faith with others around us in the act of baptism. i definitely shed a tear, and watching my dad perform the baptism just made it more meaningful.


after we headed to their house, where the norm-anator got some good swim time with the kiddos and some of their friends. pretty fun stuff.

tonight we are headed out with some good friends for a fun night out in dallas, then to the tech vs. smu game tomorrow. i have lived in dallas all these years and this will be my first trip to gerald j. ford stadium. i am looking forward to it! and yes, i am cheering for both teams so that neither my pony friends nor red raider friends can be angry with me. i'll wear red and cheer both ways!

it's almost here!

we are exactly two days and 23 hours from kickoff, and i am so freaking excited!!!

BOOMER!!!!!

fun with wedding pics

real picture:


after five minutes on the pikipimp website:

in all of my 29 years

i never thought i would have a chance to say this, how about those rangers?!?!?


finally, something good in the record books for our hometown team!

another catch-up

two saturdays ago, jay and i went on a little adventure to the car dealerships on lemmon. we came home with a new family member...


it's a saab aero sport-wagon and it rocks! ours looks exactly like the one above, black and niiiice. i swear, it kicks my audi's butt when that turbo kicks in. we both love driving it and i had yet to give it a proper introduction on the blog.

many trips to norman are in this car's very near future. i'm sure glad it's not a lease, because we are going to be wracking up the miles on her quick. we already have seven road trips (to games) planned for this fall (only 10 days until college football season!). not to mention jay is taking it to fort worth every day until he gets his office here in dallas in september.

it's a good car. props to saab. we likey.

dog poop? grab a michael vick jersey!

love it.

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/13918614/detail.html

genius

first, i am way behind in the blogging arena. this is due to, well, it's due to me being a slacker. that's my only excuse. but i thought i would start catching up today. more updates to come...

our friends doug and kelly got us a wok for our wedding gift, which is perfect for us. in addition, we are the proud recipients of two new autographed helmets. so excited!!!

mike singletary and barry switzer!!!

good job, doug and kelly. perfect fit in our collection. oh, and mckenzie has been using the switzer helmet in her two-a-days with norm. it's a perfect fit.

'kenz striking the heisman

the trinity

dallasites, unite. i have to say, in reading about the trinity river project, i am not necessarily thrilled with the idea of a tollroad running through it. but people, that's how it has to be, AND most importantly, it was clearly outlined in the original plans that we voted on and approved. if the road doesn't happen, it looks like the money won't be there. it seems that is just part of the deal. and if that's how it has to be to make it happen, then i say let's do it!

i have been excited about this now for years, don't let some silly politicians ruin it for us now. be sure to vote on november 6th! that park would be incredible and if dallas can actually pull this off, imagine how much fun we would all have enjoying a little bit of green space downtown?!?!

for more info:

- dallas morning news article

- trinity commons foundation

- trinity river corridor project

michael vick

i hope he goes down and never plays again. this article on him makes me so angry...think about those poor puppy dogs!!

RICHMOND, Virginia (CNN) -- Two co-defendants of Michael Vick say the NFL star helped execute dogs that didn't fight well, according to federal court documents.

The court papers, filed as Quanis Phillips, 28, and Purnell Peace, 35, pleaded guilty to dogfighting charges Friday, said all three men "executed approximately eight dogs that did not perform well in testing sessions" in April of this year by methods such as hanging and drowning.

ten commandments

i just read through 'the ten commandments of cell phone etiquette'. hilarious! i also read another great article on cnn on the same subject...click here to read it. it really is something i would like to improve upon. our society has become so used to the rude behavior, most people (like myself) don't think much about it anymore. i have to say we are probably all guilty of at least breaking one of these commandments on occasion. but i am NOT EVER going to be guilty of the one below...

"thou shalt not wear thy earpiece when thou art not on thy phone"

THE premier

i don't know if i should admit this AGAIN, but i love "the hills" on mtv. i have not watched tv in over three weeks, but yesterday sparked a beginning to the newest season of the hills, and this 29-year old was in full throttle excitement mode (they are only a few years younger, don't give me too much crap for this). : )

they did not disappoint. the drama that unfolds on those peoples' lives really cracks me up (special thanks to heidi and spencer). i still can't believe how much we all love it (we being several of my close friends, and again, some of them are heterosexual males). apparently there was some drama again on the red carpet for the premier...for the scoop, click here.

i'm definitely looking forward to another great season of watching this senseless time-waster (aren't we all granted with one?!?).

sunday school sunbeam

if you don't know who paige patterson is, then i have to say congrats. thankfully you must not be one of the freaky fundementalists that follow him (or someone like me who has to hear about his crazy rants). he runs what was, not too long ago, a fabulous seminary.

i just read this article entitled "baptist seminary launching homemaking program" in the dallas morning news. my stomach hurts, seriously.

he has come up with another (insert sarcasm here) plan to make the seminary wives (aren't there seminary husbands, too?!?) perfect betty homemakers. since when do christian women need to go to seminary to know how to love their children and family? i don't know of a more godly woman and spectacular mother than my mom (and she did not attend these seminary classes arranged by paige patterson, i can promise you that). i am so thankful that she raised me to have an open mind and to think for myself. lavon will not be happy about this latest development.

and as my mom always said: when mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.

i wonder if they teach that in their classes... ; )

finally settled

we closed on selling the house in fort worth yesterday, so we are both officially dallas-ites again! today was the first day back in the full swing of things, and let me tell you, it was great! i loved my first day at inwood and really feel like this is going to be a great fit for me. it was weird being "katy pritchard" everywhere, but something i can get used to, especially since i'm married to jay now and also keeping the "link" in my name!

also, the official pics are up of the entire wedding...and i love them!

http://www.inphotography.net, click on client galleries and put in your email and the password "link". we had such a good time, the setting was beautiful, and i feel like the pictures are a wonderful reflection of the moment. thanks to all of our true and dear friends for making the trip to celebrate with us!

welcome my new niece, lily

well, maybe not my actual niece, because we will probably be more like sisters, doing crazy things behind her mother's back. lily is precious and i can't wait to meet her!

hilarious pic with dad. already a crazy girl!

congrats, mollie and kevin! she is gorgeous!

new honeymoon update

a few more pics...we are having the time of our lives!!!!

our last day at the broadmoor

on the plaza in santa fe

our suite at ten thousand waves spa...wonderful!

at the peak of our favorite hike in santa fe ('kenz rode in her backpack)

today is our last full day in santa fe, and we have had so much fun. we have had excellent dinners at the pink adobe, the compound, and geronimo. we have shopped the galleries all over town, hiked, and had some excellent spa treatments at ten thousand waves. today we are heading out for another hike, then back to do a little time poolside, and then off to make our selected artwork purchase and on to a relaxing evening on the porch at the cowgirl hall of fame! tomorrow it's back to dallas...monday we close on the house and tuesday i start my new job. woo-hoo!