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About The Senator's Wife

I started this blog on a whim thinking it would be fun to write about politics while my husband served in the OK State Senate. The jury's still out on that, but having a front row seat on the sideline of Oklahoma politics has been one big adventure.

Game Day!

Make no mistake about it – this is my favorite time of the year and I’m not just talking about the weather.

I love college football and I L-O-V-E my college football team.

I found this fun little video to help better explain my alma mater’s football program to the Senator. He cheers for another great college football team and we have a serious in-house rivalry at stake.  

My plan is to force the Senator to watch the following video:

http://www.youtube.com/v/USbNOd2EAYw&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&border=1
Although, this one works beautifully when recruiting high school seniors:

http://www.youtube.com/v/8KtR2oeXFqo&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&border=1

And, then I kindly remind him that I do still like Barry Switzer, because if I didn’t, why would I take a picture with him at an OU game?  Never mind that I talked to him about USC football the entire time.  

No offense to Bud Wilkinson and Bob Stoops, but Barry Switzer is still ‘the King’ of college football in my home state.  In fact, during that particular home game he provided play-by-play and color commentary to me, my BFF- the Bankers Wife and everyone in the surrounding area!

Oh, and every time we see ‘the King’ out and about, the Senator always takes note of the Championship Ring on his left hand.  Nice….

Fight On! and Boomer Sooner!

SW

Home on the Range….

Last weekend we went to the “Range Round-Up” to see my dear friend, Pioneer Woman.  This has become an annual tradition for our two families as we don’t get to visit each other all that often…seeing that they live far, far away on a ranch’ n all….and PW has agoraphobic tendencies (but that is another story).

Anyway, the Range Round-Up is basically a sporting event for Oklahoma ranches.  Let’s call it a friendly competition sponsored by the Cattleman’s Association and a venue where these working cowboys can really strut their stuff.
They sorted cattle….

 

 

 

 

They rode wild horses…………..


Even the kids rode the wild horses, including my adopted Goddaughter (PW’s #2 Punk) who managed to dive off the distressed donkey with tremendous grace.  Bless her heart, I could tell she just wanted to break into tears when no one was looking.  I would.
Then there were these two…
The Senator’s #1 and PW’s Punk #4.
Call ’em brothers from another mother…homies…homedogs….They were coming off that sugar high from the continual infusion of Dr. Pepper and everything was funny. I’m sure it didn’t help that the Senator had taken them to Incredible Pizza earlier that day just for fun.   And they were w-i-r-e-d for sound!  They were also inseparable and we’re just gonna leave it that way.