Huntin' eggs gots NOTHIN' on our Easter weekend!!

Dan and I were in OKC for our first full weekend! I am still living in Arkansas, but I was there Friday, Saturday and Sunday. We stayed with our sweet friends, Adam and Kristy Starling. Kristy is an AMAZING Christian Music artist, who leads worship at our church, and Adam is the college pastor at Victory.

If you know me at all, you probably quickly learned that the way to my heart is through cake of any kind...especially cupcakes! Since Dan is a man after my own heart, he took me to two of my new favorite places on earth! One is a cupcakery (I LOVE that word!) in an old, renovated house in downtown OKC called Sara Sara Cupcakes. The owner is Sara's mother. Sara died suddenly at a young age from a heart dysrhythmia. Before she passed away, she loved baking...especially cupcakes. After her death, her mother decided to honor her by opening Sara Sara Cupcakes, in which most of the proceeds go to fund a researcher at OU Medical Center, who is researching Sara's condition. So sweet...in more ways than one! It was such a neat vibe at 9:00 on Friday night! It was packed, and they had acoustic live music, and best of all...a milk bar! You could self-serve plain white milk, strawberry milk or chocolate milk from an old chrome refrigerated dispenser. Love it! The decor was very retro with lots of clear plexi-glass, and white...very clean and lots of white...with splashes of hot pink and silver to accessorize. And the marketer in me has to say, their branding was top notch!

As if that weren't heaven enough, Saturday night after church we hit up ANOTHER cupcakery called Cuppies and Joe! Appropriately named since we had cupcakes and coffee! This little place was hoppin'...and I don't mean just in time for Easter. It is located right in the middle of the Asian District in an old remodeled bungalo house. There wasn't a seat to be had, so we had to park it with a girl who was working on her laptop alone at a table for four. Again, they had live music, but this place had more of an Indie, Anthropologie-ish vibe than our stop the night before. Right up my alley! Very, very hip, and obviously the place to see and be seen for young peeps in OKC! This was the crowd fave for sure! If you come visit us in OKC, you can bet we will have some "Cuppies and Joe" before you leave!

Well, we rounded out our weekend with Easter Sunday at Victory Church. Wow. That's all I can say. What a blessing it is to be part of what is going on there. Our pastor, Mark Crow, is an AMAZING communicator. The sermon was not your typical Easter Sunday sermon where we walk through the death and resurection of Jesus Christ for all of those who come to church on Easter Sunday and Christmas only...God love 'em. ; ) Mark taught on "Jesus the Revolutionary"...and boy did he BRING IT! I was in the 12:00 service and saw over 100 people come to know the Lord in that service alone. And they weren't just your average Joe or Jane. They were hard-core, tatted-up, worn down by life looking people, who as pastor Crow said, "might have just missed hell by a minute." I was moved to tears to say the least. If you want to watch the service we experienced on Easter Sunday, you can do so by clicking here.