What are you adding?

Hi friends! How was your weekend? This was the weekend some of my girl friends and I headed up to Missouri for a girls weekend and I have lotsa photos, buuuut I'm tired so those can wait til tomorrow... That said, I have a few photos from Tulsa+ (Tulsa "plus")!

What is Tulsa+? Well lemme tell ya...

Tulsa +  is a group of individuals who came together to help celebrate Tulsa — for what it is and what it will be.

We believe the greater Tulsa community is a wonderful place to live and work. This town has an amazingly diverse culture, a vibrant spirit, a rich history and numerous activities, landmarks and attractions for individuals and families of every persuasion. But many of those positive offerings unfortunately go unnoticed or under appreciated.

Tulsa also has amazing promise. We have vast natural resources, a strong foundation of infrastructure and a diverse vision for growth and new experiences. But that vision unfortunately isn’t as clear to some as it is to others. And it isn’t always articulated as well as it should be. Further, there are numerous ideas by citizens that could contribute to deepen that vision — if they only had a voice.
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We’d like to see your passion delivered in the medium that suits you best. Be bold, be visionary. Just don’t be silent.

If you’ll send us your ideas, we’ll help you present them to the leaders that can make a difference.

- From the Tulsa+ website

Some fabulous coworkers were on the steering committee for this great, first-of-its-kind movement/event and I got to serve on the event subcommittee to help put this thing together. :) It was a really cool experience to organically come together and create a free event for Tulsans to submit their "plus" for the city. Photographs of things you love about Tulsa? Submit it! A video about the various communities in Tulsa? Submit it!Various local leaders-including the mayor- were present and spoke about how excited they were for this great event.. Overall, we had no idea how many folks would show up, but it was a packed house. So glad to see other people so jazzed about the great things in Tulsa... I'll shutup now and show you some photos...

And guess who agreed to emcee the event! A couple of AWESOME Tulsa bloggers, including one of my daily reads, Tasha Does Tulsa! And check out the event slogan, "What are you adding?" I love that!

Some of us had a little plus making party.. and I made a TU one. Please note my embarassing awesome craft skills! ha! These pluses were everywhere! Really fun!

And there was an opera flash mob... It was fan.freaking.tastic. One guy started singing.. then another.. then more.. Fabulous!

The great event was wrapped up with some planking in front of the Tulsa skyline. I mean.. duh. ;) Andrea (my partner in planking below) did a fantastic job on the steering commitee and as the event's chairperson. :)





All smiles after a successful event with some peeps who helped make it happen...



And random...

I got home after the event and saw that my neighbors' AC had gone out. :( It's happening a LOT around here lately due to these crazypants temps. (The high today is supposed to be around 110). Anyway, they were fixing it well into the night and, as I walked to the kitchen, I saw this-YIKES! No, our houses aren't that close, but the light hit just right and made for a creeptacular .5 seconds for me.. ha!



Nah, this isn't creepy at all, right? *scared face* haha!



Hope everyone had a great weekend!