Show Your Love With a New Home!

‘Tis the season for chocolates and roses and all things nice. Although wonderful gestures all of these things will soon fade away. What will remain? Your Family. Your Love. Your Home. What better time to say I love you to your family than now with an investment in a new home from The Oaks Development Company! Right now we have 6 move in ready homes to choose from. Visit us during our open house on Sunday or call us at (580) 917-2706 to schedule a personal tour!

Check out this “White Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake” recipe. Rated 5 stars with over 2,000 ratings on allrecipes.com! Imagine enjoying this delicious treat in a beautiful new gourmet kitchen in The Oaks!

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Save The Date This Sunday, Sept. 21! Fall Block Party in The Oaks!

Slightly cooler temps whisper that autumn is just around the corner! I love this time of year, leaves changing, friends and family gatherings, delicious foods simmering on the stove. To kick off the official start of Fall we are having a neighborhood block party this Sunday in Oak Pointe from 1:00-3:00 p.m. We would love for you to come and join us for lunch! The party is open to the public. We will be grilling up some delicious buffalo burgers and buffalo hot dogs served along with all the sides. If you have never had a buffalo burger or hot dog you are in for a treat! Not only is buffalo the world’s most delicious meat it is also very healthy having 1/3 less fat and cholesterol than boneless skinless chicken.

After you grab a bite to eat check out some of our beautiful open houses. We will have five luxury homes open to tour in Oak Pointe from 1:00-6:00 p.m. Homes feature outdoor kitchens as well as indoor gourmet kitchens with double ovens, pot filler faucets, 5 burner gas stoves, microwave drawers, hammered copper farm sinks and more! Imagine preparing your Thanksgiving feast in one of these luxury space! You can also check out some luxurious spa bathrooms all featuring relaxing whirlpool tubs and a few showcasing spa showers with rain heads and body spray jets.

To get to the block party just drive south on 67^th Street 1 mile past Lee Blvd. Turn right on Oak Pointe Blvd. and go to the end of the street. I hope to see you This Sunday in The Oaks!

Expecting Baby!

This summer The Oaks will be gaining a new neighbor, Sophia Kay Perry! My husband Adam and I are expecting a little girl on July 4, 2014! She is definitely our little fire cracker! We will see if she actually arrives on her due date, I think it would certainly be a fun "birth date". We can tell her all the fireworks are for her birthday..... for a while anyways!

We recently had a gender reveal party at my Aunt Donna and Uncle David's house to reveal the news  to our family that we are having a girl. No one knew except Adam and I. The theme was bow ties and pearls! It was very cute. When everyone came in they got to choose either a bow tie or a strand of pearls to wear based upon what they thought it was. We revealed the news by popping a balloon filled with pink feathers!

This will be a fun summer! I may have to delegate my annual 4th of July flag cake to someone else this year.... we will see!

Left to Right: My Aunt, Cousin, Me and my Mom

Cute Decorations!

Bow Ties and Pearls Cake

"She" Bars and "He" Bars. Cute Idea!

Viva Las Vegas! Builders Show 2014

A few weeks ago we returned from a great trip out to Las Vegas for the International Home Builders Show. This year the show combined the Builders Show with the Kitchen and Bath Industry Show giving attendees 1,700 exhibitors to explore covering more than 650,000 square feet of floor space. The show has traded off between Las Vegas and Orlando over the past few years. I love when it is in Vegas! We are not gamblers but I love that there are always so many other things to do in Vegas on any given evening. From world class restaurants, to shows to sight seeing, there is always something fun to do within easy walking distance!



View from our room at The Bellagio

We stayed at the Bellagio and opted for a fountain view room this time, which is definitely worth it! The Bellagio is my favorite hotel on the strip. Not only do I love the ambience from the Dale Chihuly glass ceiling and the always enchanting conservatory and botanical gardens but its location is also hard to beat right in the middle of the strip! You are within easy walking distance to Caesars Palace, City Center, Paris and Planet Holleywood, however, I am perfectly content staying at the Bellagio most of the time!

Bellagio Conservatory and Botanical Gardens. .

Every time we stay at The Bellagio or visit Las Vegas we always have dinner at Olives and request a seat on the patio. There is nothing quite like dining right at the base of the Bellagio Fountains where you can almost feel the power of the water. To me, this is the most impressive attraction in all of Vegas!

Dale Chihuley Glass Ceiling at The Bellagio

Another favorite restaurant on the strip is Bobby Flay's Mesa Grill at Caesars Palace. We went to the Shania Twain concert one night so it worked out perfectly to eat at Mesa Grill right before since its just across the casino from the Coliseum where Shania performed. Wow, what an incredible show!

We saw Celine Dion at the Coliseum a couple years ago which was absolutely out of this world!  We knew that Shania's show had to be impressive as well and it was! Her level of interaction with the audience was amazing. She actually spent two songs down in the crowd interacting with fans, shaking hands, giving hugs and signing autographs all while she was performing. My Dad was sitting on the aisle and got to shake her hand which I thought was pretty cool! You can tell that she truly appreciates her fans.

The builders show kicked off with a  high energy grand opening ceremony on Tuesday morning  featuring keynote speaker General Stan McChrystal, a four-star general and the former commander of the U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan.

In addition to exploring hundreds of exhibitors and new products we were also able to attend dozens of classes ranging from architecture to design to sales and marketing. Each of these classes were presented by the top experts in the industry. Our week was packed full!

 

It seemed that the attitudes of builders are definitely more optimistic than they have been in previous years and it is clear that the housing market has picked up steam. On a visit to the exclusive Sky Terrace Housing development to tour the New American Home, we witnessed significantly more more construction of multi-million dollar homes than we have seen in Las Vegas in recent memory.Click here to check out more info about the New American Home.

From talking to other builders at the show I think another dynamic fueling the housing market is that  Americans seem to realize that interest rates have already bottomed out in 2013 and  if they still want to get in on something low now is the time.

Looking forward to getting busy and incorporating all our new world class ideas into our homes here in The Oaks!



One of many outdoor living spaces at the New American Home

Master Bath at The New American Home




Outdoor Kitchen at the New American Home w/ Mountain Views



View all the way through the New American Home from the front door

Hammered Copper Farm Sink

Hammered Copper Freestanding Tub  

Fiberglass Free Standing Tub

Hand Forged Iron Outdoor Lanterns

Copper Vent Hood

 Dinner at Mesa Grill

Bellagio Botanical Gardens



Two story water feature in the entrance foyer of The New American Home  

Zen water feature connecting the front courtyard to the first level master suite
in The New American Home








 

Fall Block Party in The Oaks!

We had a wonderufl block party last weekend in The Oaks! We had close to 150 people out who enjoyed buffalo burgers and buffalo hot dogs! The weather was gorgeous. Slightly overcast but a perfect 70 degrees! We were very thankful the rain held off just long enough for us to have a good time! In addtion to our block party we also had the grand opening for The Bella Sicily! This is one of the smaller homes in Oak Pointe but very charming! Coming in at 1866 sq.ft. this home offers just the right amount of space for a 3 bed, 2 bath home but it is loaded with all of The Oaks Development signature extras and amenties. Furthermore, the living room fetures an open floor plan plus tall 12 foot ceilings creating a space that feels larger than it is! Everyone had a great time and we got rave reviews on The Bella Sicily. If you did'nt get a chance to make it stop by and we will give you a personal tour!

Neighborhood Watch @ National Night Out

Our local police department hosted Lawton’s first ever “National Night Out” on Tuesday at Shepler Park. This was an event with fun filled activities for the entire family and a chance to promote safety within the community. Several neighborhood watch groups including ours set up booths. We had a great time promoting Brentwood / The Oaks neighborhood watch and most of all handing out cookies to all the kids! The kids flocked to our table like it was Halloween! Our neighborhood watch group is something I can very thankful for. We meet hold monthly meetings where we are all able to catch up and interact with our local police. We also have patrollers who drive through the neighborhood at various hours of the day and night to keep an eye on things. We are very fortunate to live in a beautiful and quiet corner of the city. All of our neighbors know each other and we all keep an eye on our neighborhood. I often tell people that when I leave The Oaks I feel like I am entering paradise when I return. I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else!

Bring On The Rain in July!!

It's been a beautiful July in The Oaks! We started the month off with unseasonably cool temps and recently enjoyed almost a week straight of rain! The Fourth of July was so cool I almost needed a jacket after the sun went down, that was a first! We spent Independence Day enjoying a nice BBQ with family then took in the view of fireworks from our backyard. Our neighborhood sits at one of the highest elevations in the city offering a terrific 360 degree view across the entire city. The Fouth of July is one of my favorite holidays and a great time to reflect on our blessing of freedom as a nation. Our course, I made my annual flag cake which I have made every year since I was 12. It's a tradition that I can't bring myself to break!

This past week we received a tremendous amount of rain, which we were all very thankful for. My rain gauge in my backyard recorded 4.5 inches of rain in 4 days! Considering our average July rainfall total is about 2.26 inches for the entire month this was pretty good! In Oak Ridge, we have a small portion of the dam completed on the new lake so we were able to catch a little bit of the run off water from all the showers. It was a beautiful sight to see!  The buffalo also highly enjoyed these days as they love cooler weather and rain!

We've also been hearing wonderful news in the national real estate market this month. New home sales and builder confidence continues to rise to some of the highest levels in five years.   I read an article in Builder Magazine stating that new home prices in many markets are predicted to rise 11 to 13 percent in 2013. The price of existing homes is expected to rise 7 to 8 percent. This is good news for everyone but what it also means is that if you're waiting to invest in a new home you're going to miss the boat. Now is the time, new homes are appreciating significantly faster than existing homes. Its a fact that new home prices will rise and rates will increase. Right now, interest rates are still wonderful! The longer you wait, the more its going to cost you to get into that beautiful home you've always dreamed of! In The Oaks we still have 9 homes ready to move into immediately. Come out, look around and talk to us about how we can make that dream become a reality sooner than you might think!

We would also like to welcome our newest resident, Dr. Le, to The Oaks. Dr. Le is a general surgeon at Southwestern Medical Center. Its great to be adding so many wonderful new faces to the neighborhood.