Family
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The Pink Mustang
Zoe got a car for Christmas from Santa. We hadn’t seen her drive it yet until yesterday and boy was that fun! She has a radio in the car and her dad told her to dance so she sticks her arm out and does a little funk dance! She’s mastered the part of accelerating but hasn’t quite figured out how to steer yet. When we asked her about it last week all she could say was that it “goes real fast!” There were some off-road incidents…. And she certainly takes the no-hands approach to driving. Uncle Chris has to help guide a bit. She’s followed by a chaser vehicle called…
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Snippets of Christmas
Chris and I had four Christmas meals, his mom and step-dad, his dad and step-mom, my parents, and my SIL’s mom and dad’s house. *phew* that was a lot of food! I think I managed not to overeat, though and I did steer clear from some heavy desserts. We did pretty good on presents, too; I think the best ones were ones that I wasn’t supposed to get. Chris and I had a no-present clause this year but somehow I ended up with Chanel No. 5 and some diamond stud earrings! The other good things were a Kitchenaide mixer and a Sonicare toothbrush! Here are some snippets…and I’m bummed about…
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A Retro Christmas
Since I am at home this year I went back and picked out some fun past-Christmas photos from growing up. Here’s what I found: A very young mom with a little kid! Santa Claus, aka: Uncle Gary! I knew it was him! Barbie Ferrari! SWEET! I loved this thing. I wonder if it is in the attic still? I noticed that a lot of our photos involved us holding up the things we got. This actually could be Thanksgiving one year, but it was with Christmas photos. My grandad and uncle with mom, curt and me. Rollerskates! Once I got rollerblades, though, I never went back. I always fell on…
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Galveston
Karen at Chookooloonks is posting some photos of her recent trip down to Galveston and it reminded me that I never got around to posting photos from when we went in early October. We drove down to go to the TAMUG All Class Reunion and to visit some friends while we were there. Living in Galveston was very fun while in college. I lived there from 1998 until 2002 when I graduated and we moved to Florida. There were many instances where ditching class occurred in favor of the beach. I remember thinking I’d go and study on the beach—hahahahahaha! Yeah, right! Anyway, it was nice to see some old…
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An Afternoon with Zoe
The last day we were home for our break, Thursday, my dad took off work to spend the day with us. Zoe got her schedule rearranged and ended up staying with Mimi for the day instead of going to her other grandparents like she normally does on Thursdays. For lunch we headed to Southlake to eat at Kincaid’s Hamburgers and then to the Southlake Town Center for Zoe to play around at the Christmas gazebo and the pond. Here are some shots from there.
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A Morning with Zoe
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Smurf in the Woods
Special for Marc and Eliana. Taken at Cayo Costa State Park last December.
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A Photographer At Work
Caddo Lake, Texas.
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Pepsi Refresh Contest: The Cat Network
My friends Marc and Eliana work for The Cat Network in Miami and work their butts off spaying and neutering cats all over the county. They are in the running for $50,000 with Pepsi Refresh Contest and need your help! You can vote for them multiple times a day so please bookmark the page and pass it along on your Facebook page. The spay and neuter Dude and Dudette.
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Candied Apples
My sister in law has been doing creative things with Zoe on Tuesday evenings when my brother is in class. This week’s creative thing happened to be making candied apples. We peeled off each wrapper from the caramels after several of us asked if there wasn’t a block of caramel or something along those lines in the store. Isn’t there something easier??? To make candied apples, first you have to don your silly hat, in this case the bag from the apples. Then you’ve gotta get together all the things to put on top of the caramel, with a little extra oomph by sticking out your tongue like my mom.…