Family
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Happy Birthday Ashleigh
Happy Birthday baby girl. Your mom would’ve made you the best birthday cake. Your dad would have flicked cake at your mom again. Your big sister would have probably helped feed you the cake. And we would have all been there for a grand jamboree. We miss you and love you.
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Tame, Feral Albino Ferret
We went to Kathy and Randy’s friend Dar’s house last night for their Thursday Night Drinking Club. Dar is an animal lover and feeds the local cats, an opossum and apparently one day an albino ferret showed up. It came around last night for us to see and Chris took a camera phone photo of me with it. It had a nice, outside smell to it and was super sweet, yawned a few times for us and made me want a cute little ferret. I think Leo would eat it, though.
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New Years Eve in downtown Ft. Worth
Having grown up in the suburbs of Ft. Worth I am partial to this town versus its neighbor Dallas. I love walking through the streets, checking out the old buildings and when the Tandy Center was still in existence, my friends and I would drive down to the subway that took you to the Tandy Center and we’d go shopping or ice skating and then walk around Main Street or Sundance Square. It’s an easily maneuverable city and in the past several years has seen a revitalization on the west side of the town. I particularly love the arts district on the west side and with the new shopping and…
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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.