Here's to Friends for Life!

Here's to you, and here's to me,,,,,,,

It feels wonderful to be back in Texarkana.........even if it is just for a couple of weeks.  It's always fun being with family, seeing who we might run into, and having mini-reunions,  A HUGE thx to Lisa S for arranging one with our SAU friends for life!

"home"

Shady Pines RV Park has some color going on off up on here

Gustopher

LouLou (gotta start counting to 3 for our pix, David)

11-26-15:  Headed home to Texarkana on Thanksgiving Day.  It was a full day of traveling from Wichita, a little rainy here and there, but we arrived safely.  After setting up we met Laura and Gus at Edith's place, then headed over to see Cranford, Kathey, and family.

I think even Rocky is mighty content to be back

Great to be back!

Rocky is ready for the MO game

11-27-15:  The only plans today are to sit in the camper, listen to the rain, enjoy Gus and Laura, and call the Hogs!  MO is our new post-Thanksgiving rival after years of it being LSU.  And we won! WPS!

the Sue's and me

11-30-15:  David and I met the kids at McAllister's today and ran into a few friends.  The girls above are Sue Briley and Sue Lambert -- CCC and Emmaus peeps!  Great to see these 2 crazy kids!

Anna & Doug Camponovo

12-1-15:  December already!  We'd planned on moving out to the lake after a couple of days at Shady Pines.  But with the monsoons, we decided to just stay put and relax here.  Today we went bed shopping for Edith and stopped in at Cracker Barrel for breakfast.  Halfway through my meal I heard "Becky?".  I guess I'm so used to being in towns where I don't know anyone, that I've quit looking around me.  Great to see Anna C who I used to work with!  Though we're connected on FB, it's prob been 10 or so years since we've seen each other.

Patti, Joy, and Kathey

This afternoon I got to help out with the Collins Bldg decorating for Christmas.  Tho, the tree in this pic is the only thing I helped with, it was great seeing Kathey, Patti, and Joy.

Hannah with her Jamberries

Jackson rockin' his scarf

Gus rockin his scarf, along with a glob of grease -- it wasn't this bad til I tried scrubbing it with goo

Rocky seems proud of his new collar

Finished up a few knitting and craft projects on these rainy days!  Ready for Christmas I think.

da goils 

12-5-15:  Been super excited about today.  Lisa organized a mini-reunion for our little SAU group.  It's been nearly 30 years since all of us have been together at the same time.  Life happens.
We picked right up where we left off and it felt GREAT to be together again.  Sistas for life.

L to R:  Lisa, me, Janet, Cookie, and Kathey

didn't realize til Lisa later showed us some old pix, but we actually have pix from college making these faces

let's get this party started!

5 of the 6 of us met for lunch at Olive Garden.  Bekki White ran late because she was dealing with a rat (not mouse) problem at her house in Little Rock.  Thx for giving us all the details, Lisa.  LOL. The rest of us are spread out between Texarkana, Magnolia, Forney, Trophy Club, and, let's see....where am I located?

Cookie, Kathy, and me ---- college roomies -- made a couple of stops on the way to Lisa's

our serial killer faces - we bad.

my Starbucks name

front row L to R: me, Kathy, Bekki, Lisa
back row: Janet and Cookie

the prettiest little doggie joined us

love these girls

Uncle Andy

a toast to these friendships

it all started with these ladies

So these are the friends who I would play Yahtzee with in college at mine and Cookie's apt.  We would wear visors so we'd look like card sharks.  Now as David and I travel and play cards, we carry on the visor tradition around the country!

trying out my new selfie stick

we didn't get around to the Yahtzee game yet, but we did wear the visors 

dang selfie stick -- not easy

Did ya know the selfie stick was invented TWICE??? The first time was in the early 1980's.  It wasn't successful (this pix weren't good), so it fizzled until a couple of decades later.

gonna get pix of all of us in the cowls/scarves I knitted for them -- takes us awhile to get rounded up, except for Lisa

here we go!

"cowl" girls

Had a great time catching up at Lisa's and Andy's lovely home.  We've managed to keep up with each other through each other and on FB.  But nothing takes the place of getting to see each other face to face. 

time to eat again, so we headed to Chili's

One final meal and lots more laughter!  We made vows to get together more often and pray for each other in the meantime. Janet was the first to start her trek back home after supper. The rest of us headed over to Kathy's and Cookie's hotel.

Lisa made sure we had Yahtzee for old time's sake

So at the hotel, 5 of us did our best to remember how to play Yahtzee.  Everyone except Bekki was pretty much lost, but we had a blast making up rules.  Bekki was the winner with Lisa coming in a close second.  Pretty sure I was last.  (I always did hate that game), I haven't stayed out this late in years!  What a fun day that just flew by.  Miss these girls already!

after church at Roadhouse with Cranford and Kathey

12-6-15:  Wonderful morning at church and a fun lunch with our besties, Cranford and Kathey.  We figured this would be our farewell lunch with them since we are scheduled to leave Saturday the 12th.
But we decided to try to squeeze in an evening of Panties if possible this week.

Laura Lee and me

All the college girls checked in this afternoon so we know all made it back home safely.  Thankful.
Had so much fun shopping this evening with my baby girl.  I just LOVE being in the same town with my kiddos.  So tonight when I got home and kinda melted down about leaving in a week, David and I decided to add another week to our stay. Yay!!

ohhhh... that's how ya do it!

I think I can do this

yep, I got it!

now we're having fun

hope my winter peeps are ready for this

 Gus. stop eating a sec

and another sec

ok, they're bored, but I'm just now able to smile while I take it

12-7-15:  David and I went to Cranford's and Kathey's to play Panties tonight.  I took my new selfie stick to practice a little more.  Cranford played with it and taught me how to use it.  Now I know how to push that button! Oh, and about the Panties?  Kathey and I let the guys win for a change.

Looking forward to the next couple of weeks in T-town.

Love to all!

Heroshi Ueda, Bad Bec, and Tusk