My Crazy Family

Pam, Macie, and me

Love my crazy family and friends!  Life is good.

Gus and me

12-9-15:  Did a little shopping with Gustopher today.  I just love being in the same town with my kids!

Dan and Tina

12-10-15:  Enjoyed supper tonight with long time friends and coworkers, Dan and Tina Johnson.  Dan is Herman the Rock's daddy.

Edith and Laura

12-11-15:  Had supper tonight with Laura and Edith.  Those girls!

12-12-15:  David became a wedding photographer tonight at Antioch Christian Church. I think he did a great job!

Chrismon Tree

12-13-15:  Enjoyed the 3rd week of Advent this morning at ACC.

Jakeb and me

Laci and me

da boys

our traditional stonefaces

Macie 

Odestine

Uncle Nathan and Joseph

the group

James Goff on his 4th bday

David looking super happy about being back at the middle school

James and Joseph in the bday car

bday car

Bill Boy

the group

David, Miller, James

guess who this is

Ethan and me

Manning and me

take a guess at whose mustache is up on the wall

Nathan and Dara

My crazy sis-in-law (partner in crime)

Laci and Pam

perfectly normal

Odestine is super cool

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Macie has the right look

James playing with the racetrack mat we got him

 Today was a bittersweet day.  Sweet because we got to enjoy James Goff's 4th birthday with all the Goff's.  Bitter because they had it at Liberty-Eylau Middle School!.  David and I have been itching and breaking out since we found out it was going to be there. LOL.

Gerald and Juanita Goff's wedding pic

12-14-15:  Enjoyed an early supper with Bill and Pam in Texarkana.  It's so rare that just the 4 of us get to spend time together.  We had a great visit.  Got a wonderful call from them when they were on their way home.  Backstory- At Jakeb and Lacey's wedding, they displayed my parents' wedding pic. It was the one and only copy.  Afterwards, it was nowhere to be found.  We all reluctantly chalked it up to a loss.  Tonight, little Joseph broke a frame that had Jakeb and Lacey's pic in it.  Behind it was the missing picture of my parents.  Weren't they beautiful?  Thanks Joseph!!!

Ashleigh Phillips and Laura Lee Richardson Singh

Laura got together with one of her cousins tonight -- it's rare that they are in town at the same time. So glad they got to spend some time together. These 2 were born about 2 days apart.

12-15-15:  A beautiful day in the neighborhood!  David is shampooing the carpet, I'm doing laundry, Rocky is soaking up the sun and pleasant temps.  Got a call from Jeanette Malchow to touch base about next month's gig at South Llano River State Park.  Then.......... all hell broke loose.  Rocky was viciously attacked by a couple of strays in the RV park.  With David right there!  More about that in another post.

12-16-15:  Rocky's surgery was a success and he was released to us late this afternoon.

Mindy Ogden and me

Principal William Houff and me

Sherry Stone looking festive in her cute hat

Enjoyed our traditional lunch get-together with my sweet friend, Mindy today.  Love that girl!  Ran into former coworkers and friends from LEMS while we were there!

Joseph and Lacey Goff

The Goff's, Laura and me

Laura and I went out to get our Mexican fix and ran into Jakeb and family.  So we enjoyed supper with them at Amigo Juan's

Edith and me enjoying our Christmas gifts from each other.

Lou Lou

12-17-15:  Celebrated an early Christmas tonight with Edith, Laura, and Gus.  Then had to say "cya later" as we are leaving tomorrow morning.

12-18-15:  Left T-town this morning.  Came across our first Buc-ees in Terrell, TX.  These are the coolest convenience stores ever.  They're massive!

Rocky and David

12-18-15:  Left Texarkana to head for the hill country.  Man, it's getting harder to leave family.  But I do look forward to our adventures at the same time.  Spent tonight in Terrell, TX at Bluebonnet. Rocky barked for the first time today!  And got up on hind legs when he sniffed out some bbq in David's pocket on our walk.

12-19-15:  Spent tonight in San Marcos. And found another Buc-ees.

getting close to Kerrville

cards from JCRV peeps and Cooper

12-20-15:  Arrived JCRV!  So nice to see so many familiar faces here!  Dawn, Ron, and Cooper welcomed Rocky with cards signed by all our peeps here, and one from Coop!  Rocky feels the love! He got pretty close to Mr. Ken and wagged his tail ---- we've missed seeing that the past few days! He literally ran circles around Tom.  He sure seemed to remember everyone and the place!
Later today we notices his staples were starting to come out.  Not good.

much better

12-21-15:  Found a wonderful vet in Kerrville, thanks to Dawn's recommendation.  Dr. Kim took great care of him today.

this selfie stick is difficult -- it went in the trash after this

For supper, Jerri and George organized a wienie roast down by the river (Johnson Creek).  Really loved visiting with them and the Perkins' about the past year of workamping.

Sarah Sarah and Buttons

Buttons wearing the collar I brought him

Jerri and Sarah at the new Chic-fil-a in Kerrville

12-22-15:  Jerri and I went over to Sarah's to play Panties today.  Before the card game, we picked Sarah up and took her to the Christmas get-together at her hair salon, then we tried the NEW Chic-fil-a (or Chick a fill, as Sarah calls it).  Happy that Kerrville finally got one, but they have a looooong way to go on efficiency.  Back at Sarah's, we got to know her new dog, Buttons.  Adorable!  She looks like a miniature Lizzie!

JJ, me, Jeanette, and Uwe

12-24-15:  David and I drove over to Junction to look around the state park where we'll be volunteering this winter, visited with JJ, Jeanette and Uwe, and met with Ranger Holly.  We're jazzed!

Christmas Eve in Kerrville

George, Ron, Jerri, Dawn, David, and me

wonderful friends

Tonight we went to a Christmas Eve service with Ron, Dawn, Jerri, and George at St Paul UMC in Kerrville.  It was lovely, as was the night with the Full Christmas Moon (Cold Moon) nearly at it's
 peak. Wonderful night with special friends.

one of the gates on my walk behind JCRV

prickly pear and tuna near the rv park

David and me in the clubhouse on Christmas Day

12-25-15:  Got in about 3 miles this morning before getting ready for the JCRV Christmas Day potluck.  Felt great to get out and walk again.  I've been off my game since about Oct. 24!

Miller Goff

Lacey Goff

James, Joseph, Lacey, and Jakeb Goff

Nathan Goff

Asher McClintock

Asher and Andrew McClintock

Brooke and Andrew McClintock

Justin, Andrew, and Asher

Asher

Asher

Thx to all the family who sent Christmas pix to us!  Helps us to feel not so far away!

12-26-15:  David and I did a little shopping today to try to catch some after Christmas sales.  Not too impressive, but the also not too crowded.  So that was good.  East TX got slammed tonight with tornadoes.  The metroplex really caught it.  Prayers for our friends out that way.

Tonight we played Panties at the clubhouse with the Cooper's and the Perkins'. Fun!

12-27-15:  Laura started her flights to India today.  I watch them on Flightaware.com.  It was a little extra nerve-racking this time because of the weather.  Flights from DFW were delayed hours upon hours.  Which effects all connection flights.

Jerri, me, and Dawn

What better way for me to be comforted than to go to Comfort, TX with my girls.  It's been a couple of years since I got to visit my fave yarn shop.  So that helped!

Tonight, we had snow!!!  Just a dusting most of the night. I had to stay up til about 1:00 to see the accumulation.  But it was beautiful!

I think my mom had a mink like this one

Santa likes some good Mexican food after Christmas, too

12-30-15:  A wonderful hill country day.  David played golf with the guys, Jerri and I did some resale shopping and had lunch at Mamacita's.  Then she let me beat her at Panties later this afternoon.  Love my bestie!

Lizzie

Tom and Rocky

Mr. Ken and me

Lisa, me, and some of the workampers

12-31-15:  Said our "cya laters" at JCRV, then headed down to South Llano River State Park for our gig.  Jeanette and Uwe broke us in with our duties and we met with Ranger Holly.

Looking forward to our winter gig.  Tho we won't have good internet or phone service, we will def be getting into Junction as much as possible for updates.  (and for that reason, picture labels will come later)

Ready for the Liberty Bowl!

Happy wintering!

Mario, Luigi, and Buc-ee