January Happenings

Well, here it is January and we haven’t done too much.

The first week of January Wayne surprised me with these beautiful flowers for no reason.  He must have known that he would be getting sick and couldn’t do anything special for my birthday on the 8th.  He ended up with Pneumonia but is better now.

Trouble has been about as lazy as we have.  Actually we both take him on walks so maybe he is just worn out.

Saturday the 23rd there was a Women’s Advance at in the club house.  We had two great guest speakers/singers from the Texas Prison Ministry.  Everyone brought a salad to share for lunch and it was wonderful.  After lunch we had a skit about all of the burdens we carry around with us that we shouldn’t and then more messages/songs from our guest speakers.  My favorite song from the Advance was “He’ll do it again.”  You can listen to it on here:

After supper Saturday night the Red Hat Ladies had a pajama party.  We had popcorn and root beer floats and watched the movie “Miss Potter.”  It was a fun evening.

After I got home from the pajama party I couldn’t resist taking a picture of  Wayne and Trouble watching TV together.

Next week will be our last week at this park.  We are moving to Aransas Pass which is between here and Corpus Christi.  That will put us closer to friends and doctors.  We will be at a brand new park called The Palms.  Here is a picture of our unfinished site.

A palm tree is going in on the right where the dirt is piled up and a privacy fence will be behind us.  The official opening is February 1st but as you can see it is almost full now.  It is a smaller park and hopefully there won’t be so many clicks as there are here at Lagoons.

Christmas 2009

 

I got a call from my brother the other day and he reminded me that I hadn’t updated my blog in a long time.  Now that it is almost the end of January I’ll try to get everyone up to date.

Here I am playing solitaire with Trouble in my lap.  If I am on the computer he wants to be in my lap.

Christmas eve Michelle fixed most of the dinner but I helped some with the mashed potatoes.

After dinner we enjoyed mimosas and opened presents.

Since I forgot to bring my camera we made sure that Nola was the first one to open her present—a new digital camera from her Matt, Michelle, and Michelle’s boyfriend, Michael.

We gave Michelle accessories for the Kitchen Aid mixer that Michael gave her.

Matt got a new stereo for his truck so we gave him an adapter for his ipod or whatever it is that he has to play his music.

Christmas day we went to Wayne’s brother Kim’s for Christmas dinner.  It’s the same house we were at Thanksgiving when I did have a camera with me.  As always Kim and Irma put on a feast and Wayne’s brothers, wives, children,  nieces, and nephews all enjoy it along with Irma’s children and grandchildren.

Here is a picture of our motorhome at the Lagoons RV Resort.

Big 12 Championship game in Jerry's World

Saturday, December 5, 2009 a day that will forever be imprinted on my memory. Or at least until I sleep. Wayne and I drove from Rockport, TX to Austin early in the morning. We met four busloads of people at the UT Alumni Center to board buses to Jerry's World/Cowboy Stadium in Arlington, TX. As we came up to the area where you turn right off Hwy 30 there was this beautiful overpass to the left. I have no idea where it goes but it was beautiful. If you look carefully you can also see a plane getting ready to land at DFW.

This is our first glimpse at the stadium from the bus. It kinda reminds me of a space ship.

Here is a better shot from outside. This is about two hours before game time and the parking lots are getting full. At $50+ for parking I'm glad we took the bus. Plus, the traffic was awful. This place is in the middle of a neighborhood and a shopping center.

Here is Wayne inside. He is in the area where they allow standing room. I wouldn't mind watching a game from this area.

This is the view looking over the railing of the standing area to the field.

This is looking out the windows away from the field out onto the area where they were having tailgate parties in the tents. Note the sunset at the very top of the picture.

Here is a better view. Too bad there was so much reflection from the bright lights in the room.

Here is the giant TV screen anouncing that this was sponsored by Dr. Pepper.

Here are Wayne and I. Proof that we were there. As you can see there is mostly red around us.

Our seats were on the second level right below the first suites. Here is the band at half-time.

And here are the players whooping it up right after we won with my "Hook'em" sign in the picture.

It was a squeaker but a win is a win. Next stop the National Championship game.

After Thanksgiving at the creek

The Friday after Thanksgiving we drove to Sargant, TX to see Marynelle's brother, Murray, and his wife, Sandy. We had a wonderful visit. On Saturday night there is a lighted boat parade on Caney Creek. Everyone decorates their boat houses and piers for the parade. This is a view looking across the creek from their house. You can see their doorway reflected in the water on the lower left hand side.

We went down to their screen house to watch the parade. I went out on the dock to try to get pictures of the boats and they moved by. I was able to get some better than others.

I love the way the lights reflect in the water.

There were big boats and little boats and everything in between.

Lighted palm trees decorated some boats.

I bet that lighting these downriggers was fun.

There were boats filling the creek with lights.

Santa and his reindeer decorated this boat.

I think this was probably the boat with the most lights.

This is the clearest picture I got.

We have watched the North Padre Island boat parade for years but we were always on a deck high above the boats. This was a whole different perspective.

Stamper Thanksgiving

We went to New Caney, TX for Thanksgiving with Wayne's brothers and their families. Wayne's brother, Kim, has two Pomeranians and here's Trouble getting to know them. Later we were able to let them out of the pen.


As we have always said, "He plays well by himself but not well with others." He finally learned.

Kim's wife, Irma, loves to decorate for the holidays. She inherited most of Wayne's mother's collection to add to her own so everything was beautifully decorated.

Here are some of the pies that we had along with our turkey dinner with all the trimmings. My favorite is the chocolate/pecan pie that Darrel's wife, Tammie, makes each year.

Irma had this wall unit built especially for showing off all of the decorative pieces. Wayne's mother made many of the larger pieces when she was doing ceramics.

This is one of the Thanksgiving decorations that she made.

Here is another display cabinet.

The mantle was decorated with houses and autumn trees. Irma will just need to change out the trees to be ready for Christmas.

Two of Wayne's brothers and their wives, Kim and Irma, and Darrell and Tammie were there along with some of their children and the children of one of Wayne's other brothers, Leslie. Everyone enjoyed dinner and went home with a full tummy.