Christmas Day

Christmas Day we woke up early and headed to Porter, TX to Wayne’s brother, Kim’s, house.   As usual Irma had the house decorated beautifully. 

 

Wayne’s brother, Leslie, was able to fly in to join us this year.

Irma’s Christmas village scenes take up all of the display space plus the pool table upstairs.

I was able to get a picture of the four remaining Stamper boys together.  From left to right they are Kim, Darrell, Leslie, and Wayne.

 

I even had Kim take a picture of Wayne and I in front of the fireplace.

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and will have a Happy and Healthy New Year.

Christmas Eve

Christmas eve we drove to Spring Branch, TX to Bob and Doris’ house.  Nola, Matt, and Todd were already there when we arrived.  Here are Bob and Doris.
 
And here is their Christmas Tree.

In lieu of a fireplace, the stockings were hung on the couch.

Before dinner we Skyped with Michelle who was in Pittsburg.  Here are Doris, Nola, Matt, and Todd talking to her.

Matt even made a face at her.

After a while she woke Michael up so that we could wish him a Merry Christmas too.

After a wonderful dinner of turkey and all the fixings we opened our stockings.  Here is Trouble trying to get his rawhide stick out of his stocking.

Wayne always puts lotto tickets in the stockings and everyone is trying to find out what they got.

Here is Matt on his computer as Doris is in the kitchen.
  
Later on that evening we got a call from Lois in Australia.  With some technical help from Matt we finally got hooked up to Skype on Doris’ computer and called her back.  Here are Nola and I talking to her.

And here  Matt and Doris joined in on the conversation.

Nola, Matt, and Todd went back to Austin and Wayne, Trouble and I spent the night.

The Palms Dog Parade

On the Friday before Christmas we had a dog parade in the park.

Judy’s little dog, Squirt,  didn’t want to walk.

 Samie made  a wonderful reindeer that coincidentally belonged to Gary, Judy’s husband,  who drove the golf cart with Santa in it.

Candy  had a beautiful Christmas sweater.

This was Santa's dog--aka Mrs. Santa.

 

Trouble really liked the toy poodle on the left.  This may be his new girlfriend.  The little long-haired Chihuahua on the right was really tiny.

The dog on the left’s sweater clearly identified him as “Dog”  and I think that the dog on the right in biker gear’s name is “Harley”.

Clara and Mike’s Papillions didn’t want to keep their costumes on.

The winner was Chuck and Judy’s wonderful Santa, Elmo.

Here are Harley and Trouble nose to nose.

Weezie was a  pretty “little girl” in her red velvet dress and her hair bows.

We took a stroll in the park following Santa and Gary and their dogs.  Keith and Penne's dog, Holly, decided to ride too.

Afterwards we that the opportunity to take pictures with Santa so here is Trouble with Santa.

All You Can Eat Shrimp

Wednesday nights there are two places in Port Aransas that have all you can eat shrimp.  Tonight we went with Edie and George to Moby Dick’s for all you can eat boiled shrimp.

Here are Edie and George.

We shared a table with Mary and Dean, Louise and Rodney, Wayne and Norma, and Mary and Dean’s daughter and son-in-law.

Next week we plan on going for all you can eat fried shrimp at Kody’s.

Ladies Day Out

Wednesday twelve ladies from The Palms RV Park took a small bus into Corpus Christ for lunch and shopping.  We had lunch at Senor Jaime’s Mexican Food Restaurant.  Since we were riding in a bus we were able to have drinks with our meals.

 

After lunch we went to Susann’s Jewelers to see if they had anything we needed in their “Going Out of Business” salel.  We all left empty handed.

From there we went to La Palmira Mall and walked from one end to the other.  Most of us bought a little something there and we all got out exercise in.

Our last stop was Spec’s and Jo-Ann's where we all bought something.  Then it was back home to the park in time for dinner.  What a fun day.

Stamper Family Dinner

  Last Thursday night we had dinner with Wayne’s son Greg and his wife, Teresa, at Fogo de Chao in Austin.

All of the cook/waiters wanted in on the pictures.

Here are a couple of pictures of the meats cooking.

 

The

food and the company were great.

UT vs. Texas Tech game - Veteran's Appreciation Day

Last Saturday's game was dedicated to all of the veteran's in the stands.  To start off there was a Drop-In by four paratroopers who brought in the game ball.  See the video that our friend, Paul, took.

Following the Drop-In there was a flyby with two F-16s.  Sorry, no video of it. 

We won the game and are now bowl eligible.

UT vs. Kansas Halloween Tailgate

Our daughter, Nola, wanted to go to a football game with Wayne so he took her to the Kansas game last weekend.  As usual they went to the Alumni Center Officer’s room prior to the game.  Here they are in their Orange and White.

It happened to be the Saturday before Halloweens so they were taking pictures of people in costume.  Here is Wayne with Laura who is the Assistant Director of Chapters.

And here he is with Lynn, Courtney, and Laura.  The black wig was his choice but the crown was their idea.

As you can tell he was having fun.  UT won the game and a good time was had by all.

More Pictures from Mike and Patty’s Visit

I had forgotten that Wayne had taken some pictures when Mike and Patty were here.  I just edited them so here they are.

Here is our motorhome at our spot in Oak Forest RV Park.  Note that it is long enough to park one car in front and the other one in back.

 

Mike and Patty were parked to his left as he took this picture and here is their coach and car.

He got a better picture as we were waiting for the bats.  That is Mike, Patty and I on the left hand side of the picture.

And here we are closer up.  Note that we all had on long sleeves.  It was a beautiful Fall night.

 

Again, it was great to spend time with them.