Snow Day

We had a freak snow day on Tuesday. Sunday it almost hit 80 degrees. Tuesday it snowed. Wednesday it was in the mid-50s and sunny. Gotta love TX weather. The dog, Lola, did not know quite what to do and has not emotionally recovered from the confusing white stuff.

Evelyn's 9th Birthday

Evelyn celebrated her 9th birthday in style a couple of weekends ago. She invited a few friends to come over to hang out and get creative with some ribbon, foam stickers, construction paper and other fun stuff. They decorated little boxes and had a blast. Nana came over for the day (Pops is still too sick to come over) and Grandpa Merle and Grandma Linda came up from Kerrville. Evelyn asked her friends to bring donations to Ronald McDonald House instead of gifts. We delivered the donations the following weekend and she got a huge thank you from the staff.

100 days

Every year, Rod uses his photo skills and does a favor for the Elementary School: for all the kids who missed Picture Day (or enrolled after Picture Day), he takes their picture so that they can be in the yearbook. Of course, he has the lighting, the backdrops, etc. so they all turn out great. This year, he happened to be doing the retakes on the 100th Day of School so he took a special photo of all the kindergartners. Our friend Lisa sent it to the school district website folks, and they used Rod's photo on the site. Check out the link:

http://www.pflugervilleisd.net/news/index.cfm#hpes100days

My Babies When They Were Babies

Time flies.

Visit to Kerrville

Our last visit to Kerrville was just after Christmas. Grandpa Merle and Grandma Linda always make us feel so welcome. Evelyn convinced Grandpa to play multiple rounds of Battleship. Linda's cat, Emily, passed away a few days after we left. She was very frail and had been with Linda and her daughter, Lisa, for about 20 years. Luckily for us, Rod had taken a great picture of Emily when we were there. Since we were there over New Year's, Grandpa did fireworks with the kids. Linda and I pretty much stayed inside and watched from the enormous window that faces the back porch where they were setting them off. Rod took about a gazillion photos of the explosions.