Right Now

Vin and I are in Spearman visiting my family for the weekend. Yesterday while in Amarillo we went with Leslie to Ruby Tequila's for lunch.

1st email I sent Teri: What I am drinking right now!


Teri response: I'm jealous

2nd email I sent Teri: What Wedo is drinking right now!

Teri response: I see Patty has joined you for the day.

Wordless Wednesday

Random Pics

My computer has been in the shop for the last week and since I got it back I've been busy working on my Spring classes.
I've got lots of other stuff to post but these pictures will have to do for now. I'm sure that Mayme is tired of looking at Vin's pizza bite.

He's becoming more and more attached to Wedo. He now feeds him and offers him his paci.

Clapping after riding the Bert & Ernie ride at Toys-R-Us.

Breaking the rules standing on the table.

Perfectly cute bite

Out and About

During these first COLD days of January we've been doing a lot of visiting and exploring.

Here he is flirting with himself in the mirror at the Dallas Museum of Art.

I love both of these for his inquisitive look in the basket. He is very in to farm animals these days (wonder why???)

Today I started painting our kitchen cabinets. I have to use oil paint so Vin and I went to Jessica's to let the fumes disperse. Here Vin is standing on a tower that Michael built for Isaiah so he can stand up and see what's going on in the kitchen.

Looking for the kitty cats.

Looking at Finley's new fish tank.

With Sienna and the fish.

Onward and Upward

Before I head off into 2010 here are a few of our Christmas pictures.

As much as Christmas as a feel to it, it also has a look. The look is largely the part of dedicated souls who work very hard in the weeks prior to Christmas digging out the garland, the bows, the ornaments and the various what-nots that make the holiday feel special. In my family my Mother is the master decorator year round but she is especially talented at Christmas.

Here are a few pictures of what Christmas looks like in Llano.

Terry Butt is pretty talented himself. Here is the before and after of our delicious Prime Rib we had on Christmas Day. I wish I had taken other pictures of our meals because they were all so good. I guess I was too busy eating to take pictures.

For the record's sake I also wanted to record what our first Christmas on San Saba looked like. We have 4 large pecan trees in the front yard that we're going to have to work up to each year, but we had a good start with our "Candyland House" and I think we made our statement to the neighborhood.

As much as I love Christmas I am always happy to see it end and for our lives to get back to normal. I had our house undecorated and the tree down just days after Christmas. I bought new storage bins and got everything packed up in an orderly fashion for next year and then Teri and I began planning for new projects to undertake. One of our main goals is a garden. Teri got started right away clearing out overgrown trees and weeds and most exciting of all... We now have a compost pile and it even has a fence around it!

She also continued removing the burglar bars that were on all our windows. I don' think we realized how caged up we were with the bars. Good riddance!

Whew - that's it for now, more on what else we've been up to coming soon.