"CHOKE" LAHOMA

Well, the Sooners choked. And that's all I'm going to say about that!!!!

West Coast Swing

Tonight I decided to go back and start taking ballroom dance lessons again. I'm taking a 4-week class on West Coast Swing. There were way more women than men this time. It was fun and I remembered all the steps from before.

Tomorrow night we'll all be watching the Sooners play for the National Championship. Go Sooners! Beat Florida! Boomer Sooner!

Ski Patrol

Above: Joe, Kristen & Kaitlyn on the mountain (Winter Park, CO). Below: Kristen and Kaitlyn stylin' in their new ski gear (their old coats and pants were getting too small!)

Happy New Year

New Year's Eve everyone was working or had something to do but me so I went to bed early and it was good!! New Year's Day we watched a lot of football at our house and yesterday, Joe went hunting (for quail) and the girls and I took a day-trip to Dallas to spend our Christmas cash. We went to Grapevine Mills Mall and the Galleria and then came home. That's all we had time for. Today and tomorrow I have to work at Kohl's in the afternoon/evening. Still haven't gotten any pictures from Joe of their ski trip. He used a regular camera so he had to send the film off to be developed!! I don't know why he didn't take one of the digital cameras. Lord knows, we have like 4 or 5 of them.

One of the great Christmas gifts I got was a multi-function DVD recorder. I plan on transferring all of our VHS and 8mm video that we took of the girls when they were younger over to DVD's. Hopefully it won't take me too long to undertake that task and get it completed.

The Snow Bunnies are back home

Joe and the girls got home Saturday evening late. They left Colorado Friday afternoon and drove to somewhere in Kansas. They slept late and got up to come home on Saturday but had car trouble outside of Salina. The fuel pump went out in the Yukon and they had to call AAA to tow them into town and take them to a service place. They were extremely lucky for several reasons: 1) it didn't happen the night before out on a desolate part of the highway in Kansas where it started snowing, 2) they were close to a semi-largely populated area where there was service, 3) the garage they were taken to was AAA affiliated and were very nice. They even took the girls and Joe to a local shopping mall and dropped them off (for 4 hours) while they fixed the car and then went and picked them up and brought them back. 4) the workers at the garage voluntarily stayed late that day to work on the car (they normally left at 2 PM). What should have been a 5-hour drive home from Kansas that day turned into about 9 hours. But they arrived unscathed and with their nails done! They had to do something to burn up time while in the mall, right? Hopefully, I'll have some pictures to post from their trip. Joe said the girls reluctantly let him get 1 or 2 pictures while they were gone.

Christmas Eve

Today I'm working for half a day, then tonight I'm going to Joe's Aunt Cindy's house for dinner and mingling with her family and friends. Then I'm going to the Christmas Eve Candlelight Service at my church which I really love going to. I remember last year I was at mom and dad's and we went to their church together. I enjoyed that so much. Joe and the girls are in Winter Park, CO on their annual Christmas ski trip. I spoke to them yesterday morning and they said it had snowed a foot overnight. They were eager to ski in some deep powder. They will be home sometime Saturday and we will celebrate Christmas when they return. Hopefully, Joe will bring back some great pictures I can post. I hope all of you have a wonderful Christmas.

Pictures from State Dance Team Competition

Here are a couple of pictures that were taken by an action photographer last weekend at the State Dance Team (Pom) competition. This is from the Jazz routine.
This is from the hip-hop routine. Kaitlyn is the one standing up on the right.

And the last one is also from the Jazz routine. She definitely has the split leap down to perfection. Of course it helps when you're used to doing it on ice with heavy ice skates on your feet. You can REALLY leap when you don't have that extra weight on.