Big 12 Title Game, Dallas, TX

The weekend after Thanksgiving, Joe and I rode the train down to Fort Worth for the Big 12 Championship game between OU and Nebraska. There is a lot of meaning behind this since Nebraska and OU have a long-standing rivalry AND because Nebraska is leaving the Big 12 this year to join the Pac10 conference. Kristen and one of her sorority sisters sat with us and stayed at the same hotel so we rode home with them. We had a great weekend. We also had great tickets -- we were about 9 rows up from the field in the Dallas Cowboys stadium.

The Sooner Schooner

Drew and Steven drove up from McAllen and then our other friends were at the game too. Here's Mark Sewell, Joe, Steven, Drew, and Randy Sewell, Mark's brother. The boys were kids in a candy shop. What can be better than being in Cowboys stadium watching your favorite team, winning, and being with your friends!

Advent Festival at Church

As you may or may not know, I usually work a craft table or two during my church's Advent Festival each year. I normally work with middle school children. This year I worked one table with the middle schoolers and one table for adults. I was lucky in that my 2nd table was right beside the combo playing in the atrium. I filmed part of one song and then one of the people began playing the spoons during one of the songs so I had to film it. It reminded me of my dad and how he used to play the "hambone" and cut up when we were children.

Trying to Catch up - Thanksgiving

We had 8 total for Thanksgiving. Here are pictures when we went skating after dinner. Joe got us in the Cox Center (where our CHL team plays). Sorry these pictures are sideways, I don't know how to get them to turn around unless I load them on the computer first, which I didn't do since I still don't have my own computer. Here's Michael and Kaitlyn. Michael skates pretty good as he used to play roller hockey when he was younger. He was wearing Joe's skates, however, which fortunately fit him.

Kristen, being her sassy self as usual and wearing one of her Chesapeake fleece jackets. They get all kinds of "free" stuff at their jobs.

Kaitlyn, with me, Kristen, and Michael in the background.

Steven, wearing his full hockey gear. He plays college hockey for University of Texas - Pan American.

Me, skating around (barely).

A short video of Kaitlyn skating. She's still "got" it and can do most of her jumps.

Sorry no postings lately

Sorry I haven't had any postings lately. My computer crashed a week or two ago and Michael is working on it. He did get it to boot up and we're trying to save all my pictures/videos/itunes before he totally wipes it out and I can start over. I have several videos to post, etc., I just don't have my computer to do it. I'm posting this from work! Hopefully soon I'll be back up and running.



We did have a nice Thanksgiving - we had 8 for dinner. The 4 of us, plus Michael, Drew (Joe's brother), Steven (Joe's nephew), and Jason (Joe's half-brother). We went to see the OKC Thunder play and we went ice skating.



This weekend we are going to Fort Worth for the Big 12 Championship, OU v. Nebraska. Joe and I are taking the train with the free tickets he won this summer at a golf tournament.



Kristen broke up with the dentist. She just wasn't feeling it and said the age difference was really starting to bother her. She wanted someone who was "on the same page as her" and was going through the same things she was. So she's off to new dating arenas.



Anyway, like I said before, hopefully I'll have some pictures and videos to post soon.

Video of Mini Dresses for Crystal

Pictures from Dad's Dad at AOII

I couldn't get my pictures to straighten up when I was scanning them. It was like a slight breeze was blowing one corner down. Anyway, this is Kaitlyn and her roommate Joan. Joan is from Colleyville, TX (outside of Dallas).
Kaitlyn and her grandmother Muzzy (Joe's mother).

Our group at the sorority house.

Just us girls.
Kaitlyn and Joe.

Busy Weekend

We had a really busy weekend. Friday night, the Muskogee "Roughers" played Norman HS at our stadium. Joe went to the game (I stayed at home cleaning the house). Joe graduated from Muskogee HS. Good thing he wore his Norman High colors to the game. Norman High beat Muskogee 70-3.


Saturday morning, Joe's mother arrived and we went to the sorority house for Dad's Day. We got to see Kaitlyn's room, meet her roomate Joan again, and we had lunch. I took the clip board I made for the silent auction and at final tally, I think it sold for $20.00.

Since the OU game didn't start until 8:15 PM (yes you read that right), we went to the ATO tailgate party. Joe's pledge class (PC'77) sponsored the party, so we headed there around 5:00 and stayed for a couple of hours catching up with some of his old fraternity brothers. As we were walking toward the stadium we stopped and had a burger at Mr. Bill's a campus dive that's been there since I've lived in Norman. We stayed at the game until the end of 3rd quarter, the score was Oklahoma 43, Colorado 10.

This morning, Kaitlyn and Michael, Kristen, Joe's mom and Joe and I went to eat breakfast at Cracker Barrel. Of course every parent here for parents weekend did too. So instead of waiting, we drove over to Cheddar's and walked right in and got served. We decided to skip breakfast and go for an early lunch. Joe's mom left right after and Joe went down to the lake to winterize our boat. I've got my Halloween shirt on, went and bought some candy (1 bag of 87 pieces, which I plan to give all out so I won't have any left) and I'm ready for my trick-or-treaters here in about an hour and a half. I'm tired and ready to wind down for the evening right now. I hope I can keep my eyes open to see the little goblins when they come by. I hope every one had a happy halloween!