Jerome the Garden Gnome

This is my new friend, Jerome. Jerome is a Garden Gnome and he's going to start appearing in a lot of my photographs. Since my girls don't like me flying up photos of them, I'm going to let Jerome become an honorary Jondahl and he's gonna be in my photos every now and then (maybe even every day). We'll see what kind of trouble he likes to get into. At least he brings me flowers whenever I see him! Today, he patiently sat on my calculator while I played on facebook.

I recently cleaned up my desk area (dusted even!). Now I have it all organized.

Fun Saturday

Saturday was a fun, busy day. I finally went back to Zumba class (hadn't been in 2 weeks because of the snow/ice). I made a decision NOT to go to the Affair of the Heart this weekend. Too many other things to do. Joe and I went to the city early in the day so I could go and watch the Oklahoma Challenge Ballroom Dancing Championships. I sat in the ballroom of the convention hall and watched for an hour or so while he went down to his office and did some work. I thoroughly enjoyed watching the couples dance. I wanted to get out there with them!! It was the Latin competition, which is my favorite - Cha-Cha, Rumba, Swing.

We then left and went to the Oklahoma City Stockyards to meet up with some friends. We were going to eat an early dinner at Cattleman's Steakhouse but I think everyone else in town for the PBR was thinking the same thing. The wait was going to be an hour and a half so we left and went to Texas Roadhouse which was a couple of miles away. The couple (who are both young enough - late 20's - to be my children) brought 2 of their children, a boy and girl (from different marriages) who were both about 6. The little boy brought me a dozen pink roses and gave them to me. He was sooo cute! After we ate dinner at Texas Roadhouse, we all went to the Professional Bull Riding event at the arena. Here are some pictures -- Sorry the pictures aren't real good quality. We had great seats up in the suite but far away from the action. I had to zoom all the way out and my camera is not that good. This is the gate where they let the bulls go back inside.
Here's one of the riders/bulls.

Another rider/bull.
Joe and I in the suite.

The Express Personnel Clydesdales.

Another Prayer Shawl Completed

I worked with one of my Zumba teachers at OU almost 20 years ago. Last summer she somehow tore her aorta in her neck and can no longer teach zumba and I don't know if she's gone back to work at OU yet or not. Anyway, I made this prayer shawl for her. The colors are crimson and white. I'm going to take it to my "circle" on Sunday and have it blessed then I'm going to take it to her. Joe was not supposed to get me in the picture, I just wanted to show the pattern on the shawl.

Snowpacolypse - Part Deux

Well, it snowed again last night. The weather people were calling for 6-12 inches as another massive snowstorm moved in. We only ended up with about 5 inches and it was really dry and light. I could actually shovel it off the patio without killing my back! Jann and I stayed home today. Last week we stayed home for 3 days and then worked on Saturday to make up some work. I'm ready for spring.

Sprung a New Leak

Well, I got to enjoy my new bathroom about 60 days. It has sprung a new leak; this time in the slab. They cut open the area in the closet again to check it out. At least this time I got my clothes out (sorry, Kaitlyn, they are on your bed) of the closet before mold grew on them. Joe and I are so disappointed. This means that they can probably fix it; but because the house is old and the pipes are copper, it will most likely spring another leak on down the line somewhere. We are probably going to have to look into the pipes being put up overhead in the attic. We'll see what the insurance company says to that.

Boredom is setting in....

I saw some little dresses similar to these in a craft mall last weekend. So naturally I thought, I can do that. Anyway, these are little girl dresses made with bandanas and tied with ribbons at the shoulders. They are a little big for Audrey, but I will send them on before summertime. I'd say she probably still won't be able to wear them until maybe the next spring/summer. I know that Heather's mom made Lily some cute little dresses out of pillowcases. Same type of idea.

Snow Day

One of the Texas girls in Kaitlyn's sorority took this picture this morning. Her mother re-posted it on Facebook. I "borrowed" it. We are currently inbetween bands of snow. We have about 7 inches on the ground, it's 8 degrees with wind gusts up to 50 MPH and a -19 degrees wind chill. It's cold. There's blowing snow and drifts everywhere. Pretty much every one was told to shut it down for today. There is nothing left in stores, etc. I think we all learned our lesson from Christmas 2009. None of us had to work today, probably won't be able to get there tomorrow either. They are saying this is the coldest it's been here in Oklahoma since 1996.