GO POKES!!!!

Even us OU fans root for OSU when they're not playing OU. Even tho Megan was an OSU cheerleader for Halloween, she didn't think "her" team won, but she knew her Daddy's team did. Max told Julie she needed to 'splain things a bit better to Megan.

Sorry the Aggies weren't able to hang on and win.

Merry Christmas!

Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas--today, tomorrow!

We've had a Christmas week--Ginny flew in on Monday last week and she's flying home today--about 6 p.m. tonight. We've had a good visit and done a little looking around at Arizona. Naturally, it was cool (too cold!) and dreary and even rained on us some. We saw snow at our feet (in Bisbee where we went to tour a mine) but none in the air, thank heavens.

Wish Steve could have come, too, but that wasn't to be.

Ellen, et al, survived the Blizzard of '06 okay. She was home grading papers (one of her TA jobs), Bob didn't go to work (in fact he ended up closing the restaurant) and the kids were healthy so that wasn't a worry. However, I think she was going stir-crazy yesterday! She did go out to the grocery store but not much was available. They're the hosts for the Schmidt Christmas dinner so she brainstormed with me (on the phone) over what she could produce in the way of a pie with two cups of sugar and two cans of sliced peaches. She's making a peach cobbler!

Harv and I will have a quiet day tomorrow and then start our latest project (kitchen cabinets) on Tuesday. He goes back to work on Wednesday but he's going to be "tele-commuting" quite a bit. Between computers and cell-phones he won't have to go in as often.

Hope everyone has a great holiday.

Love you all.

Update

Hey everybody!!! Its been a while so here's an update. I just finished my first semester at Midwestern State University and things couldn't have gone better. I have a 3.0 GPA, I'm on the Winter Guard and we are going to World Championships in Dayton, OH in April, I just got told today that I'm going to be an R.A. for next semester, and I'm the assistant Color Guard Director at a high school near Wichita Falls. So things are going really great! I hope things are going great for everyone else! Merry Christmas everybody!!!

we did it!!!!!!!!

Finally after a little bit of a wait for the "people" and I use the term people loosley. we got our house!!!!!!! now the fun part we move!!!

This is so fun to watch !!!

This one is even better than last year..Let the kids see it :)

Fun Lights

Merry Christmas

For Your Holiday Entertainment from:

Elf Laura

Elf Thomas

Elf Barbara

Elf Brian

More Thanksgiving Pics

NOW ou rules

The Big 12 anyway. Anyone want to come to the Fiesta Bowl??? Depending on where KSU goes (we're hoping Insight!) we may have to use a shoe horn but we can do it.

I'm just link crazy today!

This is very, very cool. Especially if you don't stop to think what it would feel like!
But seriously - this is some complicated programming, for sure.
And it's interesting to boot! (requires Flash, but you've probably got it!)

Check it out!

In honor of the cold weather

Vintage winter cartoons!

I had a blast watching these - I hope you do too!

Woody Woodpecker!

Snow Rabbits!

(1951) Suzy Snowflake!

(1945) Goofy Hockey!

And last, but not least, a 1934 classic...

Jack Frost!

33 Years! Happy Anniversary

Dotty and Tom are starting their 34th year together (for the most part). I hope Tom was home today to celebrate with her.

Wishing y'all at least 33 more!

Love you.

ps--it's still Dec. 1st where I am so I didn't miss it.

Snow!

(Ok, so it was mostly ice, but we got a little snow.)

We are buying a HOUSE!!!!!!

Hey everyone. Well Jennifer and I have been house hunting and we found one that met all our needs and then some for the right price!!! Well we put a contract on the new house last Saturday. I don't want to junks the deal so I wanted to wait until we got the financing figured out.

For the specifics it is a new home just outside the city limits of Magnolia TX, just NW of Houston. It splits the difference between were Jenny and I work about 45 minutes for Jenny an 50 for me. It is a 4-2.5, 2700 Sq Ft, granite in the kitchen, gas stove, Comes with 25cu ft fridge, Washer and Dryer. Some one else specked out the house and then their deal fell through. David Weekley is the builder and decided he needed to unload it before the beginning of the year. The asking price was 8000 under our self imposed limit, so Jenny and I had no problem jumping on the deal. We hope to close on the house on the 13th of Dec. After all that I think I got a great deal on my interest rate as well. Pretty soon the Murrell B & B will open for business.

More Pictures

I took most of these at Vicki's house while the kids were decorating the trees. I don't know why I didn't have the camera out at Barb's or Dotty's house, but I guess I just forgot about it till everyone else pulled out their cameras too!

Enjoy!









I took most of these at Vicki's house while the kids were decorating the trees. I don't know why I didn't have the camera out at Barb's or Dotty's house, but I guess I just forgot about it till everyone else pulled out their cameras too!

Enjoy!

Post-Thanksgiving Pictures

Here are a few pictures from the Post-Thanksgiving Gathering at my house:






We had lots of fun (and food), but we missed those of you who weren't here.

Turkey Day's over

but we'll still have lots of turkey to eat! We're going down to Tucson antiquing tomorrow with Harv's sister and brother-in-law. We're taking a picnic of turkey sandwiches--what else?

It was a good day--warm, sunny, plenty of good food, good company even though it was just four of us. We played cards, had a snack about 7:30, played some more and came home about 10 p.m. We're heading south about 8 a.m. and hoping everyone in Tucson is heading for the shopping malls--we aren't.

Hope everyone else had as good a day as we did.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving

and don't eat too much! For those of you traveling, be careful!

We're traveling about 3 miles, pies and twice backed potatoes stashed in the back, to have dinner with Harv's sister and brother-in-law. Last year I cooked for them as Donna was just out of the hospital after surgery.

Love you all.

Happy #37

Anyone remember where they were 37 years ago today? My guess is that for you older generation, you were at the Wesley Foundation in Norman. Happy Anniversary Mom & Dad. Here's hoping for many more! Love you!

Halloween & Stock Cars

This pic on the left was Halloween morning - before all the candy! Grant didn't care for the hood on his costume that had little cow ears. Oh well.

Our Halloween night was not one we will soon forget - Grant busted out a front tooth at Mom & Dad's house. He and Meg were "chasing" - not really running, but not walking either, through their kitchen and he had fists full of his loot, tripped and we think, sacrificed a tooth (and a large chip out of the other front one as well) rather than sacrificing the loot. Of course he didn't hit it hard enough to completely knock it out, so we had to PAY to have it pulled (that was fun, just ask Mark) and now we have a snagletoothed son who won't have a tooth in the front until he's 8 or so years old. Mark just thinks he looks "tough" and figures no one will mess with him now. However, he intends to tell Grant once he's old enough to listen that his mama got fed up with him and knocked it out. Nice, huh? : )

Oh and the pic on the right is Megan and Tony Stewart (her favorite driver) at Texas Motor Speedway last Saturday at the Busch race. (Tony's the one in the small orange car in the background!) Mark took her to her first stock car race. Oh and Mom went to her first one this past weekend too. I'm sure she'd LOVE to tell you all about it, right Mom?????

Blonde pinups

Grandpa took this at Ellen's on Oct. 23. We'd been to the park and they were waiting for Grandma to fix lunch. Liz wasn't as cooperative as Amanda and I think Rachael was contemplating escape. We had a good visit with them but were exhausted when we got home. But, they're worth it!