"Snow"man January 2011

What can I say? We live in Texas. We have had unseasonably warm temperatures, which make for happy spirits, for me anyway. But, last winter, we got to build a snowman. This year...no snow. Aidan improvised.

Snowman plate + Snowflake Ritz crackers + Baby Mozzerella (already round "snowballs") + Aidan's request for raisins and carrots.


You don't really want to know how many of them he ate.
(Hint: he was more creative, less hungry.)

Friday Night Lights

Texas is big on football, so it makes perfect sense that the Homecoming game is even bigger. Last year, the giant mums and ribbons hanging from them gave the shock of the season, but this year, I had my wits about me enough to shoot a few pics. Evidence that I'm not exaggerating when I say they are crazy:

Okay, some of the elementary school kids had some reasonable stuff going on. The child in the back, for example, had a sort of wrist corsage, for the arm, with some small ribbons and bells. The girl that I was actually shooting, however, had one that I would refer to as insane. In the center, is a button with her boyfriend's picture, which is surrounded by football badges and just lots of ribbons.

Here's a close up of an arm corsage variety. Again, this was an elementary aged child, so the "mums" are not just reserved for the high schoolers at that dance.

These girls were third or fourth graders...all decked out in the AHS Mustangs Cheer uniform and mums and ribbons.

Two of the girls at the middle school. Not only did these girls get mums and ribbons, they had megaphones, feathers, stars, bells, and maybe more...who knows.

Amusing, yes. I always thought the homecoming stuff was for the high school kids, but at least here, the whole city goes, so we did. We had lots of fun at both the parade and the game, not to mention we still have candy from the parade.
This float was the only one I took a picture of. There were lots "Cage the Wildcats" floats with stuffed animals or kids dressed at wildcats in cages. This one was "Hunt the Wildcats" and in addition to the tree stand, they had a hunting blind in the trailer behind the truck. As a shout out to my dad and hunting cousins, I had to get a picture of this one.

The Andrews Mustang Bowl. This "High School" Football stadium is huge. And unfortunately, my picture shows the opposing team's side. The Mustang side was absolutely packed.
The first touchdown ... Aidan wasn't sure what to make of it. The mascot ran across the track, the spirit guys carrying banners, and a siren car of some sort. GO MUSTANGS!
Loving the game.

Of course, the Andrews Mustangs won. 52-0.

Too Cold

Today was icy and cold.

It was 20 degrees.
I was cold.
We had freezing fog and sleet.
Aimee's basketball coach just called and canceled practice "because it's too cold to go out"! Haha.
I feel like it must have been me, since I posted a picture of sprinkler play in January.
The only thing today is good for is pictures, although I didn't get many.
It's just too cold.

Sledding...Texas Style

I love winter sledding and have such fond memories of family sledding outings. As a mom, I see how much work goes into these outings for the parents, but it is so worth the time. Since we have no snow, we chose a beautiful 65-70 degree day and headed out to the Sand Dunes. We didn't stay as long as we had hoped, because it was windier than their reports said. But, we all had fun anyway. At the end of the day, instead of wiping up pools of snow melting off children's boots and clothing, we vacuumed sand. We just couldn't let a Christmas Vacation go by without a sledding expedition!

We thought it was a little silly to post a warning sign about "Loose Sand" right in front of the sign that welcomes you to the sand dunes.What the heck?! Speed Limit 80?!!

Only In Small Town Texas...

We have heard some concern over the scheduling conflict, but I just heard the solution today.

Next Friday, October 31, happens to be BOTH the last high school football game of the season, a home game, no less, and also HALLOWEEN! There has been some buzz around town about what was going to happen. Well, today I was told that they've moved trick-or-treating. LOL Trick-or-treating will be Thursday night instead of Friday so that everyone will still be able to support the high school football.

This is relatively good news for us, since Aimee and Allie are cheering in the first half of the game, as part of their cheer camp performances. Rock on! We'll be hanging out at the high school football game on Halloween night.