At the Playground!

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It is New Year's Eve. After breakfast I decided that some kids need to run and get some fresh air, so we went to the playground!

Es ist Silvester. Nach dem Fruehstueck dachte ich es waere eine gute idee fuer ein paar Kinder etwas frische Luft zu schnuppern, also ging es zum Spielplatz!

I hoped Rick would fall asleep, and he did on the drive home. Tina got to sleep too, but I, as always, kept getting interupted. Oh, well.

Ich hoffte Rick wuerde einschlafen und er tat es auf dem Heimweg. Tina hat auch geschlafen, aber mir ging es wie immer und ich habe nicht geschlafen.

Horse Cutting Event & Tiffany's Christmas

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After we, Sandra, Clayton, Rick and I, brought Tina to the Airport we went to the Texas Frontier Museeum http://www.frontiertexas.com/ Then we went home for lunch were we found out that poor Tina was still en route to Dallas because of bad weather somewhere in Texas. Didn't know there were 22 Tornadoes that day.
We all went to the Taylor County Colliseum for some Horse Cutting, as you can see Rick enjoyed himself tremendously. Then we went to Starbucks and had some coffee while Rick slept.

Tiffany came up for the weekend and received her Christmas gifts.

Texas Roadhouse and Fort Griffin

We just had a nice windy day at Fort Griffin, and then we went to the Texas Roadhouse for a good meal, followed with Coffee and Cookies at the Sullivan's!

Visit to the Zoo and more Christmas

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Nicht nur im Zoo sondern auch mit Weihnachten!Wird spaeter nochmal geaendert :-)

Sandra and Clayton are here also!

Lion & Rick my nephews!

We didn't think Rick, the little one, would go to the Santa, but it was Lion we had to talk into going :-)

Wir dachten ja nicht das Rick, der Kleinere, zum Nikolaus gehen wuerde, aber es war Lion den wir ueberreden mussten :-)

Aber dann wurde das Bild ja doch schoen und wir mussten es kaufen. Wie oft kommen die Jungs den auch an Weihnachten nach Texas?!

Merry Christmas!

Yesterday was a great day. We, as in Lion, Rick and I, went to Walmart at 8:30 a.m.!
Gestern war ein klasse Tag. Wir, Lion, Rick und ich, waren schon um halb 9 Uhr morgens bei Walmart!

Then we went home, and played around. Lion wanted to play Monopoly, so we did (startet the game on Saturday evening already!)
Dann gingen wir nach hause und haben etwas gespielt. Lion wollte Monopoly spielen, (das hatten wir am Samstag abend schon angefangen!)
Afterwards we ate lunch and then the boys, Tina and I went to the Mall!
Dann gab es Mittag essen und danach gingen die Jungs, Tina und ich in den Mall! Santa was there and we took a great picture of the boys and him.
Der Nikolaus war da und wir machten ein Klasse Bild von den Jungs und ihm.
Finally we had our Christmas. Of course it was the German tradition and we had it last night!
Endlich hatten wir unser Weihnachten. Natuerlich auf Deutsche art am Heiligen Abend!

Der Besuch ist muede, und ich auch!

Noch Abends nach dem ankommen. Rick hat Jason's GameBoy spiele gefunden und die werden alle gleich ein paar mal ausprobiert!

Dirk ist froh seine Kinder wieder bei sich zu haben.

Fruehstueck - Rick will das die Pepsiflasche auch auf dem Bild ist, und das Telefon mit dem er gerade Oma anerufen hat! Ist alles drauf!!




So geht das halt wenn man von Deutschland nach Amerika reist. Die Kinder sind schon um 4 Uhr frueh wach und machen die Mama und die Tante auch wach. Die Maenner schlafen halt einfach weiter.

Nach einkaufen und Mittag essen muss man dann erst mal schlafen gehen :-) so ein kurzes Mittags schlaefchen ist dann ja auch ganz gut. Tina und Rick gehen ins Bett und Lion und Kirsten schauen sich Buddy der Weihnachtself an. Kirsten schlaeft natuerlich auch erst mal ein! Lion schaut sich den ganzen Film schoen brav an und schlaeft erst nachdem Kirsten wieder wach ist! Einer muss ja aufpassen!

Besuch aus Deutschland!

Zu Weihnachten gibt es dann in Texas besuch von Deutschland. Gestern abend sind sie angekommen!

Snow Day!

Yeah! We are off from School today, of course we have to make it up in the spring, oh well, at least I can spend my parents last day here with them :-) Here are some pictures!Yes, my dad chopped this wood for us. He also helped Dan get it at the Recycling Center. We have to get him to do some work around here. Now, can we have a fire today???

Towne Crier

Yes, we went out to eat again!

As Kristy's parents are visiting from Virginia and mine from Germany we decided to go to the Towne Crier Steakhouse for some Chicken Fried Steak. Well, some of us liked it and some don't...just isnt' real steak, but good!

My Dad now likes to walk with a cane, as he got one for $1...need I say more?!

Papa infront of the Towne Crier ~~~~~~~~~~ Kristy's parents

Mike and Kristy's parents ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mike and Kristy

Kristy and my parents





http://www.townecriersteakhouse.com/

The Playmates!

Well, you have to be involved with my family to know the story of the "Playmates" so dubbed I beleive by Sandra! Anyway, Robin and I did set up a 'Playdate' for the Playmates and here are
some pics! I might get some more some day, but beleive me, it was fun. Neither Joe or Lorraine, nor Martin or Edith figured out what was going on.
decided that they ought to meet again. So here all the planning began. We booked the same hotel and I had to convince my parents that we were going to Amarillo because my dad alwaysAs Joe and Lorraine were going to be in Hereford and my parents were going to be in Abilene we wanted to eat at the "Big Texan". He didn't know the name of the place but that it was a place where one can eat a BIG STEAK (72 oz. in 1 hr.). I also wanted to see the Caddilac Ranch and so we were going to take on us the 5 hr car ride to Amarillo. We did stop on the way in Lubbock to do some wine tasting, all as a ruse so they wouldn't figure it all out. I never mentioned Hereford until we were going to have to drive their to check into the hotel.
As we got to town it really smelled as their was a feedlot on each side of the road with plenty of 'Steers', just imagine the smell worse then a dead skunk! My mom finally said she knew where she knew Hereford from. Annie, Robin's daughter, lives there and she sent a postcard with the address. I assured her we could look up the phone number once at the hotel. So at the hotel I called her room and told my mom that plans had changed and to please come down and we would go to meet some of Dan's clients first. Of course we had plans to meet our friends at their relatives house.
First we drove wrong and had to call and got picked up at the hotel and let to the place. Going in

there was funny as they had many relatives visiting and my parents got really confused, especially when they realized someone looked like their friend Art. Then of course they saw Joe & Lorraine, Annie, Art & Robin. As Joe & Lorraine had no idea either they were just as surprised to see Dan and me and my parents.







We spend some fun hours together at Annie & James's house and then went to the hotel where we slept and all had breakfast in the morning.


















Had to take a picture of the "only cow that kept still for us"!

Then Annie took us to see her classroom at the high school.














Then out to the cotton fields to see James and his Dad and to get a lesson in planting and shearing (?) cotton. This was fun.

After this great day we had to head another 5 hrs back to Abilene!

The Trip to Amarillo!

First Stop: Llano Estacado! Wine Tasting! In Lubbock!

Second Stop: Big Texan in Amarillo. Home of the Free 72 oz. Steak!
(If you can eat it in 1 hr, by yourself)
We saw a whole family eat it, No, we didn't order it!

Third Stop: Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo!

So far so good! There will be more this afternoon, but some of us have to work!

Still Thanksgiving!

What fun we had on Thanksgiving Day. Just hung around all day!

We needed to check the paper for Fridays sales.And we had company for dinner!
With good conversations! After which we (the Lady's) cross stitched. Sorry, but the guys watched TV and didn't think to take pictures of us :-)

Friday was leftover day. So, after shopping, no, not at 5 am, but at 8 am, we had lunch and dinner consisted of leftover chocolate cheese cake! (inbetween cross stitching)!