New Laptop

Yea! I finally got me a new laptop. Everyone in my family had one except me. Bear with me - I'm setting it up and collecting my photos from the others' computers, my camera, etc. I'll be back soon....

Hail damage

Well, I'm so perturbed. I was at my mom's house yesterday afternoon about 5 or so, and the storm blew through in about 10 minutes. And with it came golf-ball size hail that pounded my car and put dings all in the top, the hood, the hatch-back and scratch marks all down the sides. It also chipped my windshield. What a bummer. I only have a $50 deductible, but it's time and inconvenience to get it fixed, and it'll never be the same. Wish I could get a new vehicle, but right now is not the time. This photo is a little too close, but you can see how big the pieces were. Can you see the dents in the roof of my van?

On a lighter note, we got a new puppy. It's a little blue/white (meaning dark grey) parti-Pomeranian female. She is so cute! She weighs 1 lb. 4 oz. and is 8 weeks old. I've been saying no,no,no to another puppy as long as I am working, but Princess talked me into it. I've missed Cookie so much I guess it wasn't too hard to be convinced. There's nothing like a Pom. We are calling her Bella. I think her name is going to be Bonnie Blue Bella (remember Gone with the Wind?) Heres a couple of photos of her. She's so prissy. She is at this moment wrapped up in a little blankie stuffed inside the front of my shirt. She got poo on her paws & bobo and I had to bathe her bottom and she got cold so she is warm and happy right now.

Isn't she the bee's knees? She actually belongs to Princess, but I volunteered to run home at lunch and let her out and feed her and clean up poo if need be. Princess works from 11-6 MWF and school on TTH but on TTH she gets a lunch break to come home and take care of Bella.

Well, actually I found my post about the Mexico Medical Missions trip. You'll have to look down several posts. Evidently, I saved it as a draft, then when I posted it, I couldn't change the date on it and it posted by date. So if you're interested, you'll have to look down a few posts. It's quite lengthly and I was sure mad when I thot I lost it. Tina at Stitching in Texas found it for me - Thanks Tina!

Well, gotta run - gotta think of sumpin for supper. The fam will be getting home soon and they'll be famished.Doncha ever git tired of tryin to think of somethin to feed your family? Boy I do! Wonder if I can get them to take me out?????? Vickie

How come I wrote you a nice long post about our medical missions trips to Mexico and I loaded all the photos and every time I try to post it, it disappears!!!!! I'm ticked! I haven't lost it, it just won't post. How frustrating!

Two more days...

Ok, it's crunch time - I'm getting ready for all this to be over with - year end stuff at work. I'm about to pull my hair out. Everything is due out and in by the end of January, so after tomorrow I can breathe again. Just wanted to check in and tell you I haven't disappeared. I will be back.

I thought I'd show you a funny picture that I had on my work computer. Talk about red-neck. The kid on the right is my #2 son Josh. The fun thing that he's into right now is bow-fishing at the Sabine river bottom. They don't care what kind of fish they shoot, they just like to shoot. I guess it's fun to get your spotlight and go out at night on the river bottom with the varmints, snakes, mosquitos, etc (gators?) in your flatbottom boat and shoot carp and gar and other assorted trash fish. Of course we always have to bring them home and get our picture made with our trophies. Josh said you never know who or what you're going to see on the river bottom. Scares me - I don't like him going, but he's grown and what can I say... He said one night, they felt like they were in the movie "Deliverance" - they saw some dark dangerous lookin guys out there on the river and decided it was time to skeedaddle (I'm sure at night, any stranger looks dark and dangerous - who knows, Josh and his friend may look dark and dangerous at night...). Good move... told you it'd been better if me and my clan had been born back 100 years ago - lotsa redneck runs through our veins on both sides. Much to the chagrin of my Princess (and sometimes embarrassment) she'd rather be more classy I suppose. Another example - when my #1 son Adam was at A&M and several of them sharing a house, the window treatments in the living room were 100's of Skoal cans stacked up in geometric designs to cover the windows and they had a huge screen TV with about 8 recliners all pointed towards the TV - very classy. That's it. ................. Is it possible to be classy and redneck at the same time??????????????????????????? Later - Vickie

Good morning to you! It is a good morning because I'm here, and the Lord is good! I am making progress getting my year-end junk done at work. My dear hubby came with me last evening for 3 hours to my office and piddled on his laptop while I got some things done. How sweet is that! I have so many interruptions during the day sometimes I can't seem to stay on track.

Well, I'm going to do something that I should have done long ago. When I first started blogging back in Nov., Vee from A Haven for Vee tagged me. I'm supposed to tell 7 things about myself and tag 7 more people. Now I'm not going to tag anybody right now, because I don't know 7 people very well yet - I know a few of you. I may do the tagging later. But I have been thinking about telling you 7 things about myself that you may or may not want to know - here goes:

1. I have been married for 30 years in July 08 to my highschool sweetheart. We met when we were 16 in English class. I knew right away I wanted that goodlooking redneck FFA boy. I got his attention by drawing a beautiful horse picture (he was really INTO horses and cows & his family had both) and "accidently" dropping it next to his desk. He was hooked - he just didn't know it yet. The rest is history. (also that same English teacher and our Spanish teacher taught 2 of our kids in THEIR highschool! how wierd is that)

2. I lost my bikini bathing suit bottoms on our honeymoon in Hawaii- I was going up to the beach from the water, and a huge wave crashed upon me from behind and sucked me back out taking my bottoms with it - almost, they were down around my ankles, and I was trying my best to crawl and chase the water as it washed back out so I could drown myself from the shame (and pull up my bottoms)!!!! DH of only a few days died laughing!
3. When I was 4, my neighbor's son across the street hit me in the face with a brick breaking my nose and causing me to have stitches (I threw something at him first). The next day, I had my 4th birthday party televised on our local TV station with Princess Mary and all my friends, with my nose swollen and stitched up. I remember how bad it hurt!(and looked)

4. My husband, me, and my 3 kids all went to the same pre-school. Also, we all had the same pediatricians!
You can tell we've been in this town a long time...

5. My husband and I have lived in College Station (we are all big Aggies) and Austin and Dallas besides our hometown. We couldn't wait to leave home and then couldn't wait to get back. Our oldest son went to A&M, too, was in the Corps of Cadets, in the Fightin' Texas Aggie Band (played bass horn) WHOOP, and we still go back for games and other functions. LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT!!! We liked Austin - so much to do there, kinda laid back, different kinds of artsy free people there (right up my alley), and we liked Dallas, but are glad that we didn't have to raise our kids there.

6. I always thought I would have made a good hippie. Just a little too young at the time, the hippie movement was about gone by my teens, but now I'm glad I didn't go there. But I still like the idea of being artsy and free and different and march to the beat of one's own drum and all that jazz....

7. And last of all, my sister Lisa is my very best friend in the whole world. I have one sister - we fought like cats growing up, 3 years apart. My mom used to think we actually hated one another, but no - she knows me better than anyone and she still loves me (and vise versa).

Ok, there you have it - my usual too-wordy, too much information self. I'm sure there's other wierd things about me, but that's all I could come up with for today. I will do the tag thing some other time as I get to know some of you more. Plus, I hate to tag people that I know have just been tagged. Thanks to Vee for thinking of me, cuz she wanted me to get my feet wet! Blessings - Vickie