Really quick.

Just so y'all know our good friends the Candlers come down unexpectedly the other day and they will be coming and going between here and Brownsville each week. Therefore I will not be on for the next few weeks. I shall try to get a post together about it all at the time of my return.
So tickady donk till then and I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas!

The Texan~

New palylist

As y'all can most likely tell I have switched from project playlist to myflashfettish I do not have many songs right now but I will try to get a few more up there and if I don't get around to it by Christmas I already have a round the year one set up to change to.

So far the songs I have are-

George Strait's It's Christmas time in Texas, this song is one that we have known for years now so it has lots of fun memories.

Brad Paisley's James Penguin, which we all found funny.

and

Irish Rovers' Good King Wenceslas, I know nothing about the group that did this but since Jo and I sing this together on the piano I wanted to put up a rendition of it and seeing that they had the word "Irish" in their group tittle I clicked on it to see what it was and thought it funny the way it comes out with their accents.

I hope you all have a very merry Christmas!

The Texan~

Last night Calvin completed his finials and our first thing to do in celebration was to get out the bows!

Calvin and his first kill.

Close up of his shot.

Jo with her kill.

Robert, Johanna, and Calvin right after letting their arrows fly.This is also one of Calvin's shots and it also shows were Robert did some damage.
(which I was not able to get pictures of)

In all Calvin hit two times and grassed once, Robert hit three times, Johanna hit once and I got very close but I am no longer able to hit that small of a target so I need to be getting out my bow more often because I used to be able to do that. :(

It was a lot of fun though and I hope we can do it again soon. :)

The Texan~

Pictures of Katharina and a update.

Okay to start out here is Prof that I was telling the truth about her giving trouble for pictures 

in case you can not tell she is hiding behind our couch here.

Checking out the fire

She found it very interesting

Now here are going to be a few I snapped as she was playing with her toy.

Here is a video of Katharina playing. (I am afraid it is not to good because I was holding the toy and recording at the same time, and there is also some background noise.)

Other things that are going on is that we are getting close to having all our decorations up and on Friday we will decorate the tree that we got last Thursday, it would have been done sooner but first Jo was babysitting on Friday and Saturday then after that Calvin had finales but he will be free from them by Friday! Speaking of Calvin he is now as of Friday the first person in our family to go Hang Gliding! He really enjoyed it and says he would like to do it again some day.

 Another thing that has happened is that it is now COLD down here! Well it was colder last night then it is now but we did get our first big cold front, but by Sunday the high will be in the 80's again, and also there is SNOW IN HUSTON!!!!! Which like really blows our minds because it never snows there not even when we got our South Texas Miracle Snow in 2004. :) So that is some really big news. (to us at least)

There has not been that much else going on so I will now stop making  y'all put up with my weird ramblings and end my post. :)

The Texan~

New Fmaily member.

Today Daddy took Jo and I to the animal shelter so that I could pick out a kitty since I lost my last one. I am now the proud owner of a very sweet little black kitty. She is a little skittish right now but that is because she has gone form being in a cage with six other cats to being by herself in a strange house but she has fallen asleep in my lap already and loves to be petted. Here is one picture of her I hope to get more soon. :)

Thankful for Friends.

Wednesday was a very big day for us because not only is it are first day of cooking but our really really good friends were arriving that evening. They got here at about 10:40 and Savannah and I went straight into talking :) and we talked till somewhat late into the night. :P

The next morning we cooked five pies together and then latter we cooked all the rest of the food it was so much fun! Then some other friends of ours and our grandparents came over and we had dinner.

These are my friends Savannah and Meredith

Thanksgiving dinner

After dinner we cleared the tables took them down and set up the ping pong table! It was a lot of fun, we played Texas Tornado(aka around the world only we changed it a bit) for about a hour plus. :) After wearing ourselves out on the "table of pain" (as we call it) we headed outside to play washers, toss the Frisbee, and talk, it was so much fun. At about 11:00 the Bernhards had to leave and we started in on cleaning the kitchen and even that was pretty fun because we got to talk and visit while doing so. By the way during the night I started to have a little bit of trouble speaking since I was still recovering from a cold.

Friday when we got up Jo could not speak at all just about and I was going down hill fast. So we mostly spent the day watching movies and listening to Lauren and Savannah tell very interesting stories. Later that night when Jo and I could talk better Lauren, Jo, Savannah, Calvin, Robert, Jay, and I all stayed up in Jen's old room talking till 2:00 AM most of it was fun.(those who were there will know what I mean by "most", was it 85?. :P)

Also during the day we got out my mother's guitar for Jay to see since he knows how to play and he did a few songs for us, he does a really good job. Here is a video of part of all of us singing Be thou my vision. (Note: at the end the noise in the background is Nathan telling us that Jen and Christopher were at the door) Sorry it is so dark.

Saturday we went to the beach together and once there we split up into little groups. The younger kids played in the water, Savannah and I walked up and down looking at shells, the guys tossed the Frisbee, and Lauren and Johanna took pictures in their white dresses.

After a while a game of Ultimate Frisbee was proposed and excepted. At first the teams were Robert, Savannah, Daniel, and I against Calvin, Jay, and Julia. In the begining we were winning 3 to 0 but then Julia was too tiered to keep playing and left so Daniel went over to the other team and we ended up losing 7 to 6 (or was it 5?) but we still had a lot of fun.

The Frisbee players

Jo and Lauren showing us "something" they had found :D

lol long story :P

Just before we left some of us went to work on sand castles or mounds as was the case with Savannah and I since we started five minuets before we left and knew we did not have time for anything else.

Julia and Caroline with their castle

Savannah and I with our volcano

The Guys with their castle

Lauren and Jo with their dresses

About an hour after we got home from the beach some really good friends of both of our families came over. As you can most likely guess the first thing us girls did was talk. :) The Guys on the other hand went out a did archery. (which I hear was sometimes pretty funny) Latter after dinner a bonfire was started and we all went out side to talk, sing along with Jay on the guitar, and talk some more till the fire died down and we were forced to retreat from the cold. Soon after we went back inside our friends had to leave and it was time to clean up and go to bed.

Sunday was good and we enjoyed going to church together but it got pretty sad once we got home because it was time for our friends to leave and that is always nothing to look forward to. We tried to stall as much as we could but in the end they still had to leave all the same and it left us all filling rather alone and the house very quite.

Our wonderful friends just before we said good bye

That ends this post about all our friends we have been with over the last few days there was a lot to be thankful for this week.

The Texan~

P.S I still have not recovered my voice and I hear that Savannah has now lost hers too.