Okay, I know I have a lot of things to post about but I don't feel like putting enough time into them right now to do them justice so instead I'm posting some pictures in celebration of Springs long awaited arrival.

Here are some pictures I took today of our Bluebonnets and other flowers.

I'm actually glad it was overcast today, I like the way it looks in these photos.

It was quite a pain trying to get these, I was trying not to fall in the ditch but get low enough to get the tree......and the wind did not help either, my camera was not wanting to focus on a swaying bluebonnet. :)

Hmm....I think I need to get this one again with a blue sky.

They might be weeds that we hate and try to kill in the summer....

....but they are really pretty in the Spring.

That's all for now I will try to get around to other post one of these days soon but don't count of it too much. :)

The Texan~

Okay so it has taken me a while to get this up but late is better then never. (most the time)

On Friday the 6th a Fed Ex truck caught on fire in our next door neighbors driveway fortunantly nobody was hurt but quite a few people lost there packeges.

These are the pictures that Jo and I took of the excitement.

My latest doings.

Howdy Y'all,

It has come to my attention that I have neglected this blog for some time now so I am going to give you a update on what has been going on. I will start at August 14, the first part of this day was spent in rushing around the house packing and making pizza, the next six hours were then spent in the car eating the pizza, then we arrived in Arlington where we were staying with some of our dear friends for the next few days. It was a lot of fun, we talked, played games, danced, and simply enjoyed every moment we had together.

Lauren and Savannah while teaching me and Jo to play Hand and Foot

Julia helped Johannah out and yes Lauren and Jo needed every bit of that help. :)

Savannah happy during the half time brake in our game, so far she and I were winning.

(and we did win)

Lauren and Johanna

Savannah and I

The whole East Tribe, well all but Mr. East he was already at work.

All the girls

and all of us kids together

We had a wonderful time, thank y'all so much for having us.

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We are now going to skip forward to last night.

Last night was a time of fun and sadness, fun because all our friends were over but sad because it was the going away party for our pastor who has been called to another work in Burlington N.C, which means that our mission work is being left without a pastor and might possibly be shut down and there is no other church that we could go to that is closer then two hours away. We are hoping that we will be able to set up a web connection between us and another church in our denomination so that we can have teaching and be able to stay together, please pray that this can be done, it will be very hard on us still but it is better then being cut off and left with no where to go, I don't know what my family and the other four families that go to our church will do if we lose our mission work. So please pray for our mission work, and our pastor as he and his family are moving, Pastor Otis has been down here four years and before that he had been coming down a few times each year since I was two years old, so we are very close to him which makes it even harder that we are losing him.

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Then today when Calvin, Jo and I were going over to help the Otis' pack up and clean their house and the car started over heating so we pulled off in to gas station and filled the radiator with water, went to start the car but since Calvin had left the A/C running the battery was dead and we had to wait till someone came along to help us get it jump started. Not much fun, I am starting to not like gas stations, out of about the last 10 times I have been to a gas station 3 of those times was because something was wrong with the car.

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Okay I am going on to a brighter topic, it turns out that our friends dad has some work to do down here so he is coming down the week after next and here is the really great part he will be bringing Lauren, Jay, and Savannah with him! We are really looking forward to it, I have been making plans for things that we can do together and practicing my guitar so that Savannah and I can play together. :)

I shall now end this post with that last little bit of happy news.

The Texan~

Conference Pictures.

Here are the pictures I promised of the conference, sorry it took me so long to get them up.

My friends that I spent most my time with.

The Chapel

Sitting on the grass talking and enjoying the lovely weather.

The mountains are really pretty up there, this picture does not do them justice.

Here are a few videos of the dancing, they have odd endings though because I had to trim them down to get them to fit on here.

The first one is the Virginia Reel, then the Gothic Reel, and the last is a Square Dance. I wanted to get the Posties Jig on here too, but it would not let me. :(

Johanna with our friends we stayed with after the conference.

These are our friends who were at Trinity Presbyterian Church.

These last two are Jo and I waiting for the guys to get the tire changed on the car, it was really hot and as you can see there is no shade. So since it took a while we ended up crossing the street, slipping through a barbed wire fence and sitting under some trees in a cow pasture. :)

So those are the pictures from our trip. It was a lot of fun and I am looking forward to going next year. :)

IT'S DONE!!!!!!

Alright after a month of work I have now found a way to take a video from DVD to AVI and then on to the blog! Well as close to on the blog as I could get, the video was to big to put straight on and after a long time of trying to brake it up into two segments so that it would fit and failing every time I realized I could just put it on my web album and then put the link to that on my blog. :)

Any way for those who may not know this is a video of the dance we did in honor of my sisters birthday in early April, unfortunately when I put it on the web album it lost a lot of it's quality but it is better then nothing, also we were only able to get three dances two of which were the Virginia Reel, the last is the Square Dance, so we have nothing of the Gay Gorden, Salty Dog, or Rifle Man. :(

But I shall now quite may rambling and let y'all watch the video if you would like too.

The Texan~

To view video click here - Dance Video

My Hospital Trip

These are a few pictures from my hospital stay last weekend.

Grandpa and Grandma with me after the surgery.

The next day after the bandage was taken off.

My faithful friends Buster and Mittens. :)

Waiting to be sent home with all the many blessings to
brighten my room given me by friends and family.

Saying goodbye to one of my wonderful nurses before going home.

Over all the surgery went very well and I have not had too much pain, although there are a few times that it is pretty hard. I got the stint out of my neck today (the tube that was in my neck) and the stitches too. So I am already a good bit down the road of recovery, although there are a lot more doctor trips for me before the end of that road. :(
I'd like to thank everyone who came to see me in the hospital it really made it a lot easier and happier, I'd also like to thank everyone who prayed for me it really means a lot.

The Recovering Texan~

Rainbow

Earlier today I was watering in some seed we just put on the yard and noticed that there was a rainbow in the water so I grabbed my camera, took some pictures and am now posting them. :)

To go with Robert's post.

This post is to go with the last one that Robert made, so if you want to know what these are all about just go to his blog. :) I am sorry that they are so blurry we had to zoom in a long way.

Hunter Pence!

Back when I first started going to Hooks games a few years ago there were two players that I really enjoyed watching as they played they were great! 

These two players were Josh Anderson and Hunter Pence! 

Anderson and Pence came up through the Houston farm system together but Anderson was sadly traded to Atlanta and now to Detroit, but happily we still have Pence who is playing with the Astros and came back with them last Thursday for the exhibition game.

It was great to see him play again.

Mitch Einertson

This year the Hooks have a lot of new players so lots of my favorites of last year are no longer with us, but one of them is still with us! Number 10 Mitch Einertson.

It was funny because my two favorite players there were both in the right field.  :)

Hunter Pence up to bat.

(well I am not sure that it is Pence, but going from the way he is standing, his socks, and how he is holding his bat it that is who I think it is.)

Lance Berkman up to bat....I think

and he got a hit

I hope y'all enjoyed the pics. :)

~Random~

Now to most of y'all these pictures will just look like some pathetic sticks with very little green, some bushy plants, and a little white flower, but to me they are some of the most beautiful things, these are my pride and joy that I water up to three times a day and look eagerly forward to see grow and flourish, these are my very first berry plants! I have 6 Blackberry plants, 3 Raspberry plants, and 26 Strawberry plants. I can't wait till they are baring fruit. :)

The Texan~

God's Glory Shown in Texas Sunsets

This month I have been trying to take a picture of the sunset every night for this post however I did not fully succeed do to the weather which kept going back and forth between so cloudy that no color could get through or there would be no clouds at all which made for beautiful days but rather plain sunsets as you will see from the few days I bothered to take pictures when in this condition but anyways some of them I think are very pretty and show God's glory in making such beautiful scense for us in the evening so I hope y'all enjoy this post of Texas Sunsets!

January 1st.
This is taken while I am sitting on our horse pasture fence.

January 2nd.

Taken the same place.

January 3rd.
Taken at Hazelbazemore park.
I think it is simply beautiful.

January 6th.
This is one of the days that I bothered to take a picture with out any clouds.

January 9th.
I am now standing on the back of Robert's truck for the rest of these.
I love the clouds in this one the way they fan up.

January 11th.
I really like this one the color is great.

January 12th.
This is the only one that I edited in picasa and all I did was crop it
because having it smaller brought out the natural color a bit better.

January 18th.

January 20th.

January 22nd.
The clouds are so cool.

January 23rd.
I loved this sunset! (I wish the picture would show all it's beauty.)
I took so many pictures of it I had a hard time deciding which to use.

January 27th.
I like the wispy clouds.

January 28th.
I love the color in this one.

I hope y'all enjoyed these pictures of Texas sunsets. :) I know I enjoyed taking them and posting them. Hope you all have a great day.

The Texan~