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Down here in Texas we have various multicolored Santa programs. They are basically holiday toy drives conducted by various groups (Blue Santa=Austin PD/FD, Brown Santa=Travis county Sheriff and FD, there are others as well). I’m not sure if this is unique to central Texas, but it may well be. I’d never heard of it before […]
As is our new Texas holiday tradition we headed down to Zilker Park for the lighting of the “tree”. We first enjoyed the enormous yule log fire and then counted down as they turned on the lights. Once the crowd thinned down underneath the tree we headed inside to do some spinning. The photos look […]
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Wesley turned three. You know that by now. And not just because I’ve written about it on this website, but also because he’s been talking about turning three since Jillian’s birthday in August. For months now he’s been asking if it was his birthday and then given the response is always “no” asking when is […]
For the first time in a long time we had a relatively relaxing and low-key Thanksgiving. We didn’t cook a turkey or a ham. All we made was dessert (apple crisp and a banana cream pie) and then showed up at Kerry and Bill’s in Hutto. We got together with a bunch of mutual friends […]