Hanging out in Conroe

Claire got a UT cheerleader outfit passed on from a friend. So I got Jake some UT gear, and some pom-poms.
Claire and Jake in Longhorn gear with pompoms



Then I set up a JanMa's Digital Memories booth at a church Christmas Market. If even half of the people who stopped by give me projects to do, I'll be busier than I want to be.

Last weekend, sister Diane and I drove to Alice, TX to visit Uncle GC, Dad's brother and our last surviving uncle. We wanted to share pictures with him, see his pictures, and get his family history on video. He had selected significant photos and I videotaped the pics as he told about it. I have over 3 hours of video to edit and transfer to dvd, along with several hundred pictures that I scanned and will burn to dvd also.

Diane and I wanted some local flavor for lunch on the drive south. We stopped at this place in Refugio because it had a lot of cars in the parking lot, including several cop cars and Halliburton trucks. Sometimes, you should just go to McDonalds!

We did eat at 2 really good local places in Alice with Uncle GC and Aunt Helen. Everyone knows him, since he taught at the local high school for 41 years! Before we left Alice, we stopped at the cemetery to visit the grave of our cousin, Valarie, who passed away from breast cancer.
On the return trip to Conroe, we stopped for lunch at the twins' house and got a preview of their Halloween costumes.
Claire is Tinkerbell, and shows off her fairy wings, while Jake gets his Peter Pan costume on.

Sometimes even a fairy just wants to be held by Daddy.

Jake gets his hat on, and turns into Peter Pan.

While Diane and I were traveling to Alice and back, John and Taylor went to an air show in DFW area. Here John holds an airplane he got there.
Taylor scores a hit with the audience when she climbs on the seat of some kind of gun. Looks like she is having a ball, beware of Taylor!

I met the twins at Great Grandma Hayslett's apartment one evening.

We then went to Incredible Pizza for dinner.

After pizza, I took the twins back to the game room. They loved the dance mat!

After watching the kids use straws at Incredible Pizza, I took a box of flex straws to their house. Here is Jake using his bendable straw. Works OK, they still want to tip the cups up when the level gets too low.

Here is a video of Claire seeing the moon... in the middle of the afternoon!


Claire hears any airplane that passes by overhead, and she'll tell you about it. More importantly, notice that she is leaning over a space line in the concrete. That is the line JanMa has told them NOT to cross over, they can go up to that line but NOT over it. They both mind very well.