A big happy birthday to my baby sister:

I hope you have a good one. (Well, had a good one, because I know you went to Talladega this weekend. Hope you kept your clothes on.)

Happy 40th!
Because your deadbeat big brother has to work today, he must reuse last year’s photo:

Summer, playing around with my MacBook:

The Pearland Independent School District (PISD) seems to have acquired a new toy over the summer. It’s an automated messaging system, programmed with the phone numbers of every student in the district. It is the modern equivalent of those mimeographed announcements we used to take home to our parents. PISD is using it for every […]

That little girl I married is now __ years old. (But doesn’t look a day over __!)

Happy birthday Dad! We love you and are thinking of you. Hope you have a great day.

Wendy came home from the barn this afternoon with the story of a scary close call in the pasture. First I should say that she’s OK.
Let me repeat that: she’s OK.
Bryn was having trouble catching Laredo for her riding lesson, so Wendy gathered up a handful of horse treats and went to help catch […]

She was born on Memorial Day 1992… hard to believe it, but it’s been 15 years.

Happy fifteenth, kiddo. Daddy loves you!

a week ago today i made an apricot nectar cake and wrote that i had tried without success to get granny’s recipe. cousin ann then wrote in to say
I have the recipe!
Granny’s Lemon Supreme Special
1 box Lemon Supreme cake mix
1 cup apricot nectar
3/4 c. Crisco oil
4 eggs
1/2 c. sugar
Mix cake mix, sugar, oil, and nectar […]

Last weekend Wendy put her foot down and said “I want a big-screen TV for Mother’s Day!” (And I thought I was going to have to wait until Father’s Day.) She sent me out Saturday morning with orders not to come back without one. A trip to Fry’s later, and we have this nice Toshiba […]

I started off this post with videos of Momma. I later decided I’d rather remember her with just this one photo. It’s my favorite photo of her because it shows her laughing. Laughter is something everyone seems to remember about her. Years ago, Imogene Adams wrote us a nice letter about Mother and said
Your mother’s […]