We decided to let the cats star in our Christmas cards this year--they didn't get as much of a kick out of their costumes as we did...
This year's Christmas season has been especially exciting this year because it SNOWED last Wednesday. This is our neighbor's yard, covered in snow:
Snow doesn't happen very often in this part of the world. It's usually pretty tropical--Jamey was wearing short sleeve when he put up the Christmas lights and he was warm. So when it actually gets cold enough to snow it's a huge event, and when it sticks it's even more huge. So on Wednesday night the neighborhood kids were dancing in the street and everyone felt compelled to make a snowman and/or start a snowball fight.
It looked so beautiful in the moonlight (that's snow on my ficus tree--very odd), and it was still on the ground when we woke up the next morning.
Of course it melted as soon as the sun came up, but it was an exciting event for the Houston area.
BTW, we learned that every year we have a hurricane or a tropical storm, we also have snow. Since this year's hurricane was a huge one (remember Ike, everyone?), it makes all the sense in the world that the snow would also be some of the biggest we've had in a while.
The night it snowed we brought in a new refugee kitten. She was shivering in the snow on the front porch, so we invited her in and she was happy to come in from the cold.
If (and that is a BIG if) we can teach her to use the litterbox, we'll help her find a good home and keep her here in the meantime. But she needs to learn that little trick first...
We're planning to go to Albuquerque for Christmas. Stacey is flying out on Thursday and Jamey will join her next Monday because he gets to be a sideline reporter for the Texas State Football championships! He'll definitely enjoy that and will do a great job, endearing himself to the football folks out here in East Texas. It will be nice to see the Ford family for a week or so--we're looking forward to it.
If we don't get a chance to update the blog in the next few weeks, we wish you all a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!
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