UT vs Kansas

Heading into the stadium with the sea of burnt orange. 

Tickets please.

We had a perfect view of the jumbotron. 

Must have been a good play!

The Horns running out onto the field in a cloud of smoke.

Mimi and Avery.

Daddy & Caleb.

Mom and Austin.

Horns Up!!

Texas Longhorn Tailgate

Locker Room Tour

 We were in for a real treat for our first UT football game this season.  Wes's college friend who is one of the head equipment managers for the team, gave us a quick tour of the UT football locker room before the game.  I've never seen so much UT gear in one room in my life.  The kids got a kick out of seeing the players locker area and they were on a hunt to find "the other Malcolm Brown."

 Pregame - uniforms and gear set out for each player.

 Locker room shot.

 Hook 'em.

The kids got UT Nike swoosh arm bands as a parting gift.  What a great experience for our Longhorn crew!

Fall Favorite.... A Hayride!

This is our favorite fall event.... no frills, no fuss, just a good ole' fashioned hayride.  We invited some of our favorite people for a Saturday afternoon hayride down the country roads and then enjoyed a pleasant fall evening in the backyard. 

Emma Kate, Della, Jordan, Avery & Sienna

Polo anyone???

I may have mentioned it before, but a few months ago, I was asked to be a board member of the local Boys & Girls Club.  So far it has been very rewarding.  One of the top priorities of the board is fund raising and this year, through a connection of one of the board members, a benefit polo match was held for annual and potential donors.  The thing that totally amazes me about this is that this match was held essentially in Brenham's backyard.  How many of you Brenhamites that are reading this knew that there is a polo field in Brenham?  Well, technically, it is not it in Brenham, but it is in Washington County, off of FM332/Oil Field Road at Pegasus Ranch.

This is the "main house" on the property.  Talk about amazing!!!  In addition, the grounds include a horse stable that holds up to 30 horses, the polo field 300 yards X 160 yards), several ponds, a two story gazebo and 6 miles of concrete drive.  Yes, it is equivalent to a fairytale. 

I knew absolutely nothing about polo before today and was educated a bit about the sport as the morning progressed. The game consists of six 7-minute chuckers. After each chuckers, the players switch out horses. After three chuckers, it is half time and time to stomp the divots.

At the end of the game, the crowd was treated to a great BBQ picnic.  Talk about a great way to start a Saturday morning!  We were excited to get to share this event with the kids and we were excited to hear that the owners of the ranch are interested in making this an annual event.  Sounds good to me!

Austin's super powers

Last night we were on the way home from the homecoming parade and Wes was telling the kids that they could have one more piece of candy out of the bag they collected from the parade and then the rest would be put away when we got home.  That followed with "NO!!!"  "We want more!".  Then Austin chimed in, "If I had super powers, I would freeze you and mommy so that we could eat all the candy."  We couldn't help but laugh and I responded "Then who would fix your supper for you?"  He thought about it and let us know he'd unfreeze us after all the candy was gone.  Yes, this comes from my cartoon watcher. 

As for the homecoming parade, you can't beat a good ole' small town parade.  I had may camera set on a manual setting and all my pics came out extrememly dark.  Had they turned out, you would have seen Caleb riding with Uncle Doug in the fire truck, Austin riding on the football team float beside Malcom Brown and Avery collecting an unbelieveable amount of candy along the parade route.  Good times!

"Where have you been?"

That was the first sentence in an email that Wes sent me this morning.  Good news is that he does read our blog.  Bad news is, he had to correct me on a lot of chicken information I stated in my latest post.  This just goes to show how hands off I have been with the chickens... could be why I took so long to blog about them.  And I guess I am dedicating another whole post to them because I was way off on my information.

So.... we did not receive eggs in the mail.  We recieved chicks, yes they delivered baby chicks in a box through the mail.  Now I remember thinking that was really crazy!!!  And he specifically ordered 5 rhode island reds, 5 white leghorn and 5 americans.  2 of the white leghorsn died early on and one went missing last week.  The green eggs come to us curtousy of the americanas, so we have 5 chickens laying green eggs, not 2.  Boy was I off on that one!

Thanks for the clarification, honey.  You always do have to keep me in check.