Today's basketball game!

The girls won their basketball game today!! In overtime!!!! It was such an exciting game!! At the end of the game it was 16 to 16. Janelle got fouled and got to shoot two free throws. She made one, putting the score at 17 to 16. Then Dakota made a basket making it 19 to 16 and in the last few seconds of the game Jordan made a basket for a final score of 21 to 16!!! It was so exciting and an excellent game!!!!!

A busy week!!

This is going to be a busy week for us. Last night (Monday) Jordan had gymnastics. Tonight the girls have their Christmas play at school. Tomorrow they have a basketball game, then Christmas party at Awana. We have company coming in for a big pheasant hunt. Some of them will be here tomorrow, but Rick (who is staying with us) won't be here until Thursday. He'll be staying until Sunday and they (all the Simon's guys and customers) will all be having a trap shoot out here at our house on Thursday, then a guided hunt on Friday and Saturday. Then Ed will take them around to some places he's lined up for them on Sunday. Even though Ed no longer works for Simons. They are including him and paying his way for the entire hunting trip. They told him he wasn't an employee anymore, but he was still family. I thought that was pretty sweet!! Saturday evening is Grandma Margie's Christmas in Laverne. Sure hope we manage to get to go. Just have to see if we can talk Rick into going with us or not, since he's staying here all weekend. The girls last day of school is Friday, then they are out until January 5th!! I can't believe this year is almost over already!!

It's Cold!!!!!

I think winter had finally arrived!! It's been so cold here the past few days! Yesterday Jordan took this picture of my pond with the waterfall all iced over. It's really pretty!

Today the kitchen sink drain was froze up. Ed had to come home from work to unthaw it. I'm sooooooo ready for summer!! lol

Bryce got his own house!!!

Well, Bryce officially has his own place now! He's renting a two bedroom house in Shattuck. He was supposed to share this house with a buddy, but that fell through, so he's just got it on his own! He's pretty excited. It's got a backyard and he's already got a puppy!! He's really liking his job with Terra Renewal and of course he loves being a volunteer fireman! I'm gonna gather him up some things soon and take to him or give to him when he comes out for Christmas. Bryce sounds really happy and I'm so happy for him!!!

First basketball game!!!

The girls kicked butt!!! Whoo Hoo!!! They beat Yarbrough 16 t0 12!! Dakota scored 11 of those 16 points!! Both girls played excellent. Hope this is a good sign of more wins this year for them!!

It's December!!!!

Wow, I can't believe it's already December 1st!! Christmas is just right around the corner!!! I pretty much have all my Christmas shopping done!! Just a few stocking stuffers left to buy. I'm relieved to be done, I put it off for quite a while this year. I'm usually all done by Sept. or so!

Updates on the family:

Ed - staying busy with Nabors. He has been doing a little hunting, but not much. Has a big pheasant hunt planned for the weekend of the 18th, 19th and 20th. All the guys from Simon's (the place he used to work) are coming out and will be doing a guided hunt on the 19th and 20th - which they included Ed in. They told him he might not be an employee anymore, but he was still family!! :o) The 18th they are all coming to our house to shoot trap all day. Not sure who all will be staying with us - most will be staying in the hotel in Guymon, but I know Rick will stay with us and maybe Steve. Ed is looking forward to it!!

Bryce - loving his job with Terra!! He's staying busy. Just found out that he finally found a house to rent in Shattuck. He will be sharing this two bedroom house with a friend that he works with. He was pretty excited when I talked to him this morning. It will be nice for him to finally have a real place to stay and be able to unpack all his boxes that are in storage!!

Dakota and Jordan - they have their first basketball game this coming Wednesday. They are excited. They had a great Thanksgiving, as Jett (one of their best friends, who moved to Enid last summer) was back for a visit and they all got to go to the show and then Jett spent the night with the girls. They were thrilled to see her again. They are getting excited for Christmas. They both got parts in the Christmas play this year, so they have been busy studying for those. They went deer hunting but neither of them got one this year. They were a little disappointed, but not too bad!

Me - well, I'm staying busy with the normal household stuff and running the girls all over for basketball, gymnastics, ect.... Been to a couple craft shows with my best friend and have another one to go to this coming Saturday. I'm finally getting excited for Christmas. Got all my decorating done last Friday, and all my gifts are wrapped and under the tree!!


Hope everyone has a wonderful December!!!!

Quite a scare!!

Yesterday Ed calls me around 11:00 and tells me that he heard there had been an explosion at the Duke plant at Straight. And that the girls' school had to be evacuated. I ran outside to look that direction and see if I could see any smoke or anything and about the time I came back inside the girls' teacher was calling the house. There had been a fire and small explosion at the plant. The school had been evacuated. They were a few miles from the school at the designated place for emergencies. Everyone was okay!! But school was cancelled for the rest of the day. I went over and picked up the girls and brought them home.

Luckily, no one at the school or the plant was injured. And even though I knew the girls were okay, I was scared to death driving over to pick them up. Ed was called to send one of his water trucks to the fire - just in case they needed it, but luckily, the fire was contained and allowed to burn itself out and the truck Ed sent out was not needed.

The girls were a little disappointed that it ruined their day at school - it was Young Reader's Day and all the students and teachers wore their pajamas to school. They had all be laying around on blankets and bean bags reading and having popcorn and hot chocolate when they had to evacuate. I'm sure the local fire fighters and emergency people got a good chuckle out of all the kids and teachers running out of the school in their pajamas!! lol