We live in the COUNTRY

Ok so I'm driving along, minding my own business and look over at the car next to me....of course he's hauling a trailor with a DEAD HORSE ON IT. Of Course. It's not restrained in anyway, or covered up. Just hanging out in all his rigor mortis glory. So sad, and so....weird. Which, of course, meant that I had to whip out my cell phone and take this pic.

Please pray for baby Alison

Our friends from Kentucky, Matt & Mary, welcomed their second baby girl - Alison - into the world! She's beautiful! Please pray for her as she will be having surgery today to correct a blockage that is keeping her from being able to breathe on her own. This might be an indicator of some other obstacles for Alison, so please pray that she will not be afftected by the Charge Syndrome.

Mantle!!!

This Christmas, my handy hubby made me a MANTLE! From scratch, by hand! I'm so impressed. Our brick fireplace needed a bit of a pick-me-up, so Matt made the mantle and bought me the mirror (he picked it out himself)! I painted the gold screen black and mom found the silver vase. Voila! Check us out, TLC!

Here are the "before" and "after" shots.

Snow Day!

Molly is so much fun! Here she is in the snow! Check out those ears-a-floppin! Also, for your added enjoyment, a snow/ice covered TUMBLEWEED in our back yard (there are lots more)!

Ice Storm!

Our Willow tree full of ice! Unfortunately, the ice storm kept me from Traci's shower in Snyder, which was a major bummer! Hopefully, I'll get to catch up with her the next time she's in the Permian Basin -ha!

In Biznass!

Well, it's official! We are in business! We are no longer on anyone else's payroll...scary and so exciting! WHOOOHOOO!

Round up the Trees!

We decided to store our Christmas tree in the corral until we take it to the recycling place! Here's Molly helping Matt with the tree....

See how rocky the corral is? We're not sure what to do with it. Any suggestions? So far the winning suggestion is a retirement park for our parents and their mobile homes! heehee

Christmas in NM!

We continued celebrating at our house with both sides of parents!

Set table for New Year's Eve dinner....and Matt and I toasting (beer bottle vs. Waterford glass -- heehee).

Christmas in Michigan!

We had a great visit in Michigan with Dean and Grandma Fleharty. We had a nice dinner out on Christmas Eve, went to church, and opened presents. While we were there, Detroit broke a temp. record at 56 degrees....no snow for us! The neighborhoods up there organize and coordinate their decorations for Christmas Eve. They put out luminarias all along the street and move their cars into the driveways so passers-by can see the full effects...Gorgeous! Come on other states...we should do that too!

We flew to Dallas on Christmas day, but one of the legs on our original flight got canceled!! We ended up being re-routed to Newark and then on to Dallas. Most of our actual Christmas day was in the airport :)

Kilgore Family Party

Friday night, the whole Kilgore family (minus Matteo) got together. ASK got some yummy Jones soda (haha - turkey, antacid, etc.)! We ate a ton of snickerdoodles too! Here's a SUPER easy and very tasty recipe:

SNICKERDOODLES
1 Box Yellow Cake Mix
2 Eggs
1 tsp. Vanilla
1/2 cup vegetable oil
Bake @ 350 for 10 minutes, or until they look done!

As usual, we had an entertaining bunch :)

Matt LOVES his boiled peanuts! Kristi and Lex hooked him up with a SIX POUND CAN of boiled peanuts! Hilarious.

Kilgore Cousins

Lex, Kristi, Mylynka, Me, Granny, Kevin & Nahee (Mom was taking the pic)! Since we missed Kevin & Nahee's wedding party, we all got together at Grannys and then went to lunch at El Paseo.

Carrollton Christmas!

Sleepy Poth Pup

Ginobili Poth takes a nap.

Full Set!

3 Cousins with a "full set" of rings (Aggie Rings and Wedding Rings)!

*Kristi*Suzanne*Cindy

Hill Family Party

This is the best "group" picture we ended up with from the Hill Family party this year...Uncle Bub, if you have a better one, send it our way!

Kristi, Lex, Dad, Linda Kay, Uncle Bub, Jeremy, Suzanne, Cindy & Me-Maw (mom was the photographer)!

Merry Christmas from the Fleharty Pups!

Christmas Lights!

Matt did a great job and put up all these lights practically by himself (when I was in Greenville)! The luminaries took almost an entire day! I was leary of all the colored lights, but I must say they have grown on me! MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Longhorn Christmas

Last night Dean came over to give Matt his Christmas present. It was a hand-made rug with none other than Bevo on it! Dean individually cut each 4 inch piece of yarn and then latched this rug for Matt. It took him over 333 hours to make this. Come visit and you can see it in Matt's Longhorn room :)

South Carolina!

I got to visit Kristi & Lex last weekend in South Carolina! Here's a pic of us at a seafood restaurant, which by the way had awesome scallops! Yum. We did a lot of shopping, baked some Christmas cookies and ate a lot of tasty food. We also bought some boiled peanuts for Matt from the P-Nut Man, who was actually a woman. He loooooved them even though he didn't get to eat them until my bags finally arrived on Tuesday (thanks American Airlines - haha)!

Snow-Weeds!

Only in the desert....Snow and TUMBLEWEEDS! (look under the tire)! This is the promised picture from a few weeks back.

Grates and Pits....

This morning I overheard Matt on the phone with an electrian. He was giving directions so that the electrician could meet him out at a site to install some kind of wire. The directions went like this:

Go past Billy Walker Road. Pass 3 cattle grates and then turn left at Cooper's pit.

We ain't in Dallas anymore, Toto!

NEWSFLASH: It does snow in the New Mexican Desert!

Pictures to come when my HP software starts working again....

Texas Aggie vs. Texas Longhorn Game!

This picture says a lot...happy Aggie, not so happy Longhorn! (Actually, the sun is just in his eyes)!
















Aggie Sandwich






















Before the game.















Gig 'Em and Hook 'Em















Our FAVORITE ice cream spot in Austin...Amy's Ice Cream. This is our ice cream cow too -- we frequented him often when we were dating!

Dining Set!

The long awaited dining set is finally here and set up!

Matt with china cabinet. We inherited this set of Waterford so we are very glad to have a place for it now! I made Matt put each piece in the cabinet because with tile floors I've already broken a LOT of stuff!!! Funny that I didn't drop that much stuff when we had carpet floors...or at least I didn't think I did!!

And yes, that is plastic still on the chairs! HAHA

Matt & Table w/ Christmas table cloth (already)! HOHOHO We have 2 leaves for the table so it gets huge. We are also planning to put up crown moulding, which is why the top paint line is so crooked :)

This is the "before" shot. Well, semi-before. The walls were all the beige color with a wallpaper border. I pulled down the border to find the sponged-on leaves. So, we repainted the beige, added the green, and Matt put up some moulding as a divider.

Turn the HEAT on!

Matt and I have been conducting a little experiment this past month. We did not turn on our A/C or our Heat at ALL for an entire month, just to see how it would effect our electric bill. Today the newest bill came. Guess how much we saved compared to the previous month's bill? That's right, folks. FIVE DOLLA'! Holla!




Glad we FROZE our HINEYs OFF!
heheheh

Molly & Pebbles

Dawg

I have been informed (thanks, Jon) that those African hits are just search engines indexing my site. Dawg. I thought we were going to make some international pen-pals :)