Colet Inn Bar and Grill

Tonight we went to dinner at one of our favorite haunts...

Our favorite waitress...

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If you take my photo I'm going too....SNAP!
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View of Coleto Creek from the restaurant!

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Watching football and enjoying dinner...
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Robie our favorite cook!
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Michael and Grammy!

Daddy's outside!

Michael took his Dad out to see the Oaks I shredded/mowed around. I caught them on the way back...

So love to seem them outside together enjoying the day :o)

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Okay...he's actually fixing something! The only reason he's doing it is because Mommy in law is here and he's trying to look good! Otherwise I would have had to fix it, thanks babe! He also aired up the flat tire I seem to have gotten on the lawn mower, oops!
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Julie out for a walk...I liked this photo because of that one foot up in the air...Clip-Clop! She sure looks shaggy in her winter coat!

I whistled and she turned to see what I wanted, love my horse!

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Beautiful December day...

While Fred watched his football game and Grammy played with Michael I went out and shredded...and then I found these two Oak trees that had huge grape vines hanging from them and it looked like the perfect place for Michael to play. I shredded around the area and then went and got him...They are fairly close to the house and within walking distance but I drove Mom out there so she could have a look see too...

Jake wasn't sure how to get out of the truck...something I've never trained him to do, so he sat in the back of the truck and whined...But finally he figured it out and jumped out, Yeah!

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Michael climbing...

I just love big Old Oaks!
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Michael and Jake, a boy and his dog!
(Fred said it looks like Timmy and Lassie :o)

Grammy has arrived!

We went to the Austin airport to pick Grammy up Saturday night...

Michael waiting for Grammy to arrive...

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Austin is a musicians city and there was this really neat display of Giant Guitars in different themes...it was really cool.

One of my favorites...Texas theme.


She's here and just off the escalator when Michael tackled her...he is lit up like a Christmas tree!

Welcome to Texas Grammy!

Where it's warm :o)

Michael's class Christmas party....

It was Michael's last day of school until after the first of the year and the day for his class Christmas party...

They combined both 2nd grade classes and then split the girls from the boys...

They played bingo, decorated cookies, made pine cone bird feeders, opened gifts and ate pizza and other goodies!

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I was standing in between the rooms and laughing...The boys were definitely louder and more boisterous than the girls! They are so excited about Christmas and Santa Claus!

There's my sick little one, seems he has a cold poor thing! It's going around the school and most of the kids are sniffling, sneezing and coughing, ugh! But it didn't put a damper on the Christmas festivities!
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The little girl in the light purple outfit brought in this beautiful gingerbread house, it was gorgeous!
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He was pretty darn happy!

So happy he couldn't wait to get out of there, lol...

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It's officially Christmas break, woohoo!

Morning in December...

Our mornings lately have been starting really really early...Like at 2am, 4:30am, 5am! It's not fun. It seems a pack of coyotes has moved into the neighborhood and they know we have chickens. In fact my free range hens and rooster are indefinitely penned up. I'm missing 3 hens and I'm tired of being woke up by coyotes yipping and yowling. I have a plan to get the coyotes but I have to wait until Saturday morning when I don't have to worry about getting Michael to school. Hopefully it'll put an end to the coyote problem.

It all seems we have a feral hog hanging around too and I keep seeing it when I drive down the driveway in the morning. So this morning I grabbed the camera when we left the house...Here's a few photos from our morning drive to and from school, and no we did not see the feral hog this morning.

Fog moving in...

I used 3500 ISO with the 28-105 mm lens, as it was still pretty dark and also the reason for the grainy photo.
A bit of autumn...love this bright little Oak tree!

Coming home and Julie walking down the driveway as the sun is rising...

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I don't do sugar cookies...

but Michael does!

Someone (my mother ?) gave us a Betty Crocker kit for sugar cookies. I mixed the dough up yesterday, just to see if it was any good and left it in the fridge. Tonight while Michael took a bath I rolled them out and made them, we had stars, snowflakes and a horse cookie cutter...Michael did the decorating...

I am so glad I got these Wilton Sprinkles, too sweet!

He's going a little heavy with those sprinkles...Because my back starting spasming I went and sat down while Michael decorated...

Sprinkles and more sprinkles!

He informed me that if you try to eat them you'll need a napkin as he got a bit carried away with the frosting :o) I knew he would! He had fun and got to pretty much do what he wanted, fun, fun, fun!

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Grammy will be here Saturday and she can take over the cookie making...I love it!