Sunday, Dec 28, 2008 - Santa's Wonderland

The family made the trip to Santa's Wonderland near College Station Sunday evening. Donna and I met Dan, Tammy and the 3 grandsons in Tomball and rode with them for dinner at Double Dave's Pizza in College Station. Then down to the Christmas lights at the Santa's Wonderland. We toured the old western town and warmed by the bonfire while enjoying the country western music and Christmas carols.

The hayride behind a pickup truck was fun as our group of seven were the only people on this trip. Jackson enjoyed the gator eating the frog and Matthew liked the reindeer fired from the cannon. Ted was enjoying it all.

Merry Christmas - Dec 24, 2008

Donna and I are enjoying the Christmas spirit and looking forward to this evening with Dan and Tammy and the boys. In knowing about all the snow and ice in the northern part of the U.S., it was funny to go out this morning at 6 am in a t-shirt and shorts to get the newspaper. It was 72 at that time but only warmed up to 74 deg today.

On Christmas Day, we will all be at Dan and Tammy's for a late lunch and celebrate the day with all of the related family and a few friends. We have enjoyed this season very much with the Supper Club party at Bonnie and Bill's last Saturday and the Gift exchange with the drawing of numbers. We also had our Christmas dinner with the Cypresswood 50 Plus Club and the lunch with the Ashland Retiree Club.

We wish all our family and friends a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Saturday, Dec 13, 2008 - Donna's Birthday

Donna celebrated her 69th Birthday on Dec 13th. We had dinner at the Outback and enjoyed a Coconut Shrimp appetizer and 11 oz steaks with baked potato and sawtayed mushrooms. On Sunday, we had the full celebration at Dan and Tammy’s home with cake, pie and ice cream with all the family. Jackie, Tammy's Dad, shares the same birth date with Donna so we had a good time with all.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - Ashland Quarterly Luncheon

We will have a cash bar at 11:30 am and lunch starting at noon at the Sugar Creek Country Club at 420 Sugar Creek Blvd, 281.494.9131. We will have a choice of New York steak or Chicken Marsala. We will have our White Elephant gift exchange and no guest speaker. Ashland Retiree's Club of Texas must be out of the room by 2 pm.

Ashland Retiree's Club

Tuesday, Dec 9, 2008 - Christmas with the 50 Plus Club

Our club will have the Christmas dinner at the Olive Garden in the Woodlands at 7 pm. This will be in place of our normal meeting at the East Clubhouse.

Cypresswood 50 Plus Club

Harris County Precinct 4 provides a free bus and driver for our club activities but we will drive to the restaurant for our Christmas dinner.

Monday, Dec 8, 2008 - Silver Eagles Lunch

It is time for chicken wings and beer again so our Silver Eagles will meet for lunch at Hooter's on FM 1960 at I-45 to enjoy fine food in pleasant surroundings.

Silver Eagles Poem

The second Monday of each month is the day we retired guys have wings and beer at Hooters. We go at 1:15 pm to avoid the lunch hour rush. Many are from our subdivision but we also are joined by area friends.