Weekend in El Campo

We spent last weekend in El Campo for the annual Krenek family shrimp and oyster fry. It was a wet weekend but we did not let the weather dampen our fun.

Have rain boots, will travel.

Checking out the cows.

Not sure what this face is all about but I think it's hilarious!

Checking out Great-grandma Edna's Bluebonnets.

Maggie had so much fun playing with her cousins Cole (4 years old) and Reagan (2 1/2 yrs.)

Maggie showing Reagan something outside.

Playing cars with Cole.

Tuckered out!

Hope you all have a great week!

Tomboy? Princess?

You decide.

Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day has come and gone, but thanks to modern-day technology, we can revisit it again now.

Here's Maggie in her heart-day attire.

Here are some pictures from her party at school:

Inspecting her Valentines':

Oooh a present!

Much love to all!

Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street?

We can! We took Mags to see Sesame Street Live at the Nokia Theater on Saturday. She really seemed to enjoy it. Here are some pics:

Maggie and Michael waiting for the show to begin.

oooh lights! Yeah, you counted right. We're five rows from stage. Nothing but the best for this Elmo groupie.

See the Elmo balloons. These people are genius really. I can hear the marketing meeting now: "Hey, I know, what if during intermission we send someone out with a bunch of Elmo mylar balloons. The kids will go nuts and parents will have to buy one." Not the Kreneks though! We didn't buy one. We bought two! Because my husband has the patience of a gnat and "did not want to wait around for change." Did I mention that these were $10 a pop? (No pun intended.) Someone - my guess is Elmo - banked as there were at least 600 balloon-toting tots.

A live action shot of the chacters we all know and love.

Hope you all have a sunny day! Get it? from the theme song? "Sunny days, chasing the clouds away..." Oh, nevermind!

My love-hate relationship with my iPhone

I am usually a fan of all things Apple. Macs are greatness. I love my iPod. And, on most days, I love my iPhone. You can do a heck of alot with an iPhone. Surf the web, email, listen to music, figure out where you need to go with its Map function, text and play all sorts of games. You can even play the cowbell along with your favorite song. It's a very handy toy. Which is why I had to have one as soon as they came out. Now let me tell you why I hate my iPhone. I am constantly calling people on accident. Just ask my sister Karrie who now answers my phone calls with: "Did you mean to call me?" Don't be surprised if some day you too get a message full of me chatting it up with friends on the way to lunch - or doing who knows what - because I've called you and I have no idea. Just let me apologize in advance.

Then there is the issue of when I actually do mean to call you, but my cheek (which apparently is the fattest cheek in all of America, as this happens ALL THE TIME) activates the mute button so the person I called can no longer hear me as I chat away. I thought I had found a solution when I tried switching to the key pad mode but my aforementioned fat cheek kept hitting numbers on the touch screen so the conversation was interrupted by beeps and bloops as numbers started being dialed. I finally had to hang up before I inadvertantly conferenced some stranger into the conversation. Am I the only one with these issues? Perhaps there is a fix that I just don't know about yet. I understand that the 2nd generation iPhone apparently has these bugs worked out - but there is nothing wrong with my phone to warrant me tossing it for a new one.

iPhone users weigh in please....

Only a month late...

Well now that January is over I figured I should probably post some Christmas pics! So without further ado, I present Christmas 2008:

Here are all the grandkids with mimi and papa.

Christmas Morning

Playing the keybaord from Gramps! We had to take her gifts to her in the wagon to open as she did not want to get out!

Chillin' with the dolls.

Playing with Baby Stella

Aunt Mer takes Mags for a ride

Aunt Mer brought her dog Chance, much to MagB's delight! She loves laying on him - he's like her own personal beanbag chair.

Have a great week!

In a blog rut

I have to apologize for the lack of updates. I have a slew of pictures on my camera just waiting to be downloaded onto the computer for blog upload. There's Maggie's holiday program at school, pictures from Christmas and misc. other cute pics I'm sure you'd all enjoy. I just can't seem to get motivated to do anything with them. I'm not sure what my deal is. Perhaps it's that I am at a computer for the majority of my day and just can't make myself go sit in front of it at home. No, that's not it because I seem to be able to find hours at a time to cyber-stalk friends new and old on Facebook. Of course I can do that from my iPhone so that's different. (Not bragging. I'm just saying.) And if you are not on Facebook (and if you are then chances are I've found you, but if not send me a friend request!) you should get on it because it's so much fun catching up with old classmates and friends. Seriously, it's like crack (or how I would imagine crack would be). I even had to quit sleeping with my iPhone charging next to the bed because, no lie, I would wake up in the middle of the night and check and see if I had any new friend requests. What does that say about me? Guess I just like to be liked.