Daryl and Greerson Meet President George W Bush

Greerson and Daryl wait to meet the President!!!

Greerson and Daryl got to meet President George W. Bush at his book signing in Waco. It actually started Sunday morning about 10:30 when Sunday school was over they headed to Books A Million and got in line to get an arm band. It turns out they were numbers 372 and 373, but most important was that they were guaranteed to get books signed. On Tuesday November 23, 2010 they arrived at Books A Million at 11:00 and waited to get in line. The bookstore put everyone in their numerical order. By 12:45 they were inside the building and through the security clearance. The line wound through the whole store and ended up at a table where President Bush asked Greerson what grade he was in and what his name was and shook his hand. Then he shook Daryl's hand. It was an awesome experience for both of them.

Barefoot in the Park

Paul tells Corie about his first case in court the next morning

Mother and Mr. Velasco the upstairs neighbor, discuss the location of her clothes

Velasco tries to remember something he was supposed to do

Mrs. Banks is not sure what to think about Victor Velasco

September and October have been busy months for us. Daryl directed Barefoot in the Park by Neil Simon for Navarro College, which meant driving to Corsicana three nights a week. The opening night audience loved it. Christa has been busy with Greerson and the Boy Scouts. She is now a Patrol guide and went camping at the Sam Houston Area Council (Shac) Jamboree (ShacJam) in College Station at the raceway. They were both impressed that Lord Baden Powell's granddaughter was there from England. He is the founder of scouting. In November we will be headed to Dinosaur Valley. Christa will probably stay in a tent, but the camper will be there for Daryl to hang out in. That will probably be out last camper campout for 2010. We are hoping to take it out in January, but we will have to see how our schedule works out. Here are some pictures from Barefoot in the Park.

HPU Homecoming

The old pipe organ is gone

The lobby looks similar, but I always liked the black and white checkered tile that is now wall to wall carpeting.

The seats look really nice and almost comfortable now.

This is the new second floor mezzanine where the practice rooms used to be.

The view from the mezzanine of the newer music complex

The outside is pretty much the same, but they took out the huge trees from in front.

This is the Old Main tower behind the Bible Building. Jesus is at the other end, but we didn't take the time to walk down and see him.

This is the brilliant Class of 1989 leadership! Note the illustrious president (with hair!)

It's really hard to believe that I have been out of college for 21 years. Dr. Nancy Jo Humfeld who is now the head of the Theatre department at Howard Payne University celebrated 25 years of teaching and my niece Robin and I attended. Nancy Jo had directed a play so we attended the special performance with the other theatre alumni. After the show we all went to a special reception for her. It was great being back on campus and conjuring up old memories. Facebook helped with that. David Cozart had posted about the yearbooks being available online now so I of course had to peruse them. I found this picture of me when I was the senior class president. I had a time getting it on here. I turned it into an adobe acrobat document, cropped it, copied and pasted it into Word and then took a picture of the Word document with my iphone. I realize there is probably some easy way to do it, but frankly I couldn't figure it out. So I got creative and you can see the fruits of my efforts. The other huge change at HPU was Mims Auditorium. They have completely redone it inside. All of the offices and practice rooms are gone. In fact the studio where I took piano lessons is now the men's restroom. The restroom looked a lot larger than the studio ever did (maybe it was because there were two grand pianos in it). Anyway I am posting pictures of the newly renovated Mims Auditorium. I looked for my parent's bricks, but couldn't find them. They had a stage set up for the BBQ and I couldn't see under it. We went down Friday afternoon and were back in Waco by 12:30 am. It was a nice short trip.

Star Wars the Clone Wars Premiere Party

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Greerson invited some friends over for a Star Wars the Clone Wars Premiere Party a couple of weeks ago. We had been given the opportunity to test a new game featuring the characters from the tv show. They all had a great time. We ate Double Dave's pepperoni rolls and watched the new episode and then played the game. They also played the Clone Wars game on the WII.

Christa had to work so Daryl hosted the boys and everyone had a great time!

Troop 377 at the ranch

Brenna and Mimi and Granpa Woody watch the events

Greerson takes a break

The court of honor candles

Troop 377 campsite

The Bob games 2010 leader board

Grandpa Woody instructs the boys on setting up the canopy


We hosted Troop 377 and their parents for a weekend of games and fun. They have the "Bob" games (Best of the Best) each year and wanted to do it at the ranch. It was perfect for them, other than the September heat. Next year I think October will be better. They arrived on Friday night and set up camp and Daryl put five briskets on to smoke for Saturday nights BBQ. The kitchen crew worked all day on the BBQ and it really paid off. The food was great!!!! The games were a great success and the boys all had a great time. Stephen and Shanda came and watched the activities also. Saturday night was the first Eagle Scout presentation that Troop 377 has done. It was a really special time for all of the boys. Greerson received his Tenderfoot badge that night. Sunday morning after a short sermon by Daryl everyone loaded up on the trailer and went to see the animals. It was a great weekend, but it took a couple of weeks for us to fully recover.

Round Rock Express Baseball and a birthday

Greerson's Birthday party

XBOX never looked so good!

Greerson's birthday at the ranch

Greerson on the bus after the baseball game

Popcorn, Cracker Jacks and Baseball!!!!!

Greerson before the game



Christa's firm took their employees to a Round Rock Express baseball game. We had hamburgers and hot dogs on the party porch and enjoyed the game. We rode a charter bus from her office to the game and back. Greerson really enjoyed the ride with his ipod and DS. Greerson had a couple of weeks to celebrate his birthday before school started. He was really upset that school started on his birthday this year. We stopped by the ranch on the way home from a campout for him to blow out the candles and spend some time with Mimi and Grandpa Woody. Then the next weekend we he had a party at Lansharks (a video game place). It was one of the easiest parties we ever hosted. The video games kept the party goers entertained and all we had to do was entertain the parents.

More Vacation Pictures

We have been really busy with the start of school and I havn't had a chance to finish posting our vacation pictures to the blog. We came home via Omaha, Nebraska and then Kansas City and the Precious Moments Chapel.


The boys at the McDonalds over the Interstate

The McDonalds in Okalahoma over the Interstate

The ceiling of the Precious Moments Chapel

Greerson looking at the large painting of Heaven in the chapel

One of the stained glass windows in the chapel

The painting of Heaven

The front of the Precious Moments Chapel

The Precious Moments Visitor Center

Hallmark Headquarters in Kansas City

A display of crowns that celebrate Hallmarks 100th anniversary

Kansas City Baseball

A quote from Harry Truman at his Presidential museum

The flame overlooking the garden at the Harry Truman Presidential Library

A newspaper with an incorrect headline and a button from Truman's campaign

We looked for Marlin Perkins at the Omaha Zoo, but we couldn't find him!

Rosenblatt Field in Omaha, Nebraska

A Jackalope at Wall Drug in Wall, South Dakota

Ted Hustead the man who made Wall Drug famous

Wall Drug took up a whole city block

These signs were miles and miles away from Wall Drug and advertised all sorts of stuff you could find there.