Texas, Our Texas, All Hail The Mighty State!

The alarm was set for 4:15 Saturday morning, pre Christmas. Paul Barry told the troops we need to be on the road by 5:30 since we have a long drive ahead. We made it out of the driveway by about 6:00. Not too bad.

Two hours later, we've managed to blow up the portable DVD player. Lucky for us we let Yulia open some of her gifts early, one of them a Leapster Learning System. 12 hours later we arrived in Texas, just as the batteries were running out on the Leapster!

We had quite a visit in Texas. We're using several blogs to tell you about our visit:

First stop was to our friend's annual Christmas get-together. All 5 of us(we're missing one regular) were proud Kangaroo graduates in 1978. We're planning a big 50th birthday celebration in a couple of years!
My friend Jennifer(speech queen) always graces us with her presence on holidays. She's become a holiday staple in the Barry/Burnette house.

Some of our best friends, this is Albert(Bubba) and our goddaughter, Gracie.

Had time for a last-minute speech queen meeting. Paige Preston and Summer Mittig, with speech princess Maggie Mittig. Cuestas, Bedeiree and queen bee Susan Schaetti were unable to attend.

Our two goddaughters Katie and Anna were our last stop before heading back to Missouri.