Crochet Me Crazy

Just back last night from a whirlwind trip to Austin for Alison's birthday! We started of the day Friday with her customary "birthday bacon".

She opened her presents and as much as she hated to leave her new keyboard...

we hit the road!

We ate at her favorite restaurant


Then we headed to the Trail of Lights where we were herded like cattle through the mile long trail. It was unbelievable the amount of people....
We took a bus shuttle over to the lights. While we were riding on the bus, Jeff got up and announced that it was his daughter's 16th birthday and asked everyone to help us sing Happy Birthday to her. Alison sat there blushing while a whole bus load of strangers sung Happy Birthday to her! :)





We went home and had birthday cake and stayed up WAY too late!



The next morning we got up and went shopping at thrift stores. We made a pretty good haul at the thrift stores. The big deal was Alison trying to get the courage up to get her ears pierced! We made it through that and then went to eat with our friends before hitting the road to come back home again.

Here is Alison's birthday gift from Morgan....

Remember the goat I said that Alison and Morgan found out in the pasture? He was born premature and is receiving special care. He needs to be bottle fed every few hours. He is deformed and has one leg shorter than the rest so he is having trouble finding his legs. If he makes it, he will be a petting zoo goat.

Nothing cuter than a baby goat....

Well, everything turned out fine with the filming last night. It was late and it was dark but it only took a few minutes. We put them on the horses and they took a silhouette shot of them riding slowly. Alison & I spent several hours out there with them again today while they used our horse, Shiloh on the set. He was just tied up in the background of the scene. It was pretty interesting having them here and it will be really fun to see the film! I found this online about the film. It's called "Spirited - A Western Short Film"

Spirited - A Western Short Film | Indiegogo

There is also a Facebook page for the film: https://www.facebook.com/SpiritedShortFilm

I was soooo tired after such a busy weekend and felt like I hadn't been sleeping very well or enough the past few nights so I decided to take a sleep-aid last night and go to bed. Ahhh....sweet sleep is washing over me when the phone rang. Huh? What? It's Jeff....he's telling me that he has hit a deer big time and is on the side of the road. His van won't drive...his radiator is out and his headlights don't even work. I'm telling him that I can't drive to get him because I took a sleeping pill. He tells me to go back to sleep....I hung up the phone and the rest is history. I called him this morning to see what he found ended up doing. He had to wait a few hours for a wrecker to come get his work van and they brought him back to San Antonio where he slept in the office. They are issuing him a new van today.