UTES dedication

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We attended the dedication ceremonies for UT Elementary yesterday afternoon. It included speeches from Larry Faulkner, UT President, Charles Miller, chairman of the UT Board of Regents, a UTES parent and a professor. It was also attended by Gus Garcia, Eddie Rodriguez, the UT cheerleaders, somebody dressed up in a Bevo costume and some version of the Longhorn band (those playing looked a little above college age, so I’m guessing it was an alumni version or something). The kids have been practicing some songs over the past couple of weeks and performed them after the speeches. It was all supposed to be outside, but it rained just as the ceremony was to start and it didn’t let up until halfway through. Several of the local TV stations were there, we didn’t catch the footage last night (too busy watching the new Fox season and MTV’s Sunday Stew), but there’s a mention of it here. KXAN was there, but it doesn’t look like they have stories from the weekend up on the site yet. I’ll keep an eye on their site and add a link here if it appears.

 Posted by on November 3, 2003 at 9:22 pm

Halloween 2003 Recap and Happy Birthday to Mary

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New pictures of the week from yesterday for both kids. Also, Sophia took a bunch of pictures at her house. Last minute changes had Lily as a princess and the three boys as frogs. I’m not sure how much kissing and prince conversion there was. They all still appear to be frogs.

From the point of view of the "trick-or-treatee", this year seemed to be full of clueless rude people. As I placed a bag of peanut M&M’s into one kids bag, he declared that he "doesn’t like the ones with peanuts" to which there could’ve been any number of responses, but I chose to scowl at him and give him a bag of regular M&M’s. We had what we thought were the last trick-or-treaters around 8:30, but we neglected to turn off our porch light. At 11:30, our doorbell rang. Of course, we looked at each other wondering who the hell would ring a doorbell that late. Apparently, a woman with 4 or 5 kids would. I wanted to tell her off, but Mary gave them candy and said nothing. We immediately turned out our porch lights and disposed of our molding pumpkin.

 Posted by on November 2, 2003 at 1:19 am
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