All-University Thanksgiving Dinner

Colin and I went with our friend Pieter to the All-University Thanksgiving Dinner tonight here at Baylor. It was fun to have free turkey and mingle a little bit with the students. YEA for real Thanksgiving almost being here and for our family coming to visit! I am so thankful that the Rhodes/Barron/Kruschwitz/McKenzie family will all get to come together for the holiday and share in the festivities at our little house!

Veteran's Day!!

Today is Veteran's Day, and we should honor our friends and family members who have served in the armed services to keep this country free!! In our family, we would like to honor Col. (ret.) Colin S. McKenzie who served in the Army (Colin's paternal grandfather), Richard Garcia who served in the Air Force (Colin's maternal grandfather), Bill J. Barron who served in the Navy Air Force (Mandie's maternal grandfather) and Gene Rhodes who served in the Army (Mandie's paternal grandfather). We would also like to send a special prayer out to Colin's dad, Colin, who is stationed in Iraq right now and to Colin's brother, Ian, who is stationed in Germany. Both are in the Army, and we hope that they stay safe and know that we love them!!

Busy Week!!

This week will be super busy!! Colin went to San Antono today with the Golden Wave Band to be an exhibition band at the UIL State Marching Contest for Texas high school bands. They left about noon and he won't be home until this one o'clock in the morning! Then, it is teaching class for him and work for me at the library as usual. This weekend is the Baylor vs. Texas game in Austin, and I will be traveling down with the band to root on the Bears. However, the game has an eleven o'clock in the morning kick-off, so that means that we will have to leave Waco at 4:30 AM to make it there in time for the band to rehearse! YUCK!! Hopefully, the football team will play well and the day won't be too long!! SIC 'EM BEARS!!!!

Homecoming!!

Homecoming 2008 was super fun! Colin directed the band at the bonfire, the parade, and the football game, and I watched and cheered him on! It was fun to reunite with our Baylor friends and take part in the traditions that we love. I even took two of the dogs to the parade!

Here is a picture of me and Savannah (the black lab) and Charlotte (the silly white dog rolling in the grass) at the parade with one of my good friends from college, Tara.

Here is picture of Colin directing the band in the parade!!

The game was even really good, for Baylor football. :) We were tied with Missouri, a ranked team in the Big XII Conference, until the last few minutes of the game, which shows to me that Baylor football is on the rise!! I played with the Alumni Band in the Script Baylor show at halftime. It was really fun to participate in the band like I did back when I was in college with all of my friends!! Below is a picture of the Script Baylor show at halftime--the people in gold shirts in the "B" are the Alumni Band! YEA alums!!

SIC 'EM BEARS!!!