After a nice 10 day vacation for the Thanksgiving holiday, I am back at work. Jocelyn is on day three of evaluation. The first thing she said to me tonight was "you got a haircut." She is extremely perceptive. I replied "what happened to your hair"? Her hair is now curly. Quick side note, women do not seem to like that question. She is doing fine on evaluation, but she did earn a laugh from me tonight. We stopped a vehicle on traffic. The passenger in the vehicle had 11 city warrants. Jocelyn then arrests the passenger and returns to have the driver sign the ticket. She returns and starts her paperwork on the passenger. About 10 minutes goes by and she says, "crap, you are going to laugh at me." I asked her what she had done. She said that after the driver signed the ticket, she gave both copies of the ticket to the driver. Usually, the pink copy goes to the driver and the white copy gets turned in for processing. Jocelyn was in possession of neither copy. I asked the arrested passenger in the backseat if he knew the driver's phone number. He said it was in his phone. Jocelyn went around to the backseat and fished the cell phone out of the handcuffed guy's pants. She then used the phone to call the driver. He was kind enough to bring the white copy of the ticket back to us. She thanked the driver and just like she thought, I laughed at her.
Back to the highlights of my Thanksgiving vacation.
We celebrated Jen's birthday at Perry's Italian. It is a nice place that takes a leisurely approach to dining. We have eaten there many times. We had a table of 13, so that is going to slow things down a little as well. I made the reservations for 5 PM hoping that we would be home in time for the Longhorns kickoff at 7 PM. No such luck. Dinner took over two hours without dessert. The manager was kind enough to comp some of our food. We will be back, but that took forever. At least the Horns crushed Kansas.
A was baptized the following morning at our church. He was baptized with two of his best friends by the same Pastor that baptized me. It was a very well documented baptism. I set up the big camera on a tripod on the front row of the balcony and Mike used a remote control to snap an endless stream of pictures. Courtney videotaped the event from the balcony. The mother of the other boys videotaped from the side of the baptistry and I took photos from the same spot. Right after the pastor asked A if he wanted to follow Christ in believer's baptism and A responded "yes sir," A immediately grabbed his nose. He did not want to be surprised by the pastor and get a nose full of water. So, he got to stand there for a few seconds holding his nose while the pastor said his thing. It made us all smile, just typical A. On Monday we went to Bass Pro Shops for their Santa's Wonderland. They are supposed to have Santa, crafts, games, and other fun things for kids. The small print says that all of that fun stuff takes place on the weekends, not Mondays. However, the kids did get to play with what you would expect to find at Bass Pro Shops, guns, fishing rods, a bow, NASCAR slot racers, and a remote controlled Monster Truck. The kids and adults made the best of it. Nanny even snagged some of the crafts for the kids to do later. On Thanksgiving, the family started arriving at our house at around 11:30 AM. After the usual food, football, pies, more food, and the Longhorns beating the Aggies, the family left our humble abode around 11 PM. It was a great day.
Friday and Saturday was spent decorating the house for Christmas. That is what Jen did anyway. I am responsible for putting up the tree and then making sure Jen does not fall off of the ladder while decorating the top of the tree. The rest of the time I tried to entertain the kids to keep them out of Jen's way. I did not really succeed. I am easily distracted by football and computers. After dinner on Saturday, A and A2 decided that they wanted to help put ornaments on the tree. Jen had been decorating for two days straight. She was wiped out and ready to be finished. But, first and foremost, Jen is a great mother. She showed the patience of Job and enjoyed the kids helping her finish trimming the tree. It was a neat moment for her and the kids that I captured in photos.
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