Alan Munde Gazette -- Deep Ellum Blues

Snow

We woke up this morning to a bit of snow on the ground. Dez got to stay home from work for a while because the Hartman Bridge was closed, and Jameson got to see real snow for the first time. Actually, he saw some in Sweden a couple of years ago, but he won't remember it.


Dez and Jameson had their first snowball fight. Jameson won. We took advantage of the morning by going to IHOP for pancakes.

Christmas Parade and Santa Breakfast

Jameson and his buddies got to ride in Chevron Phillips' Firetruck for the Baytown Christmas Parade. The grownups sat in back, and the boys sat up on the center console. That's them looking out of the front window in the first pic. Jameson sang his versions of "Jingle Bells" and "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" over the intercom for the crowd. He was a big hit. He also got to press the button that operated the "snow" machine on the front bumper. It sent suds flying all over the crowd, which was surprisingly large.


Can you see the "snow"? While we waited for the parade to start, we blasted the people on the float in front of us for a good thirty minutes.




Jameson asked Santa for the "Cars" movie, despite all of our coaching. Dez took pics of all the kids on Santa's lap, and Jameson was a champ while we waited.