November 2002 Pictures
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Caitlin and I attended her school's Fall Daddy-Daughter Dance. She spent most of the evening hanging out with her friend Tori. Towards the end of the night, some of the attendee dads with more soul than most were break-dancing and forming a dance line where whomever wanted could strut their stuff. It ended up being a lot of fun for both of us. |
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Caitlin and Devin show off some of their bike tricks before
the weather gets too much colder.
Devin wipes out trying a complex move, but gets right back on the bike to try it again. |
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Our local mall, the Parks at Arlington, just opened a whole new wing which includes a parking garage, ice-skating rink, more shops, an 18 theatre AMC, and this cool merry-go-round. |
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Arlington cable's local information channel 5 displays a continuous stream of city information. But half the time, their computer which runs the video has a Microsoft Windows error showing. I just think it's too funny, so I finally decided to snap a shot of it for you. |
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Caitlin had skate-night with her school class. Mom and daughter get down with the music, literally. |
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Angela and Stephanie Cross decorated two tables for the annual Festival of Tables. Table one is the "Coffee Table" for which they dressed up as Parisian coffee connoisseurs. Table two is named the "Gold Table" or "Artichoke and Hydrangea Hybrid." |
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I did one of the absolute stupidest things I've ever done
in my life. Could be the stupidest ever, but I don't care to go over
my history of stunts to determine if it was. As with every stupid
thing I've done, it seemed like a good idea at the time. So, here's
the story: We had a social with our church class called the Family Olympics. Everyone and their kids competed in various competitions for their team. The only group competition was the tug-of-war. I really wanted to help my team, so I tried to devise a way to maximize my pulling power for the team. Time was running out, they were about to start, I had to think quickly. Okay, loop the rope around the front of my wheelchair, around the footrest...yeah, that's good. Then, I'll just push really hard in the opposite direction and it will pull the rope for my team. The instant the whistle blew and everyone pulled, there's that flicker of consciousness that says, wait a minute, something isn't right. I'm sitting there looking at our anchor-man jerk the rope taught and it threw me and the chair straight up about 4 feet in the air. I teetered on top of the rope for about 0.133 of a second before being catapulted out sideways onto the floor. Thank goodness a friend was there snapping his camera to get these shots. And the competition went on without me, as you can see, with my chair hanging upside down from the rope. My team lost. I think it was in part due to the disturbance of my flying act. Immediately after the loss, team members rushed to my aid, including my wife who quickly asked, "did you hurt your legs?" To which I aptly replied, "How should I know?" To which she responded by falling down and laughing uncontrollably making everyone wonder who this lunatic couple was. |
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We got in early with jolly St. Nick this year. No lines, and an as-of-yet unflustered Santa who was still keen on the idea of sitting in a loud, crowded mall for 1 month with crying kids pouncing on him all day long. |
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Angela strings the Christmas lights.
Devin helps put the plastic shingle clips on each light bulb. |
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The 2002 Speed thanksgiving at Mamaw Speed's in Mesquite, TX. |
