Artsy fartsy NYE.

Dec. 31, 2011

Itching for something special to do on the last day of 2011, we headed down to Fort Worth's arts district to visit that Amon Carter art museum.

A photo of Georgia O'Keeffe (one of our faves) when she visited the Carter back in the day

Thomas Eakins' The Swimming Hole

Hassam's Flags on the Waldorf

A real work of genius

We loved the detail on this one.

Red Cannas (O'Keeffe)

What a view of downtown!

Obligatory visit to Vortex

Our self-portrait (Katie didn't join us for this excursion.)

It was a great day to take in some amazing artwork. Also amazing?

75 degrees on December 31!

New Year's Eve Eve.

Dec. 30, 2011

Highlights from the penultimate day of 2011:

Gorgeous skies during my morning run

Sunlight through the willow

Walking to breakfast

Breakfast!

Watching friends perform at a coffeehouse

Watching Katie study spelling at said coffeehouse

Playing Jenga with an angry Hulk

Getting some help from the Hulk who's not so angry after all

Holiday in the Park.

Dec. 29, 2011

Only Katie would study for the spelling bee
in line at Six Flags!

Titan: Still the one!

Love the new Giant (even if the lines were too
long to ride this time)

Little Katie would identify all buildings as
"my school." This was always "Katie's school"
when we visited back in the day.

So nice to have Brett with us!

Self-portrait

Southern Palace Christmas show
(something about a toy shop)

"O Holy Night": pretty cool effect with the backup singers
behind the screen. (The lead vocalist was Arania in the
Halloween show. Guess that says something about her range!)

We love all the firepits at Christmas.

The lights are cool, too. (Click for more of the panoramic effect.)

We capped off our visit by getting our 2012 season passes.
It's nice to have that taken care of already (and we didn't
mind getting free parking, either).

Merry Christmas Day.

Dec. 25, 2011

After opening gifts, we were off to HCC for church.
Guess who got to run sound?

Merry Christmas to all!