Hee, Hee.....

She used to not have any hair....

This one made me laugh.
-OD

Happy Hump Day

Had a little photo
shoot today.

Nite Nite

Oda Mae and I are feeling much better now. Oda Mae seems to have a constant runny nose though.

Guess that'll stop some day...unless she's like me and it doesn't stop until you're 32.

We had a nice day today. We went to a Little Gym makeup class. We'll have to make up another class for the Thanksgiving week as well. Then we came home ate lunch and took a nap. Tonight we went out to do a little shopping and then to eat.

Fall is here it seems. The leaves are falling, the weather is under 90 degrees and it is raining every once-in-a-while. Time to start working on the Christmas lights for this year. We start inventory this week and I'm going to install two more dedicated outlets. Last years total was 16,754 lights. I'm curious to see how I do this year!!!!

We are also beginning to plan for Thanksgiving. For those of you who don't know, Oda Momma and I have both of our families over to our house for the big celebration. A couple of turkeys, a ham, lots of sides. We love having everyone over. After the big dinner a couple of naps and a football game we go outside to see the lighting of the house. It's Clark Griswold at his best.

Oda Mae and I are almost at 50% of our goal for the RACE. We run next Saturday (one week to go). Please help us raise money for the 2006 KOMEN RACE FOR THE CURE by donating a little something at our web page. It's easy, and it's for a great cause!!!!

That's all for now. Gonna go waste the rest of my Saturday on the couch. Nite, Nite...

-OD

Thank You!!!

To those of you who have already donated to the "Oda" Race for the Cure! We are off to a good start. I've bumped the donation post up so that it appears near the beginning of the blog.

Oda Mae and I are a bit under the weather today. She's getting over some teething and I pulled a lot of snot out of her today so she should be good to go in another day or so. I'm just starting, so I've got a couple of days of misery to get through. Fortunately, Oda Momma is feeling pretty good these days, so she'll take over when she gets home. :)

Aunt Mitzy and Aunt Linda did GREAT at the costume contest yesterday here are some pics...

Aunt Mitzy won the Cutest Costume Award as a Red Hat Lady

Aunt Linda should have won Most Elaborate Costume as a Princess

Here are some of the other entries...
Go TEXAS!!!!

MMMmmmmmm Hot Dogs!

Boo!

The Race

Please consider donating to the 2006 Komen Race for the Cure. Oda Mae and I are signed up to go for the gold or the "Pink" rather. Please help Oda Mae raise money for a cure.

You can CLICK HERE to go to our page and make a donation. We have a personal goal of $150.00. Can we do it? Only with YOUR help. Come on Oda lovers!
-OD & OM

Saturday Fun

Oda Mae and I went to a flea market this morning. Guess what we found...




All for about $9.00!!!

Oda Mae is doing some teething these days. We're working on the back teeth now. I have to say that I've heard horror stories about teething, but Oda Mae seems to be taking everything well. She didn't sleep real well last night, but during the day she is happy as usual. Tomorrow we're going to a costume contest. Not for her, but for her Aunt Linda! We'll have pics up tomorrow.

Speaking of costumes. Oda Mae is going as a pumpkin this year for Halloween. She is very excited!

Last week I played a church service over in Dallas and they have posted the service on their website. CLICK HERE and click "Listen" for the October 1, 2006 sermon and listen to the hymns(@ 3:50, 32:20, & 1:05:30) and the anthem, "Thou Art the King of Glory" (@ 43:45). Not bad, but my pitch was a little off from the organ. The second service was better.

-OD

Odaville

Where the little people are friendly!

Our Little Collection

Now you can keep track of the new collection that Oda Mae and I have started.

I have a new BLOG. There's a new link to the right.

Yes, Oda Momma thinks I've gone insane, but I don't care. :)

-OD

SCORE!!!!!

Bilingual dog and "dat" books and two totally cool Little People.... .30 cents.

Three balls and sidewalk chalk for Christmas....$2.00.

Noah's Ark Little People set....$3.00.

Making Oda Mae DOG TIRED while garage selling this morning....PRICELESS!

Have a good weekend!

-OD

Take a hike!

No, really, take a hike with me and Oda Mae. This will serve as your exercise for the day.


It's a beautiful day out today...78 degrees for the high. (Not too bad!)

Here's the first road we go down. Wonder what we'll see today?

Here are the dog's that we don't like.

Then we look for goats...

and donkeys.

Yep, that's what I said. Five minutes from downtown and we have goats and donkeys less than 100 yards from our front door.

Here's the church down by the corner. (They closed up shop a couple of weeks ago 'cause their air conditioner got stolen.) Too bad.

Here's the next street we walk down.

Down the hill.

Check out the wildflowers.

Here's part of our trail.

Here's Oda Mae on the trail.

Here's Oda Mae off the trail.

There's a big plane over at the NASJRB.

Sometimes we get to see some really cool planes doing tricks and stuff. We see them practice for the big air shows. How cool are we? VERY!

Here's Oda Mae running...

and...

falling down.

But she's okay.

Here she is running...

after...

me.


Time to go home.

Here's the river bank.

Here's the garden we like to look at. The lady says "Hi" to us whenever she is out there. She has MASSIVE sunflowers during the summer.

Here's the church again.

And the donkeys. Bye bye donkeys.

And the little dog that we do like.


Then we all go in and get juice. Yea! Juice.

Hope you had a good time. Don't you feel better now that you got your workout in today? I knew you did.

-OD

Little People

Look what I got!

Oda Mae and I went out this morning looking for some new little people. We found a Vacation Eddie, a Tiger, and a Seal with its baby. We also found a helicopter and a ferris wheel!
My first inclination was to not allow Oda Mae to play with the figures ['cause I wanted them]. Is that a sign for things to come. My father-in-law likes to collect toys. I always thought he was kind of funny for doing that, but now I know how he feels.

I would like to have all of the little people figures. For now, I have to let Oda Mae play with them, but someday they'll be mine...ALL MINE!


-OD

Down by the riverside

On Monday, Oda Mae and I went for our run over by the river. There are lots of trails and we like to look for nature. Usually on our run we'll see cats, dogs, goats, donkeys (all on the way to the river), and turtles, squirrels, and ducks (at the river). On Monday we were half way done with our run and were resting under the bridge where it was shady. As we were looking down at the river, I saw something that seemed to be moving. At first I thought it was just a log, but then I noticed that it was defiantly moving upstream. I could see its head just barely poking up out of the water and every once in a while I saw its back come up. An alligator or crocodile? I knew that it was pretty unusual to see something like that in a local river, but it wasn't unheard of.

As the animal got closer, I could see that it had fur on it's head so I knew it wasn't an alligator or a crocodile. It was swimming close to the bank so then I thought that maybe it was a dog trying to make its way back up. I like dogs mostly so I put Oda Mae on her brakes and went down to investigate. If I could, I wanted to help the dog out of the river. When I got close enough to be able to see clearly into the water...

THIS IS WHAT I SAW. Or, was it THIS?

I'm not too sure which one it was, but it kind of freaked me out a little. It was as big as Fergus (my 30 lb dog)! If it had come out of the water and started chasing me, I would have screamed like a little girl! Either way, it was a R.O.U.S!

The Weekend

Yes, we had a good weekend. The wedding went fine. The audition could have gone better (the incumbent won). But Sunday afternoon......well let me tell you.

Oda Momma woke up with Oda Mae on Sunday (that was two days in a row). I was very appreciative. Then when I woke up Oda Mae and I took a walk down to "Happy Donuts". That's our favorite little donut shop and it's within walking distance. We got there at about 10:30. Do you know what happens when you make your way up to the donut shop at that time of day on a Sunday morning? There isn't a very good selection left, BUT they tend to give you extra's for free! I went to get 4 donuts and came back with a box full for the price of four. The nice lady behind the counter gave Oda Mae a little bag of donut holes. She proceeded to sit down on the floor and eat them while I made my selection. By the time we got back home, Oda Mae had eaten the whole bag of donut holes (about 9 or 10)! We don't normally let her do stuff like that, but she was having so much fun. Then she was wired!


We left to go to The Little Gym party soon after that, but we stopped at the duck pond first to run amuck for a while.


We were one of the first one's to arrive at the party. 30 minutes into the party Oda Mae was one of about 100 little gymers running around! After a few more minutes, Oda Mae was getting pretty cranky and Gee Gee hadn't gotten there yet to see Oda Mae do her stuff so we took her on a little walk so that she could un-stimulate for a few minutes. Then GG came!!!! Oda Mae showed GG how to hang on bars and jump on the air mattress and how to walk on the balance beam. She had a good time.



There were door prizes too! Oda Mae won one of them for her daddy! We one a gift certificate for $114.00 at Super Suppers! This stay-at-home-dad was very happy to see that one come. It was way better than the body wrap thingy that took of 20 inches in one session. I'd much rather put on 20 inches. I get to go make six yummy dinners (6 servings each) and bring them home and put them in my freezer for those days where I just don't have time to cook. (or those days where I just don't want to cook.)

Oda Mae had juice and cake at the party too. (Yes, after all those donut holes.) We came home and she ate broccoli.

A good time was had by all on Sunday.

Tomorrow I'll tell you about the adventures we had on Monday at the river.

-OD