Texas Lou » Texas Longhorns http://www.texaslou.com Just Another Texas Girl Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:05:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Texas Top Ten http://www.texaslou.com/2009/11/07/texas-top-ten/ http://www.texaslou.com/2009/11/07/texas-top-ten/#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:26:42 +0000 Leslie Elsaifi http://www.texaslou.com/?p=198 Top Ten Things from This Weekend’s Trip To Texas

  1. The look on my dad’s face when I surprised him by showing up for his 60th birthday party
  2. Spending Friday evening drinking wine and enjoying the company of all of my siblings – Carrie, Mikey, Farris, Christian, and Bradley
  3. Eating great long-overdue Mexican food with the fam
  4. Getting Starbucks and kolaches with mom for breakfast Saturday morning
  5. Playing Farmville with mom
  6. Watching the Longhorns play while helping mom cook for a friend’s wedding
  7. Having time to catch up on some good TV
  8. Getting to drink St. Arnold’s Oktoberfest and Christmas Ale
  9. Also having the time to start reading a really good book (so far)
  10. Just being home

And it’s only Saturday morning so there’s plenty more fun to be had!

]]> http://www.texaslou.com/2009/11/07/texas-top-ten/feed/ 1 A Shoebox Full of Texas http://www.texaslou.com/2009/09/01/a-shoebox-full-of-texas/ http://www.texaslou.com/2009/09/01/a-shoebox-full-of-texas/#comments Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:24:46 +0000 Leslie Elsaifi http://www.texaslou.com/?p=96 On occasion, I like to share with a random stranger, like the blackjack dealer at my table in Vegas, that when I give birth to my future children, assuming I’m still living outside of Texas, I’ll place a shoebox full of Texas dirt underneath the hospital bed so that I can say my children were born on Texas soil.  People usually laugh and think I’m kidding or drunk, but I’m totally serious.

Of course I can’t take credit for this idea myself.  I have Wikipedia and the father of Colt McCoy, the quarterback for the Texas Longhorns, to thank for this BRILLIANT idea!  According to Wikipedia and several other online sources,

 ”McCoy’s parents were from Texas, but his father, Brad McCoy, was working just across the Texas border in Hobbs, New Mexico at the time of Colt’s birth. Brad McCoy reportedly brought a shoe-box of Texas dirt to the hospital and slid it under the bed so that Colt could be born “over Texas soil”. The story may or may not be true, as his father has chosen to “plead the fifth” when asked to confirm it.“

If you’re out there reading, Brad McCoy, I just want to say THANK YOU for this AWESOME idea!  I’m totally doing it!  As a matter of fact, I can’t wait to have kids, just so I can prove to everyone that I am actually going to go through with this!  It’s a helluvalot cheaper than flying to Texas to give birth.

I also plan on naming my first son Dallas.  Dallas Davidson has a nice ring to it, don’t ya think?

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