ruthie and i are in wylie, tx watching jon's last wrestling match of the season.

he lost his first bout, which was before we got here, but we just saw him pin his last opponent with 5 seconds to go!

he was really in attack mode against a kid that was chunkier than he was.

update: he won another bout as well and now gets to compete again.

this post is a shortie. an image of amber poplion all dressed up for halloween form when she did her trick-or-treating at cedar hill's new government center. she is home and recovering quite well.

amy and david had fun at a college station a & m university halloween party dressed up as wilma and fred flintstone!

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on monday ruthie, my brother-in-law jack antebi and ruthie's co-worker, regaynel poplion came down to college station, texas for a continuing education session that was being put on at a & m university. the texas transportation institute is hosting the sessions and jack works for them.

i got to come along because "have apple powerbook and wifi - will travel" applies in my business as a freelance web designer.

i just set up my little portable office in the motel and plug away at my work.

we got 2 bonuses on this trip.

1 - we got to have dinner twice with our son david, who attends a & m. his girlfriend amy even got away from her studies to meet us for one dinner.

2 - regaynel poplion happens to be amber poplion's mom. the fact that she was able to come with us means that amber is doing great and regaynel can get away for a few days for work. i think she is due to finally leave the rehab facility and go home very soon. she did get to go home for a few hours last week and today is supposed to go the texas state fair!

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just a quickie post to put this photo up from our august, 2008 cruise on the carnival ecstasy that our family of 5 took. it was one of about 3 photos that all 5 of us were actually in.

this was from one of the formal nights and as you can see, we decided that formal was not going to be suits and ties on this cruise. casual was in for the buford clan!

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this was a great family shot from the mr. sancho's beach on the island of cozumel, mexico from our recent august cruise.

this is the same beach that ruthie and i had visited the day after we got engaged, so it had special meaning to us.

i have a video of jon buried in the sand where it took him a really long time to pull himself out that i will try and post soon.

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