Not much happening

We survived the lay off they had at the Technology Center Jan 30, Thankfully. I'm busier than ever right now. We had future leaders come through last Tuesday and we gave them a tour and short presentations. Below are a few picture the photographers took during the presentations. Nothing exciting has been happening in Duncan lately. I have trips back to Bay City, TX and Kilgore, TX in the next few weeks for more frac jobs.

Handing out puzzle pieces at the end

Talking about water fracs and shale with Jeremy and Johanna

Brice looks enthusiastic


Coiled Tubing group

Long Weekend

Thursday my manager asked if I had any plans this weekend, which ment that I was going to be working. Friday I traveled down to Bay City, TX (SW of Houston) with two other co-workers to run a new frac fluid for the first time in the field. Saturday I spent about 14 hours at the well site. The frac crew rigged up and I tested all the chemicals, and figured out some concentration changes. On Sunday I got to the location about 6am, we double checked the concentrations before we started loading the well. We stayed on location to make changes as needed while pumping the job. We made up to College Station, TX and will drive the rest of the way tomorrow.

Halliburton

Halliburton has annouced that they are going to be laying of people, but haven't said any details about how many or when to expect it. Schlumburger one of our major competors is laying of 5% of its workforce due mostly to falling oil prices and rig counts falling. Hopefully Brice and I won't get laid off.

Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123145200537165687.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Bailey's 2nd Birthday Party

Bailey had a big party with lots of family and friends. He had a fire truck theme

Here is the cake that Jaime made, It was really impressive. The architect definitely came out on this one...she drew the cake up in autocad

Blowing out the candles

Bailey the Fire Chief Bailey and his best bud Austin

Mommy and Bailey opening gifts

Tony the neighbor gave Bailey some John Deere boots

Grandma and Grandpa Gloe gave Bailey the John Deere tractor for his birthday. Bailey and Austin traded as soon as they saw each other

Bailey on Austin's four wheeler...he's not a very good driver.

Bailey likes giving Rusty treats

New Table

Here is our "new" kitchen table. Brice's parents are getting a new table and they were nice enough to give us their old table that is basically brand new. It looks great! THANKS Finnis and Penni

Customized Entertainment Center???

So Brice and I bought a new entertainment center, It's dark espresso brown with lighter accents on the doors. It was delivered yesterday, and looks really nice. Brice was at work, and I started to see how the cable box, amp, ect would fit in the cabinet. The cabinet wasn't deep enough for the amp... so we had to take the heavy top off and cut a hole in the back. We also made a different hole for the wire to the TV to go to. Since we were already making modifications we drilled two small holes for speaker wires to go through. It turned out being more work than we had anticpated, but we are happy with it now. We never thought that an entertainment center wouldn't be deep enough for an amp. Next we'll be sure to measure.

Measuring before the first cut

Cutting

The amp hanging out of the back

Three bored animals, wondering what is going on

Finished Product

(Red Pillows were and early Christmas present from Jaime and Jason)

YAY! I need to fet a few decorations then it will look realy nice!

Sorry about the glare...this is a picture I got over Thanksgiving and hung the door scrolls sideways

Not ready to go back to work

Brice and I took off the entire week of Thanksgiving and went home to Amarillo. Neither one of us wanted to go back to work today. I only work 14 days in December and Brice works less than me.

Brice

Grandpa and Grandma before they left

Bailey found a musical card...and loved it

Bailey getting a shoulder ride...he kept playing with my hair

Training with M&M's

Being good Aunts and Uncles and teaching Bailey to jump on the bed...when mommy and daddy weren't around