Tis the Season

Our family and the Hogan's went on a carriage ride around Highland Park to look at Christmas lights.  It was absolutely freezing but everyone had a great time.  

 

 

 Our neighborhood puts on a Polar Express and we look forward to it every year.  Elsa and Olaf were there and a big snow hill.  There was a train ride and reindeer and of course Santa. 

 
Landon wanted to sit on Santa's lap by himself and told him he wanted balloons, cake and presents for Christmas.  Every time we ask him what he wants that is what he says every time.

Madison has made so many friends at school this year.  It makes me so happy to hear her talk about all her friends....most of them are boys though.

 The next morning the girl's school put on a breakfast with Santa.  I took the kids up there and we ate breakfast, did some crafts and then they took their picture with Santa again.  They have gotten to visit with him several times already this season. 

Happy Thanksgiving and beginning of Christmas

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!  We hosted this year in our new house.  It was so fun to have everyone over and hanging out while we cooked.  After we ate we went and did a little Black Friday shopping.  I got a lot of my Christmas shopping out of the way. 

The next morning we notice a paint can had been knocked over in my craft room.  It was still wet so I knew it had happened recently but no one will fess up to it.  $200 later most of it came out. 

 We also decided to get a puppy.  They were born late Thanksgiving and we are so excited to bring one home in January.

 The kids and I went and saw the new Frozen 2 movie and both grandmas went with us too.  It was a really cute movie.

We finally had Madison's room painted.   Her furniture is still to bright for me.  I need to distress it or repaint it. 

 That weekend we celebrated Audrey's birthday at Urban Air.  They redid our local one and it is so cool now.

 
Scotty's Christmas party for work was at Shenanigans.  We always have so much fun when we go.  They rent out the whole place for a few hours and have to coolest extra things there. This year they had a live reindeer outside and of course Santa was there handing out gifts.

 We left the party a little early and headed to have dinner with my brother and his family.  We celebrated my nephews birthday. 

 I took the kids to visit Santa and get our annual picture.  It was the fastest visit we have ever had.  Normally we stand in line with tons of people and by the time we take our picture, the kids are over it.  Not this time.  We were in and out in about 10 minutes. 

 

 

Visiting Kerrville

We came home from Great Wolfe on Friday and the next day we headed down to Kerrville to visit my aunts and uncles with my mom.  Later that night their small town had a Christmas Parade .  All the cousins were there and they had fun waving to all the floats.

 The next day the kids played in the dirt and took 4 wheeler rides.  They also had fun collecting pecans from their front yard.  We met my uncle and his side of the family for lunch later on.

Our visit got cut a little early when Makenzie started not feeling well.  

Great Wolfe Lodge

We took the kids to Great Wolfe Lodge to celebrate Paislee's birthday.  We had never been and were so excited.   Autumn and I took all the kids on Wednesday right after school and the dads met up there when they got off work.

 The kids had so much fun swimming.   Landon kept howling and it was so cute.  After we changed into our jammies we met down at the arcade to play some games.

The next morning we had breakfast in our rooms and then went down to the pools to play.  We stayed there for most of the day and the kids had a blast.  Landon went down way bigger slides than I thought he would and the big girls ran around and played by themselves.  We went back to our rooms to shower and change and then met for dinner at Uncle Julios for Paislees' birthday dinner.  We came back to the hotel and the big girls got ready to play a magic wand game with their dads.

We had such a fun time.  It was a nice little getaway for us and we will definitely be back!

November fun

We somehow got a date night with all our besties.  We had so much fun at our neighborhood casino night. 

The kids all had dental appointments after school.  They all did so good!  I stayed with Landon the whole time just to make sure he stayed calm and let her do the whole exam. 

We went out to dinner to celebrate Chris' birthday.  Landons favorite part was the cupcake.  He shoved it in his mouth and made a huge mess. 

 

 I finally put Landon's bike seat on the back of mine.  We went on a bike ride to the park and he loved it.

 
 

I took Landon to get a haircut.  He loves going so he can get suckers when he is finished.  He always asks for 3 so he can give his sisters one, even though he ends up eating all 3.