Texas Trip

 We celebrated Christmas a day early so that we could fly off to Texas to spend a week with our family. Fortunately, Nora thought it was perfectly fine that Santa would make a special early trip for us.

 I was really impressed with this drawing. She tried to copy the Spiderman on the punching bag. Pretty good perspective drawing for a 4-year-old!

 This is the latest quilting masterpiece my mom created for her newest grandchild. She is already on to her next one, a jungle themed quilt for my due-any-minute nephew Colt.

 We started out the week with a large crowd, including Steph, Carter, their three kids, my parents, and Briana and Craig and their two little girls. Throughout the week, the size of our party gradually diminished, but I'm so glad we got to be there with everyone for at least a little while.

I don't have any pictures of it, but Thursday Steph took us to South Padre Island, an incredible beach just 45 minutes from her house. The weather was gorgeous and I couldn't believe that my kids were running around in swimsuits on the beach in December. So fun!

On Friday we took a trip to the Brownsville Zoo, where the kids had a blast at the petting zoo and waterpark/playground.

 We got to celebrate New Year's Eve with Stepharter and Co. The nice thing about having little kids is that they have no idea what time it is, so we had them watch the countdown in Sydney on youtube at about 7:30, let them light some sparklers and they were down by 8:30 pm! :) And they thought that was great!

Here's the kids bundled at our Vegas hotel and ready to jump in the car at 6 am on Monday. (The best flight prices we found were in Las Vegas, so after flying in the night before we still had a little drive ahead of us.

Such a wonderful trip and so fun to be with family! We definitely missed Lindsay and her family and Logan of course. We'll catch them next time, I guess. It was so wonderful though to see all the cousins playing and having a good time. Thanks Steph and Carter for a fantastic week!