Merry Christmas and an update with pictures!

Merry Christmas, Everyone!!

It has been a very long time since I've kept you up-to-date on our life here in Texas. Things that have been going on:

Thanksgiving- My parents, my sister Megan, and her husband Seth came to visit for a week. We had a blast. We did A LOT of shopping, ate A LOT of food, and generally just had a good ol' time. One of the reasons that I was taking so long to update about Thanksgiving was because I wanted to Photoshop pictures, but since I still haven't done that, you're getting them in all their un-photoshopped glory.  Get ready, there's a lot and they are definately not in any specific order. 

This is Pailey playing with Megan's sunglasses. She likes glasses.

She is so her dad's girl. She loves pancakes!!

If you've ever met, played games, or watched a movie with me past 8:30, this is how I look. I'm not so much a night person.

Uncle Seth and P-Cakes

This is the ferry that took us to Bolivar Island and the beach!

Meg and Seth on the ferry.

P cakes on the beach. She's not a fan of sand on her hands and feet.

Nana, Me and P-Cakes playing on the beach.

Nana and P cakes!

This cute couple just celebrated their first anniversary. Can you tell? Lovebirds. :)

I love this picture of my dad. He looks so happy. :)

On Bolivar Island.

Bolivar Peninsula (I keep calling it an Island but it is really a peninsula...)

This is on the way back to Galveston on the ferry. She was 'driving'. Look ma, no hands!

This is at the Kemah Aquarium restaurant. YUMMY food!!!

Pailey is a wee bit tired....

She loved all of the fish!

I swear Pailey does smile, just not when she is missing nap time.

Nemo is found!

I like this picture too. Good family pic.

I told you she loves glasses. And she's got style.

Cute!

This is the group playing Wii Mario Party. Good times! Seth beat everyone....

Dash is back! Ruff!

This is me in my happy place. I love decorating for Thanksgiving! Here I was pouring Mormon Cocktails. aka Sprite and fruit juice.

This is a big ol' candy shop in Galveston. They have Kahlua truffles.... Mmmm...

This is back at Bolivar. Having our picnic in the crazy wind.

She loves her aunt and uncle!

The Kemah boardwalk. I love this place.

Lunch at the Aquarium. She's a big girl!

This is Nana and Papa babysitting P while Jordin and I take Megan and Seth back to the airport.

Nothings better than pictures from the bath time.

I love this picture! Jordin thinks she looks ridiculous, but I love it.

This is Thanksgiving Day and I thought it was a good pic of Meg. She's pretty.

So that was a fun trip to have everyone here. It was almost a year since I saw Meg so it was a really great time.

So then it was Christmas time.... Here is a very cool lighted park in a town south of us. There were millions of lights! It was pretty cool. 

Oh, I forgot about this fun craft that I did with P-cakes. I made some fun paint with sweetened condensed milk and food coloring.  It is super sticky and made a mess but Pailey had a blast.

Here is the painting she made.

It ended up getting so messy that I put her in the tub and let her run wild. She looks so coy!

It cleaned up really easily and it was actually really fun to make a big ol' mess!

Well, that is really all that has been going on. Now we have Christmas coming and we are very excited! Our tree is beautiful. We bought a real one because it was way cheaper and then we made garland out of creme burlap. Which I love! Then we used red and silver ornaments. The best part is the tree topper. We bought some white starfish, glued them together and then wrapped them in thin gold ribbon. Am I explaining too much? Well, that's because I am super proud of it. :)I wanted to take a pic of it but I can't find the cord to plug into the computer.  So hopefully later.

Happy Halloween!

Boo!

Did I scare you? I love Halloween! I realize now that it is all from my mom and dad. They LOVE it as much as I do. My mom has a sweet costume this year too. Anyway, I am Wonder Woman for Halloween this year. (It's kind of my go-to costume, but if the shoe fits, right?) There are so many resemblances between WW and myself already that it just makes sense! Haha. Joking. :)

We got miss P the cutest costume! She was a cupcake! We were going to do this for her last year, but we didn't really have any plans for All Hallows Eve so there wasn't a point in the costume. This year, we go it and she LOVES it. She holds the tunic part of the costume in her arms and says, "Oh, coot!" (cute).

We went to the tri-ward Trunk or Treat last friday and here are some pics!

We led her from car to car. She did okay when there weren't a lot of other kids at the car, but if it was crowded, she was a little overwhelmed. But she was so polite, she said 'thank you' (and the sign for it) after each time she got candy. What a little lady!

This Trunk was really clever. The elves had kidnapped Santa and tied him up! So funny!

She even held her own candy the whole time! Such a big girl!

This is our friend, Curtis. He works with Jordin and we hang out with him and his family a lot. He and his wife have 2 cute girls and another little baby girl that was born about 2 months ago. She is the lobster. So funny!

And this is Jordin's boss, Donald. He's so serious all the time.... :)

 There were two Wonder Womans there that night!

After the trunk or treating, we had to check out our spoils! (Okay, P-cakes spoils but we definitely have been helping her eat all the goodies... and the apples were already there. No healthy things from trick or treating!) There was one chocolate piece that was wrapped as an eye ball. She was putting it where it belongs!

 Look at all that goodness!

BONUS! Here are some pics of our science project. Put milk in a dish then some drops of food coloring. Then take a toothpick and dip it in dish soap. When you dip the pick into the milk and colors the colors will push away from the soap on the toothpick. It makes a cool marbling effect.

All for now, but we are going to a Halloween party tonight so I'll probably get some more pics of that to put up!
Happy Halloween!!