Happy Thanksgiving!!

We hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and a great start to the holiday season.  Grandma visited us for the week and we had a special time with her here in Austin.  It was warmer than usual and then we got snow today (it waited until after she left!).  Evan loved having Grandma to play with!  He was calling for Grandma when he woke up from his naps and in the mornings.  We can't wait for her to return in January when we go to Hawaii!!!  She'll definitley have some snow then!!!  Thanks for everything Mom!!

Friday evening we all bundled up for the Christmas in the City celebration and the lighting ceremony downtown Austin.  It was beautiful and we were just right with our vanilla lattes!  Evan met Santa and loved him (our pictures didn't turn out though!)  The Austinnaires (Austin High School chorus) sang lots of Christmas Carols and Miss Minnesota was there too (Evan was quite taken by her as you will see in the photo!)  He rode the Choo Choo with Kallie & Marissa as well as the horse drawn sleigh!  Evan favorite toy lately is the Choo-Choo.  Anything and everything dealing with trains....

 Here are some photos from the week!!

All dressed up for Thanksgiving....(with Thomas the Train no less!)

Watching Daddy carve the turkey!

The bib says it all!!

Time to clean up!!!

My new pjs from Grandma!! They have a truck and Christmas tree!!

All bundled up for the Christmas in the City celebration!!

Riding the Choo Choo with the girls.  (He cried when it was time to get off!)

Marissa, Miss Minnesota, Kallie and Mr. McDreamy-to-be

Sisters...

To Anna and Pascale---We love and miss you so much!!!

My sister, Pascale, has been on my mind a lot lately and I haven't had much time to catch up with her.  She's coming up on her final exams for Pharmacy School in a few weeks and this graduate program is pretty tough and she also works at CVS Pharmacy!  She is an amazing sister, friend and aunt.  Our lives are so different and we live so far away; however, she's always in my heart, in my thoughts and in my prayers.  She often forgets how truly incredible of a person she is.  She also doesn't give herself half the credit she deserves.  Auntie P's natural ability to nuture makes it so easy for Evan embrace her.   I hope you have a better week sis and it won't be long until Finals are over and you can breathe again!!!  We miss you and love you so much!!!

And, to my sister-in-law, Anna.  The brave and ever-loving firefighting paramedic!! She too is so dedicated to her career and our schedules are far from in sync.  Anna never has a "typical day at work"....she off saving lives and has an uncanny ability to weather it all for others.  Although, we hardly have time to catch up...she and her safety is always on my mind and in my heart.  Anna gave Evan a handful of fireman hats when we were in Savannah last month, and he loves wearing it.  Alex and I share with Evan how brave Aunt Anna is and how special she is!!! 

I love you both and miss you so very very much!!!

By the way....we need some more updated photos!!!!

SNOW!!!!!

So, yes it's true, winter has arrived. However, we had all four seasons in one week. It was 72 degrees on Monday and got cooler and cooler all week. We had the warm sun, the wind, the rain, and finally snow. We've had unseasonably warm weather for the past few weeks, but that's the past!

Friday morning we woke to 2 inches of wet snow. Evan wanted to play in the snow before going to daycare. We know he'll have tons of fun this winter! The snow was so pretty on my way into work, I took some snapshots of the entrance to the houses on the golf course.

Enjoy!!

(These are actually color photos....not black & white!)

Trick or Treat!

Halloween was so much fun this year for Evan! Pumpkin carving however, was not!!! He did not like the pumpkin guts, nor the jack o'lantern that Daddy carved.

He had a party at his daycare and we dressed him as his favorite character, Handy Manny. I made his t-shirt, hat and belt since you can't find anything Handy Manny! He had the doll and tools with tool box so we just added them to the belt. He wasn't crazy about the outfit until I put him in front of the mirror and he was so happy! No one at school knew who he was, except for the kids! Guess we need to get them updated on their shows!!

Hormel has trick or treating in the afternoon at the office and everyone brings their kids in. Evan loved picking out the candy and putting it in his pumpkin. He warmed up as we were leaving and very excited when went door to door. Evan even walks like Yoda!!!

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To Nana and Pops' House We Go

So, the last blog was way too long, so here's a montage of our wonderful and relaxing trip to Dolphin Island , GA (Savannah) to visit Nana, Pops, Aunt Anna & Uncle Charlie and Auntie P!!!

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