Trip to Sun City West

In a last minute decision we made a trip to Sun City West, Arizona to visit Great Grandma Eveyln, Great Grandpa George and Uncle Matt. Grandma Dawn, Aunt Maizi, Aunt Nellie, Michael, Lydia, and Noah were also able to make the trip. It was a wonderful weekend spent hanging out and visiting.

As a kids I got to spend a lot of time with my Great Grandma Nellie. We would go over to her house and play and one of the things we always did when we were there was feed the birds on her patio. Well while in Arizona Nolan got to have the same experience with his Great Grandma and Great Grandpa. By Sunday afternoon after we were done eating lunch Nolan said “eat birds, eat” he knew that it was time to go outside and feed the birds our scraps from lunch.  It was true proud moment for me as his mother watching him get this quality time in with his grandparents.

Great Grandma Evelyn and Nolan looking for birds and bunnies

All of us at Grandma's Quilt Show

Lydia at Grandmas quilt show

Grandma Dawn, Nolan and Aunt Maizi

 Grandma Dawn and Nolan

 Lydia and Nolan going for a walk

 The Boys

A White Christmas in Dallas

This year we spent Christmas is Dallas. We are trying to make it a family tradition to always spend Christmas or Thanksgiving in our home and travel to visit family for the other holiday. A few weeks before Christmas John’s grandma past away unexpectedly. We made the trip to Houston the weekend before Christmas to celebrate a wonderful life of an amazing weekend. Under unfortunate circumstances it was good to see everyone and Nolan got to spend time with his Grandma, Grandpa and cousins.

We Houston on Christmas Eve to make it back home in time for Santa to arrive at our house on Christmas morning. To our surprise our timing was perfect because we got to celebrate Christmas with snow in Dallas this year! It was Nolan’s first snow ever in Dallas, and it got to be on Christmas day!

Holiday Party

We kicked off our Christmas season with my company’s Holiday Party. This year the theme was James Bond. They rented the entire Hotel Zaza in Dallas and turned it into a casino. It was a very fun night and our first night leaving Nolan overnight with a sitter. In true rock star fashion he was great for Ms. Kelsey and let his mommy and daddy have a night together on the town.