Thanksgiving Festivities

Sorry. I haven't neglected the blog for this long in quite a while....Whew! Where do I begin? We made our way east and north and then back again for Thanksgiving. We started off the holiday festivities with a baby shower in Houston for our good friends the Pagets last weekend. We got to have an adult night out with a bunch of my old college friends. There was great conversation, yummy food, funny laughs and an abundance of Bellinis:)

That Sunday we celebrated and early Thanksgiving with the Salazar gang. Gaby has a blast running around with her big cousins and we gorged on my brother's most scrumptious fried turkey and all the fixins. Byron left us that night to come back to Austin to work for a few days but Gabs and I were lucky enough to stay in Houston to hang out a little longer. Pita and Pito were thrilled to spend a few more days with the princess.

Tuesday night Candie & Mia and Gaby & I headed to Orange to break up the looong trip to the farm in Louisiana. We hit some major traffic and made a Cracker Barrel pitstop that turned our two hour trip into a four hour experience! The girls tried their best, but really weren't excited to be trapped in their carseats for so long. We sang and watched movies as much as we could only to have them fall asleep 10 min before we arrived. Mimi and Papa were so happy to see their grandbabies but only little Mia had the energy to stay up to play with them for a little while. Gaby was in no mood to be disturbed from her beauty sleep :)

The next morning we were off for another two hour drive into Louisiana. That trip was great and we finally arrived at the farm where we were greeted by some very friendly and much anticipated cows! It was so funny to see how excited those two munchkins got over a bunch of stinky cows. They would just repeat over and over and over- "moo-cows", "hi, moo-cows". So cute! The girls and our two little boys (Rosko and Ozzie) just looved all the open space at the farm and were constantly wanting to be outside running and exploring. That night Byron finally joined us and we were only missing Uncle Steven who had some new house business to attend to back in Katy.

Thanksgiving day was basically an eat-your-weight-in-food day with back to back family get togethers. First, we went to MawMaw's house with Mimi's family and then back to the farm where Papa's family came to us. As usual, there was so much delicious food around and we were all in alot of pain after such amazing feasts! It was so good seeing all the aunts, uncles and cousins again and finally being able to be a part of the family activities.

Friday, we headed back to Orange to spend a couple more days with Mimi & Papa. Gaby and Mia seemed to really enjoy each other this visit. They would actually play together, color, build blocks, read books and sing & dance together. They were sooo cute dancing together!! We also had a few races where little Mia showed her athletic prowess and left Gaby eating dust. (When Mia runs it's head down, shoulders up and away she goes. When Gaby runs it's like Phoebe in Friends- unorganized, arms in the air, waving to people as she passes.) We had many a giggle watching them. I got some great video to come later...

Sunday we headed back home with a pit-stop in Katy to see Candie and Steven's new home (Gorgeous!). So now we're back home, getting settled back in and ready for the craziness, that is Christmas, to begin. And I just want to say, how thankful I am to have such a wonderful family and a beautiful, healthy, amazing little girl. We are so very lucky for all that we have and all that we get to do. I've said it before and I'll say it again, Life is good:)