Chuy's Children's Parade

The Saturday after Thanksgiving Chuy's puts on a parade downtown for Children and to benefit Blue Santa. Blue Santa collects and donates thousands of toys to local needy children. Now, Austin has been in a severe drought this year and much to our surprise it was a cold and rainy day out there! But no one was complaining because we desperately need the water so we enjoyed gettin wet :)

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was in Austin this year because Byron was on-call. My family came up and we had a nice, cozy, yummy Thanksgiving meal.
Sadly, I was too busy cooking and then being full to take many pictures ;-)

Photo Op

While in Houston, I finally remembered to take pictures of the girls and their Pito...

Tanner's 2nd Bday

Our little nephew, Tanner, had the distinction of having a birthday on 11/11/11. How cool is that?
We enjoyed a great party with all his peeps!

The girls have perfected their "picture" smile.
Tanner is really not so interested...

Happy 2nd Birthday, Tan-Man!!

Bubbles are still sooo very fun :)

Lulu :)

This post is loooong overdue! My beautiful and sweet niece, Lulu, has been living with us since late August and we couldn't be happier! She transferred schools and is now attending Texas State in their pre-Physical Therapy program. She has been such a blessing to have around to help out with the baby and with Gaby. And thankfully she is always willing to help and is such a natural with both girls. We love having her around and are excited for her to hopefully make Austin her permanent home even after school. But as happy as we are to have her here I do believe her biggest fans are the boys, Rosko & Ozzie. They actually have someone they want (no offense to Gaby!) giving them love and attention! Here are some of the pictures she has taken the last couple of months from her phone....

Same Outfit/Same Age

I thought they were starting to look more alike.

I'm not sure anymore.

What do you think?

Pumpkin Patch

We did our yearly trekk to Sweet Berry Farm to check out the Pumpkin Patch last weekend. This year we went with our good friends the Rileys. After a delicious HUGE lunch at the Bluebonnet Cafe we enjoyed a lovely day outside with our kiddos :)

The kiddos...

Our little pumpkin...

Family of four...

The Daddies and the Babies...

Absolute stillness to get her face painted...

Beauty!!

Sling!

I never really slinged Gaby. Probably because I didn't really have to. Life revolved around her schedule and when she slept and when she was awake. Unfortunately, for little Mila life still revolves around Gaby's schedule, so slinging has become more of a necessity to keep her comfortable AND keep my hands free. As an added bonus, she looks simply adorable in her sling! Love her :)

Halloween 2011

Halloween fell on a Monday this year. Monday afternoons is dance class so Gaby not only got to have a party at school but also a party at dance class before we went to a party at our friend's house before we went trick or treating. Whew! You can imagine (1) how tired mommy was by the end of the night and (2) how hopped up on candy Gaby was by the end of the night :) My beautiful Spidergirl and my adorable Fairy Princess...