Our final stop on the Christmas 2013 Express was at Papa & BB's house for Cluck Christmas. By this time Abby has really gotten the hang of opening gifts and we could hardly contain her when she saw the gift bags and all the tissue paper. 
Today we celebrated a belated Christmas with the Lind family. We also celebrated Jennifer's birthday & Kurt's birthday (the 29th and 30th). We already celebrated Jennifer's birthday, just the two of us last week in Dallas, but it was fun to celebrate with family today! Aunt Paula and Rod had us all over to their house for the festivities and uncle Eric cooked his famous lasagna, which was delicious. Aunt Sarah made a special cake for each Jennifer and Kurt and they were yummy! 
As we've mentioned Abs is a little timid in new situations so it took her some time to get comfortable with all the faces. Sally Kate and Abs really enjoyed opening their gifts and loved all their goodies from everyone. 
Sweet Caroline played with both the girls most of the night and Abby thought she was very cool! 
We spent what will likely be our last Christmas at our house in Irving this year as we are planning to put it on the market sometime early 2013. So we made the most of it and had BB, Pappa A, Grandma & Grandpa Ledezma, most of Abby's uncles, Samuel, Saul & Sergio, and cousin Seth over to celebrate Christmas. Seth was so sweet and kept Abby entertained while Grandma, BB, Daddy & Mommy cooked Christmas lunch. We took our first shot at Pop's Noodles (a favorite of Jennifer's childhood) and it was a success. All the food was great, but the company was even better. We had such a great time and even welcomed a Christmas snow! It was Abby's first time to see snow so after everyone headed home, mommy, daddy, Abs and Ginger ventured outside to tromp through the snow. Frodo was too cold so he elected to stay inside next to the warm fire. It was a wonderful day with our families and all the family that was not with us were in our thoughts. 
We spent Thanksgiving this year with Pop & Mumzie in Florida. We arrived on Tuesday afternoon and stayed through Saturday. We had a great, great time and had such a hard time choosing the pictures for the blog. On Thanksgiving day, Jason, Eleni and their girls came over. Eleni made "Pop's" noodles and they were fantastic. The noodles were definitely Abby's favorite part of the meal and she kept going back for seconds. Abby also had a big time with her cousins, Brittany, Melanie & Halle. She thought she was such a big girl laying on the floor with the girls. On the other days during our trip, we took Abs to visit the aquarium again and to the beach. This time around she loved the beach; she still didn't want to get sand on her feet, but she loved walking through the waves and chasing & feeding the sea gulls. Mommy & Daddy also had a bunch of fun spending time with Pop & Mumzie. All in all, it was a great Thanksgiving. We have so much to be thankful for and enjoyed spending the day with people we rarely get to see. 
Unless you've been living under a rock or you really don't pay any attention to college football, the Texas A&M Aggies upset Alabama this weekend. Moises was so excited and nervous about the game. His team had been doing well this season and had only lost two games to very good football teams. So the Ledezma household was so excited when A&M pulled off the upset. Even Abby was excited to watch the game with daddy so mommy captured a picture of them as they were intently watching. The rest of the time Abby spent watching Shrek on mommy's iPad, notice the A&M tank top she's wearing! Mommy's team, the Razorbacks, still aren't doing so well this season so mommy has been happily cheering on the Ags!
