Mommy & Kurt's Birthday Party

Friday night we celebrated birthdays for mommy and uncle Kurt. Their birthdays are the 29th and 30th of December, so it's a good reason to get everyone together to celebrate and visit. Daddy made fajitas and as usual it was awesome. Grandma had left us homemade tamales so we ate those as well and everyone raved at how delicious they were. Abby was excited to see her all her cousins too! Abby and Sally opened their gifts to each other and ended up playing most of the time in Abby's room. The girls were very interested in the birthday cakes and each ate a whole piece to themselves. It was a great evening of family time!

Much love,

Moises & Jennifer

30 Week Update

The day after Christmas we were scheduled for the 3rd trimester sonogram to check on Allison's development. We went in around 8 and since Abby's school was closed we took her with us, she was excited to see pictures of her baby sister. The doctor informed us that Allison is doing great and is very healthy. She is measuring out to 34 weeks and we're only at 30 weeks!!! She's going to be a big baby girl! We are super excited that she's healthy and it seems the days are crawling by as we excitedly await her arrival! Just 10 weeks to go (more or less!).

Much Love,
Moises & Jennifer

Christmas 2014

This Christmas was very special for us as it was the first Christmas that Abby got to spend time with ALL of her grandparents. Pop & Mumzie came to stay with us for the week of Christmas and it was great to spend time catching up with them since we don't see them too often. This was really the first year Abby was "into" Christmas and Santa. We were very careful to explain that Santa leaves gifts only when she's asleep because she was insisting on staying up all night to see him. When we asked her what kind of cookies she was going to leave for Santa she said they had to be pink cookies. So we made pink chocolate chip cookies for Santa! 

We let her open one gift of her choice and it just so happened to be a cute PJ set from Josue and Veronica. She loved it and danced the night around in it. She helped us set out the cookies and milk for Santa and warmed her hands by the fire. On Christmas morning, she jumped in surprise when she saw all her toys and then quickly started playing with the Barbie castle and pony that Santa left for her. We made her wait to open the rest of her gifts until after breakfast so BB and Papa could join us. 

 Grandma, Grandpa, Sergio and Seth made the trip up for a Christmas visit and stayed the night with us. They arrived early morning so Abby and Seth played most of the day. Daddy made a great late afternoon lunch and then Abby opened more presents. Allison even got in on the action and got lots of great goodies from her family. Abby kept saying she couldn't wait to play with her baby sister. It was a wonderful Christmas and we are so happy that we got to see all our parents for Christmas. We are very grateful for such a wonderful family.

Much Love,

Moises & Jennifer

Christmas Pageant

Abby's first Christmas program was yesterday and of course we were so proud of her. The school had a combined program for the 3 and 4 year old classes and it lasted about 15 minutes. She had been practicing her songs at home for a couple weeks and it was fun to see her sing them in public with all her friends. She was a little shy coming down the aisle, but then got into the songs that she'd been practicing! She was so excited especially when we and Papa & BB stayed to have lunch with her. We were having such a fun time we wanted to just call it a day and head home, but we had to get back to work!

Much love,

Moises & Jennifer

Christmas Lights

We visited the Christmas lights display at Creekmore this weekend. It seems like they get better every year. We were hoping to ride the train, but everyone else in town had the same idea we did. Instead, we walked around the park and we were glad it was not too cold. Even better was that volunteers from a local school were passing out hot chocolate, yum!

Much Love,

Moises & Jennifer

Breakfast with Santa

This weekend we went to the annual Breakfast with Santa event. Abby was super excited when we told her she was going to see Santa AND eat pancakes! When we told her she was going to see Santa she insisted on bringing him a present since she was going to be asking for presents from him. Mommy & BB had just spent the entire day before baking cookies so we took him a nice box of cookies. Mommy teared up a little when she gave them to Santa, because she thought it was the sweetest gesture. 

After pictures with Santa we headed to the craft tables. Abby and her friend Polly the Penguin, who she got to take home from school this weekend, made necklaces, ornaments and wrote Santa letters. Abby LOVES to paint and glue so she was super excited when she got to glue her ornaments all on her own.

Last but not least, we sat down to eat a hearty pancake breakfast. As usual Abigail was very pleased with her pancakes, they are her "faborite"!

Much Love, 

Moises & Jennifer

ICE!

We continued the new tradition of going to the ICE! exhibit at the Gaylord Texan the day after Thanksgiving. This year's theme was Frosty the Snowman! The exhibit was much busier this year than it was last year so we had some time to kill before our turn to walk the ICE! Exhibit. We walked through the Atrium of the hotel, which was decorated for the season! We even spotted Santa Claus, so we stopped to take pictures with him. We were pleasantly surprised that Abby was so comfortable with Santa, because last year was not good. 

The ICE! was as neat as it was last year. This year Abby was old enough and big enough to go down the ice slide and she thought it was great. As we walked through the exhibit she kept pausing to take licks of the ice sculptures....great!

Much Love,

Moises & Jennifer

Thanksgiving 2014

We spent Thanksgiving this year in Dallas. As mentioned in our previous blog post, Abby spent the weekend prior to Thanksgiving with her cousins. We came down to Texas on Tuesday because Moises had a meeting with clients on Wednesday. After his meeting we headed over to Saul's to spend the night and have Thanksgiving the following morning. 

Grandma made a delicious Thanksgiving meal for the whole group. We all loved it and getting to spend time with everyone for the holiday was great. After lunch we headed over to the stadium for the Cowboys game. We got there early so the kids could play in the Kids Zone before the game. Seth, Abby, Reece & Avery had a blast playing. The game itself turned out to not be too good since the Cowboys didn't pull out a win, but we still enjoyed spending time with friends and family. We certainly do have a lot to be thankful for.

Much love,

Moises & Jennifer

Cousin Visit

Abby spent the weekend and part of Thanksgiving with with her cousins, Seth and Nathanael. We were very interested to see how she handled "sharing" the spotlight with her newest cousin. She did very well and was attentive to Nathanael's cries and would soothe him as much as she could. She did point out a couple times that she was also having a baby sister so babies are nothing new to her! What a fun time for her!

Much Love,
Moises & Jennifer

Kitties & Kanines Open House

Last night was the Kitties & Kanines open house at the clinic. We use it as an opportunity to get more exposure for the clinic in the community and allow donors to come by, visit the clinic and meet the staff. We spend a lot of time working with other board members of the clinic to get money raised to keep the clinic going. It was exciting that Abby got to come along for this event because we usually leave her with a sitter. When we told her she was going to see puppies and kittens she was ecstatic. Right now the clinic has a dog named Maggie up for adoption and she is just the sweetest dog, Abby loved her and didn't want to leave her side...that is until the newborn kittens came in. The kittens had been rescued after their mother refused to care for them, so they are currently being fostered by a longtime pal of the clinic. Abby did not want to leave because she wanted to take one of the kittens home with her. We bribed her with ice cream to minimize the trauma of leaving behind the kitties.

Abby with Maggie the dog and Ramona, the driving force behind Kitties & Kanines

One of the rescued kittens that Abby loved so much

Much Love,

Moises & Jennifer

4 Year Anniversary

November 13th will be our 4 year anniversary, since the date fell on a Thursday and we were booked solid that week, we decided to take this past Saturday as our anniversary celebration. We had been attending insurance continuing education from Wednesday to Saturday in Little Rock so BB was watching Abby for us. We decided to stay one more night and have a nice relaxing night on the town. We went to Cache as recommended by a friend and it was dynamite, plus it was a nice time to just be husband and wife, not daddy and mommy! We were super excited to get back to see Abby, who had a blast with BB. Abby got to go to the Veteran's day parade and a princess party, she's still eating on the candy she got from the Veteran's parade!

Much Love,
Moises & Jennifer

Halloween/Lake House/Cowboys

Halloween fell on a Friday this year and since we were already going to be at the Cowboys game on Sunday, we decided to head down to Dallas early Friday so Abby would have plenty of time to get ready for Trick or Treating. Her class had a Halloween party Friday morning so she was excited to dress up for that and we picked her up from school around 10:00 to head to Texas. To our surprise, she didn't want to go Trick or Treating! Instead she wanted to hop in the pool at the lake house....it was about 60 degrees and very cold. She didn't seem to mind so we let her do a little wading and then finally pulled her out before she became a human popsicle. 

Abby's cousins, Avery & Reece, arrived on Saturday so of course the kids had a blast playing together as usual. Sunday was game day and Abby loves going to Cowboys games. This time she rode to the game with Papa & BB and got there early enough to go play in the "Kidz Zone" which is a huge play area of inflatables, face painting and balloon making. She had so much fun she didn't want to leave.

Mommy forgot to pack Abby's PJs so Abs had to wear a shirt of mommy's that is about 30 years old

Abby and Frodo playing

All the cousins playing with Uncle Moi

Purple star...it was not fun washing this off!

Much Love,

Moises & Jennifer