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