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