{'Nawlins}

On Friday the 16th we headed to New Orleans in preparation for our cruise.

Baby Girl was a champ during the long drive

We did make a few stops to stretch our legs and visit some wildlife.

We had a great time in 'nawlins - enjoyed some beignets, listened to some local music, did some shopping....it was fabulous!

I think the crowd loved baby dancing to this music than the actual music lol

The girls went out to get our nails done before the cruise - gotta have cute toes, o'course!

Baby girl found the toilet paper roll.....ours isn't on the roll anymore because I got tired of rolling it up 348847x a day - you gotta pick your battles, my friends.

Loved the mirrors in the elevator.

On Sunday we decided to visit some cool looking cemeteries before we boarded the boat...

Unfortunately, on the way there Babbs decided to throw up all over herself and the carseat. Lovely. This is the sweet husband cleaning it up as best we could. 

[We threw those clothes in a bag, tied it up, and didn't look at them til we got home. Unforunately the clothes molded and after multiple attempts and cleaning it out, we had to throw the shirt away... sad. Also, even though we cleaned the chair the best we could and left the windows cracked in the car while we were on the cruise the car still smelled horrid for our drive back to Dallas. Hooray....]

How cute is this picture?!? This is us waiting in line to get on the ship...

{Adios Sancho}

The next weekend we headed down to Houston to say farewell to my brother, Scott, before he left on his mission. Since he would be missing Thanksgiving we had an early Thanksgiving dinner which was amazing, as usual.

We Sean made pecan pie with pecans from our trees. Delish!

I love these next 3 photos. They basically sums up my sister, Rachel, and I quite well.

Scott was very sad to be leaving Evette. Scott was the first one to make Evette laugh. Now she just looks at him and starts laughing. They have a special little bond. She'll be so big when he gets back!

Scott put Evette to bed the night before he left. It was so tender. He came out crying and then I just lost it. Oh boy, Imma miss that kid so much. He'll be a great missionary. Sean and I didn't wake up ridiculously early in the morning to see him off so we said goodbye to him that night as well. Oh man that was tough. I love my baby brother.
 Read more about his adventures here.

We spent the next week with my fam just chillaxing. It was great.

Evette loved the Disney Store during our trip to the mall

drinking the milk in her cereal bowl

Also, Evette was pretty sick so I decided to take her to the doctors so we could get her some meds before we left the country. Turns out that besides 4 molars coming in she had an ear infection in both ears as well as bronchitis. Holy cow! Despite all those sad things she was still her happy chipper self - what a trooper. We got that girl some drugs and she started feeling better in no time. 

My sister Rachel and I also decided to start up our own little talk show called "Lech with Rach" - you can watch it here and here. It's pretty fabulous.

I love living so close to family - I cannot say that enough.

{Dallas Consultants Murder Mystery Party}

The very next night we turned around and hosted the exact same party again but with some of Sean's friends from BYU who also moved down here to Dallas. It was fun to see the same characters portrayed different ways. Since Sean and I already knew who died and who murdered we played it up a little bit and and had some fun with it.

 Once again I played 2 people - but two different people so that was different. I feel like I got the best deal outta these parties because I put it all together, got to read everything, and also be multiple characters. 

It was fun to get together with these guys that we haven't seen for a while.

{Sunday School Murder Mystery Party}

We threw a murder mystery party for our Sunday School class on Nov 2. It was awesome! Most of them brought their friends so we had a whole ton of people over. The theme was a circus so we had an interesting bunch of characters. The kids were so clever and really got into it! We were one person short so I had to play 2 characters which got a little confusing at times, but overall it was a blast! I'm not going to say who died or who the murder was, but we figured it out in the end.