{Houston Trip Part III - Gingerbread houses}

1. Evette & Megan 2. Brenden and Natalie 3. Sean and Heidi

 

{Houston Trip Part II - Tree Decorating and McQuay Christmas}

McQuay tree decorating - 

Baby wrestling!

Since we're lucky to have both families in Houston, we got 2 Christmas mornings. The McQuay Christmas was on Sunday morning.

Stockings :)

Princess Shoes!

Brenden wrote a song for Megan for Christmas - it was amazing!

Evette is mesmerized by her snowglobe!

Evette only asked for 2 things for Christmas - a watch and rainboots. At Papa and Gigi's house, santa brought her a watch! She loves it.

It was a great christmas morning - filled with many sweet thoughtful gifts and cinnamon rolls.

{Houston Trip Part I - McQuay Stay}

It's always intimidating to start blogging after a hiatus where so much has happened. It's difficult to decide the order, the grouping, what's important to mention, and how to capture family moments and record events without oversharing or whatever. So bear with me for these next couple posts.

As it is during holiday times, travel costs are more expensive around the holidays, so we booked our flights out there before the price increase and our flight home after the prices dropped. This resulted in a long trip - we were in Houston for 2.5 weeks! It was long, but great! We were able to stay at both of our family's houses for a good chunk of time.

Here are some pictures of random occurrences with the McQuays:

We helped decorate for Christmas

Tuba Christmas! We went to hear Brenden play some Christmas carols with a hundred other tuba and euphonium players - it was fun! Cold, but fun 

Miss Miriam turned into a rotten sleeper during this trip. Woke up every 2-3 hours. Seriously. She just wanted snuggles and to nurse. Most nights she would sleep like this in bed with us, or I would sleep on the couch while Sean took baby snuggle duty. It was kinda rough. Now we're trying to settle back into a sleeping routine, and that's tricky. Sigh. Good thing she's adorable.

Evette loved helping Gigi work in the kitchen - they're making some pizza dough

We thought cousin bath time could be fun, but James thought not so much. Oops.

Santa Baby!

Miriam loved Georgie! Some many loves and snuggles for this doggy! He was a patient soul.

Brothers building a duplo tour just like old times!

 Her face!

Evette loved to be "in charge" of Georgie. 

Evette made sure all of her aunts and uncles got ample reading time......Thanks y'all. 

With the new year, Evette got to go to Primary! Goodbye, nursery! She loved it! She was so great. 

I snuck out of sunday school a few times to go peek at her. She looked so happy and loved trying to sing all the songs.

Makes a momma proud.