{Christmas II - KHS, Optometry visit, etc}

Thursday morning we went with Dan and Rachel to go visit our renovated high school. It was crazy different. We met with our old band director, Mr. Gresens, which was awesome - such a neat guy. He gave us a tour of everything and showed the babies around all the different instruments and stuff. 

It was fun, but gave me weird high school dreams for the next couple nights - wish those would stop!

The rest of the day was spent at Mimi's house while she was at school - and also a park visit with Uncle Dan. 

We took care of some stuff for her and then surprised her with dinner that night.

For many months now, Evette has said that she wants to be an eye doctor when she grows up, just like uncle Dan. She's also planning on living next door to him and working at the same clinic. 

Dan, being the fabulous Uncle he is, took us to the clinic he works at. Evette was very excited. 

 Also, she looks adorable in glasses.

That evening Sean and the babies kicked it at home with his parents, Brenden and Natalie, and Caitlan while I went with Rachel to Mom and Dan's Christmas concert.

After the concert we went to Dan's apartment to play some games and then Rachel and I went to the airport to pick up Megan. The flight was a little delayed so Rachel and I drove around and around the airport singing Kelly Clarkson - it was amazing.

{Christmas I}

This is the first of many posts about our Christmas trip.

We flew out Tuesday Dec 15th. Our flight was delayed by an hour or two. That was not fun.

The movies we tried to download to the ipad didn't actually download. They were tired and grumpy and taking silly pictures didn't even make them happy.

  

Don't let these smiles fool you, the flight was not pleasant.

There was a brief amount of calm in the middle of a storm, but we were all glad when the flight was over.

And then after that rather unpleasant flight the conveyer belt carrying our luggage in Houston decided to turn off. And no one but exhausted passengers noticed. So we all sat there for an hour expecting the dumb machine to spit our luggage out until a couple of us finally got annoyed enough to go find people at the front check-in desk (because there was no one working for Frontier anywhere near baggage claim). Then someone just came downstairs and turned a key and the machine was back on. SERIOUSLY?!?

Our first stop was to Mimi's classroom! Evette was especially thrilled to visit and see where Mimi teaches school. 

We were in Houston for about 3 weeks - so we split our time between our two families. We first stayed with Sean's parents. 

Wednesday was a lazy day and we just hung out with Gigi mostly while Sean worked.

That evening we drove around the Prestonwood neighborhood to look at the lights. It's an adorable little neighborhood that does amazing decorations! Each little street has a different theme and there's awards for best house, best street, best door, best mailbox, etc... It was a super fun drive, well, at least for the grown ups. Evette cried until she fell asleep and then Miriam cried when she couldn't fall asleep. But we grown ups had a great time!

{Between Thanksgiving and Christmas}

After Thanksgiving was over, we only had a few short weeks before we would leave for Houston for Christmas, but they were jam packed. 

Evette had a little Christmas program for her preschool. There was lots of singing and a slide show...

And when Swift's song "Shake it off" came on, all those 3-5 year olds jumped up and started shaking it! It was adorable.

Here's Evette with a couple of her buddies this year!

Evette also went to work one day with Sean - it's her favorite thing to do, and apparently she's a favorite at the office. 

Riding home on the train - I love this picture lol

Cinnamon rolls!

They were delicious!

This girl is so cute and particular about things she likes to cuddle with while she sleeps.

We also had Sean's work party to go do - it was a Masquerade. Our girls slept over at a friend's house so we had the evening to ourselves!

 The next day those same friends came and slept over at our house while their parents went out!

I also had 3 choir concerts I performed in.

Lots of things going on in our social calendars as well as our work calendars. Sean and I were scrambling like chicken's with our heads cut off for the last few weeks, but we got everything taken care of before we jumped on a plane to be gone for 3 weeks!