Brielle's Class Christmas Party

Emmitt and I joined Brielle for her class party.  It was a whole lot of festive fun!

Gingerbread with the Petersons

We are so glad we have some family around.  Matt Peterson (my cousin on my moms side) moved into our neighborhood and we love having them close.  It has been great.  They so kindly invited us over to do gingerbread houses and we had a great time!

Prosper Christmas Parade

Prosper has a fun little Christmas parade every year and since our ward was in it this year to promote our live nativity we had to go check it out.  Afterwards there were some fun activities like face painting and pictures with Santa.  And the weather that day was just beautiful!

Family Pics

Here's a sampling of our annual Family Picture photo shoot- done just in time for Christmas card season of course.

Thanksgiving

This year we went to Houston to spend Thanksgiving with the Thomases.  We let Brayden go to Arizona with his friend Nolan so we were just down to three kids.  We had a yummy feast, did some black Friday shopping on Thursday, and then the next day we went to the Childrens museum.  It was a great weekend.

Jasons 40th Birthday Cruise

Julie surprised Jason with a cruise for his 40th birthday and Kevin and I were more than happy to join in.  We cruised out of Galveston and visited Cozumel and Progresso Mexico.  It was a bit chilly in Galveston, but we were soon off to warmer waters...

 On the ship we enjoyed lounging about- esspecially when we were able to secure these "nests" at the front of the ship.  That was our favorite spot.  We played a lot of phase 10 on this trip.

The entertainment was sometimes lacking but we did enjoy a lot of live music that was pretty good.  We also enjoyed a lot of food that was pretty good too.  Particularly the tacos.

 In the above picture we have our glasses and trophies that we won in our group trivia challenge- that was a highlight.

Our first stop was Progresso where we rode these cool dune buggys to some salt flats.  It was pretty interesting how they get the salt and pretty funny to listen to our tour guide warn us of the dangers of touching the salt water and then wading in himself.  ;)  We tasted the salt too- it was salterrific!

 After the flats we went to a beach area with a pool and had a swim in the ocean.  The boys played some volleyball and we enjoyed some nice warm sun.

 Then on to Cozumel where we took a taxi to Paradise Beach.  It lived up to its name.  Beautiful beach and a lot of fun things to do.  We all enjoyed climbing on to (and falling off of) the giant inflatables.  The standing paddle boards were a lot of fun too and we enjoyed the pool for a bit and got some nachos for snacking.  It was a beautiful day!  After each stop we bought ourselves a mexican Coke.  I'm not a Coke drinker but that was pretty darn tasty!

And before we knew it our trip had come to an end.  It was so fun to spend time with the Grigors and eat and play and relax.  It was a great trip.  Thanks to Oma, we had our kids well taken care of at home and Thanks to Jason for turning 40 so we had a reason to celebrate!

Fall Soccer

Emmitt played his second season of soccer.  It was much better in some ways- he would at least stay on the field though he was very easily distracted he did at least try to focus.  His team was called the Eagles.