On December 8th, we woke up to a winter wonderland! Snow is extremely rare in southeast Texas, so we were all very excited! The last time it snowed was 2009 when Evan was only 10 months old!
There was even enough snow to build a decent size snowman!
This is the only photo Benny is in because he wanted nothing to do with the snow. Dan dragged him outside so I could get a photo with all the kids around the snowman :)
The best part of Thanksgiving was having Mark and Courtney's family in town the whole week! Evan was so excited to play with his cousin Colby, who is just a few months older. We had such a fun week that ended way too soon! Here's a few photos from our little beach trip...
We also got to celebrate Colby's 9th birthday at Chuck E. Cheese. Here's all the cousins together. What a group! (Aiden, Luke, and Hugh are missing from the photo.)
At the end of the week, we went to Brazos Bend State Park. It was such a beautiful day and we got to see lots of alligators. I didn't take many photos, but I love this one of Luke and his binoculars!
Last month I got to meet my cousin's beautiful baby girl and take a few photos of her. She was the sweetest baby during her photo shoot and hardly made a peep.
This year Benny dressed up as Spiderman. He is obsessed with Spiderman!
Poor Lorelei was sick on Halloween. She dressed up as Belle from Beauty and the Beast and wore the dress grammy and grandpa gave her for her birthday. She only made it to two streets for trick-or-treating before she had to go home because she wasn't feeling well. She ended up misssing three days of school:(
Evan dressed up as Dracula, but he didn't want to do any face/hair makeup. He checked out a bunch of books about Dracula at his school's library the months leading up to Halloween.
Avery was a crazy scarecrow. This has been a family favorite! I think both Kyla and Elayna have been a scarecrow past Halloweens.
Kyla did a group costume with friends from school. They all dressed as Houston Astros players/fans. We are so proud of our Astros! So amazing that they won the World Series!
Elayna was a skeleton. I attempted some face makeup that I saw on Instagram but it looks nothing like it! I should just leave the Halloween face makeup to Dan. He's the expert! This is the first year Elayna did not want to trick-or-treat, so she passed out candy.
Lorelei's favorite gift from her birthday is her beautiful Belle dress that she got from grammy and grandpa. She pretty much wears it everyday when she gets home from school. She also loves her matching Belle doll. Can't believe she is already 6!
Evan competed in his first cub scout raingutter regatta last month. The boys were supposed to build their boats out of recycled materials. Evan used a pool noodle and some junk mail. He won every race he was in except for one!
This sweet girl turns six years old in a few days and just lost her first tooth! And the tooth next to it is really loose!
She was so excited to put her tooth in the tooth pillow for the tooth fairy. We have had this pillow since Elayna lost her first tooth. She got it as a gift from a friend at one of her birthday parties. We love it!
This is a beautifully written book about the woman who inspired Andrew Wyeth's painting "Christina's World." I've always been fascinated by that painting and wondered the story behind it. I enjoyed this story very much.
