Our Week (12/01 - 12/07)

These first two pics were taken by Lizzie's math/science teacher:

Decorating for Christmas

At Bucee's in New Braunfels

The Riverwalk

Mexican food on the Riverwalk

"Big Tree" is an oak tree at the Alamo Plaza. It's about 150 years old and is a heritage tree.

San Fernando Cathedral in Main Plaza

Old bank vault in the basement of Drury Plaza Hotel

Celebrating Em's birthday with ice cream at DQ

The photo quality isn't great, but she's learning how to climb out of her playpen.

Heidi with one of the candles she made and sold at Market Day this week

Naptime

Our Week (11/24 - 11/30)

Emma's first time wearing shoes

 We went hiking at Turkey Creek:

The kids loved throwing rocks in the creek

Owen gave me this heart-shaped rock

The kids also spent the hike looking for the perfect hiking stick

Fall leaves

I thought it was cute that they held hands

Fried turkey #7:

Heidi was really excited to help Dad. Liz said it was animal cruelty and didn't want to have anything to do with it. Lol.

Before

After

We thought it was hilarious that Emma fell asleep while standing up in her crib

 At the Chuy's Children Giving to Children Parade in Downtown Austin

Mom's favorite part were the Star Wars cosplay-ers

William liked the dragon dancers

One of the dragons got a little too close and spooked him, lol.

Owen's favorite part was high fiving Pikachu (he's a big Pokemon fan right now)

Heidi liked the Mexican folklore dancers

At the end everyone donated toys to the Blue Santa program
(The police give the toys to low-income kids in the community)

Voodoo Donuts!

The girls also helped Dad build some shelf storage in the garage.

And Heidi made candles for a school project...

...And fed Rose's pet rat, Buttercup, while their family was out of town for 4 days.