Ugly Christmas Sweater Party!

We had an ugly sweater party this past weekend with some friends from our ward. It was so funny to see what everyone showed up wearing. Jeff and I found our lovely ensembles at Salavation Army. I was so excited when I found my vest. It is fully sequined and very gaudy. We ate good food, had a white elephant gift exchange and played some other games. It was a fun night full of laughter and we are so grateful for the friendships we have made here!

Julie Visits H-town

Jeff's sister Julie and her little girl Lucy came to Houston for a couple of days at the beginning of December. We had so much seeing them and spending time together. She and her husband and 3 kids are moving to Australia in January and we are going to miss them so much! We missed Jared, Livi and Rex on this trip but figure we will just have to go to Australia now to see them! =) Here are some pics from the week:


Jeff and Julie

Lucy Jean (i love this picture of her)

Eating BBQ at Rudy's - if your ever visit us we will take you here. It's so good!

Me, Julie and our neice Karsyn at a Park near our house

San Antonio!

Thanksgiving weekend we drove to San Antonio to check it out and it is a gorgeous city. We went to the Alamo, the Riverwalk, and the old missions in the area. I loved the riverwalk! They had it all decorated for Christmas so it was really pretty.

Riverwalk Christmas tree

Remembering the Alamo

Look closely at this photo. Jeff caught him. He was going to town! Haha

Yeeeeehawwww!!!!!

The Riverwalk in San Antonio

Riverwalk- really pretty during Christmas at night

We had dinner right on the riverwalk. It was so cool to eat and see all the lights and the water. Very romantic.

Nachoooo!! Haha my husband is weird. He found this luchadore mask at this marketplace in San Antonio, so he had to put it on when we went and visited the San Antonio missions. It totally look like Nacho Libre.

The missions are so cool. The architecture is amazing

There are four old missions in San Antonio that were built in the early 1700's. We visited two of them. It was just cool to see stuff like this in the United States

Crikey!

A few weeks ago we went biking around this park in Houston called Brazos Bayou where you can walk around among the alligators and sometimes walk close to them if they are up on the walking path. We rode bikes around the park and saw alligators everywhere. It was cool and kind of scary at the same time. Luckily they were on the other side of the bank so not too close! Crikey!

Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving morning there was a huge parade through downtown Houston, kind of like the Macy's parade in New York. The streets were so packed and they had some pretty good floats. We then drove up to Jeff's sister's house with family and Jeff's cousin's family and had fun playing games, watching movies in the big theater room, and of course eating turkey and pie until we were sick. Isn't Thanksgiving great?

Showing my Thanksgiving day pride

Some of the group