Santa and Christmas Trees

Last Saturday we had Breakfast with Santa at our clubhouse. Tyler goes for the donuts and hot chocolate, but no picture.  He will take our annual picture at Bass Pro Shop later this month though.

 

We decided this year to get a real tree!  It's our first time. So in the afternoon, we went to my friend, Lindsay's house.  Her son is selling Christmas trees for Fellowship of Christian Athletes. We had her open a few for us and decided on one. The trees were Fraser Firs.  While we were there, Molly was in heaven because they have 3 dogs.  We got the tree home and all set it.  It looks great and smells wonderful. I did have to get use to it not being perfect. It's real so there's a few gaps that you can't do anything about. 

 

 

Thanksgiving Week

My parents and niece, Kyla, came down for the week of Thanksgiving.  We stayed busy, but had a lot of fun.  Monday we went to Sea World.  They had their 8 million Christmas lights up.  We saw all 4 shows, all the other animals, Santa, reindeer, and loved the lights that evening. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday my best friend, Debbie came over and brought her Dad.  Her Dad used to drive for HEB, so my Dad couldn't wait to talk trucking with him.  After lunch, we went to the Tower of the Americas.  They also had three 4D short movies that were fun to watch too.
That afternoon, we all taught Molly how to ride without training wheels.  It took awhile for her to figure out the balance and steering part, but she finally got it and has been riding her bike all the time now.  For some reason it won't let me download the video on the blog.

Wednesday, Scott had off, so we went to Top Golf and then Chuy's for lunch.  That afternoon we baked pies and started getting ready for Thanksgiving. 

 

 

 Thursday we had a nice Thanksgiving.  Scott's parents also came over.  We got out our Christmas decorations that evening and went shopping at a few stores.

Friday we did a little more shopping then headed down to the Riverwalk in the afternoon.  We watched the Ford Riverboat Parade that evening, which is when they light up the Riverwalk.  There were about 20 floats and they all were a Christmas movie theme. We had a good time, but I was a little bummed.  I searched and searched for the best seats...ones where we could be in the front row, ones near a restroom...we ended up being under a street.  It didn't show that on the map.  It was lit up and we had pillars in front of us.  You could still see the floats just fine, but it wasn't the same experience as sitting in the dark with only the Riverwalk Christmas lights and seeing the floats come by.  If we would have been one or two sections over, it'd have been perfect.  I'll know for next time. 

This is one of the floats, but a little blurry.

My parents left Saturday morning. It was a busy, but fun week.

Saturday afternoon, we met my friend that was over from SugarLand at Hemisphere Park to play and then went to Magik Theater to see The Best Christmas Pageant Ever.

 

The Tower of the Americas that we went up in on Tuesday is in the background.

That is our Thanksgiving week.  

Busy Saturday

This past Saturday was a busy day.  Molly had her dance recital and Tyler has 2 playoff basketball games. Molly's dance recital went well.  She's loved this dance class and will start back up in January.

 

From her recital, we rushed to Tyler's basketball games.  We thought we'd miss the first game, but we were only 5 min later since the tournament was running behind.  They lost the first game which was only their second loss this season.  They won the second game.  Tyler got a steal and 5 rebounds, so he was happy.  He'll start back up on January also.

Notice that Tyler has sports glasses on.  He broke another pair of classes last month, so we finally got something for when he's playing basketball.

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!  Molly was an Elf on the Shelf this year.  She came up with the idea herself.  She loves her elf, Holly, so thought this would be a fun idea.  She was the cutest elf around.  We went to our community Trunk or Treat on Saturday night and then trick or treating last night in our neighborhood.

Molly was very excited when Holly came with a note telling her how cool it was that she was dressing up as an Elf and they'd be twins and she could hold her and take one picture.

Molly and her friend, Marley, who was dressed as a nerd.

Tyler passed our candy at his friend, Kyle's.  Apparently they put on their basketball jerseys and did a little trick or treating as basketball players, but I didn't see him do that, so no picture.

Aunt Stacey's Visit

A few weeks ago, Scott's sister, Stacey came for a visit.  Between Nerf gun wars, basketball games, washers, board games, dinner out at Chuy's, hiking, and a fire pit, we had a great visit. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We always enjoy our time with Stacey! 

Girl Time

A few Fridays ago, my friend, Debbie and I got to get away for a night.  We went to Houston for The Word is Alive women's conference with Lysa TerKeurt and singer/songwriter Ellie Holcomb.  It was a wonderful conference and I had never heard Ellie before and she was great. My favorite quote was "God loves me too much to answer my prayer at any other time than the right time...and in any other way than the right way."

 

We had such a good time driving over and eating out by ourselves with no kids, relaxing in the hotel, chatting with no interruptions.  It took me a long time to find a best friend here in San Antonio.  I met Debbie through Rachel and the 3 of us are still close.  Rachel had to move, but I'm so glad I have Debbie here to do life with.  She's such a blessing. 

I'm back!

I realize I have been MIA for awhile now. It has just been a crazy month.  School started and kids are doing well.  They like their classes and teachers. Molly has also started dance again and Tyler started basketball. He plays center and is loving it. 

First day of 1st grade.

 

First day of 5th grade.  Last year in Elementary school.

After the first week of school, Hurricane Harvey hit Houston.  We tried to get my in-laws to leave, but they wouldn't.  They had to be rescued by Coast Guard on Monday.  They were taken to a hotel, where they stayed almost a week.  Once the water went down and cars could drive there, Scott and Tyler went to pick them up the following Saturday.  They and their dog, Jett stayed with us for 3 weeks.  It was a long 3 weeks to be honest.  After a week with us, they were able to get into their house.  Scott and his Dad went and Brett came over from Austin.  They had a foot of water they stayed in their house for two weeks with no air.  Mold was already growing up the walls and on any furniture in the downstairs.  They saved pictures and different things that they could and made trips back and forth with all the stuff.  It was a very tiring week for them.  Their house is built up, so for water to get into their house, it was alot.  Both cars were underwater.  My in-laws did have flood insurance and have since then had the downstairs all gutted out.  They've moved into a rental here in San Antonio in a Del Webb community, which should be great for them. For now, they're just getting settled and will decide on what to do with their house in time. 

The second week they were here, we had our floors redone.  We tried to postpone it, but it wouldn't work.  Luckily, this was the week Harry and Scott were back and forth to Houston, so that was 2 less people during the work.  We got tile that looks like wood put in.  It's in all the downstairs area that had carpet.  It looks great, we really like it. 

The rug needs to be moved back still.

 

I'll have a few mores posts coming up and I'll try to stay up to date from now on.