Molly's Elf, Holly

Holly came back early this year, the day after Thanksgiving instead of on Dec.1.  Molly was surprised and thrilled. 

She's only done a few of the same things from the last few years-hid 12 candy canes, put underwear on the fan, and made a snow angel out of sprinkles-last year was flour.  Here are a few of our favorites new ones from this year.

She wrapped their backpacks for school

 

 

 

 

She trapped them in their rooms in the morning.

She wrapped all their tennis shoes for school.  Tyler was not impressed with this one.

She tried to bring them a snowman from the North Pole, but he melted

This was snow from the North Pole that made it.  She kept it in the refrigerator. It turned out to be incredibly messy.  Molly loved it, but Holly will not be repeating this one next year.  

 

These were special red gloves.  When Molly wore them, she could hold Holly

 

This was the one this morning.  Stacey arrived yesterday and we played Clue.  This morning she was from the game.  It was Holly in the Study with the Candlestick.  It was Stacey's idea.  

It's been fun, but I'm glad there are only two more days to go.

Annual Santa Photo

Yesterday we went to Bass Pro Shop for our annual Santa photo.  Tyler knows he must smile in this one.  I don't make him dress up, but he has to wear a solid color shirt and shorts. 

Stay tuned-we've had 21 day of our Elf, Holly here.  She came the day after Thanksgiving instead of waiting till Dec. 1 because Molly was so excited for her to come.  She's done some new and crazy things.  Hoping to get those posted soon. 

A Christmas Miracle

Last Wednesday and Thursday it rained almost all day.  It was cold and yucky.  Thursday around 5:00, Tyler's friend's mom in Borne posted a picture that they were getting snow.  Tyler was so jealous.  Then Molly's teacher posted a picture of her house getting lots of snow.  She's in Helotes about 25-35 min away.  The kids were hoping so bad we'd get snow.  Sure enough, about 6:25ish, it started snowing here.  Snow in San Antonio, TX!!  Amazing!  They were big flakes too.  The kids were beyond excited.  They were screaming and laughing and running all around.  They got the neighbors to come out and they had so much fun.  It is something they won't forget.

The snow is just starting

One excited boy!

Evan's kids ran out in their pj's.

Both sets of neighbors.  Later there were lots more too.  They were wild, crazy kids.

The snow is starting to stick

Trooper wanted to join in on all the excitement.  He loved running around in it.

 

Tyler and Kyle.  Tyler put on pants after this picture!

Molly and Adelyn making snowballs.

Our house before we went in. 

It was crazy and fun.  The next morning, there a some snow left and it was 32 degrees out.  I was surprised the kids had school.  It was sunny and got up till 65 or so, so the snow melted.  It was definitely a Christmas miracle.  Molly asked me if she was dreaming at one point.

I have to add these two picture.  Before the snow, since it was cold out, Tyler wanted a fire pit. Our fire pit was full of water from the rain.  So he improvised.

Yes, he's in shorts and a t-shirt, but it was cold.  Probably 38 at this time.  He kept coming inside telling me he was freezing.  I told him to put on warm ups, but he wouldn't listen. 

When one wasn't enough, he added more.  My survivalist!

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.