Ho ho ho!

Well, the holiday season is here! To kick it off, we had a wonderful visit from Santa. Most of the kids did anyway... Let's see.  Avery asked for a Spider-Man lunchbox. So did Asher. Claire asked for 2 glass bunnies, a stuffed lion, and Friends Lego. And Jude... He wasn't exactly thrilled with the experience...

Another colds day!

Headed down to the Perot museum downtown and enjoyed a nice fuddruckers lunch after. The kidlets had fun racing dinosaurs and looking at all the animals. 

Aunt Katie enjoyed a lunch with ALL her nephews and niece. 👍

Dallas arboretum in the cold!

Im way behind on posts so here are come collages in which succession. 

Everyone arrived on Saturday, so after mass, we beat the winter storm and headed to the arboretum Sunday morning. It was empty--imagine! We enjoyed the children's discovery garden with the fam. 

Let's play a game

It's called, "What did Carly eat today?" 

The choices are:

A. 94 nilla wafers

B. 1 entire brand new loaf of bread

C. 2 bowls of dog food

D. All of the above in a 12 hr period

Don't look at the calendar!!!

Just enjoy the fact all four are facing the same way!

Children's Discovery Garden at the Arboretum!

Finally! Some new arboretum pictures-- no more pumpkins, pansies, or parsnip pictures-- yay, you must be thinking. Finally convinced the kid-lets to venture in there this afternoon, and it was well worth the convincing. Every thing was cool, top of the edge technology and fun.

The only downside were 2 individuals who felt the need to point of any potential parenting inadequacies that they witnessed. I love the picture Scott snapped of the Dallas police officer, telling me I "better watch my children because one of them just wandered off." I replied, "Just one? I used to have 4 of them." I saw where he was pointing, and *gasp*, Avery had wandered off to a very tall, handsome, and capable man-- his father. Then this other man was freaking out because "Where's this boy's parents? Who's with this child?" as Jude and I circled a tree, playing a relatively safe game of hide and seek.

If I had a dollar...

A picture is worth...

Cold morning fun

Park time!

It has been a while since we've been able to meet up friends for play dates, so this trip to the park was exceptionally special!

Well, this is going to be an interesting day...

... And it's only 8:27am!

Bopa, this one is for you!

At the request of my husband to make these pictures available to the public... I think there is something to be said for predisposition...

The Price Is Right!

For Christmas this year, Mom got me tickets to the traveling show of TPIR! It was held here at the Eisman Center and was hosted by Jerry Springer! He turned out to be a really funny guy and good host for the show. They called up 4 contestants at a time, had them bid on an item, and had the closest one come up on stage and play a pricing game-- traditional ones, like Plinko, cliff Hanger. then they cleared out contestants row and called down 4 more. They even had contestants come up and spin the big wheel. Unfortunately our names were never called, but it was super cool to cross that off my remaining California bucket list.

Before he was a tiger...

... for ELC's Circus Day 2013...

 He was the ringmaster...

... then a monkey...

... then the tiger he was for Circus Day in 2011...