Christmas fun with Snapchat

Just a few fun pictures from Christmas

Bouldering with friends

Alice has been in Girl Scouts since she was in kindergarten. One patch a few of the girls decided to earn was for rock climbing.  The place we took them to is actually a bouldering gym because there are no harnesses. You climb up, you climb down.....or you fall onto the 3' thick mats. 

No girls were harmed in the earning of this patch.

Halloween 2018

Alice LOVES Halloween, and she LOVES Stranger Things.  This year she dressed up as Eleven.  Here are some pics of her and her friends.

When we first moved into the neighborhood over 15 years ago, Halloween was a pretty pathetic event.  Most houses did not even participate.  Over the last 2 years we have seen an increase in houses giving out candy which has made trick or treating in our neighborhood much more enjoyable!

Dad’s still got it!

Alice may be almost as tall as her mother, but her dad can still pick her up side down.....while I stand by panicked she will be dropped on her head. We'll see if he can do this again next year!

Brief Update: New Phone, Fifth Grade, Cool Shoes

Alice got a new phone yesterday.  She upgraded from her iPhone 5 to an iPhone 6.  She was stoked.  My friend Jeff was again the generous source for Alice's phone upgrade.  We got it all set up and working the first night and Cristy picked her up a new phone case on her way home.  Alice was very excited and didn't even linger in bed this morning, instead she sat in bed and played with her new phone :-).

Also, here is our fifth grade, first day pic!!!

Fashionistas please note the killer kicks, converse mid-tops FTW.

Alice Flirting With Einstein

Summer Vacation to Colorado, 2018

I think this was in Veil

The puppies are back!

Remember the puppy surprise? Well I was at my friends house and if happends that the little boy who had Marie, Simba and Gus was her neighbor. We played at his house and I saw the puppies that came in my backyard. Marie got lost in Mexico but his grandma found her. Simba and Gus where there and the dad of the puppies were there too. I was happy that I got to see those puppies agin and it was very fun and the puppies were so nice!

            -Alice

10th B-Day!

Alice 10th Birthday Panda PJs

Our sweet girl is 10 yrs old today!  So proud of her.

Christmas 2017

Another Christmas has come and gone. Alice laments the days that she still believed in Santa, but still loves the holiday season. 

This year we started out the holiday weekend in Dallas seeing Varekai, by Cirque du Soleil with her Aunt Papa. Alice really enjoyed watching the show and told her aunt she would like to make this an annual type of thing. We stopped over at Aunt Papas house later that evening to meet their new puppy Jake.

The next day Didi and I took Alice to Northpark mall for some holiday sight seeing.  They have a miniature train exhibit and a couple of puppet shows.  Alice thought the trains were OK, liked one of the puppet shows, and thought the other was boring - haha.  Alice took one of her early Christmas presents (an American Girl named Sage) with us and did a photo shoot of her around the mall. We ended the trip with chocolates from the Godiva chocolates store.... Yum.

Christmas morning Alice wakes us up at 6:15, which is way earlier than usual...the excitement of Christmas morning won't keep her in bed for long. This Christmas could be summed up by one word.....squishies!  Pretty much the only things on her list this year were squishies, so almost everyone got her at least one.  Another big item for her was Stranger Things....she got a bunch of Pop toys of the characters and an Eggo tee and a Hawkins MS AV club sweatshirt....which she wears almost everyday!

After we got back home from the holiday festivities, Alice decided that she wanted to go to the American Girl store on January 1st to get the new Girl of the Year. We did this 2 years ago for a birthday surprise and had to drive to Houston as the only stores in Texas are in Dallas and Houston.  I had prepped myself for another drive to Houston on the 1st, but remembered there was a "pop up" store here inAustin for the holidays.  I checked out the web site and LO and behold...they were staying in Austin through January and would be selling Lucianna Vega - Girl of the Year. We popped over this morning at opening time and miracle of miracles, we were one of the first to enter the store and get the new Girl.  We were back home by 10:30am and I now had the whole day back!  Truly my Christmas Miracle!