Festival of Lights

This afternoon was the start of my most favorite Lake Jackson tradition: The Festival of Lights! Every year they put up all these Christmas trees made of lights all over downtown and have a festival during the day and then a parade at night. It's so much fun! We went to the festival part today and in just a little while we will head to the parade. Kendall was pretty excited about the festival...until we got there! Then she got a little overwhelmed and everything was just too loud and too scary. We ran into some friends and asked them to take a family picture - here's how that went:
Oh well. So then we headed over to the carnival part of the festival and bought tickets so Kendall could ride the carousel like she had been talking about wanting to do. They ride one in Mary Poppins, so she thought that would be fun. Well, she changed her mind (after Randy bought the tickets) so we moved on to the games. She thought it sounded like fun to pick a duck and get a prize, but then, not so much. Can you tell?

After that it was time to go watch Aubrey Beams dance on the main stage! Kendall was really excited about that and she could just sit in the stroller, so that worked out great!! Here we are ready to see Aubrey:

She did such a good job! She's so sweet and cute! (on the right - our friends Jason and Stephanie adopted her from Russia - but she just looks like she's their biological child!!)

Before we left, we walked over to the snow hill so Kendall could just see it. It looked like fun! I wore Cooper the whole time - and she slept the whole time! We'll see how they both do for the parade tonight; it's going to be loud!!

Just too sweet...

...not to share!

Turkey Cookies!

On Wednesday our friends Rachael and Charlotte had us over to make turkey cookies! Mary had seen this picture and wanted to try making them with the kids...needless to say, our cookies didn't look quite this good!

Spreading the icing on her cookie. Before it was over, I actually saw her sticking the spreader into the icing and eating it right off!!
Mary and Sarah were there, and Ethan, Ella and Holly.


Showing me her cookie!

Sweet friends!

Here's the hostess: Rachael with her daughter Charlie. Rachael is having her second in just a few weeks!

Megan and Clark were there too - and Megan let me help Kendall by holding Cooper for awhile. Cooper enjoyed watching. :)

Check out that messy face!!

We had a great time making (turkey) cookies!! Thanks girls!

Fun Weekend!

We had a great weekend! When Randy got home from Cambodia last weekend, we decided to tear out our carpet and put down new floors in the living room and hall. It has been a lot of work! We worked all day Friday, and then Gigi and Peeps came down for a quick visit Saturday and Sunday. They helped us work on Saturday, but of course we had to take a break for the Aggie game Saturday night! It was so fun to watch the Ags BTHO Baylor!! We didn't have the game on our tv, but Kevin and Jan did and they invited us over to watch it, even though they were out of town!

Holly and Ella stopped by for a little while and Kendall had a good time playing with them. It's so fun watching her and Ella play more together now that Ella is older.

Kendall wore her A&M stickers again for the game - so cute!
Love it!
Kendall loves her Gigi and Peeps! It was great to see them.

Sunday morning we all went to church and got to hear Randy preach. He is doing such a great job - we love listening to him!! Cooper wore one of Kendall's old dresses to church and looked just like her! Beautiful!

We had a great weekend, but we are worn out and all of us are starting to get a little sick! We're ready to rest up and get over this before we make a long trip to Ft. Worth next week! Cooper has lots of friends and family to meet!

Bumbo!

Look who is sitting in her Bumbo chair? Well, kind of. Her head still bobs around a little and she can't go for too long without getting tired. But she's so cute!

Big sister wanted to come be in the pictures, too.

And check out our new floors! We pulled up our carpet and layed vinyl planks. So. much. work.

I love this! Cooper, I hope you always know how much your big sister loves you and loves to take care of you!

Vitamins and Smiles

We started giving Cooper her vitamins last night. Before we made her taste them though, we got a few shots of her smiling at her Daddy. :)

Look at that belly!!

Such a pretty smile!

And then we gave her the vitamins...

She made faces, but she ate them all!! What a good girl!

Daddy is Home!

Randy went to Cambodia last week and we were so excited to go pick him up from the airport Saturday! The girls really missed him so much...and their mom did, too. Cooper just kept looking and looking at him. So sweet!

Love those big eyes!