Tis the Season

Here are a sample of the treats we made this year. I was a little sad because our santas turned out a little better last year, but as Mac says, "They taste just as good!" We've started early this year since we'll be heading out to Kansas and Utah next week! My sister's family lives near Wichita, Kansas and then we'll head out to Talmage Utah to see Mac's family. We have been looking forward to this for some time now!!!

San Antonio

I cannot tell you how enjoyable this past weekend was for Mac and I. We celebrated the end of his semester by taking a little weekend vacation! On Friday we drove down to the San Marcos outlets and finished off our Christmas shopping, which was perfect because the crowds were not near as bad as they would've been on Saturday. Then we made it to our hotel in San Antonio and unpacked and then headed downtown to have dinner at the River Walk....so much fun and romantic. Connor even slept through our dinner, which made it that much sweeter. What a fun place to go visit during the holidays! That night Mac went to an evening session at the temple and I stayed in the hotel with Connor and watched Cinderella Man---love that movie! We felt like kids again excited for cable television! The next morning I woke up early to attend the early session while Mac and Connor slept in. After lunch we headed down to Sea World and used our season pass for the last time. We had no lines for the rides and even ran into our bishop's family and went to a couple of shows and rides with them! We couldn't have asked for a more enjoyable, relaxing, and fun weekend! I'm so proud of you Mac!

Thanksgiving

We ALL went to bed with full tummies....even Connor!!!

Thanksgiving this year was great! We woke up early Thursday morning so Emily and I could go get an early run in together, which to our suprise was very cold and windy.....All the hard work though paid off later in the day.....Mac and Darrin went to a local high school to play flag football, a fun and luckily injury-free event! Then we had a couple of hours to spare to get our part of the yummy dinner ready for later in the day. I made a homemade strawberry rhubarb pie, green bean casserole, and a frozen pumpkin pie. Mac on the other hand was determined to have a chocolate pie, so he made a suprisingly very yummy choloate pudding pie, which was the hit of the party!

We were lucky enough to spend Thanksgiving day with family and friends at the Mattson's home! We had such a fun time Eating, playing on full tummies with the kids, playing apples to apples, and laughing lots! We're so lucky to have made such great friends here in Austin! And this year we had Mac's brother and sister-in-law with us!!! Definitely a favorite holiday!

What a Pro!

When we arrived at JcPenney Portrait Studio I realized what a dud I was in not thinking about making reservations prior, but because Connor was just too cute (or we counted our lucky stars) we got in! Connor was sleeping for the first couple of shots and then with all the prodding and manipulating his hands to look just right he eventually woke up and we got some great bright-eyed face shots. All in all I was so excited at how well Connor did with his first trip to the Photographer.
I think he's thinking, "And now I think I'm spent."

Dinosaur Land

For those of you who didn't know yet...Mac has accepted a job with Anadarko! Yaye MAC!!! We will be moving to Vernal Utah this summer. We're very excited yet also shocked that we'll be back near Mac's home town. Connor will be almost a year old and we'll be fortunate enough to have grandparents close by! Mac's family will be just an hour away. We've already gotten excited about taking up biking and doing all the other fun outdoor activities Vernal has to offer. Living in Austin Texas has been wonderful and we've made the bestest of friends here, so I don't like to think about moving yet. Now that it's fall and winter is coming upon us I will be excited to be back in a state with mountains and snow! Mac and I love to snowboard! I'm reminded of "Oh, The Places You'll Go" by Dr. Seuss.

Mr. Bubbles

Too bad his bubbles are covering his sweet smile! I've never seen a baby who likes to blow bubbles as much as Connor does....it's so cute!

Happy Halloween

Connor looks like he's secretly a karate kid. "Put 'em up!"
Boo!

This halloween Connor got to attend two Halloween parties. The first was at our ward Halloween party and the second was at our friend's house. Thanks to Dana we had something festive to put him in! Thanks Dana!