here and there

Celebrating Bob & Nery's December birthdays at a 70s-themed bash in Mesquite. :)

(We gracefully bowed out of costumes... ;P)

The girls spending some time at the park!

And the boys at a Stars game...

(While we them win during overtime watched at home!)
"The Stars have only taken 22 shots." "Actually, it's more like 19-20." "Sadie, you literally have NO idea what you're talking about!"


Meghan and Krystall's gingerbread clusterfuck. ;P


Sadie (and Daddy!) dancing. :D


Thanksgiving at Darrah's with the littles!




Sadie watching Jane the Virgin with me. ;)


Spending time with Miss Macy while her momma and I watch JTV and eat cheesy fries!


And Miss Emmy's band concert!

katya & kennedy at brick

With Meghan, Krystall, Ky & Da at Brick. :)

indoor skydiving!

For Richard's birthday, I got us tickets to go indoor skydiving at iFly in Frisco. It was such a fun experience! It's kinda like skydiving in a fish bowl. ;P We each had two flights, and were the only adults in our group! (Apparently it's a very popular things to do with little ones! We were in a group with a boys' birthday party, and those kids were HILARIOUS - they were so excited!). It was definitely a fun date. :)

santa pictures!

Thanks to Yesenia for inviting us to Ebby. :)

margarita ball

Our first Margarita Ball! Richard and I both rented fancy digs, and had a blast with Bob, Bia, Debbie and Aaron. We went to eat at the legendary Campisi's first, and then took an Uber down to the party. It was such a fun time! I wish we could have danced more, but we spent a hot minute walking around all the different rooms and just soaking in the scene. Beward of picture overload! (We looked smashing, what can I say?)

Meghan, the photographer! ;)

 

early thanksgiving! (and the beginning of vlogging?!)

This year, Tonya had the genius idea to have an Early Thanksgiving for our family. Dan, Brenda, Dana (& Jake!) were going to be in town, AND since working retail during the holidays is terrible let's go ahead and knock it out! It was such a fun evening because it was also Richard's birthday, so we had a great time celebrating and being together. This was also my first foray into making videos for the blog, and it was a little too easy - so brace yourselves! It's officially an option now. ;P

surprise! richard's birthday dinner with kittens :)

He didn't see it coming. :D

New slippers :)

And a toy!

courtesy of Sadie :)

"It's covered in ladies because all the ladies love you..." ;P

halloween!

(A spooky little coincidence with out backyard cafe lights!)

Another Halloween has come and gone, and officially we feel like we're in the holiday season! This was our second year having our family together for the big day, and we won't technically have the littles during Halloween day until 2018! (When Emily is 15, R3 14 and Sadie 12 - yeah, I'm sure they'll want to go around the neighborhood asking for candy with their parents! Maybe Sadie.). So I'm particularly grateful for these memories and pictures with our little dumplings, no matter how obnoxious the "costume prep" is (these guys are specific!).

This year, we met up with Debbie, Aaron and Matthew in Nick's neighborhood in Garland for the trick or treating, while Meghan abandoned us to do her teenager stuff at Screams. ;) (After dolling the littles up, of course!)

Sadie (a "zombie candy striper"), Richard III (a dementor - with a better mask!), and Emily (Mangle, from Five Nights at Freddy's - I have no idea! ;P)

Meghan is (a zombie version of?) Ben Drowned, from Creepy Pasta (It was really important to me that I get this right, so I had Emily tell me exactly what words to use because I have no idea what any of this means! #mom). 

With Nick (Eyeless Jack) and Krystal (Scarecrow) - again, big thanks to Emily to helping me out with this. ;P

Marie Antoinette and Cake! ("Let them eat cake" - right? Right?!) I had this costume from a few years back, which helped us go simple this year (thank goodness, because it was muggy as hell while trick-or-treating! So much for glam! ;P).

<3

Matthew, a stick figure! (He had on a black body suite and strategically-taped glow sticks on his person.) This was so hilarious. The littles were calling him Steve, and Sadie was helping him walk around (because taping glow-sticks to your leg and face don't help make you independently mobile - and Sadie is such a natural caregiver ;P).

The neighborhood in Garland wasn't overwhelming, so we came back to Richardson not after long. Of course Emily and Sadie, ever their eyes on the prize!, asked if we could walk around our neighborhood to a few more houses. Richard III and Matthew stayed at home to play video games, while we walked around - with Debbie and Aaron! This turned out to be a GREAT call because you get so much candy when you're the last trick-or-treators of the night! People were literally shoveling candy into their bags and they were shutting down houses (or porch lights, same thing!). It was kind of hilarious!

Sadie, just holding onto Aaron's hand like it's completely natural. :)

I love dem!

After our second round of walking for candy, Debbie, Aaron and Matthew headed off (let's be real - they didn't even have to come over to our house and walk around Richardson WITHOUT their kid - big props to hanging out with us!) and we threw the kids in the shower. Another successful Halloween! 

a dinner with mema

Last week, we had the extreme pleasure of having Mema over for dinner. Meghan always goes out of her way to hang out with this amazing lady (rightfully so!) and when ever she wants to bring Mema over, we're like, "... yeah, ok!" I mean, she's only one of the sweetest, most adorable women on the planet -- we're happy to entertain her as best we can. ;) We had a wonderful time hanging out.

Meghan, making sure Da knows what's up. ;P

Cutting up her Mema's steak. :D

On the way back home! (Meghan, who loves her Mema enough to go get/return her often; and Mema, who loves Meghan enough to get in and out of that little car. ;P)