Christmas Weekend

On Christmas Eve we traveled to my moms to meet up with her, Drew, Shelly and the kiddos to celebrate Christmas. We hit the roads pretty early, but still managed to hit some icy roads on the beautiful White Christmas we were blessed with this year. Mom lives near the Brazos River, so the scenery was absolutely beautiful covered in snow! Even with all the snow, Santa managed to make it to the house! Riley and Kaylin must've been super good kiddos this year, because Santa brought them some extra special toys! We had such a great time watching the kids, opening gifts, watching the men cook (well they helped anyway) and spending time with the family. It was great! The day after Christmas we went to the Gaylord to see the ICE exhibit and then headed to the Rockettes for a wonderful finale of this Christmas! We are truly thankful we have such wonderful family to share the holidays with!

Christmas #2- Just Stephen and I

Stephen and I celebrated our Christmas together on Christmas Eve morning. We were traveling to my moms that afternoon and didn't want to have to haul everything, so we had our own special little Christmas together at home with our dogs Buddy and Izzy and our pretty Christmas tree. Stephen and I must have been VERY good this year, because we got some GREAT stuff! We had a lot of fun and another wonderfully blessed Christmas!

Mota Christmas

This year we celebrated 3 different Christmas'. Our first was with Stephen's side of the family a week before Christmas. We went over to Stephen's parents house and joined the whole gang for a wonderful family celebration. We ate lots of delicious food, played games, we all made a special wish (a very cool idea Steph brought to the party), tried out the timer on our camera for some group photos and then changed into our matching PJs for gifts and more photo opps. Izzy even got a little gift. We had a wonderful Christmas with this side of the family, we are truly blessed!

Gobble! Gobble!

This year our Thanksgiving was spent at Stephanie and Gene's with Stephen's side of the family. We were very fortunate this year to have lot's of family join us. We had Stephen's parents, Steph, Gene, Gene's parents (Leo and Ina), Stephen's cousins (Clarissa, brad and Christina) and Stephen's aunt and uncle (Uncle Jerry and Aunt Gloria).

The days leading up to Thanksgiving are always fun cooking and preparing for the feast! This year I made my first Pecan Pie. I got inspiration from the William Sonoma catalog and tried to deliver a great presentation as well as great taste. It was so much fun! All of the girls got together the night before and made the dressing, which was fun too!

Thanksgiving day came and we had plenty of food! Steph had lot's of fun games for everyone to play including, charades, pin the tail on the donkey, karaoke and some other fun games. The guys always have to fit in a little football, so they entertained us for a while with their spirals and phenomenal catches.

We had a great Thanksgiving. We are very thankful to have a healthy happy family this year. We look forward to another great year and seeing my family at Christmas.

Steph's Birthday

Happy birthday to Steph! We celebrated Stephanie's birthday last month. We had a great dinner at Uncle Julios and then went back to their place for cake and presents! We had lots of celebration and hope for another GREAT year for Steph this year!