Our Week in Texas

We had such a great girl's week in Texas! We left Chicago's single digit temperatures to start our trip with a stroll in the park in Austin's beautiful 80 degree weather!

I even dipped my feet in the river . . . in January!!! I LOVED it!

This is the way to get around!

Austin was AWESOME! I met Logan and Lucas (Mommy's great friends that she misses so much!)

Logan drove in to see me from San Antonio! Thanks Logan, we love you!!!

And of course we went to 6th Street!

But don't worry, I stayed at the hotel with Gee while Mommy, Aunt Courtney, and Lucas went to celebrate Mommy completing her LAST licensing exam!


We ate cupcakes at this cool cupcake trailer . . .

We went shoe shopping at the mall ...(can you tell from my face my daddy's in big trouble?!)

I played and laughed a lot with Gee . . .

I knew I loved Texas . . . and Chick fil A!

Then we headed to the even more awesome town of College Station. Mommy and Aunt Courtney introduced me to the best university in the world where I hope to go one day! :-)




I got to meet and eat lunch with Debbie (Mommy misses those lunches and talks!)

We went to Houston for the day to visit Uncle Ray, Aunt Shari, and my awesome cousins!



I also learned to kiss this week!


I got to meet and play with Eli (we were born 2 weeks apart and will be great friends, just like our mommy's are!) . . . but sorry Eli, no kisses for you EVER! Ha!



Never thought we'd be at Wings asking for 2 slings! Ha!

Thanks Aunt Courtney and Gee for such a great week and giving Mommy a much needed, sun-filled, girl's time break! It was a blast!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

Well, there are still some pictures of Christmas & New Year's I'm waiting to get so I can post, but these will have to do for now. We had such a great time spending Addison's 1st Christmas in Texas! Here are a few (of many) pics. I'll post others once I get them.

Bo shoveling before we left for the airport. . .7 inches of snow in one afternoon, we weren't sure we were going to get out of town. After a 5 hour delay & a mere miracle we made it to Sherman at 3 a.m. Christmas Eve morning!

Enjoing every minute & so thankful we were there!

The whole family Christmas Eve (Gee's taking the picture) . . . Addison turned 5 months old on Christmas Eve

She really liked opening presents!

Addison absolutely loves Grandmother!

Lots of family football (& apparently bow & arrows) with the boys Christmas Day (beautiful weather!)

Gayla, Mike, Grant, & Gavin came all the way from Louisiana to meet Addison for the 1st time (Never thought I'd see the 3 of us with so many cute kids...and one on the way...enjoying Christmas together just like we did!)

Ray, Shari, Josh, Christina, Hannah, and Sarah came all the way from Houston to meet Addison for the 1st time


And when we got back to Chicago, we had another amazing Christmas with Mr. Bud


Playing with all of her Christmas presents

Showing off her toys to her friends in the neighborhood