Rice vs Houston

Okay, I don't want to totally skip Thanksgiving, so before I post about the game...We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with Kevin's family at his parents house. Tons of food, tons of kids, and tons of fun as well. It is so funny to see these 7 two year olds and Halli (all girls of course) running around. We put on Tinkerbell after dinner and it was a chorus of screams, they were so excited. I of course forgot my camera, cause I always do, but it was a great day, and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.


Friday was spent putting up christmas, we got alot done, but not quite all of it. oh, and eating TONS of leftovers, gotta love leftover turkey!


Saturday was spent putting up more decorations in the morning, and then that afternoon we headed down to Rice for the Rice/Houston football game. We met up with the Monsons, the Kirkhams and their parents. It was a little chilly, but the kids did pretty well. Kevin had been dying to go to a game, so when they asked if we wanted to join them, it was a no brainer, I didn't have a choice. :) We all watched the game intently and I know the girls followed everything! Really I was watching the kiddos the whole time and trying to take some decent pictures, and Kevin was corraling kids and trying to pay attention to what was going on in the game, but it ended up being tons of fun and the girls loved playing with their buddies.

The scoreboard, It was fun to see a college game again, it's been awhile!

The field and all the Houson fans, I think they beat Rice in the cheering department, but that's alright, Rice won the game!

Halli and Sydney being cheerleaders!



Lexie looking cute, she did really well. I just tried to keep her warm the whole time, it was windy!

Braden looking cute. He's playing with Kevin here.

Peyton did great, luckily we had her princess dolls and she was set. She just played with them the whole game and was more than happy to do just that.

The whole fam! We had a great afternoon.

The best part was that after the game Kevin suggested we head to the galleria to watch the ice skaters and see the huge christmas tree, so since we were headed that way, we went to the cheesecake factory for dinner and had the Monsons join us. It was so fun! The kids loved watching the ice skaters and Halli and Blake really want to go now, guess we'll have to squeeze that in sometime this month. We also went into Dylans Candystore while we were there. They have so much fun stuff there, although next time we won't be taking the kids.

On a side note, we're doing pretty well without our pacifiers. Peyton didn't even ask for it last night, so hopefully we're almost through with her needing it. It has been tough with her, so if you have a two year old with paci, wait to take it away, it's been a long week!

I'm sure alot of moms have pictures of their kids like this, but this NEVER happens in our house. Normally Lexie has to be swaddled with a pacifier. But I was letting her watch baby einstien and came in the room, and she was like this! Yeah for no pacis! Makes it kinda hard when we're out, she's not great at soothing herself yet, but she'll get there!

As far as potty training, she went poop on the toilet yesterday morning, I didn't see it, but Halli says she did! Oh, she also pooped on our swingset, so it's not going great yet, but she's SLOWLY catching on.