Freezing fun with friends and family...

Our weekend was in fact filled with freezing weather, tons of fun, and time spent with friends and family. 

Friday night we kicked off our holiday season with the annual Lights On! event in Bryan. (Yes, before Thanksgiving. I am not saying I support this, but the kids have fun and it's free). This year was slightly less amazing than previous experiences because it is legitimately freezing y'all. And raining. But not snowing, which is clearly not fun.

So not fun that even Landry wouldn't smile... 

The events got shifted a bit, but we still got to meet Santa. 

And he was a great Santa!

Once we moved out from the rain, Landry managed one of her famous cheese smiles and all was right in the world again. 

Can this count as meeting Santa this year? 

The rest of the weekend was spent with us being us.The girls walked around with babies in their bellies pretty much all day on Saturday. This was clearly hilarious. Every now and then a foot would pop out from under their shirts and well, that would be no fun for anyone involved. Emmy is excited that Miss "Legans" (Maegan's) baby is out of her tummy now and read to meet Harper, but now she has a baby in her tummy. 

Girls are funny.

We ventured out for the grocery store and church but stayed dry and warm inside for most of the weekend with a lovely fire going, Christmas tunes playing and easy living filling the empty spaces in the air. The kids were content to entertain themselves while I cooked and did laundry. 

Radley aged 10 years overnight when we logged onto Ryan's laptop and told us all about PBS online - so now I get to add "limit computer time" into my daily mix. 

And Ryan got started on re-finishing his great-grandparents oak table. The kids and him sanded and cleaned for hours on Saturday and Sunday and got it nice and clean and read for the first coat of stain. Hopefully this weekend he can add the leaf and we can have a new dining room table! 

Emmy took the "let's have a slow and easy weekend" memo too seriously. This girl takes so long to eat dinner. Every single night we are all done and Emmy is basically sitting there bowl untouched. And she likes the food, she just takes her time. Eventually Radley and Landry (and maybe Mommy and Daddy) run out of patience and are allowed to leave. And she sits there and bite by bite finishes her food. 

Dear Lord, I don't want a lesson in patience. 

Amen. 

And like they do every single time... even though the kids fought hard to stay awake for just "five more minutes."