Happy Thanksgiving!

We decided to do something a little different this Thanksgiving, so we went out to Pasadena to have Thanksgiving lunch with our extended family and then headed over to Moody Gardens in Galveston. It was great to see everyone at Thanksgiving and of course, all the wonderful comforts foods of the holidays were delicious as always! The kids had a great time with all their cousins and I tried to take some pictures in their "Thanksgiving" clothes.
Then, we changed all the kids into their Christmas clothes since my aunt and uncle's home was already decked out for Christmas to take pictures for Christmas cards. It was very similar to taming the beasts at the circus, but I thank we got some cute pictures!

Isabella, Poppy, John Isaac, Elijah, David, Granna & Rachael

Right before we changed them out of their Christmas clothes, the cousins all began to dance with each other and it was precious!

We left Pasadena and headed out to Moody Gardens where we met up with my parents, my sisters, my brother and his family. We all got settled into the hotel and got bundled up to see the Festival of Lights around Moody Gardens. It was a very long lit path of Christmas scenes in lights with sounds and music! The kids loved it as they could run and be free and explore all the beautiful lights. Of course, Elijah did a little exploring of his own and saw a gigantic lit toy soldier and went running towards it but didn't see the cable supporting it and was totally "clotheslined" and fell to the ground. We also went to see The Polar Express 3D and we all loved that! The next morning, we had breakfast in the hotel and we went to the ice skating rink.

They had all just entered the rink, so they huddled together I guess so they wouldn't fall!

None of the kids had ever ice skated, and they all did such a great job! They had little metal "walkers" for the little kids (even though some of the adults used them too!) and they helped the kids from falling so much!

Elijah and Aunt Reagan

Daddy & Isabella

Isabella gave her walker to Elijah, so she just scooted along the ice but with great balance and hardly ever fell! Elijah used her walker and literally was running across the ice with such speed and no fear!