Thanksgiving in Fort Worth

This year we spent Thanksgiving in Fort Worth at Aaron's parent's house. The boys, of course, always love going and spending time with Grandma and Grandpa and their cousins! I was in charge of rolls and pies. I only made three pies this year. The apple was ok but the pumpkin, and French silk were especially delicious. 

Tadd loved helping cut out the rolls

I attempted to take a picture of my boys. And it went as it usually does. 

We all sat down to enjoy our delicious meal!

Then it was time for dessert! There was also game playing, movie watching and just hanging out. Somehow there aren't photos of any of that though. 

The next evening we went to the parade of lights in downtown Fort Worth. It was really crowded so we couldn't see very well but the kids enjoyed it.  There was a lot of trading kids between the adults shoulders. 

Like I said, the kids loved it. Worth it. 

That weekend we also went to a German street fair thing. We walked around for a bit. The boys were all especially enamored with the puppet booth. We could have spent forever there. 

Then I spent $15 of the best money I've ever spent and put the boys on a donkey ride. They all three absolutely loved it. Especially Tadd. He's my little animal lover. He's still talking about it, a month later. 

Afterward, Grandma wanted to treat the boys to ice cream. They had so much fun! 

The weekend was filled with family, good food and relaxation. And a lot of this...   :)

California With Kade

There have been a lot of trips to California lately, for weddings. Kade begs and begs to go, every. single. time. So when November's trip came around, I told him he'd get to go with me. We wanted to make the trip as fun as possible. We got to do a whole bunch of fun things. We saw Big Hero 6, went to the Los Angeles Temple, the Grifith Observatory, the Beach and Kade's favorite... Universal Studios. 

The Griffith Observatory was so cool. It was a first visit for all of us. 

I had a photo shoot at the beach, luckily they were friends of mine so I brought Kade along so he'd get to visit the beach while we were there. He loved it. He was perfectly content watching other people build sand castles and watch the waves come in. All the little boys even tested their luck to see how close the waves could get to them before they ran away. 

On the way home from the beach, we got stuck in traffic. It felt like it was going to be forever. So we started playing with my camera and all the tail lights surrounding us. It was an eventful night. Complete with the car directly behind us, getting rear-ended. 

Universal Studios was the highlight of the trip! It had been a long time since I had been there and it was Kade's first time. He's still talking about it. 

The highlight of his life was getting to meet Bumblebee and Optimus Prime. 

He was going nuts over the cars on the backlot tour. 

We ended the day with dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe. Unfortunately Kade was EXHAUSTED! He slept through the whole dinner. 

On our way out of Universal City Walk we played with the camera some more. I love what you can do with lights and a camera. Fun fun. 

It was such a fun trip and so fun to spend so much one on one time with Kade. I'm so lucky to have such a fun and happy kid!