Thanksgiving

Craig, Debbie, and Justin came to Texas for Thanksgiving this year. We had a lot of fun shopping, playing games, and eating.  Of course our Thanksgiving Day meal was amazing.

Here is our lovely family photo prior to the meal.

This is me after the meal.

Debbie brought thanksgiving pictures for Carter to color.  I decided to participate since Carter was not doing a very good job.  Coloring has always been a talent of mine hahahahah.

This is the family after dessert.....can't beat Mario Cart on Nintendo 64.

On Friday we ventured out to downtown McKinney for a winter festival.  

I was going to take a picture with a human gingerbread man, but they were charging $5 for the photo...I settle for this nutcracker man.

Justin and Carter ended up in our photo....not on purpose.

Chinese Lantern Festival

The Chinese Lantern Festival is definitely one of the coolest things we have been to since living in Texas.  Every display was made out of lantern material & lit up. We spent about an hour walking through the entire park before we called it a night.  If you come visit Dallas anytime between now and February...make sure you stop here!  

I have to tell a quick story about our trip to the Lantern Festival.  Brady thought it would be a good idea for us to take the DART (rail system) into town.  We arrive at the rail station, and I hope out of the car to pay for parking.  While I am inserting my credit card into the machine a man approaches me.  He comes up and says, "Would you like to make a quick 20 bucks....it's nothing sexual."  Needless to say I didn't stick around to find out what it was that would make me a "quick 20 bucks."  Oh public transportation....what good stories you provide us with.

My favorite display was of the longhorn herd.

There were even displays on the water.

Allen Texas Football

One of the things we were most excited to experience by moving to Texas was high school football.  FYI they did not disappoint.  We decided to go to an Allen Eagles football game since it is close to our house, and they are ranked 11th in the nation and 3rd in the great state of Texas.  

Allen High School finished their brand new stadium over this past summer.  This place is insane holding 18,000 people.  There are over 600 members in their band alone.  Anyways, the Eagles ended up winning 35 to 34 against Plano.  We had a blast participating in Texas football.

Obviously I did not take this picture.

Yes...this high school has instant re-play at their games.  I think my high school had just upgraded to a digital score board when I was in high school.

Carter had fun running back and forth in front of us the whole game.

I swear I am not this pale....stupid flash.

This is actually Plano's marching band, but I thought they looked better than Allen's because they were dressed in Halloween costumes.