Thanksgiving Texas Trip 2014

I am finally feeling back to normal after our 6 day trip to Texas for the holiday. We drove 10 hours to Dallas then 5 more hours the next day to the smallest little down in south Texas. It was a lot of driving but it was worth it. We spent a lot of quality time with my Dad, step mom, and Grandpa that we don't get to see much. We also saw Tenley a little bit but its never enough time with her :( 

We did lots of "country" things like collect chicken eggs, Nick went shooting with my Dad, we slept in my Dad's camper trailer lol (which is actually super nice. I could probably live in one of those), and we also took a day trip to the beach. When we got back to Dallas thursday night, my sister, brother in law, and I went black friday shopping till about 2 am. We got tons of great deals, some for ourself but mostly toys and such for the girls. Hello Disney store! ;) I am so grateful for the wonderful family time we had together as a family of three, and with our extended family! Never enough, but great quality time and memory making that we will never forget!

(mostly iPhone and a few big camera pics. I hope to post all of the awesome beach pics I got soon)

Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours!

On the road...

McDonalds pit stops, super classy outfit included ;)

Seriously BFF's!!

She loves her aunt Tera so much. #uglycry

I shared this on insta, but she was so tired her tongue was out (I've never seen her do this before) and she was talking in her sleep saying, "Princess Anna's here!" over and over! So cute!

curing boredom!!

Every. Fam. Pic.... Can we ever get a normal smiling one!? lolz

Off to the TX beach. Cowboy boots are a necessity, yes!

Best day ever! My heart was so full of joy seeing her have so much fun. Looking at these photos brings all those emotions back up and makes me feel all warm and fuzzy!

WORLD

A slight meltdown but we're good :)

<3

On our way home. It's always bittersweet.

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Thanksgiving & Harper's First Flight.

I hope everyone had an AMAZING Thanksgiving!!!!!!!

We took a trip to Dallas to spend our holiday with my sister and her family, my Dad and step mom who came down from Alaska, my Grandpa who lives in the big D, and my mom and step dad who drove down. It was a full family affair. (and somewhat stressful to split our short time between so many people) but it was a great time! It was also Harper's first time on an airplane. She was a rock star!! Like really, she was soo good on the flights. I am so proud of her. Her dummy parents, not so much... Yup we missed our first flight because we didn't think our airport would be very busy at 5 am, well we were wrong and because of our misjudgement we pretty much wasted a whole day in the air. It was a bummer.

Beautiful sunrise from the airplane.

Harps first plane ride!

So Tuesday we just hung out at my sisters new house with the girls and relaxed. 

Tenley and Harps are BFF's

Wednesday we went and had lunch, picked my Dad up at the airport, and than headed to the mall to see Santa!!! Yup, Santa for Harper was an epic fail but also kind of what we were expecting/wanting a freak out pic. hehe, oops. (Don't worry she was fine after 2 seconds.) We also went to a out for a fancy dinner with the whole fam! It was amazing and we had so much fun with the girls.

love love love love

Thursday on Thanksgiving we just hung out watched my step mom cook. (lol) The food was yummy and Harper took a 4 hour nap! It was awesome :). Nick, Harper, and I than went to my sisters boyfriends family Thanksgiving. It was really fun because once again we love having the girls together especially now that they can actually play together. We than decided to hit up wal mart for some deals. OMG. I have never done a black Friday like ever so it was a little overwhelming for me but we scoped out our positions in the toy department and we had a cart FULL for H and T in 2 minutes! It was  cray cray. We Santa went bizurk. We are completely done with Xmas shopping for the girls though. They are going to be so overwhelmed its not even funny. We went home and put Harper to bed and than my Dad and I went back out to shop! I finally got a new iPhone 5s (the gold one of course) and than we met up with my sister at the mall and shopped till 3 am. EXHAUSTION. holy cow.

Thanksgiving lunch. (Harps was sleeping)

Turkey day selfie ;)

How cute is Harps turkey dress my sister got her? Love it!

Grandma and H

Just checking for deals! lol

Our wally world cart. 

Friday we did MORE shopping, (I can't believe I am saying this but I was a little shopped out.) We went and hung out at my sisters again and got ready to leave... I was so sad to leave all my family but we were exhausted and I was looking forward to being home. We had a great trip and I am now looking forward to Christmas at home with my Sister! Yay!!

The girlies in their matching jackets from Alaska.

Family picture. (Dad's side)

Bye dallas. We miss you...