Texas Stars' hockey

It was an obvious choice to get tickets to a Texas Stars' minor league hockey game, given Nico's excitement over his recent Dallas Stars' game! We went out to dinner beforehand and had a fun night of hockey watching.

Nico was still up on the cheers and had excitement with every goal scored.

 

He's been skating in the garage EVERY day since he got his roller skates for Christmas. Some days, it really wears us (David) out! He's gained some new equipment and a locker too, so he can be the real deal. He still loves to get presented as either himself or Jamie Benn.

 

 

 

 

He keeps his superhero costumes and sports jerseys here in his "locker room." Keep living the dream, Nico!!!

 

 

He skates better than me already...

 



Big purchase: a new car!

 

We plunged further into adulthood and bought a 2015 Ford Explorer this week! My work car needed to be turned in, and we really decided that a three row SUV would be ideal for our expanding family. David found this slightly used one online and hunted it down. We absolutely love it and definitely feel like we took another step forward to officially becoming mature adults!

New Year's Eve weekend

We celebrated our Round 3 of a late Christmas/New Year's this weekend with Ryan and Jessica coming into town! Wednesday night was Jessica's birthday too, so there was plenty to celebrate. We had an adult night out at Malaga for tapas followed by the Willie Nelson concert! We couldn't live in Austin any longer and not be able to claim seeing Willie Nelson. They may kick us out.

Ryan: "Take a picture of me and my two Jess's." Ha.

 

For both New Year's Eve and New Years Day, we had plenty of laughs just all hanging around at my parents' house. We did our gift exchange in the morning and played a few hours worth of games during both of the days.

Cards Against Humanity + day drinking. Enough said.

David kept nicely getting everyone drinks and food, so Ryan jokingly adopted the name Belvedere for him.

We had lasagna for dinner both nights and had a choice between my mom's veggie one and David's meat one.

 

New Year's Eve sparklers!!

 

 

As if we hadn't eaten enough the past few days, we all had dinner at Pinthouse Pizza on Saturday night before Ryan and Jessica had to leave town.

 

 

And another holiday weekend full of quality time is in the books!

 



 

Christmas weekend with the Elson's

We spent Christmas Eve and Christmas Day hanging out at my parents' house again this year! I have to admit, it seemed a little extra quiet around the house not having Ryan there. (Him and Jessica are coming down later this week to join in on the fun though.)

We continued with our usual on Christmas Eve routine-  munchies and game playing!

Nico watched Christmas movies and brought over his skates and hockey gear to show off his new skills.

Later that night, we made sure to leave cookies out for Santa and carrots for the reindeer.

There is no other morning like Christmas morning, especially with a 4 year old. Can we bottle up these moments to relive them more often?

 

 

 

Santa gave Nico plenty of superhero toys along with a brand new bike! He was pumped and kept referring to it as a big boy bike since the training wheels would be coming off eventually.

 

 

After the excitement of Santa's gifts and riding laps around the house wore off, we headed over to my parents house for continued spoiling and Grandpa's famous French toast.

 

We had a nice little Christmas just playing with toys and relaxing!