Llano Lights

We headed to Cherokee yesterday afternoon to spend time with the Valdezs.  It was like old times with all of us sitting around the kitchen table eating dinner together.  It's been 1 1/2 years since they moved and I STILL miss them all the time!  ugh.  Anyway we got to let all of our kids play together and catch each other up on life and it was wonderful.  When we left, we noticed a sign that said something about the Llano Lights on the water so we thought we'd drive through downtown and see if we could find them.  

We found them all right and they were great....even though it was less than 32 degrees outside...SO COLD!  We pretty much RAN through the light display and told the kids if they had a good attitude, we'd buy them some hot chocolate.  They all were very well behaved.  :)

Here's what the whole light display looked like from the over side of the river.

As we headed home, we passed through a few other small towns that had amazing light displays in their downtown area.  This one was in Burnet I think and it was super cool.  It looked like dripping icicles.

Singing Her Heart Out

Ava decided to be in the choir this year at school, which surprised is all very much.  But, that is one fun thing about her....she is full of surprises!  This past week, she had her first concert and sang lots of fun Christmas songs.  The entire concert took exactly 29 minutes so that was kind of nice too!

Ava's right in the middle

It helps when one of your best friends is in choir too!

So what else is going on with us....other than reminding our Elf Mikey to do something different every night, I got a job....like a real bonafide job!  Well...it's not 9-5...it's more like 9-10, 12-1, 2-3 and sometimes 9-10pm.  I am working for a company called Shipt and I shop and deliver groceries to people here in town, using our HEB stores.  It is PERFECT  for me and I love how I get to set up my schedule and can change it around at any time!  Yes it's hard work, but it is just right for me right now!  I am very thankful that this came along when it did.  Here's me in my "uniform" which couldn't be more perfect since it's my favorite color!  I've worked there for 2 weeks now and have already shopped and delivered THIRTY-ONE times!

This is by far the most hectic month of the year for us...other than April.  I love so much about it, but a little peace on my part of the earth would be nice right about now.  Shawn and I both have our eye on January 1st!