A Visit to Lala Land

We spent Thanksgiving with the newly weds, my brother, Ronny & his wife, Lauren (or Aunt Lala to Laney). Kathryn christened their house Lala Land because that's where Aunt Lala lives. We got to Ronny & Lauren's house in time to finalize the Thanksgiving feast. Here they are posing for a picture before we took the turkey back to the kitchen to cut it with the electric knife.
Our little family posed before dinner.

After loading up on a Thanksgiving foods, we went to the beach for a walk. Here's Kat messing with a jelly fish. Ok, to some it's gross, to us it was kind of cool to get that close to one & just get to check it out. Laney loves her Aunt Lala. They spent a ton of time together. At the beach:

Watching the Aggies get stomped on by the evil Longhorns:You may not be able to see it, but Laney has an orange bow on one pony tail & a maroon one on the other. My mother made her "House Divided" hair wear, since Daddy Ron was a Longhorn and Ronny & Lauren were Aggies.

Desert time - Good moms let you let the beaters, great moms turn off the mixer first. My mom is a great mom when it comes to homemade whipped cream.

Friday morning we decided not to shop until we dropped and instead went to the park. We did some sliding & climbing, and Laney got in some swing time with Mama Janie.

In the afternoon, it was time for more tradition - turkey tamales! What a great way to use the leftovers. Laney gave spreading the maza a try, but wasn't really too keen on it.

Daddy Ron & Mama Janie getting their maza on.

Lauren's brother, Adam making his first tamales with Lauren and Kathryn.

My cheesy brother and industrious husband.

The tamales turned out yummy and we had a fabulous couple of days with the family. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving too.