visitors visitors visitors in TEXAS

Towards the end of November we had visitors 3 weeks in a row! It was the best!

visiting Dal when he was working in Austin for the month

                                     

Maren came to visit for Thanksgiving (which happened to be her birthday). We had some of Dal's coworkers over for dinner and it was really nice. Thomas brought over the most beautiful and delicious turkey! Some of Maren's stay was a bummer for her since she got strep throat, but the highlight for sure was spending a whole day in Austin eating, shopping & kayaking sans kids. 

my pumpkin pie cake for thanksgiving turned out kind of ugly but it was soooo good

A day in Waco

The next weekend my mom came to visit for her birthday and the kids were soooo happy about it. We spent a day at the Silos + she babysat while Dal and I went to his work Christmas party. Oh, and we made chocolate covered pretzels for our neighbor gifts which felt sentimental since it's something we did every year growing up.

Lauren + Tyler came to visit for Tyler's birthday the next week. The rain ruined our plans for some of it but it was sooo nice to have them. Dal had a day off to go to Austin with us, we spent a (cold) day in Waco at the silos, and ate lots of good food. We love those 2.

We met Chip's mom in Waco!

Meeting Symone in UTAH

Kasi, Robert and Symone were going  to Utah from London so we had to meet them there because we still hadn't met Symone! Plus we got to see fall in Utah so that was a huge plus.

Lewis' first flight! He killed it. Actually all 3 kids were great.

We were there over Halloween and did all of the festivities. We had a circus theme with our family and it was sooo fun! Calvin + Mae loved trick or treating with Olivia and painting pumpkins. We also went to pumpkin nights at the fairgrounds.

my Halloween cake!

We spent a lot of time with family and playing in the fall leaves. The kids really liked Symone even though she was pretty shy towards them. She is so cute!

We drove to St. George for the weekend. Highlights included meeting both Clara and Lucy, getting to be there for Lucy's baby blessing, going to the ABBA concert (which Calvin LOVED), and getting to see Doug and Mark who were in town for a wedding. 

CRAZY Mitchell cousins

As always we missed Dal. He has to miss out on so much! Bummer. Our flight home was delayed for FIVE HOURSS! It was terrible even though the kids were pretty good. We did hang out with the nicest people in the airport who helped me get all of my sleeping kids onto the plane. We got to our house at 4 am.