nora growing up: January 2014

Life has been quite hectic at the Schulz house. There's major renovations going on in the house, we bought a new car right before the holidays, traveled half of the gulf coast during the holidays, and sickness slowing the family down for a week. As you can see, writing a blog has kind of been put on the back burner, but here we are!

So yes, we got a new car! A Kia Sorento, it has a third row, which will come in handy when we pack up the family or all of Nora's friends in the future.

Nora got a visit from Grammie Diane Christmas eve and spent she Christmas morning with us. Nora's first Christmas at home! Nora wasn't too interested in the actual gifts, once again more interested in all the paper and boxes. She made out like a bandit, however, with plenty of new toys, clothes, and a big play set.

We then drove in the new car to Bay City and had Christmas dinner with Grandpa Wes, Grandma Deb, Faith, Renee, and Deb's family. Nora got even more gifts and it became obvious that this would be the theme for the rest of the trip.

We spent a few days in Bay City, then I had to rent a car and drive back to Austin for work. Sara and Nora went to Lafayette and saw all sorts of family. Grandpa Mike, Great Aunt Betty, Great Grandma, Sonja. I'm sure there's Cajun words for all these folks, but I don't know how to spell them.

Sara and Nora stayed with Sara's friend Kelly and had a great time playing with her daughter Kate.

I joined them on New Year's Eve at the bed and breakfast we would spend the rest of the trip in.

We then visited Sara's brother Josh, her sister-in-law Jessica, the nieces/cousins Grace and Brie, and Jessica's family. We ate too much, but had a great time. We even convinced Uncle Jessie to hide out from work and have dinner with us.