Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Poppa, Rara, and Jax brought us a delicious Thanksgiving lunch that we just heated up and then gobbled up!

Yum! Mom ordered a turkey, but when we opened it up, it was a ham. We could not stop laughing about that. In my opinion, it was even better!

We celebrated for dinner with Mike’s family at Mimi’s. We had the best time relaxing and enjoying great holiday food. The girls always have fun playing with their cousin, Noemi!

Lots of excitement happened after dinner. First, the girls got to visit with several Santas! They had fun but were asking when they were going to get to see “their” Santa. Little did they know, he was planning a trip to our house the next day. Then, when we got back to the house, one at a time, every smoke alarm in our house started going off, eventually all at the same time. It was crazy! Mike read the manual, changed batteries, did everything, until we gave up and called the fire department. They said one smoke alarm had a false alarm (and needed to be completely replaced), so it tripped all the other smoke alarms too. Smoke alarms need to be replaced every 5 years, and we had had ours for 6. The good news is, we replaced them with lithium powered smoke alarms that last 10 years, and the batteries never need to be replaced. Whahoo! The firemen were so helpful and kind, telling us exactly what we needed to buy and how to replace all of them, and we were thankful!

Meeting the Seven Super Girls from the almost 4 million subscribers strong YouTube channel, was a dream come true for Noelle and Anna Kate! They watch these girls’ videos every single day and meeting them in person was too good to be true! They were awesome to our girls, and I was blown away by their maturity and kindness!

Here are some really awesome YouTubers as well from other SAKS channels!

Meeting Lauren, the creative director of the SAKS channels, was so exciting for the girls! They admire her so much! She emceed the 6 hour event, and I have never seen a more poised 16 year old. These girls are fun, innovative leaders, and I’m happy my girls have them to look up to!

Ashlynn from Seven Fabulous Teens is another favorite!

SSG from left to right: Jenna, Mimi, Emily, Katherine, Kaelyn, Jazzy, Rachel, and Nicole

The SSG went first and answered tons of audience questions! They were so cute and fun, full of personality!

Noelle met a new friend named Megan while we were waiting, and we exchanged numbers. Meeting Kaelyn’s mom was super exciting! The girls couldn’t have been happier!

While we were waiting for our turn to meet SSG, their moms did a question and answer panel. I LOVED this part! Hearing how they parent and guide their super girls was so awesome!

Lauren is a super fun YouTuber from the Seven Fabulous Teens channel, and Anna is a cutie from the channel Seven Perfect Angels. The girls were loving this!

We had to battle through the rains of the tropical storm, Patricia, to get to the meet and greet at the Houston Galleria, and although we were the very last ones out of a couple hundred fans to meet SSG, we made it, and this was a day our girls will never forget, thanks to these truly super girls!

We had such a fun time having a Thanksgiving feast with Rose at her preschool! You could tell she was so proud to be sitting in between us all by herself, and we were so happy to be there with her! Rose is such a fun kid. She is equal parts crazy and kind, outgoing and reserved. Rose Avery is super special, and I’m glad she felt that way today!

Rose has had a blast going to school with her friends Lucy and Harper this year!

We had the best lunch with our sweet baby blossom! Oh, the students got to write three things they are thankful for on the feathers of their hat. Rose’s said, “I am thankful for my family, my school, my whole world.” So perfect!

The Ladybugs had a great season this fall! We look forward to many more to come!

When you are a defender, it hurts you the most when the other team scores!

Fly Harper!

Harper’s dad, Trent, is the best coach ever! We are so lucky to have him. He loves the game and cares about our girls so much! Cheers to a great first season, Ladybugs!

Anna Kate was so excited to have a speaking part in her school musical this year, and she did a great job with it! We were so proud of her!

Best music teacher there is!

Sister crew!

These girls did such a great job tonight! 

Anna Kate had an awesome cheer season! Her team, the Tigers, won 1st place in the cheer division and 1st place with their dance. They practiced two days a week since August, and all of their hard work paid off!

Noelle and Rose were so proud of their sister. I just love watching this little sisterhood blossom! They are so lucky to have each other!

Here are a few pictures from their cheer Mike took from the stands.

Anna Kate has never taken tumbling or gymnastics, but she got her cart wheel down. Something crazy we realized, she turns her cart wheels with her left foot! I’ve been helping her with her back bend kick-over this season, and I used to make her kick over with her right foot. She was having so much trouble, but when I realized she tumbles with her left foot, I started helping her kick over with her left foot first, and she’s got it. She’s tirelessly practicing her roundoff and is determined she will learn a back hand spring sooner than later. Baby girl is 6, but she’s determined to get this tumbling thing down. She loves it, so we practice every day.

Little sisters have so much fun!

Here’s the moment the girls found out they won. I love Anna Kate’s face!!!

So very proud, just the way it should be!

What an adorable squad!

Miss Holly came to cheer Anna Kate on, and she is just the sweetest friend! Thank you, Holly!

Congrats, Anna Kate! Your silly, goofy, loving, crazy family will always be there to cheer you on in all that you do in life. We are so thankful for you and couldn’t be more proud!

While the rest of the family was at the Taylor Swift concert, Rose got to take a special trip to Poppa and Rara’s house all by herself for the weekend! She was so excited the weeks leading up to her trip, she couldn’t think about anything else.

Rara did a great job taking pictures for us! She texted this one and said, “The bear looks scared!” We were cracking up!

The scarecrow trail was a huge hit! Thank you, Poppa and Rara, for making super special memories with Rose!

We had such a great time at the Taylor Swift concert on October 17th!

We were first in line at our entrance with the “proper fans.” I think we got there at 2:00PM.

Meeting Jordan and Laurel was icing on the cake. These two cuties had no idea how exciting their night was going to get!

Waiting in line at the Taylor Nation booth!

Jordan and Noelle showing off their art. Jordan drew this picture of Taylor and later that night, Taylor Swift herself signed it and said, “Did you draw this?! Wow, it actually looks like me. Your shading is exemplary.” Go Jordan! What a dream come true!

Here we are waiting in line with lots of friends we met on Tumblr! Cardboard Olivia couldn’t have been cuter!

Meredith did not disappoint, although meeting the real Meredith would have been much more dramatic, I’m sure!

We had fun at the Taylor Nation booth holding up bandaged thumbs with the number 13 on them. That’s Taylor’s lucky number, and it was my Uncle Joe’s as well, so I know it’s a good lucky number to have!

Finally got to our seats with all our glow-in-the-dark get-up ready for concert time! You can still see one of the bracelets taped onto one of our chairs they gave to every audience member. These bracelets glowed in the dark and changed colors and beats to the music of each song. The audience was making the coolest patterns, colors, rhythms and beats all night with the bracelets they gave us. That was really cool to watch and be a part of!

Getting to see Victoria and Noel, who were both at our wedding as kids almost 13 years ago, was so special! And we told the girls that we are having a baby tonight, which was such a fun memory!

Noelle made this sign for Taylor’s mom all by herself. When I was putting the lights on our shirts one night getting ready for the concert, she asked if she could make something for Mrs. Swift. After we gave it to Kevin, who is one of Taylor’s top employees and friends, he promised to give it to Mama Swift and Noelle started crying. I asked her why she was crying and she said, “Because I’m just so happy. I hope it makes her feel a little better.” She’s the sweetest sweetheart there is. I’m sad Noelle didn’t get to tell her in person, as she was there and visited with several of our friends, but it just wasn’t in the cards this time.

Last but not least, we ran into Missy at the end of the night! And while we were busy catching up with her, our friends Jordan and Laurel made it into Loft ‘89! They told Taylor’s dad, Scott, about our family, which was so so sweet and kept looking for us to walk in. Although we didn’t get to meet Taylor, we had so much fun hanging out on Tumblr, meeting her biggest fans, and giving it our best shot! All of our Loft dreams aside, the concert was amazing and the anticipation and hanging out all day was the best! Until next time!

Thank you, Greg Bob and Clarissa, for being such early morning troopers and cheering on our soccer star and cheerleader!

We had a blast at the pumpkin patch this fall!

Rose keeps us laughing!

Daddy’s girls! xo

I love how Anna Kate is always creating and playing store where ever she goes, and Noelle is so sweet to always be her #1 customer!