Christmas with Me-Mommy

Since we will be in NYC for Christmas (and then Conroe), we did Christmas with mom early this year.  Our advent activity today was to "Go see a Nutcracker with Me-Mommy."  Ava's dance school was putting on a production of the Nutcracker (shorter and most parts filled by dance students) so we took Ava & my mom to it.  I was surprised Darren wanted to go but did not find out until after that he was not aware that it was just ballet and that nothing else goes on...he's never been!

Anyways we got Ava all dressed up in a cute Christmas outfit to take her.

 Then after, we went to mom's to open gifts.  Ava loved everything she got, even the clothes!  Fun to see her appreciate everything and to see how excited she was.

 Cute photo of grandmother and granddaughter. (Check out the awesome metallic pink cowboy boots Mom got her!)

 Darren excited about our new sheets (we really were excited about those!).  Love his cheesy poses...always the same big grin.

 Mom opening her new Kindle...she was VERY happy!

After gifts, we took Mom to Jack Allen's Kitchen for dinner.  We had only been there once before, but loved it and though Mom would enjoy it too.  It is really good food and if you live in Austin and have not gone, you really should.  The chef there used to be at ZTejas and it is kind of similar but super yummy!  I highly recommend their queso (with green chile pork & guacamole in it), the pimiento cheese with flatbread crackers and the Chicken Fried NY Strip.  Everything they bring out looks good so I can't wait to go back again!