Happy Christmas Eve and merry Christmas!

Here is our new home, McBaxalito. It is a lovely 3/2 in northwest Austin. At around 1800 square feet, it provides us and our pack of tiny animals ample room. Next up… planning our housewarming party!

This weekend we celebrated Angela’s 25th birthday. Here, she blows out all those candles on her delicious vegan chocolate cake. She got several great birthday presents, including a car stereo and satellite radio, a year’s worth of satellite radio service, a new Sigg bottle and a much-needed iTunes gift certificate. Look similar to Franklin’s birthday party? Yeah, we kinda recycled.

On February 26th, cousin Franklin turned 6. We got to see him the following weekend for his THIRD birthday party of the week. We had lunch at Chuck-e-Cheese, then had chocolate cake and presents back at our place. Franklin LOVES his Legos! Here, you can see me cutting Franklin a ridiculously giant slice of cake.

Our good friends Ashley and Jay recently worked together on a joint project – producing this adorable baby girl, Audris Scout Holzer (she goes by Scout). We were lucky enough to have dinner with Scout and fam and got to spend some quality time hanging out. Isn’t she cute?

This past Sunday Angela, Desaray, Francine and I met up with Uncles Barry and Tal and cousin Franklin out on Lake Travis to shred some water. Angela was wary at first, but she was brave and gave it a try, and she realized jetskis are pretty fun! Like “water motorcycles, except when you fall off you don’t die.”

Barry and Tal were nice enough to rent these fun toys so that we could all enjoy the gorgeous day on the lake. We ate snacks, snapped photos and played some catch with Franklin while every took turns on the jetskis.

Check out the Jetskiing on Lake Travis set to see more photos.

Squishy and momma Amber have been out of town for the past week visiting family. Aaron didn’t spend the alone time simply playing X-Box and eating like crap (though may have done some of that)… he put the finishing touches on, frankly, the most amazing playhouse I’ve ever seen.

It’s really less of a playhouse and more of a pink princess mansion complete with a loft bed, a little coloring desk, and a game table and 4 chairs for the adults to sit around and hang out as well. It has lights, MP3 player and speaker hookup, and is generally badass.

Check out the rest of the set for more adorableness.

Well, we’re back from our weekend in Corpus Christi with Desaray and Francine. Though it was hectic at times trying to wrangle three dogs and four people in one hotel room, we mostly had a blast and spent some amazing time at the beach.

We visited the state aquarium, ate dinner on the water, had some amazing vegan and vegetarian food, and played with the dogs at the beach. The best part of the trip is something I have absolutely no photos of – Saturday night we drove out to the beach after dark and laid out on a blanket on the sand, just staring up at the ridiculous expanse of stars. Norman Fisher really has something going with that “stargazing meditation” idea. It did make me feel incredibly small.

Check out the full set to see more photos from the trip.
Also, Angela kept singing this jingle all weekend long, and the funny faces she’s making in many of the photos are her laughing at herself singing it. ;)