Vacation and Relaxation

We were due for a vacation and somehow ended up taking two within the last couple of weeks. It’s made for a busy month, especially since it’s the holiday season and Ryan just started a new job, but it’s also sure been fun!

 

First we went to New Orleans with some friends. We spent most of our time eating and sitting at bars watching college football. Let me tell ya that the gumbo in New Orleans is amazing, I had it with just about every meal except breakfast, that was my line ; )

 

At Pat O’Briens with my love  

 

 

Next we went to Cancun. Talk about relaxing, beautiful, fun the list goes on and on… We stayed at Secrets Silversands and pretty much were beach bums for four days straight. Our time was spent tanning, swimming, walking the beach and most important eating! The food at the resort was so good, unfortunately, we didn’t stay long enough to try all the restaurants so it’s an excuse to go back someday : )

 

I didn’t keep a camera on me much (didn’t want it to get wet etc) but we still managed to take a few pictures….

 

View from our room

 A little selfie action on the beach

 

Someone saw us taking selfies and offered to take a pic : )

 

 

Love this guy!

Gobble Gobble!

This year we had 2 Thanksgiving, both delicious and oh so filling. I swear I gained 10 pounds between both meals. First we hosted Thanksgiving for my family on Wednesday; it was way more work than I ever could have imagined so I didn’t really get a chance to snap a lot of pictures. All the work was worth it and I would do it again next year! ; )

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday, Ryan went to the A&M game so we didn’t head to the lake until Friday. We had Thanksgiving dinner that night with everyone and then spent the rest of the weekend just hanging out. I love going to the lake house, it’s so relaxing and fun to be with the West family. Per the usual I didn’t really take a lot of pictures, in fact I only managed to snap one but it was a good one. Jacob and his Uncle Ryan : )

 

And that was our Thanksgiving, nothing crazy but we sure had some delicious food and were blessed to spend so much time with our loved ones.  

 

 

Munchkin is Finally Here

He’s here; well he’s been here for over a month now I’m just a little late in my post, ha ha! Nicholas Xavier Botello was born on November 6, 2014 and boy is he a cutie. We’re all so in love with him and it’s so fun having a baby around again! Here are just a few pictures of our new nephew:  

This one was taken at the hospital.

 

 

Here he is with a bib I got him ; )

 

 

 

And of course an A&M bib from Uncle Ryan, start them early!

 

 

My Sister sent me this one last night, and it's a favorite! 

 And that's Nico, love love love him!