Fox and Cinnamon at the Voodoo Museum

Last hurrah: Chuy's and the Trail of Lights (December 12, 2016)

Tex-Mex at Chuy's

Mya, Fox, and the Chuy's fish

A beautiful night to walk the Trail of Lights at Zilker Park

Santa visits Texas on a Jackalope

Dancing under the Zilker Christmas tree: so dizzy!

Ryder spins Piper around under the Zilker tree

Hanging in the front yard, in the Austin warm: December 12, 2016

River and Brandy

Piper digs in the sandbox

Brandy and Tom

Piper is ready to swing

Zip liners: December 10-12, 2016

River rides! One of the perks of our Homeaway house was the two zip lines located just up the hill.

Mya's ready to fly!

There she goes!

Otis is up!

Ryder gets Piper ready while the guy cousins head over to the second zip line.

Go Brandy!

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Do you see Otis?

A Charlie Brown Christmas with the Horns in Waco: Sunday, December 11, 2016

We all drove to Waco to see the Horns, starting with Emma's performance as Snoopy in "A Charlie Brown Christmas."

Mya and Snoopy

Front row seats

Piper, Mya, Fox, Emma, and River. Otis didn't want to be in the photo. Maybe next time.

We all had an early dinner together afterwards, at B.J.'s. Joyce must be showing Mya something on the phone.

Cousins

Thumb wrestlers

Thumbs up?

It might be Christmas, but . . . . (Sunday, December 11, 2016)

egg hunts are fun any time of year .

Girls night out, guys night in: Saturday, December 10, 2016

The guys kept the kids at the house while Sarah, Brandy, Mimi, and I had a girls night out: started at La Condesa in downtown Austin.

At the Lockout Room, we were captured by a drug cartel and forced to cook meth. Didn't escape in the hour we had to figure out all the clues! Bonus: we got to see Otis's cousin Tamyra, who moved here from Portland a few years ago and works at the Lockout Room.

No 5-star Austin restaurant for the guys.

Sausage on the grill.

Ryder and Micah caught up with Austin friends while the girls were out. I believe 3 out of 5 kids were put to bed early. Nick (worked with Ryder in Austin), Tom, Joseph (Ryder's best man), Seth (friends with Ryder and Micah since grade school), Micah, and Ryder

Seth and Micah wish they could have gone to girls night out.

At our house: Saturday, December 10, 2016

Fox shows Fuzzy to Mya

Piper discovers the Mardi Gras beads while River tickles the ivories

Still a favorite: the nearly 30-year-old Fisher-Price playhouse. Back in the day, the guys used it as a fort for their GI Joes.

Chase and Mya

Modeling Brandy's hat

Mya in Momma's hat

Collecting pecans

Ice skating at Northcross mall (Saturday, December 10, 2016)

Ryder and Fox

Ryder and River

Mimi, me, Ryder, Piper, Mya, and River: Fox and I did pretty well on the ice except for the one time we fell and Fox smacked the side of her face on the ice. Sorry, Fox! Once she started to go down, I couldn't stay up.