Christmas in San Antonio

Macy May wants to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!



Christmas 2010 started in Arlington with the Heinzes and ended in San Antonio with the Kilgores. For Christmas Eve, the whole family drove to Austin to have our annual Cadenhead Christmas Eve celebration. The white elephant exchange got pretty heated when gifts where being stolen and then became frozen. We made it back to San Antonio just in time to make it to the 11 o'clock candle light service.



Christmas morning, Kevin and I opened our stockings from Santa and Macy enjoyed a big rawhide bone.





Christmas day was spent at my parents house. It was a nice lazy day full of gift giving and yummy food.













The day after Christmas turned into a fun family day. The whole family went bowling! It was pretty funny to see everyone's different bowling styles especially my mom's (Run really fast on your tippy toes, then stop, and roll the ball.)











Fun family day turned into fun family night on the Riverwalk. We ate lots of different tapas at Hotel Contessa and walked around the Riverwalk for just a little bit. The next morning Jennifer, Curtis, Hazel, and Roma made the long drive back to Missouri.





Kevin and I had a wonderful Christmas! We have both enjoyed our break from school and all of the family time.

Ice, Ice, Baby Ice!

Last year, we went to the Gaylord in Grapevine with Mike and Jen to see the ice exhibit that the Gaylord puts on every year. We had so much fun last year that we decided that we should make it a Heinze/ Keffer tradition. This years theme was Charlie Brown.

Kevin and I got to the Gaylord before Mike and Jen so we wandered around the hotel. The hotel kind of makes me think of a Vegas casino, minus the gambling and more. The Gaylord is decked out with Christmas themes everywhere including Santa himself.

Big Christmas tree lit up...


Model train sets running throughout the hotel...


Santa and his reindeer...




And a HUGE gingerbread man house made out of nothing, but candy...










Of course the main attraction is the ice. When Mike and Jen arrived, we made our way to wait in line to view the ice. Last year, waiting in line was the part that took the longest, but this year it wasn't that bad. The line went fast and we even saw former Dallas Cowboy Troy Aikman.





Once the got our parkas on it was time for the ice!


Kevin and Mike...


Jen and Me...


Ice slides...






Ice...












The Whole Group...


The End...


The ice was fun, but it was nice to get back inside the hotel to warm up. It was cold!

Christmas Time in Arlington

Christmas came early in Arlington! We made our visit before the 25th and when we arrived we started our first round of gift giving. Larry and Debbie, Kevin's uncle and aunt from Houston where there! It is hard to believe that we have not seen them since our wedding so as you can imagine it was nice to be able to visit with them.



While we were in the DFW area, a search for cowboy boots began. That's right... cowboy boots! For Christmas this year, Kevin and I decided that we would give each other cowboy boots. Kevin has always been a boot guy and when I started dating Kevin back in the day, my mom insisted that I needed to get a pair of boots. I have always postponed this notion, but I guess I have now finally warmed up to this idea of getting boots. We went all over looking for boots... Justin's Boot Outlet, Sheplers, and Cavendars. Surprise, surprise, I ended up finding a pair of boots, but Kevin had no luck so the search still continues for him.

Here are my new boots...




One of my favorite parts of Christmas are all of the lights. I absolutely love Christmas lights! I just think they are so pretty and I love the way they look. In one part of Arlington, a neighborhood called Interlochen puts on a light display. The light display in Interlochen has been put on for nearly 25 years and more than 200 homeowners participate. It is amazing how many lights the homeowners put up. The roofs, bushes, trees, and yards are outlined in lights and each house looks so different. Just imagine what it would look like if every house in your neighborhood put up Christmas lights! I told Kevin that I would love to live in that neighborhood! Viewing the Interlochen light display is quite a production. The police are out to help direct traffic and you sit in a long line of cars to see all of the houses. We even saw a few limos in the line. After a couple hours in the car listening to Christmas music with the whole family we finished the tour. If you are ever in the area during December, the Interlochen light display is a MUST see!





After seeing all the Christmas lights, we had Christmas with the Heinze families.






And a Merry Merry Christmas to you!