A little note

Hello from the Vaughns! We have arrived back home and are safe and sound and starting back tomorrow. I wanted to take a moment to say thank you to our friends and family for making the holidays wonderful and opening your homes to the three of us!

We hope you have had a blessed start to the new year!

Love,

Kenny, Molly, and Daisy

We finally went to Austin!

For less than 24 hours.

Kenny got a one night cross-country flight to Austin, so we made a trip of it. I wouldn't normally make an 8 hour drive round trip to a city, but our good friends were also going. Therefore, I had a fun person to drive. We also took Kenny's student's wife who was excited to grill us with questions about being a Navy wife and the first real duty station. It is always fun to make other "young" wives feel better about marrying a Navy pilot.

We go up there before Kenny did because he flew by way of Alabama. We actually had lunch at this little restuarant which I had been to with family! I have been two Austin twice and each time for less than 24 hours. Only once I have eaten out in Austin, and I do a repeat! But it was really good, so why complain, right?

When Kenny and his student arrived, we went down to the capital building which was neat to see and walk around.

Kara even did an impersonation of the people at the burning of the Alamo.

We then treked super far (unbeknownst to us) to a really cool bookstore, Anthropologie, R.E.I. and the originial Whole Foods.

We then had dinner at this neat Mexican place that had some amazing fish tacos.

And the best part for Kenny and his pilot friends was hanging out a bar call the Hanger. It was all airline themed and pretty much made their night.

We can't wait to do more cross-country trips up there because it is certianly worth the drive, if you have a friend to drive with!

And a little holiday cheer with our sotckings hung by the chimney... just waiting to for the holiday!

Some pictures :)

Here is the set up of the baby shower I threw...

Here is Daisy cheering on the Cavaliers vs. FSU (which we won!) She does not look super enthusiastic at the moment.

Here is what Thanksgiving looked like before guests arrived.

Lastly, Daisy with her grandparents.Daisy with her favorite Uncle... Some might say she is a wee bit spoiled.

The Henry siblings :)

Daisy has had a very short haircut. Her father is training her to be in the military, so we are trying to get her a little jacket before we head north for the holidays... How does this one look?
Hope you all are gearing up for the holidays. We are excited to see family and spend some quality time with even more family. It was so awesome to have family in over Thanksgiving. Makes you appreciate what you have. Daisy is also excited to play more with her grandmother who would play keep away with her. It's a favorite of hers.

Now for more sweater shopping.... Daisy needs a whole wardrobe, right?

Thankful- Check!

Parents in town - Check
Happy puppy - Check
Aunt and Uncles coming in town - Check
Friends over for Thanksgiving - Check
Celebrating a friend's kid's first Thanksgiving - Check
Having parents have a photo shoot - Check
Turkey - Check
CRANBERRY SAUCE (best part of any holiday, hands down)- Check

Filled with love and gratefulness - definitely! Hope you and yours had a Happy Thanksgiving!

Because you miss me...

right?

Sorry we have been MIA. Kenny has been out of town. I have a student teacher. I threw a beautiful baby shower. I hosted book club. We had mold in our brand new house. We had the vents sealed. We had the ceiling repainted. Daisy puked over stress of furniture being moved and the knowledge that someone had been in our house without us. (The nerve of those people!) It has been busy!

But I wanted to post a picture of Daisy Vaughn who is just precious as always, and so you don't miss us too much.

Promise to post more after this weekend and for sure during Thanksgiving when the Doc and Grandmother will be in town to spoil Daisy, go to Academy, and oh yeah, see their children. :)

An additional Halloween pic

Please note that Daisy is in the front. Kenny is hiding behind me and to the right. The Vaughn's represented, and Daisy made lots of friends.

Mom- this is really for you, so you can see Pat's dress in full.

Happy Thanksgiving Month!!

A little halloween fun

Just in case you were wondering what we have been up to...

We have dressed up as Mad Men characters (Don Draper and his wife Betty, well now ex-wife). Please do not mind the fake cigs. I didn't even know which end should be colored red. Our friends, the Karaffas went as characters from the Wizard of Oz. Cutest tin man ever!

I made owl cupcakes for the squadron Halloween party.

We have carved amazing pumpkins - Kenny's the Grim Reaper and mine is the Owl.

We saw Lady Antebellum with our friends the Karaffas.

And now, I need a nap.

Hope November is going well for you all! It is 55 degrees outside, and the kids are acting like it's is 10 below, but boy does it feel glorious!