Happy Thanksgiving! Now...let's play catch up.

Happy Thanksgiving! 

I hope that you have had time to think about each and every thing/person that you are thankful for! I am thankful for family, friends, our health, the Great State of Texas and for the fact that we will only be "homeless" for a couple more days!
Since arriving on the mainland we have been very busy! We arrived in Dallas and tried to adjust to the fun time change. :)

I got to meet my "niece", Meranda, for the first time! She is soooo precious. She was very well behaved, gave us a tour of her cute house and even posed for some pictures with her mom and Aunties. CLICK HERE to see the pictures. Later that night we had a happy hour and dinner get together at the Iron Cactus, and got to see a lot of our friends! That afternoon/evening Zac drove up to Gainesville to pick up my new car! (I have a wonderful husband.) We are now the proud owner of a (red) Jeep Grand Cherokee. :)  Saturday we had an Elliott/Hacker/Cockrum family get-together at Zac's grandparents' house and then Sunday we went to see "ICE!" at the Gaylord Texan. CLICK HERE for all of those pics.
Sunday night we checked in to our hotel in College Station, and Monday we met with our realtor, Ashley, to look at homes there. She was super organized, and we saw 20+ homes that day! Whew - they were all starting to run together. But, we did find the PERFECT one for us, and we got it! We are now in the process of filling out paperwork and waiting to close. We will be able to move in next week! More on the house later, when we actually get to move in!! We are so excited to be first-time homeowners!!

Wednesday we ran errands and had some surprise visitors for dinner! Mary, Kaylie and Carter were in town for an archery thingy and met us at Pei Wei! This was my first time to meet baby Carter, who is perfect and already tall (go figure!). Kaylie made me laugh throughout the entire meal (she is so smart and clever), and even "read me her fortune from her fortune cookie. She said that her fortune said "You do not have to pick up your toys!" - what a great/perfect fortune for her! (She is so funny!) After dinner Zac and I went to the 10th anniversary Bonfire Remembrance at Reed Arena. I can't believe it has already been ten years since the stack fell. The Remembrance was a great way to honor the lives that were lost that day. We will ALWAYS remember them.

HAPPY 25th BIRTHDAY, SISTER! Thursday I drove to Austin to spend Mary Alice's birthday with her. We shopped around, hung out at her cute cute house and went to dinner with her roomie, Jessica, and our cousin, Emily at Z'Tejas! Friday I drove back to CS so that Zac and I could go to Yell with some of Zac's new coworkers.
Then, Saturday was Mom's and Zac's birthday! (November is a popular time to be born!) Zac and I got up and spent the morning walking around campus meeting some of the students he is advising and watched the game day activities on campus. We met Cameron and Michelle and their baby, Nathan, for the game against Baylor.

That was our first time to meet Nathan, who is sooo cute and well behaved. The weather was a little drizzly and rainy, but the game was fun! Afterwards we met Beth and Brent up at Northgate for an evening of reliving our college days. So many things have changed in Aggieland! It is so nice to live in a town that I know something about. I haven't needed to look up any directions just yet. Sunday we watched the Cowboy football game with Zac's friend, Blake. HERE are some pictures of that weekend.
Tuesday Mom, Dad, MA and Aidan came to College Station to see our new house. It had been almost a year since I had seen my puppy - but he remembered me! I have missed him soo soo much. We had lunch with Zac, shopped for a fridge and then headed to Austin. That night we met up with the Buntons/Georges for dinner. I have missed my family, and really enjoyed being with everyone. We stayed at my cousin Emily and her husband Jonathan's home, which is beautiful, and they were the perfect hosts. Wednesday we got to have breakfast with Mandy and Meranda :) , then shopped for Christmas decos for MA's house and started putting up some of her Christmas lights. That night we had our Bunton/George/Elliott Thanksgiving dinner at Emily's house. The food was amazing - including the awesome fried turkey that Jonny (assisted by Z) made. CLICK HERE for pics (from Austin and Dallas Thanksgivings).

Finally, caught up to today... We woke up this morning and drove to Dallas to have Thanksgiving dinner with the Elliott extended family. We went to Zac's cousins' new house in The Colony for a lovely (and delicious) dinner. Matt and Ashley were excellent hosts, and we all (again) ate way too much.  Tonight we watched our Aggies play t.u. in a good game. We put up a great fight, Aggies! WHOOP!
And now, we are caught up. :) Sorry for the gap in posting - I will do better in the days to come.
Me ke aloha,
Rebekah