Sunday, December 28, 2008

Christmas Get Togethers....

Christmas Day......I get up before 9 and get ready.....then I wait and wait and wait.....FINALLY at 9:50 I wake Josh up and FINALLY at 10:30 Avery wakes up! She NEVER sleeps that late and of all the days....she did get up at 6:15am but I didn't give her the option of staying up :)


Opening her presents at our house that Santa brought. She had to be told to open the presents and I know this will change next year :) Then no time to play onto......

Christmas with Proper's and Mast's:



Avery caring less about her presents she wanted her ba-ba....


Mimi and Avery


Julia had her table set so pretty. Thanks for all the work you did Julia!!



Yummy...peppered ham from Winesburg Meats!

Their Christmas jammies :)


Me and my nephew....Mr. Kason!



Then that same day.....Christmas take 2 with my mom and my sister and family:



Avery's favorite toy showing the Hall's how it works....Mimi got her that kids at bible school made



Josh had to get Jonna's assistance in putting the horse together

Avery loved her horsey and wanted to carry it around :)


New baby doll
Mommy at 14 mos......don't we look alike??!


Aunt Jomama and Uncle Donnie


Playing with her cousins!


Nana and all her grandkids


Me and my niece...Sammie Grace!


Nathan taught Avery to put 2 bippy's in her mouth!


My "Charlie Brown" Tree!

Friday was....Christmas take 3 with Proper's/Beechy's:


Uncle Brian, Avery being silly (eating ice - go figure) and Aunt Beth


More presents!


This is as good as I got with Josh in a picture


Janna and Mimi making Avery's "Oh" face or doing their exercises :)


See it's almost 9:30 pm and looking tired Miss A....but got her 2nd wind.....


It's 10:00pm and the girls are still going strong....jumping on Megan! We got home shortly there after and Avery was a wild woman FINALLY I said at 11:00pm it's nite, nite time she settled down and I didn't hear a peep till the next day at 8:50am then at 11:15 she said "nite, nite, mama" so back to sleep she went till 2:15pm THEN she fell asleep a little before 7pm and we woke her up at 7:45pm.

And finally Sat. was....Christmas take 4 with my Stepmom, Jeannette (Dad didn't come since he always gets sick in the winter in Ohio and then he got sick in St. Croix...bummer! We missed you :( Uncle Lowell and Hall's:

Dancing to TSO with ice in her hand! That girl would live on ice!

More presents???!!

St. Croix Rum Distillery now makes Captain Morgan's :) Mommy's favorite ba-ba ;)


Grandma Crilow and Avery

Thank you to each and everyone of you and for all the many wonderful gifts and memories we are so blessed!! Merry Christmas 2008!!!

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Two Little Girls...

How cute are they??!! Yippee after watching Natalie since Mid October I finally got a great picture of the two of them....together! I also waste WAY to much time on the computer picniking my photos (too bad I couldn't edit Avery's bangs...oh well)......but so much fun......enjoy!









Cookie Break :)
Presents!!!! Thanks again Thorpe's we LOVE our gifts!

Saturday, December 20, 2008

It's A Family Tradition....

So I wanted to start a tradition with Avery getting our picture taken in front of our tree. Josh hates pictures so don't think poor Josh she's leaving him out ;)


Last years picture.....Avery is 6 mos. and it was a piece of cake to get her to look and smile :)

This year....Avery is 18 mos. and well she's a little stinker in the picture department!

Take 1:

Take 2:


Take 3:

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

My New Tricks....


I discovered last week I can get up on the coffee table ALL by myself!


Avery has been doing somersaults "flips" for awhile now I just finally got some photos:
This is mommy doing her pose at 14 mos :)

Started at 10 mos......you were always doing this pose......

1......

2......


3....Flip! Mimi taught her to say "tada!"

Now all her babies, barbies and stuffed animals have to flip too!