Winter Time 2011!

Just a few pictures to show you what we do to pass the long cold days of Winter.


So Stylish ;)


Don't tell me no!


Ahhhhhgggrrrr! It's snowing AGAIN?!

Mmmmm my favorite snack!

Aftermath of snowstorm #2. We had 2 snowstorms in 1 week 2 days apart!

Avery's 1st snowman! I should have known the word "man" in snowman would mean a lot of work ;) Avery helped all of 5 mins! She will have NO more snowmen unless her Daddy helps with the next one. The snow packed nice but I didn't really know what I was doing, that's why he was little. HA!

Princess Payton's Perfect Party

Our Birthday Madness has begun. Today we went to Medina to our friends, Brainerd's, to help celebrate Payton's 4th Birthday!


Some of the pretty princesses!


Carrie goes ABOVE and BEYOND for birthday planning. NO detail left out. Absolutely beautiful!

Here are all the pretty princesses!

Craft time. Girls had to glue their princess pictures.

All done!

Game time!

Next was Kiss the Frog :) They played music and passed the frog, whoever had the frog when the music stopped had to kiss it :) Nope no Prince came with all the Princesses kisses!

The face of having to kiss the frog.

PRESENTS!

Mmmmmm cakepops!

Party favors! So cute!

Miss Sweet Riley who finally joined us after a looooong nap!

Mmmmm....

Thank you John, Carrie, Payton and Riley for a GREAT time!

Valentine's Day 2011!

I decided to make Avery's Valentine's Day cards for her PreSchool class. She got to help glue, decorate and signed each and every card...13 of them!


I'm so impressed that she can write her name all by herself! She has some trouble with the R but as of Feb. 16th she can now make an R! SO proud of her!

What can I say???? Best I could think of!

So we've been having separation anxiety issues since end of Dec. She started crying for my mom. It started out mom could talk her out of crying but one day she couldn't and I had to leave work to go and get her, then she started it with Julia and then Josh and last week at school!!!!! I just couldn't believe it b/c she use to cry when she DIDN'T get to go to School! She has NEVER acted this way and the only thing that has changed is I have been home with her more since one of my jobs is slow. At first you feel sympathetic, then guilty, then mad! WE have tried just about everything and last week we had to take her barbie's away and her tv time! She cries as soon as she wakes up and normally quits after I'm gone, Monday (VALENTINE'S DAY was the worst day for her at school! Cried a lot and didn't even eat her lunch (she's NEVER done that)! Her teacher knew we took things away so she did too, got her recess taken away but she didn't care! Then Tues she didn't cry at my mom's, yea but on Wed. morning 7:20 up and crying before school and then her teacher had a stern talk with her and told her what all was going to happen if she kept crying (recess, snacks, surprises out of the treasure chest all those things would be taken away!) and after 10 mins she quite crying! She promised me and her teacher she would not cry at school on Monday......let's hope this phase is OVER b/c I.AM.SO.OVER.IT! It's nice to be missed but this is getting ridiculous!

This is her AFTER school happy as a clam to be home with her mommy!

All her stuff she got from kids at school and her teachers.

Mmmmmm my yummy meal I made just for me since Josh is working late! It was called Chicken with wine.

Avery had asked me what her jammies said and I replied "My heart belongs to Daddy" and she said "no it doesn't, my heart belongs to me and why is Daddy's name on my jammie's they are MY jammies?!" haha!

This is what we got Avery for Valentine's Day! Normally I only do candy but she didn't need ANY more candy, Easter is coming up and I had gotten these jammies last year after Easter and her cousin, Kaid, is having a Bday in March with a kitty theme and her Aunt Janna spied this at Target on clearance for $2.98 so I HAD to get it :)

HelpHer!

Avery has always been a good little helper! But lately she is into helping with EVERYTHING!

Train them young! :) Almost 2 yrs old.

She was 2.25 yrs old here and she still loves to help me put clothes in the washer and dryer.

Helping me bake banana muffins.

Helping me pick up sticks. This was a year ago Jan. 21, 2010.

LOVES, LOVES, LOVES helping me cook!

Her latest task she took on and now thinks we need to do it every day is sweeping. With having a wood burner and a Daddy who eats popcorn almost every night we could be sweeping every day!

Love how she's getting into it :)

Again she loves to help me cook. She also loves to help me empty the dishwasher (so far she hasn't broke anything!), clean off the table, dress herself. I just wonder why it's so hard to get her to clean up her toys though.....hmmmmm.........It's fun having a helper!