Here's to the New Year!

Happy New Year!  I hope this finds each of you well and that you all had a wonderful Christmas.   We had a great holiday season.  Avery's first Christmas was so much fun.  Despite the fact that Avery didn't notice the tree too much, she loved banging on all of the packages.  It has been quite a while since I have posted so we have a lot of pictures to share.  We pray that 2010 brings you all many more blessings this year.

 

We had a snow day on December 4, 2009.  Though we did not get that much at home, we took Avery outside to feel the snow.  It was precious.

Avery holding her first Christmas ball one Sunday after church.  It was a cold day so she was bundled in this precious outfit from one of my friend's at work.

"Do you want my ball?"

The week before Christmas we celebrated with my family in Galveston.  We had a ball.  Carson and Avery are starting to play more and more with each other.  It is so cute to watch.

Avery was getting a little excited and Carson has this look on his face like "What is wrong with her?"

We bundled the kids up and took them to the Festival of Lights.  It was really cool and will be fun to take the kiddos back when they get older.  This MomZ and Pops (my parents) with their grandchildren.

Avery was all bundled up, and then I put my scarf around her too.  It was really cold.

My sister, Kristin and her husband, Andrew with Carson.  Carson kept making animal noises every time we saw an animal that he knew the sound it made.  

The next morning we took Avery for some shelling.  We had her all bundled up because of the wind.

Look at our little sheller!  She loves her sunglasses. 

This is a bad picture, but Josh had Avery a special present that I didn't know about.  He wanted her to open them on Christmas Eve morning.  He got her John Deere pink boots for the Rodeo.  They were precious and such a sweet gift from her Daddy.

My sweet husband got me a new Nikon DSLR camera for Christmas.  This was my first photo that I took of our dog, Hagen.  She is a good subject.

We celebrated with Josh's family on Christmas Eve.  We went to the Candlelight service at our church, Sugar Creek Baptist.  After the service, we went into the atrium to take a few pics by the pretty tree.  Avery with her grandparents, Grandma and Papa.

 

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!

Avery loves to crawl under everything now.   She found her tongue on Christmas Eve and most every picture her tongue is hanging out of her mouth.

 

Daddy helping Avery open a gift from Grandma and Papa.  She loves that toy.

Jason, Josh's brother, and his fiance, Chrissy.  They are getting married in less than a month.  We are so excited!

"I got new Ugg(like) boots for Christmas."

 

Having a serious conversation with Aunt Chrissy.

"Uncle Jason and Aunt Chrissy gave me morocco's.  I love them so much!" (Helmet is back on...we took it off so all her pictures were not in a helmet)

Christmas morning at home.  She was so blessed from her grandparents and aunts and uncles, we didn't need to get her anything.  But, we got her a chair and a few goodies.  She loves her new chair and crawls all over it.

"See my tongue."

Happy Girl!

Avery's best friend.  Thank goodness we have a dog that doesn't mind a little one crawling all over her and taking her toys.

"Sitting in my new chair."

Of all the new toys Avery got for Christmas, she still would rather have Hagen's toys.

Uncle Jason stopped by, and we were talking in the living room.  We looked up and Avery had crawled into our bedroom and was in the dog crate.  She is definitely a mischievous little girl.  

Christmas Day our whole family minus the cat.

My sister loaned me this jumper that was Carson's.  Avery LOVES it!

 

New Year's Eve...Avery was helping us wash dishes.

Well, Josh and the animals didn't make it midnight.

Happy 2010!  All of our little children together.  This rarely happens.

Finally our first project of 2010.  We transformed our front bedroom into a playroom.  We rarely have overnight visitors since fortunately our families live here.  If only I can talk Josh into removing his deer horns, then it would be perfect. :)

Hagen thinks we made the room for her.  

Merry Christmas

We hope that everyone had a very wonderful Christmas. We had a fabulous Christmas for Avery's first. More pictures to come. I am trying to learn new tricks for blogging so you might see some changes coming soon.

First time to see Santa

 

Avery went to sit on Santa's lap.  I was a little worried when we arrived and Santa was on a break.  We had to wait about 30 minutes, but she entertained everyone in line.  She is really a lot of fun these days. She has a new laugh and also a very loud, shrilling cry. :)  Merry Christmas to Everyone from our family to yours! 

Happy Holidays

It seems like it has been forever since I have posted so lots to share.  We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with both of our families, but we were all sick.  I thought Avery was finally teething which caused her a stomach bug, but come to find out it must have been a stomach virus because Josh and my in-laws all got it.  I had a cold...so it was a very uneventful holiday weekend.  We had to miss Josh's cousin's wedding...we were bummed.  We have so much to be thankful for with our new addition to Thanksgiving this year.  I posted a few weeks ago that Avery started crawling and now she is everywhere.  We will look up, and she will be across the room.  So, we have now the joy of baby proofing the house.  Our Security Manager at my work gave us all the safety items so we are ready to go.  Since we were all sick, I haven't begun putting up all of our Christmas decorations.  We did get the tree up last night so we are anxious to see when Avery starts making her way over there.

On the helmet front, Avery is making progress.  Thank you for all of the prayers.  Two weeks ago, we had another scan of her head.  The scan showed she has made progress in the front of her head and now they are working on the back.  I finally received all of the paperwork from her pediatrician and the therapist.  The pediatricians had some discrepancies on it (like the mention of the wrong insurance company...ahhh!), but as soon as that is complete I can send in the appeal.  Please keep this in your prayers.

On Sunday, November 22, we had the wonderful blessing of dedicating Avery back to God at church.  It was such a sweet experience.  Our Pastor, Mark Hartman and his wife, Kathy, were there to pray for Avery.  We are so blessed to have such a wonderful church home.  Here are a few pics. 

On stage at the church after Avery's dedication.

Avery and her parents after the dedication at Sugar Creek Baptist Church

We had our family over for lunch and dessert. Look at the precious cake (I didn't make it).

Posing again with our little Angel.  She is getting so big.  Seven months on Dec 1st.

 

Avery had found she loves to crawl under everything now especially her exersaucer.

"Look at me, mommy!" 

 

I wanted you to see her curls, but at the same time I took the picture she spit up.  Sorry!

Avery pulls herself up on her bouncer and the ottoman. She thinks she can be very independent, but then she falls on her fanny. 

 

Avery's favorite puppy stinks like nothing I have smelled before.  So you mothers know the celebration I had when I found another exactly like it.  She fell in love with this puppy only two months ago.  See the new fluffy puppy on the left compared to the old one.  Needless to say...she loves the nasty smell.  She is not ready to sleep with the new one yet.  I find myself rubbing the new puppy to the old one.  Geez!

Crawling under the coffee table at my parents house in her Thanksgiving outfit.  There is not a good picture of her cute outfit"

Avery with her favorite puppy.  We cannot go anywhere without it.

Our little turkey on Thanksgiving night.  Her onesie says "I'm Stuffed"

She is on the run...

Avery crawled tonight for the first time before she went to bed. 11/11/09 - 6 months and 1 week old! She has been rocking back and forth for several weeks, and she just took off tonight. Here is a little video of our precious girl.

Happy Halloween and more...

My new favorite picture.

Little Avery all bundled up on her way to dinner on one of the first cold nights. Josh and I celebrated our fourth anniversary not too long ago, and we decided to forgo any traditional gifts and we went practical and got a VACUUM! "Four years just don't SUCK"...haha...get it...suck...vacuum. :) All kidding aside, I have had a wonderful four years with a very sweet husband and now a new beautiful, sweet baby girl.

Happy Halloween!!!

Avery's first costume was Glenda the Good Witch. She had a little scepter too that she really enjoyed waving. Ok, I didn't plan on two costumes, but I saw this costume two days before at Babies R Us for $5. I couldn't pass it up. She was such a doll as a flower. Avery and her mommy! Avery and her cousin, Carson the puppy. They were so cute together. Carson and Avery posing for the photoshoot for Halloween. My sister and I with the kiddos. Look how Avery's little feet are crossed like a little princess.