Ava Waking Up

When Ava woke up from her nap the other day, she did not want me.  Here are the pictures to prove it!!

 

Very sweet!

 

Pony Tails

Everyone in pony tails????  Yahoo!!!!

Go Cougs

GO COUGS!!!

Nothing else needs to be said...

 

Christmas 2012

Gram and Gramps arrived in Ohio and boy was everyone excited!!!!

 

 

When I think of the holidays, I think of food, drinks, games, books, relaxing, movies, and baking.  Well, our Christmas was full of all of these things and much, much more.

 

 

Books (and snuggles)

 

Gramps getting introduced to Max and Ruby :)

 

Movie night!

 

Games! 

We played lots of games but it is always fun when we can play one that Ava can play with us!

 

Art

 

Gingerbread House making party!

 

 

 

Look at these masterpieces! 

 

 

We had a little snow before Christmas and look what these three created!!

 

 

Santa Arrived with Dora toys for Ava, a guitar and a mic for Mckenna, and an ITouch for Kiara.

 

Opening presents is SO exciting!!!

 

A very happy girl trying out her ITouch with Gramps!

 

Let's make some popcorn!

 

Mckenna put on a couple of performances.  I don't have pictures during the performances because the lights were off, which explains why in this picture she is putting on her headlamp :)!!

 

And then we got A LOT of snow!!

 

 

 

Olive Garden lunch!

 

 

 

Gramps and I took Kiara and Mckenna sledding

 

Gramps even went down a couple of times!

 

 

Our goodbye lunch at Five Guys!

 

Merry Christmas!

 

 

 

 



Ava's 1st Spa

Kiara and Mckenna love their spa days and they happen about once every few months in our house.  Here is Ava experiencing her first spa day and she LOVED it! 

Anybody want some mail?

We mailed a lot of packages around the holidays and the girls got silly one day and decided they wanted to be mailed to Seattle too!

 

 

Santa

I love going to see Santa.  It is fun to look back at the pictures from the years before and see the girls growing and changing.  Here is a look at last years Santa picture - my all time favorite!

 

 

2011

 

2012

Here is this years pic.  What a difference a year can make!

 

Daddy met us at the mall after work for ice cream and Santa pictures.  It was a very fun night!

 

Where's Ava

Ava "hiding" from me!

I would say "Where's Ava?"  and she would start giggling and say "I right HE-ER!"

 

Don't give up on us.....

The photo upload button is not working on Blogspot so I haven't been able to post anything for the past week.  I have lots of posts saved but need to add pictures before I post them.  Don't give up on our blog please :)!!!!

SNOW

I am pretty sure I asked for snow not that long ago on this blog.  Well, it came.  Over the past 2 weeks we have had about a foot and a half of snow, I have had to shovel our sidewalk 10 times and this morning when the kids walked to the bus to head back to school after holiday break, it was 12 degrees!!!!  Brrrrrrrrr!  It seems like we have already passed the total amount of snowfall we got last winter and it is only the beginning of January.  Pictures of our great Christmas break to come and of course the snow :)!