Christmas 2011 continued.....

Playing

Checking everything out.....hands on hips :)

Want a sip of milk?

After Santa came...there was more stuff around the other side.

Ava's stocking full of stuff

Anxiously awaiting another gift

Ava performing one of her many made up songs!

cousins!!!

Adam and his prank gift. He wears HUGE watches so they bought him a wall clock with a belt/ribbon on it

So we had our last Christmas thing this past weekend. We spent the whole weekend in Atl and rung in the New Year there. Ava got a ton more gifts. I am trying to figure out where to put them all.

The pictures are from our Christmas morning when "Santa" visited, and from this past weekend.

Christmas 2011

Riding her jeep from Nana/Pawpaw

We had a blessed Christmas. Its just a blessing to have all of our family and be happy and healthy. Adam had to work pretty much all Christmas weekend so that put a spin on our Holidays. That's our life though so we just go with the flow. I pray in 2012 comes changes with his job schedule :) Friday afternoon me and Mom took Ava to Galaxy of Lights in Huntsville. It was a lot of fun and it always puts us in the Christmas spirit. We had a nice afternoon. We had to sneak in a few last minute gifts too. Christmas Eve we spent the day at moms. Ava got a Barbie Jeep from them so it was on.....we were outside most of the afternoon. Mom cooked a wonderful meal and Jeremy came in that afternoon. We exchanged more gifts which Ava thoroughly enjoyed. Saturday night we went to a Friends house that does a nice little open house on Christmas Eve. It was nice to just spend an evening with Friends and eat good food. Christmas Day we went to Grandmas and mom cooked a big meal. Again we missed Adam, and grandpa. He was in ICU due to infections. Santa came to visit Ava Monday morning :) We switched it up so Adam could enjoy it with us. He was off Monday. She got a ton more toys that she is really enjoying playing with. Adam got me a Kindle Fire and a GC to my favorite Spa. I can't wait to use it. :) I hit up some after Christmas sales Monday and spent some time with Jeremy before he went back home.

We are going to ATL this weekend to have Christmas with Adam's side of the family. It feels kind of weird having a Christmas event in January, but like I said we just go with the flow.

More Christmas pictures to come later...

Christmas Play

Despite this picture she really wasn't scared of him. She just happened to look away as I snapped it. She was so excited when Santa arrived. She did great. She did her role in the play pretty good for the most part. She was an angel in the nativity and a kid in the frosty play. She didn't do her special. Which was mainly just her saying "Merry Christmas" really cute. Oh well I wasn't going to force her to do anything. It went great. Oh and they did fake snow on the ceiling fans which was so magical when it was falling down on all the kids. Not so much when I was vacuuming it over and over and over.

Christmas Parade

We went to the Christmas Parade Thursday night. Yes in our small northern Alabama town we get excited over a few trucks with lights on them and music. :) Its a tradition and it just gets us in the Christmas spirit. I actually love it. Ava loved it this year too. She was yelling out the window at just normal lights on the way thinking everything was something to do with the parade. I thought it was so cute. It was in the 30s that night but we were all wrapped up good. I love being outside all bundled up when its that cold. I am a weirdo I know. Everyone else was like "I am freezing, I can't feel my toes". I was like, "I like it". Ava got plenty of candy and she loved seeing all the different things in the parade. She especially enjoyed seeing the Grinch. She loves that movie but she will say, "That Grinch is mean". Then she loved seeing the band play. She loves playing drums and dancing. Of course she saw the man of the hour...SANTA! She waved and said "Merry Christmas"!

Afterwards we grabbed some dinner with Friends. It was a fun night.

Our new Christmas tree!

This picture really doesn't do it justice. I love my new HUGE tree. Its so large that Adam can't even reach the top standing on a chair. I spent way more time decorating the tree this year. Mainly because it was new and MUCH larger than my old one. When I put all my decorations on it I realized quick it was going to need some major help. So I added the deco mesh, more ornaments, and here it is.

Notice my vary bare walls and windows in the background. I might not have curtains up but I got the Tree up :)

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First Christmas Events of the season

Ava playing at Pawpaws and Nanadetts

Giving me a sneaky look. She has been in the cookies up on the counter :)

Our Christmas festivities have started. Friday night mom kept Ava so me and Adam could go to a Christmas party with some of our best Friends. We had so much fun. I haven't laughed that hard in a while!!!

We woke up early Saturday morning and got ready and packed up for Atlanta. We headed down there for our first Christmas event with Adam's side of the family. We did some shopping and just hung out Saturday. Then Sunday we had a Christmas dinner with his Papa and family. We had good food and played dirty Santa. We had some good laughs out of that too!!

This whole week is full of Christmas stuff. We have play practice two nights and our local Christmas parade is set for Thursday (since it got rained out tonight).

I LOVE this time of year!!!

Our little girl is growing up

CHEESE!!! Taken by Ava

So fast too!!!! She is so hilarious. I wish I could write down every little funny thing she says and does but there is not enough time in the day!! The other morning we wake up and she says "Mom you are my buddy". I laugh as my heart melted. Little things like that just out of the blue make my day. Potty training is going great. She amazes me how fast she caught on, and the fact she actually wants to do it. I just have to share this too, even though she will kill me when she gets older. She was sitting on the potty trying to go poo. I thought she was done and she said "No mom its just gas". I was like does she even know what gas is??? I guess so.

Her favorite things to do now are play Barbie on my phone, take pictures of herself on my phone, and sing at the top of her lungs (as we all clap and praise her). The pictures up top are ones I found on my phone after she had been playing with it :) I found her the other day in the study sitting in a chair with a row of dolls/barbies in the floor. She was reading them a story. She says "Once upon a time.....". Her favorite movie now is the Princess and the Frog. We went to bed one night and she kissed me goodnight. She laid it on me!!!! She was moving her head back and forth. I said wow, what a kiss. She said "thats the Princess and the Frog". I lost it.

She is obsessed with gum. That kid will chew gum for hours and not swallow it. I was apprehensive about giving it to her because I thought she would swallow it. After many pieces later I realized she doesn't. :)

She is SO full of energy it amazes me. I love her sweet little sassy personality. She puts her hands on her hips and says NO!!!! Wonder where she gets that from?