Christmas Morning....with sick babies.....

Averie and Andrew had a great Christmas morning. However, they both have really snotty noses, so forgive the "shiny" noses in the pictures.

Averie sitting in her new chair reading a book. She did not want to be disturbed.

Santa 2009

Santa found us in Alaska! Whew, we were worried! I know that Andrew and Averie will not remember this visit from Santa, but we sure had fun setting it all up for them. If you can't tell, they are getting trikes, a slide, a play kitchen, a shopping cart, and overstuffed chairs from PBKids. It is all really cute and I can't wait to see their little faces in the morning.

Happy on Christmas Eve!

Andrew and Averie have never been interested in the camera, but for some reason they were tonight. I got the camera out to take a few pictures on Christmas Eve. They just grinned and carried on the whole time. I thought I would share a couple of their precious smiles with you.

Trimming the Tree

Johnna and Jeremy Stafford came to visit us for Thanksgiving. While they were here Johnna wanted to help me get my Christmas stuff up. I needed a new tree this year because I donated my tree from last year to my friend Farah. We went to Sam's and they only had ONE tree left. It was a twelve foot, pre-lit artificial tree. However, it was "orange tagged" because the bottom strands of lights were not working. This tree was marked down from $273 to $80. We just couldn't pass it up. Johnna, who is "Her Highest Majesty of ALL things Christmas and Electrical Wiring", is confident that she will be able to get the lights to work, so we bought it. It did take her a little while, and I am not sure that I will be able to figure it out next year, but the lights work! The first picture is of the tree right after all the lights came on.

Andrew helping.

Averie helping.

All finished! It is a really beautiful tree. I am so proud of it, and Johnna taught me how to make bows! She made the bow on the top of the tree, but I made some that are hanging on the banister. I will put pictures up of those later.

First Winter Snow....

Well, it finally snowed! We took the babies out after their nap and at first it they were not loving it. However, as you will see, they came around. It was about 23 degrees and absolutely beautiful outside. The sled was Averie's favorite and Andrew likes to just walk around outside. The sled was not for him. However, we stayed out for about an hour and they did really well.

Sledding queen.

These children have to earn their keep. Averie will be shoveling snow this winter.

Picture taken off the back deck.....

Where is the road?

Ready for Thanksgiving

My mom sent the babies some really cute duds for Thanksgiving. I couldn't wait for them to wear these outfits, so they wore them to church yesterday. I don't think that clothes mean anything to Andrew, but I really think that Averie new she was cute. She was really sassy all day! So CUTE!!! Thanks MOM!

Winterized Jazz

Okay, my dog hates me now because I bought her some winter gear and she doesn't like it one bit. We don't have any snow yet, but I wanted her to be prepared because we have had a couple of morning this past week that were in the single digits. Crazy cold! Anyway, so she didn't mind the coat as much as she minds the booties.

Dog snow booties!! Who knew.

Averie wanted to try them on......

Then she wanted them off. So funny!

Tuesday Playgroup

There is a preschool play group every Tuesday morning from 9:00 am to 11 am at Birchwood Church, which is about ten minutes away from us. They have a big gym and tons of toys for the kids to play with. I have been taking A & A for about four weeks now and this past week I remembered the camera so that I could take some pictures of them playing. They do really well, I must say. Andrew has learned to climb up the slide and come down all by himself and Averie enjoys walking all over the place and playing with the push toys.

Motorcycle Man

"I slid down and I can't get up"

Brother pushing sister.....how cute!

Cheese faces!

Andrew LOVES to slide. He is quite good at it!

So much room to practice walking. The big gym has been great for Averie!