Favorite photo friday- SILLLY

Today's theme for favorite photo Friday is SILLY!!!!

Here is a great pic of our sweet girl with a silly, sour face right after her first dose of baby Oragel!



And here is a picture of my favorite three kiddos being silly! My god daughte Alayna my nephew Corbin and ofcourse sweet Av!

Av is ten months old!

Our baby girl just turned ten months... can you believe it? In honor of her ten months of life here are ten reasons we LOVE having her as our little girl!

1.That grin.... she could melt the meanest of peoples heart with one flash of her toothless smile!
2. Her giggle... sometimes she gets SO tickled she does nothing but let out a high pitched squeal!
3. Watching her crawl all over the living room and discover anything and everything on the floor!
4. She holds her baby dolls and snuggles them while patting their backs (she is going to be a GREAT big sis!)
5. She LOVES her daddy and mommy! She always reaches and wiggles for excitement when she sees us!
6. When she crawls around on the floor and I am down there playing with her sometimes she comes over reaches to me to hold her and when I do she hugs me and pats my back... what a sweet girl she is!
7. She LOVES waving "bye bye" and does it profusely while saying something that resembles "bye"
8. Her eyes are breath taking ( I know I think this because she is my daughter!) they are so big and so blue!
9. She is very serious when she meets people, she has to take it all in... but watch out once she takes it in she is a SHOW OFF... our girl knows how to work a crowd!
10. She is a dance star, at the littlest sound of music she busts a move... she wiggles from toes to head... with special emphasis on her behind!


Averi has changed a lot the last month... she has gone from barely scooting to full on crawling and pulling up on EVERYTHING... she is even trying to get up the stairs! Her biggest change has come in her diet... due to the pregnancy my milk supply almost immediately diminished and we have begun giving her formula! The transition has gone smoother then expected and she has almost completely given up nursing unless she is REALLY upset and that's more for comfort then nourishment! Obviously the biggest change this month was the news that our baby girl was becoming a big sister!

SO here is the first time she has to share the spotlight with a new sibling... ultrasound pics, we are officially 6 weeks 2 days and the baby looks great... a strong heartbeat! We are due October 17Th... Oh and there is a tiny arrow pointing to a tiny baby not to be confused with a fish!



WE LOVE YOU SWEET AV! MORE THEN YOU COULD EVER KNOW YOU ARE A JOY TO WAKE UP TO EVERY MORNING! WE THANK GOD FOR YOU! WE ALSO LOVE YOU NEW BABY AND ARE PRAYING YOU WILL CONTINUE TO GROW AND STRIVE IN MOMMY'S WOMB UNTIL YOUR BIRTH DAY!

FAV PHOTO FRIDAY... FAKE OUT

Favorite Photo friday... here is Averis "fake" grin, she knows how to cheese it up...such a ham!

SUPRISE!!!

2 Sundays ago we were suprised and yet excited to find out that Averi is going to be a BIG SISTER!!!





That is right folks after two pregnancy tests and a visit to the Dr today we have discovered we are about 8 weeks pregnant!!! We feel so blessed to become parents a second time around but would ask for your prayers as this baby grows inside me... we have an ultrasound on Monday to confirm how many weeks we are after that I will give you guys the official due date!!! Praise God for He is good!

Valentines day cuties!

As Averi gets older and becomes more mobile and playful her and Emma (the little girl I babysit) are quickly becoming friends!


Here are some sweet pictures of them both decked out in their Valentines day outfits!

Favorite photo friday- LOVE

Our love was predestined... our love is pure and simple... He fought for my heart and when I fell in love with him I fell in Love hard enough for it to last a lifetime



My love for her was instant... immediate! Being her mother is not always fun bit it is always a blessing!

9 month check up!

On Monday Averi had her nine month check up!!! She is 19.1 lbs 28 1/2 inches which puts her in the 50Th percentile for weight and the 90Th percentile for height! Her pediatrician also said she has a "petite head" to match her "petite body"... I guess that is a good thing!!! She is developing right on schedule... His only concern was her lack of teeth, she has none nor does it look as if she has any coming soon... He said if she didn't get any before her one year check up they would test her thyroid but he felt confidant it would not come to that and she would get one soon enough!

Here are some pictures of our big girl enjoying a spaghetti dinner!

Favorite photo friday- MELT

Today's theme for FFF is MELT...
There are several things that "melt" my heart...

Love melts my heart...falling in Love... being in Love and most of all never ending love... the Love that strives to reflect Christs Love for us...the Love that Loves when you are at your best and at your worse.... the Love that Kevin and I share



Babies melt my heart... I love to cuddle them....I love the way they smell... that helpless infant cry that is so pitiful it makes me want to cry!... I love their tiny fingers and tiny toes!


More specifically OUR baby melts my heart... she has the most contagious laugh and the most contagious grin.... when she crawls to me and reaches those little chubby hands up for me to pick her up I can never resist! It is amazing to me that we have only known her for nine months and yet I feel I have know her a lifetime!


Weddings melt my heart! I could watch our wedding video a hundred times and still not be bored! I love seeing the bride walked down by her Daddy- I love seeing the grooms reaction! I love the dresses, the tears and most of all the excitement you see in their eyes as they embark on this new journey together!


Puppies melt my heart! I love the smell of puppy breath (is that gross?) and how sweet and cuddly they are! Our Yorkie Lance is only four pounds but is four pounds of pure cuddles! He follows me around all day and anxiously waits for me to sit down so he can have a second to sit on my lap!

MOMMY IM STANDING AND I CAN'T SIT DOWN

I went into Averi's room to discover she had learned a new trick... pulling up in her crib! Unfortunately she CAN NOT figure out how to get back down... she was so cute yet so upset!!!

Winter storm 2009

With several inches of ice and snow on the ground and thousands of people without electricity we were blessed to keep our power and heat and despite me getting the van stuck in our condo parking lot we managed to mantain a pretty normal week in comparison to several others we know! So here is our week in a recap:






We spent ALOT of time indoors so we had to come up with stuff to do!
Averi wanted to play Daddy's xbox




Kevin and I had a sweet date at home... we popped popcorn and He taught me how to play Nerts... I love my husband!



We had sweet friends such as Lauren at our house trying to stay warm since they didnt have heat


My sweet friend Sarah got us Rascal Flatts tickets so we were not going to let bad roads stop us.... we headed to Lexington and enjoyed a GREAT concert!




Then Kevin and I ventured the roads yet again and headed to TN for Addisons birthday!!!





HAPPY BIRTHDAY ADDISON WE LOVE YOU AND ARE SO PROUD OF THE LITTLE BOY YOU ARE!!!


Over all WINTER STORM 2009 was nasty and rotten but we were surely blessed we didn't get it as bad as some!!! We pray for those who are still without power and are suffering and pray that the worse of the bad weather is behind us! We are thankful though for the beauty this ice has made of the world around us... it is literally a winter wonderland!