Tah-Dah!!! We Had Another Baby!

Most people our age would have smeared the blogging world with newborn pictures of their precious little addition right away.  Well I decided to sleep, eat, shower, play with the first born or clean during these past five months instead of informing ya'll of every sweet grin, cue or drool.  My apologies!  I know some of you have actually been wanting to see our little bundle of joy, so here she is...Little Miss Aubrey! 

One week and two days before she arrived.

One day old with proud big sister who four months later still wants to hold and love on her. 

Enjoying her crib with the hilariously cute sheep mobile. Thank you Tisha!

One month!

Fourth of July golf cart parade.  We enjoyed it and she slept through it as you can see.

Precious moments here....

.....and here!

She slept where ever I laid her those first few months.  I just love those first few sleepy, cuddly months!  

Doing what big sisters do!

Surprise!  I'm 3 months old! 

And now 4 months!

From the tummy to now 4 1/2 months, how the time really does fly!  She is so sweet and has been smiling since five weeks!  You just look at her and her mouth opens wide and those gums go to shining!  She even has dimples!  She can work those eyebrows and make the sweetest faces.  I guess sweet about sums her up cause that's the only adjective I can think of to describe all her little ways.  Avery really has handled our new addition well.  She hasn't shown jealousy (much) and usually wants to help or love on her.  We are blessed and enjoying our family of four!

So How 'Bout An Update?!

Well hello family and friends!  Had ya'll given up on us?  I sure would have!  But I do have hopes of slowly adding on to this nifty little means of staying connected.  I guess we can only stay connected if I do my part of posting...so....here we go:

In January, Aves started preschool at Sunshine School.  First day was rough as most would expect.  She cried as did I, of course, but not til after I left the building then continued through my whole shopping trip at Albertsons.  But we both survived and she did well the rest of the semester.  She was still hesitant but we got through without any more break downs.  Though from time to time she will let me know that she did get sad during the day and say, "I had a tear for you today" or "do you know why I had a tear today?  Because I missed my mommy."  So sweet!  So that whole experience helped us with an easy and painless start to the real PreK with no tears at all!  Teacher says she is quiet and shy.  What?!  Also heard that the kids love her and want to be her friend because she has such a fun personality!  Only thing is, she would rather play alone most of the time and ends up hurting feelings at times.  We are now working on polite ways of saying "I would like to play by myself, thank you."  Must be due to that 4 1/2 year gap between our children (more on that bundle of joy to follow!)

 Lovely smiles leaving home...tears came at the drop off :(

 Days later, well adjusted!

 Awesome reading nook in the dowtown library....wish her room had one of theses!

Skip ahead to this year's first day.  Not a worry at all.  She went right in and found her spot.  She doesn't even mind wearing the uniforms which I was afraid would be a daily battle.

Stationery card

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Hello All! Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas and all that goodness!

Our latest:

Aves is funnier every day!  Still quoting movies where I can't decide if she is really responding to me or just in some movie in her head.  She still talks to her feet, disciplines them, holds them, caresses them, and such   as if they were her real imaginary friends.  But we aren't as worried about that anymore (hehe) because she has learned to play with others really well and looks forward to meeting up with friends and cousins.  She had a babysitter a few weeks ago and as I introduced them she said, "Ok, but sometimes I'm ornery."  At least she gave the sweet girl a fare warning!

Our biggest news is that we are expecting baby #2 in April!  We couldn't be more excited and feel so blessed to have another on the way.  We found out at just 13 weeks along that we are having another sweet girl!  Good thing I saved all those clothes of Avery's!  I'm now 18 weeks along with a good size belly already.  Last month a worker in Lowes asked if I was 6 months along....gee thanks!  A lady in the grocery store that same week said, "oh my, you're going to get big".  Don't you just love the things people say to expecting mothers!?!

Our new home project is coming along nicely though we aren't in like we were suppose to be in October.  Yes, just two months behind and during the busiest times of the year.  Oh well, it will all be worth it (whenever that may be).

Many blessings to all!  Hope you enjoy this time of year as much as I do!

Happy 4th Birthday Avery!

Our sweet girl is now 4 years old.  It's so hard to imagine.  In just four short years she has learned so much...Dave and I sit and ponder sometimes at how amazing it is what all she knows and has learned.  She has created for herself quite the personality whether it's quoting a movie line, acting out a scene from a movie, singing songs of praise with the most sincere expressions or just doing something silly and saying her most famous quote, "I was like, huh? what was that?"  She is a true blessing and brings so much joy to our lives.  We love you miss Avery!!  (camera died shortly into the party, so this all I have for now...just missing pics of her grandparents, aunts, uncles, great aunts and uncles, cousins, and great granny Nanny, bummer)

 She enjoyed a very girly party with Belle as the cake and a princess theme through out.  

I had a ball (no pun intended) creating handmade decor for the celebration.  One of my favs was the number four on the wall made of pics of Aves from birth til now.  A sweet touch.  Thank you Pinterest!

Here's most of the kid crew enjoying pizza.  Thanks for smiling, haha!

7th Anniversary!

Seven years later and he still has surprises for me.  When we were first dating, I never knew where he would pop up...I spent hours at the library studying for my last semester and he would surprise me with a snack and a coffee or steal me away to feed me a meal.  Once we were married, weekend getaways came often without me knowing the landing (that included our honey moon to St. Lucia!)  Well this anniversary he couldn't have done better than to plan a weekend in my most favorite part of Texas...the little German town of Gruene.  We stayed in the neatest rustic place over looking the river, floated the river (or I should say, I floated while he paddled the whole way since the river was low and slow moving, haha), and of course we ate at all the best locations: the Grist Mill, the Gruene River Grill, and Naegelin's Bakery.  He is so thoughtful and spoils me rotten.  God has blessed me with a good man.

On the Guadalupe

From our balcony looking towards Gruene

San Antonio Vacation with the James'

Cousins! It only took 9 shots before I got this 1 with all 4 of them somewhat smiling and being still, hehe.

We made a stop at the Childrens Museum down town.  A must for the youngsters.  They enjoyed every station.  Here Aves is selling plane tickets.

Too sweet.  Avery loves her baby cousin.  Notice Caylas precious little crossed feet.

Aves was thrilled to "milk" this cow and did so til we drug her away.  She named her Abigail and would get up every so often, grab her face and tell her, "steady old girl."  She was meant to be on a ranch!

Sea World!

Feeding the dolphins. 

Gotta love this one!  Avery's first roller coaster ride on the Shamu Express!  Face says it all!  She actually asked if she could scream, so cute.

Proof I was there, too.

A ride with dad.  

After the boat and ski show where the girls did lifts while skiing, Aves showed her moves on daddys shoulders.

 Thank you Nana for another great summer vacation.