Christmas Day

I am usually a perfectionist when it come to this, but I have already tried this three times and I am getting soooo sick of trying.  These pictures are WAY out of order and it drives me crazy!  I almost deleted the post all together, but decided not to, b/c I probably wouldn't do it then!  So, here are the pictures from Christmas Day!  Way out of order!!!  Sorry, hope it doesn't drive you as crazy as it does me!  We are soooo blessed, beyond anything I could ever imagine!  We are blessed with the best family, seriously I love my family so much, everyone of them!  We are blessed with the best child ever!  We are sooo thankful for her!  We just had an awesome day with Avery on her 2nd Christmas!  She actually understood the whole present thing and how to unwrap the presents!  She got excited over every single gift she opened!  We hope ya'll had a Great Christmas and a Blessed new year!!!

Poor baby was sooo tired!  

Awe, thanks Grandaddy presents make everything better!!  She got the 25th year special addition Cabbage Patch Doll!  Pretty special, b/c my grandparents waited in line for hours to get me my first cabbage patch doll when they very first came out 25 years ago!!  I don't think I will let her play with hers!!  =)

Avery and mommy with her Great Grandaddy!  She really loves him, she was watching him and smiling at him all day!  She carried around a little picture of him and was pointing at it and smiling!!!  She is so blessed to know her Great Grandaddy!  I know he kind of likes her too!!  =)  Actually, I am pretty sure he is crazy about her just like the rest...totally in love!!

Opening her presents at home on Christmas morning!

Sooo excited over her new kitchen from Mimi and Grandpa!!  She LOVES this kitchen!  She has some spoons and dishes and today she was feeding her self and her babies and saying "MMM", sooo cute!!!!  I have pictures of that for later!  I swear I love this girl more than anything!!

Avery, mommy and daddy!  So hard to get a good picture of all of us!  But, this will do!

Avery is totally obsessed with food!  Anytime anyone is eating anything she will say "bite, bite" until you give her a bite!!  She may not like it at all, but she wants to try everything!!!  Here she is eating right off of her Grandaddy's plate!!  Such a cutie!!

Christmas Morning

Santa came to see Avery.....She loved the wagon...

She actually really knew to look inside her stocking...she just kept pulling stuff out....

"Oh Great, Santa brought me more hair clips to pull out of my hair!"

Out of ALL the toys and shoes and clothes that were inside the wagon and stocking this was her VERY FAVORITE of all!  You can't see, but it is a box of animal cookies!!  This baby LOVES her animal cookies, she is getting very impatient with her daddy for not opening them fast enough!!!

Christmas Eve

Avery and her Daddy!!  "What, you mean Santa comes tonight??"

I wonder if he will see me if I take these balls off of the tree one last time??

Avery really loves to open presents!  She is very good at it.  She tears one piece off at a time and throws it down....she unwraps until every piece of paper is gone!!  She was sooo excited!

Riding her cute new pony from her Nana and Poppa....just wait Poppa, I am sure she will be begging you for a real pony soon!  She loves this little pony, he sings and makes real pony noises...she starts dancing and clapping everytime!!

She couldn't get enough of the presents...she is helping Bruiser unwrap his!

I've been tagged....

I have been tagged by my friend Allison! I was suppose to go the the place where I store all of my pictures and open up the 4th folder and the 4th picture!! Well, this happens to be the picture! Sweet little Avery on Valentines Day this year! She was about 2 1/2 months old here! Wow, it is sooo hard to believe that it has been that long....I can't believe she was only 2 1/2 months here! She is such a cutie then and such a cutie now....she sure has changed our lives! Thanks Allison!!!

Instructions:

1. Go to the place where you store all of your pictures on your computer and open up the 4th folder.

2. Open the 4th picture

3. Post the picture and give an explanation

4. Tag 4 people

Well, I don't have 4 people that I actually know as my friends...so, I will tag Emily and Donica and who ever else is reading that wants to participate!! I need some more blogger friends!! =)

I LOVE her!!!!

I know we need to sweep the driveway and yard for that matter....our "yard guy" (Ryan) has been very busy....just focus on the cutest baby ever!  It won't be hard to look past the mess in our yard!  I love her more than anything!!!!

Santa 2007 and today! (bittersweet)

My baby at 3 weeks old!

My baby today!!

It is Beginning (weeks ago) to look A LOT like Christmas!!

Mommy and Avery waiting to see Santa....Last year she was 3 weeks old!!

At first she wasn't so sure about Santa touching her...

But, soon enough she was giving him a high five and laughing at him!

She was not afraid of Santa at all!!

Sweet little Bruiser who turned 6 on Dec. 2!!  We love our first born sooo much!  He has survived one whole year of being the big brother!   I keep telling him it will only get better and better...not so sure he is believing me, especially since Avery's favorite thing to do now is run after him and hit him!  Last night I caught her trying to lick him.....yuck!!  

Needless to say I had a VERY HARD time deciding which pictures to use for our Christmas cards.....they are all sooo good and this isn't even half of them!

She is just way to beautiful!  

She loves to play with these reindeer ears on!  She shakes her head to hear them jingle!  

Avery's First Birthday Party!!!

LOTS of Pictures!!!!

Yummy cupcakes Mimi made and the cutest bear ever from Aunt Kim!

Mommy and her one year old!!!  I still can't believe it!!  But, I'm working on getting past my denial!  =)

Cake.....

Avery with her Nana and Mimi....the two people who love her ALMOST as much as her mommy and daddy!!!  She is VERY blessed to have two of the best grandma's EVER!!

Avery and her Aunt Holli....

The kid's table....

All of Avery's presents!  Thank you ALL soooo much for all of the presents!  Avery got soooo many things!  Thank you to everyone who made her first birthday sooo special!  She LOVES all of her new toys and cute clothes!!

Avery and mommy opening up her presents!  She had so much fun opening them.  She was sooo good!  She just sat in my lap and helped to tear off all the paper.  She got so excited with every present!  She never tried to get down, she just kept on opening and opening.....

Showing off her new boots from her Nana and Poppa!  They are the cutest little boots I have EVER seen!  I LOVE them!  And, she kept walking around saying "boots, boots" and when I took them off, she got so mad at me and started crying..."boots, boots" until we put them back on!

Happy Birthday to Avery!

I'm not sure why, but she didn't get nearly as excited over eating cake at her party as she did on her actual birthday at my Grandaddy's!  I guess she figured it was old now since she had already done it once!  She liked it and had fun, but just didn't get into the way she did on her birthday!

Avery with her Nana and Poppa!

And, her is Avery at the end of the party!  She was exhausted!  She fell asleep in the car on the way home and was so angry when we woke her up to take a bath and get ready for bed!  She had such a great first birthday!  We are so blessed to have such a great family and such awesome friends!  There were so many people there to celebrate with us!  Thank you to everyone!  Especially Aunt Kim, who let us have the party at her house and went way above and beyond (like always) to make sure Avery's party was perfect!  I will post more pictures later....but, this is plenty for now!!