Papa's Birthday!

Papa's birthday was January 17th. We celebrated that Sunday at their house with Mimi's fried chicken and then again with dinner at Outback that Friday night. Hope you had a good birthday Jimmy! Thanks for being a great father-in-law and Papa!

Papa and Avery at Outback.
Alex is always near the birthday cake.

Avery with Aunt Nan.

Avery with Uncle David-I think she likes his beard!

Great-Grandaddy's Photo shoot

Alex has swim lessons on Thursdays and to get there on time and not rush too much I would usually have to wake Avery up just a few minutes early from her nap and I HATE doing that. So Great-Grandaddy and Nanny have been coming over to keep Avery for me. It has worked out great! They get to spend extra time with their great-granddaughter and I get some one on one time with Alex. Richard (great-grandaddy) is a great photographer and so Avery got a free photo shoot one day. He took a ton of pictures! Here are just a few.

With Nanny.

"Oh, do you want my serious face? OK, here it is."

"Now, here is my happy face, is this good?"



With Great-Grandaddy.

We went to lunch at McDonald's-look how intensely she is staring at that cup! She couldn't get enough of it.

Snow Day!

We got snow yesterday! We have been here a little over a year and a half and it finally came!:) We were so excited, especially Alex! We really don't have "cold" weather gear so they both wore their rain coats and rain boots. Avery seemed to really enjoy it, too. John was off-so it was nice to have a snow day where he could play with the kids. It if stuck from the time it started snowing we think we would have had 6-8 inches, but it was nice the short while it lasted.



Alex said the penguin lived in snow so he needed to come outside too.

Making a snow angel.

The final product.







John tried to find twigs and stuff from outside to make the snowman face but Alex was having none of that. He told John that Frosty needed, "two eyes made out of coal and a button nose." Alex is a big fan of Frosty and knows the song very well. So I got two rocks from our gas fireplace and a button and then a carrot for the mouth:) Alex loved his snowman!
John is about to drop a snowball on Alex. Alex loved throwing snowballs at us.

When I was helping with the snowman I saw Avery's hand just sitting in the snow and it was blood red. So I decided she needed to go in and get warm. I put her in our room for a few minutes while I went back out. When I came in she was checking herself out and playing with herself in the mirror.

Alex's birthday party (Part two)

We had Alex a Mickey Mouse birthday party at home Saturday after his friend party. He, again, had a great time! He was loving getting his presents and getting to see all of his family. Avery even got in the Mickey Mouse spirit with Minnie on her onesie.

Checking out his cake with Dar Dar.

At first glance, I thought it said Alec. Scared me:)

We helped Alex put puzzles together and those were our table decorations.


Opening his presents... he got a scooter, Lightning McQueen house shoes, a red wagon, tools, a clock to help him learn to tell time, binoculars, money, giftcards...

With Russell and Abbie outside playing with his new toys!

New tools.

He had to pile some of his birthday loot in the wagon with him.

Alex and Avery with their grandparents and great-grandparents. I love this picture!

Uncle Jack with Avery.

The Grandads...I think they were talking about the fun party!

Sandra with Avery.







Trying his new binoculars out from Uncle Parker.

Getting his money for his college fund from Uncle Russell.

Checking out his new clock with Grammy.

Betty, Abbie, and Avery.

Everyone checking out the new wagon.

Video of him blowing out his candles. Sweet 3 year old boy!