Our little family

Our little family

Saturday, December 7, 2013

Avery Mae's First Birthday Party!

Today was Avery's first birthday party!  Her actual birthday is next Saturday December 14th, but I wanted to go ahead and have her party this weekend so that it wasn't so close to Christmas.  Everything turned out so cute and Avery had so much fun.  I am so thankful to be her Mommy, she is such a sweet little angel baby girl!
 
Gingerbread cookies, yummy!

Avery's little smash cake.

The sweets and treats table!

Chocolate dipped strawberries and rice krispies.  They were so good!

Little cupcakes for the party.

I love these sweet cupcake toppers!

Had to put up lots of pictures from her first year!

Cute little gingerbread centerpieces and party favors.

Another view of the dining room and decorations.

Avery's high chair with "I am 1" banner.

Some of the gingerbread decorations, and the garland (that I made).

More gingerbread decorations.
 
Oma and the birthday girl!
 
Me and my baby girl! :)
 

Me and my two littlest munchkins girls.
 

Another centerpiece.
 

Hot cocoa bar....MMMM!
 

All the kiddos got to decorate gingerbread cookies.  They had so much fun doing this!
 

Sydney put tons of icing and sprinkles on her cookies!
 

Sweet girls getting their little gingerbread cookies all fixed up.
 

Oma and Avery watching the big kids decorate.
 

Candle in and ready to sing happy birthday!
 
Happy first birthday sweet angel!

She wasn't too sure about the cake....she wanted the mini m&m's back!

Happy to get more m&m's, forget the cake!

Kissing those sweet baby cheeks!  And, she got peppermint ice cream too!

A little elf showed up at our party and painted faces!  So fun!

Little gingerbread booty.

Sara looked so pretty with her face painted!

Jayda got a gingerbread girl and Sara had hearts painted. LOVE it!

Caitlyn had a really pretty blue painting done.
 
Little bit loved opening her birthday presents!

So happy to get a moo-cow!  She pulled it straight out of my hands and kissed it!  Avery loves moo-cows so much!  It's the only animal sound she knows.  She actually doesn't even say "mooo", just "mmmmm" and we all know what she's talking about.

So excited about her presents!

She even got her own makeup set!  Yay, no more sharing with her sisters!

And look what Oma and Oupa got, a rocking COW!  Oh my goodness, she absolutely LOVES it!

She got 3 of these little cows, everyone knows how much she loves them. :)

And a high chair for her babies and food to feed them.  This looks so fun.

Playing with the baby dolls food.
 
The elf even did balloons, so cool!

Jayda and cousin Molly with a cheetah face painting to match her dress!

Doing more balloons.

Avery got a little ladybug.  I love this too!

Watching sister play with her new toys.

Miss Lacy the elf made one last froggy balloon before she had to go.

Avery loved the baby doll bottle.  She wouldn't put it down once we opened it up, it was so cute!

Oliver and his froggy!

Ty's Daddy had a heart made for his mommy, so sweet!

Me and my little munchkin telling the elf goodnight!

Avery's party turned out so good!  We are so blessed to have such wonderful family and friends that were here with us to celebrate! I love you sweet Avery Mae and I seriously CAN NOT believe you will be 1 YEAR OLD in a week! 

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Punkins, punkins, punkins!

A few weeks ago I took the girls to the "punkin patch" (as Sydney likes to say) and took some sweet pictures of them!  They also got to pick out several pumpkins to bring home so they were pretty excited about that!  Avery was mesmerized by the pumpkins and just kept looking at them and touching them, don't think she'd ever seen one before and it was so cute!
 
Sydney immediately picked out this bumpy little punkin to take home.  Such a sweet girl!

 I put Avery down right in the middle of the pumpkins and told the girls to squeeze in. :)

She wasn't sure at first about all the punkins!


Sydney was very happy about the pumpkin she had picked out!

"Hold on Mom, what is going on here?!"

Giving little sis the low down on the pumpkin patch.  Love this picture!



This was little sweet pea's first Halloween!

Having fun checking out all the pumpkins!

"Ok Mom, I'm ready to go now!"

Picking up all the baby pumpkins, she loved them!

Say cheeeeeeeeeese girls (as Sydney tips Avery over)!


Taking a feel of Sydney's crazy bumpy pumpkin.
 
The Saturday before Halloween we took the girls to Scare on the Square. 
The girls had fun, but there were a lot of people there!

This girl will not leave a bow on for more than 5 seconds anymore!

As soon as she takes it off she tries to put it back on herself. :)
 
Our three little munchkins at Scare on the Square!
 
One happy little witch!
 
Jayda got a butterfly painted on her face that night.  She loved it and even had to sleep with it on!



Grandma's little pumpkin!
Attempt at a family picture!
 
The girls got to have their picture taken in the fire truck!
 

Sweet baby girl watching it rain all day long!

She loves to push the "car car" all over Oma and Oupa's house!  She would do this all day long if she could! 
If she runs into something and can't go anymore she screams. Silly baby!
 
Our little candy corn witch and her candy corn treat all dressed up for Halloween! :)

Sydney loved being a witch for Halloween.  She kept trying to scare everyone and would walk into the room and say "ROOAARR!!"  It was pretty hilarious.
 

This is a horrible picture, but we did carve a pumpkin on Halloween and the girls thought it was so funny!
 
Little candy corn treat with Oma waiting to go trick or treating!

 
Vrooom vroom, she's on the move!

Our little angel didn't want to show her face, lol!

One lady was giving out coke instead of candy, oh my!  Sydney was thrilled and opened it right away!


"Trick or treat!!!"

The crazy lady pumpkin that we carved before heading out to trick or treat!

The night after Halloween we went to Scooter's surprise Duck Dynasty birthday party.  I could not stop laughing
at this...Dr. Wells, Sara and Jayda dressed up in Duck Dynasty gear. LOL!

We celebrated Pawpaw's 71st birthday on Saturday!

Avery Mae will push anything she can around the house.  She wants to walk so bad!

Not sure what got into me, but me and the girls decided to give Daddy a spa pedicure.  I guess it was his lucky day!

After that Jayda and I headed out to get our nails done and do some shopping. 
It was fun to spend some one on one time with my big girl!

Ty and Avery had lots of fun playing together over the weekend as usual.

Avery loves to push the shopping cart around the house too....this girl!


 
 I think that pretty much sums up our Halloween 2013!