Avery is 8 months!!

Can you believe it?? It won't be long and we will be celebrating her first birthday! Hope you enjoy the pictures of her. She is such a dream!! Matt and I are truely blessed at how good of a baby she is. She just goes with the flow of our busy family. Her favorite word is dada (well her only word, but don't point that out to Matt), she now has two teeth, she can sit be herself and has started to feed herself cherios and puffs. We can tell she really wants to crawl but let's just say we are not so eager for that.

Davis, Drew and Alleigh are doing great as well! Both boys are active and baseball right now and Alleigh continues her ballet and tap.

Where are those Pictures???

Okay, Okay so we got a new camera for Christmas....I promise they will be up by the weekend.....as Matt famous saying goes...."that's a pie crust promise, easily made, easily broken".

Anways, our house has been alot of fun lately. Both of the boys are doing really well in school and Alleigh has her first boyfriend, Jackson......well, let's just say it depends upon her mood each day on whether or not she is "x-ing him out" as she says it. Poor little boy! Avery....oh my goodnes, she just had her six month check up and she is just under 19 lbs! She loves to babble, well let me say growl at everyone and she is still very laid back and a wonderful sleeper. We expect to see some teeth pop through any day.

Matt and I are doing good. Things are going well at both of our jobs which is a major blessing this day and time. The good Lord is so faithful to us! We both have joined the gym and are getting in shape. It's been fun working out together and this past Saturday I ran my first 5K with some girlfriends of mine - it was amazing and now I am addicted to running! It was so hard physically but so rewarding!

Christmas

It seems like this year Christmas is flying by more so than normal. It is so much fun to experience Christmas through our children. They are so passionate and animated about everything!! All three of them worked so hard memorizing songs and lines for our church's Christmas County Spelling Bee play! It was amazing to watch......Davis is so into acting and performing right now....I can't help but hope down in my heart that the Lord will use him someday as a Christian music artist. Alleigh however had to put the finishing touches onto the program. It was a surprise for us all but priceless none the less.

We have also enjoyed doing many fun outings this season. We took the kids to the Lake Lanier Magical night of Lights where we saw amazing lights, a live nativity scene and of course, Santa's workshop complete with fair rides! Davis and Drew's faces turned three shades of green when they were on the tilt a whirl ride. We also made our visit to Santa and dropped our letters off at his make a wish mailbox located inside of Macy's. Alleigh was very brave this year and only shed a few small tears. Once she warmed up she talked his ear off. Avery did well with Santa as well, she sat there sucking on her fingers which seems to be her favorite thing lately. After that we took the kids ice-skating!! Wow, that was fun....we couldn't have done that with out Papa Steve's help. Davis is pretty good on the ice, Alleigh gave it her all and seemed to like it, Drew was a little more skeptical at first but caught on after a while, Avery, well, she just took it all in and got a cherry nose from it being so cold in there.

Avery is 5 months this Tuesday......where does the time go. We are working on baby food and tried green beans for the first time tonight. She still isn't a huge fan of the food but it won't be long and she will be. She continues to amaze us with how laid back and happy she is. She loves to squeal and growl at her big brothers and sister.

It is amazing how blessed Matt and I feel these days....that's one of many reasons I enjoy Christmas so much. It gives you the opportunity to not only celebrate our Savior's birth but to also count your many blessings. Blessings that we could never deserve but by God's grace we receive.

.............You know me..........pictures will follow soon.........I promise they will!

Too Blessed to be Stressed!

For those of you who know me well, you are no doubt shocked that I am attempting to blog. After all, I have just now gotten the loading pictures onto our computer thing down. I created this blog as my attempt to document mine and Matt's life with our children. God has blessed our family in so many ways sometimes I feel that life flies by so fast that we don't even take time to recognize each blessing. By doing this my hope is that friends and family will get a chuckle and enjoy updates on the kids. And that as our children get older they will appreciate reading about things that happened when they were little.

Stay tuned and hopefully I will have things up and running on this site soon!