Christmas Day

My Mother does not like penguins so...... We bought her one!!! The girls were all sooooo cute in their pjs.

We used the timer on my camera!! It works very well.

Avery loved Butterscotch!!!

We all pose for our Christmas pictures!!

Merry Christmas

Christmas Eve

We went to Tim's moms today for dinner. We enjoyed lots of good food. The kids were all wild and could not wait to open gifts. All of you know I don't pass up a chance to take pictures!!

We Miss YOU!

This Christmas Eve has been bittersweet. This is the first year without Bill. We started with Becky reading from her devotion book and then Tim praying a very sweet prayer. I asked Tim.....Can you imagine what Heaven must be like on Christmas??!!! I know it has to be Amazing!!! Before we opened presents Becky asked us all to share a memory we had with Bill. This was really neat. I enjoyed listening to all the memories.
The pictures below are from last Christmas. We never dreamed it would be his last. We miss and love you very much!!!!!

can you say Cold and Crazy????

Okay....... I still had one more gift to buy,so I decided I needed to go to the zoo gift shop. My mother was soooooo excited because she wanted to go to the panda gift shop in the zoo. Me,Tim,Lauren,Morgan,Mama,and Daddy all loaded up and went to the zoo. We told my daddy we were only going to the gift shops since it was 40 degrees outside. Well......we didn't tell the whole truth. We get in the zoo and here the lion roaring so we had to see what was going on. Then we decided we needed to see the tigers,pandas,polar bears and giraffes. I will say daddy was a real good sport!!!!! He even stopped a few times to let us take some crazy pictures!!! We were cold but we had lots of fun!

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Happy 7th Birthday Avery!!!!

All of the family went bowling yesterday for Avery's 7th birthday. We all had lots of fun. Two little girls from school came to her party. Ava Grace wished she could bowl!!

nice Quiet day

I guess you could say that today is the calm before the storm. All of us stayed home today in our comfy clothes. Avery and Ava Grace stayed with us while Brad and Shelly went Christmas shopping. This next week is going to be a very busy week so that made us enjoy today that much more. Ava Grace loved my Little People Nativity. She reached and pulled it off the table all by herself!!!!

busy busy Busy!!!

Can you say busy??? Every year December is such a whirlwind. We started off by going to Tim's family Christmas in Kentucky last Saturday. His mother has 10 brother and sisters,so you can imagine how many people were there. I didn't get many pictures but I did get one of Lauren and Tim's sister. I got one of our niece Caleigh but it was blurry. You will see that Morgan kept herself occupied with her Ipod.

My mother came in town on Tuesday to take all of her spoiled brat kids and grand kids Christmas shopping!! Shelly had a nerve block done on her back Tuesday so we went shopping on Wednesday. Shelly was not up to shopping so she let us take Ava Grace with us. It was me, mama and Tim. You should have seen the three of trying to figure out the stroller and the buggy cover. We found out we were all out of practice. Ava Grace didn't mind all of us being goofy. I did take some pictures of the four girls. I also needed my mother to try and take our Christmas card picture. As you will see Tim was acting up!! I did get a good one of him and the girls.

Avery's Christmas program was tonight. She had a speaking part!!! She did awesome. We were eating before it and she told us that she was nervous. Well it did not effect her one bit. I was able to get a sweet picture of the girls!!

Christmas party

Tonight we went to Tim's Christmas party. We asked Lauren to take a few pictures of us all dressed up.

Beth miss you bunches I will try and call you tomorrow!!!

lovin' Outside

Can you say adorable????!!!!!!