Happy LATE Thanksgiving!

Ok, I know…we have been horrible this past month with blogging, but as I’m about to show you with pictures, we were a little busy! :)  We hope all of you had a wonderful Christmas! These are some of the things we have been busy with the past few months. I will start today going back to November…(I know, I’m horrible and I will try to be better)

We decided to decorate for Christmas early this year because I (Erin) had several Mary Kay Holiday shows in our home, so we decorated on Nov. 14th. I have to say that we all have really enjoyed getting to have the decorations up longer….all that work putting it up seems worth it when you can enjoy it longer!

My friend, Nancy invited Cayden, Avery and I to go with her and her kids, Rylee and Ryker to a fun Christmas breakfast for kids at the Civic Center:

     Cayden’s Children’s choir sang in church:  We had a great Thanksgiving with family:

Cindy and Avery:

Dustin and Cayden:

Cayden, Nana and Avery:   

Avery and Cousin Camryn:

Cayden and Loren:

They saw the big kids doing it so they had to do it!:

Cooking with Andi:

  Cayden, Audrey and Loren   Happy LATE Thanksgiving everyone! :)

Brother and Sister Love…

Ok, to be completely honest with all of you, Cayden and Avery are usually trying to take each other’s toys and picking on each other, but there are those rare moments that make me want to cry… This picture has become one of my favorite of them. (Avery wanted Cayden to rock her)

This was Avery getting comfort from her brother after she got a spanking. Cayden is so tender-hearted that he always wants to love on her after she gets a spanking even if what she did to get the spanking was hit him!: But at the end of the day, they LOVE playing together at bath time! They really get a kick out of Avery’s new bath baby doll that she got from Summer and Isaiah that fills up with water and then “tee-tees” it all out.

Cheesy grin and good hugs!

Avery turns 2!

These are some pictures from Avery’s birthday last week.  We began the day with presents from Mommy, Daddy, and Cayden, and ended the day with her party.

KITTY!!!

 

 

Mommy picked out an outfit for her birthday that would make her look just like the Hello Kitty that would be the theme of her party.

 

Birthday Breakfast of Champions a.k.a. Pop Tarts

 

Erin blew up a ton of balloons the night before so that Avery would wake up and get to play in them.  The kids loved them!

These pictures were before and during her party that evening.

 

Cayden had a few gifts of his own, and camped out next to them in anticipation…

       

She couldn’t wait to get the doll out of the packaging to start giving it a bottle.

She got a TON of dress-up clothes, and loved every bit of it.

 

No, she didn’t get an outfit that looked just like Cayden in a Transformer mask, it’s really him.

  

Cayden drew a card that he taped to one of Avery’s gift.  It’s a picture of “me and her with a hook so you can hang it on the wall.”

 

And it earned him a hug from the birthday girl.

 

Nana put together a scrapbook of the past year for both of the kiddos, and they loved looking at them.

These are all of the partygoers…

Thanks to all of our family who made her birthday so special…she loved it, and so did we!