Christmas Goodies!

One of my favorite things about Christmas is making and eating all the yummy Christmas goodies! I remember growing up our dining room table was full of Christmas treats so I try to recreate that memory for my little family. Our first baking adventure was to make peanut butter balls. Now why I decided to make these on a day when I had worked the night before and had gotten very little sleep I will never know...Somehow half way through the process I realized I had left out the peanut butter in the peanut butter balls. Luckily it was a fixable problem and they turned out delicious! Ava is a great kitchen helper!

My favorite thing about having Ava in the kitchen is that we always turn the music up really loud and dance around while we cook! I love these special times together with her!

Christmas Parade!

This past Saturday Ava was in the Wilson Christmas Parade along with her friend's from dance. Just before the parade started it started to snow! It was beautiful but it made for a cold, cold parade!!

Ava all snugly ready for the parade...

Posing in front of the Christmas tree...

Ava and her dance friends on the float...

Look at that red nose! Brrrrr!

Warming up with a yummy hot chocolate!

Thanksgiving

I'm behind on my blogging once again and my memory card is full so I only have this one picture to share (I borrowed this one from my sister.) We had a wonderful Thanksgiving and were so thankful that the Bolin's came to town for a whole week of fun! Ava loves playing with her cousins and still asks me daily where sissy and bubba are! We also had a great time with David's family on Thanksgiving Day and ate way too much yummy food. I am the proud owner of a new memory card so I promise my Christmas pictures will be plentiful!

Missing Daddy!

Ava and I are really missing David this week. He left Wednesday to go on a hunting trip to Nebraska. Before he left Ava made sure she got in plenty of Daddy time...

Spending the day with Daddy on Veteran's day and working in the yard...

Ava was determined to paint someone's fingernails and being the awesome daddy he is David voluntereed...

And this picture just shows what a fun daddy Ava has...He allowed her to fingerpaint with her icecream bar...

Of course he also cleaned it up and gave her a bath! We miss you, David!!!!

Smart Girl!

I don't post Ava's funny sayings of the day nearly enough but yesterday when she woke up from her nap she asked me her daily question, "where's my daddy?"

"At work." I said.

"He's getting me much pop-pops today because I am berry smart!" Ava replied.

For the record Ava thinks David's only job is to get her lollipops from the bank and my only job is to make money so we can go to Disney World again. Have I mentioned lately how much I love that little girl! :)

Happy Birthday, Nana J!

This past weekend we celebrated Nana J's birthday! She is an absolute blessing to us so we really wanted to make her feel special on her birthday. Shannon took Ava and Luke to have their picture made together for a gift for Joan. (How in the world Shannon did that by herself I will never know...Thank you, Shannon!) The picture turned out so cute and was a great surprise gift! We took Joan out to dinner on Saturday night and then came back to our house for cake and ice cream!

Ava and Luke are best buddies!

Nana got a little help with her candles!

Happy Birthday, Nana J! We love you!!

Halloween 2010

Whew...October flew by!! I cannot believe Halloween has come and gone! Ava had a blast all weekend dressing up, eating candy, and then eating more candy! Here we are yesterday before heading out on a candy hunt...First stop...Nana and Pops' house...

Then we headed over to Nana and Papa's house and got to see baby Luke dressed in his adorable monkey costume...

We then headed to a fall festival with Ava's friends Mattox and Caleb. Sorry I left my camera in the car but we had a great time on a hay ride, playing games, and eating even more candy! When we got home David took Ava to a few houses around the neighborhood and when they returned her bucket was overflowing!! Here is our pumpkin on our porch...thank you Uncle Dennis and Gigi and Grandman for "helping" Ava make this wonderful Pinocchio pumpkin...

We hope you all had a fun Halloween!!