We are having such a great time at Meme and Papa's house this week. It is snowing here today so our New Years Eve Day has been spent playing in the snow and making a snowman together:)

One of Avery's favorite gifts this Christmas from Meme and Papa. She literally put on that waitress costume, holding her menu, tray and food and took orders for 2 hours tonight. Too too cute!!

Christmas Day continued....

Santa came!!! We are so blessed this morning to be celebrating Christmas with our loved ones.  It is safe to say that Avery and Kellan were yet again spoiled this year and it was an extra special treat to have Meme and Papa here with us.  They both woke up at 7am and were ready to see if santa had come. Avery was very excited this year and Kellan well he liked all the yummy candy santa put in his stocking:) Merry Christmas all!

Christmas Eve with our cousins

Last night we had a great time celebrating Christmas Eve at Aunt Laura and Uncle Jays house. We all went to church at 4pm, where Avery got up and played the bells in the show.  We had a great dinner of Feed Store soup and opened so many presents from our cousins.  Thanks for a great time.. I am not sure I have laughed so hard as the second annual dance camp finals which starred Uncle Jay, Papa and Jack this year. My personal favorite was Uncle Jays performance of Drummer Boy, pictures do not do these dances justice:)  Here's to next years performance from Aunt Paula and Geoff Sherman. 

 

 

 

 

Dance camp finals

Dance camp finals

Dance camp finals

 

Avery's Christmas dance show

 Last night Avery had a little show at her dance class for the parents. It was super cute. Here are a few pictures from her show. She was super shy this time around:)

Today we went to see Santa at Woodfield mall. Avery had been asking so we gave it a try and she is FABULOUS. She sat on his lap and told him exactly what she wanted which was a baby doll(no surprise, right:)?) Kellan on the other hand took one look at this bearded man and screamed bloody murder and didnt stop until we took him far away:) BUT this pic above was taken just about two minutes BEFORE he knew what was coming.... haha!! AND...... the bottom well clearly you can see mommy made the picture this year in hopes that would help.......

Florida 2012

Thankful....

I cant say enough about how important and thankful we are for our incredible family that has been there to support us in our journey to have two kiddos only 23 months apart. The last 16 months since our sweet little boy made his entrance into this world has been challenging for so many reasons.  If it weren't for our dear family that have spent countless hours, weekends, and months with us helping, who know where we would be right now:)???  I couldn't think of a better way to spend Thanksgiving this year then with the very people that have helped us so much in the last year get through all the difficult times and happy times.  Florida was a great time this year and the kids loved it.  We are very blessed with spending it with everyone we love so much and celebrate Thanksgiving.  It was a week of beautiful weather, beaches, sun, pool, shopping, eating and hanging out with cousins.  I, of course, took 300+ pictures and have not quite enough time to edit and be fancy with them all so I am late to posting but definitely needed to document this week in our blog.  Below you will find some of the "highlights" from our first vacation as a family of four with all our loved ones.