It's Contagious

Glory in the highest
Glory in the highest
Glory in the highest
To You, Lord, to You, Lord

All the earth will sing Your praise
The moon and stars, the sun and rain
Every nation will proclaim
You are God and You will reign

Glory, glory Hallelujah
Glory, glory to You, Lord
Glory, glory Hallelujah
Hallelujah

I was belting this on my way to work this morning with the windows down i might add (hot flash), and a homeless man selling newspapers on the corner started singing it with me.  I.LOVE.CHRISTMAS. :)

4 Months

Wow, another month has come and gone. I can't believe that it is already December, snowing outside, Christmas time, and Avie cakes 4 month mark...ahh bittersweetness. Is that a word? I think I just made that up. Who cares, anyways, we have been very busy the past few weeks with Christmas shopping, work parties, going back to work, and decorating the house. It's funny how this Christmas season has snuck up on me oober fast, and i find myself almost in tears sometimes while im trynig to keep up with Celine Dion on 'O Holy Night.' This being our first Christmas with Avery has made me more aware of the awesome gift of baby Jesus. Something about having the presence of a sweet baby in your house,getting to snuggle with it, watch it grow and learn new things, and finding that you love it with your entire self and soul makes you realize just how amazing the gift of Jesus really is and how precious the sight of baby Jesus must have been. Giving gifts and being with family is such a fun aspect of this holiday season but realizing the sacrifice and the love that was shown to/for us through a baby so many years ago keeps me in awe and wonder this year.

In other news,happy 4 months to Avery! Avery in your 4th month you have done the following...

• Started eating rice cereal and you can't get enough of it
• You wake up with a smile and sometimes laughing 
• Reaching for things in front of you (you are obsessed with you blue elephant teether)
• You may or may not be teething and about to get a tooth,we cant really tell but you are drooling a lot! 
• Rolling over from your tummy to your back 
• Talking a lot 
• You LOVE Stoney
• You love singing and can't get enough of it
• You love eating and are holding your bottle at feedings

StAy MeRrY!!!!

I Got Nothin...

Sorry Kids, no fancy or creative title today...just thoughts...random thoughts...

So last Tuesday i went back to work for the first time since Avery was born and it definately was not as bad as i had thought it would be. I had a lot of people thinking about me and praying that day which i totally felt and am so thankful to all of you who did and called/texted me that day. It seems to silly to need prayer on an issue of going back to work but i think that was the only way i got through the day without having a mental explosion. I am so very lucky that i have my mom and my mother in law to keep Avery for us while we are both at work and i know i have it WAY better than a lot of moms who work, but still it was weird to be away from Avery. I had not been away from her like that since she was born, and i don't like the feeling of dependency that i have on our moms now. I have always been a pretty independent person and to now have to depend on our moms again, made me feel like i was in high school with a baby.  But we made it through and Avery did really well with it so here we come week two!

In other news...our neighbors probably think we are the biggest scrooges ever because we still don't have our Christmas lights up on our house. We just got our tree yesterday and decorated it last night but i am having the biggest case or procrastination this year with Christmas decor. I mean, with fall decorations ...i am always TOO early with those...i normally have pumpkins out and a wreath on my door by end of August, but for some reason this year i can not get my act together for Christmas.

I LOVE this old book Christmas tree idea...i got it from Real Simple magazine last month

This is one of my set of three Williams Sonoma cooking snowmen..i broke one of them when our tree fell over 2 years ago...RIP snowman with the mixer

We were slightly dissapointed with our Christmas tree this year. I think because our room has such tall ceilings that any tree we get looks dwarfish but this one is still kinda scrawny...or maybe because we have an insane amount of ornaments

No mantle for us, so we make due with our kitchen hutch...the red matches my dishes so perfectly, don't cha think? hah

Surfs up Santa from Key West

And today was little bits 4 month check-up and she is growing like a weed! She weighed 13lbs 8.5 oz and is 26 inches long. We got the green light on Rice cereal and baby foods so we will be starting that in the coming days. Avery has changed SO much lately...here is a picture montage of what she has been up to.

I.LOVE.THIS.FACE

She's gunna be like her Aunty Ash suckin on thos two fingers!

Happy Monday everyone! Hope your week is fabulous! Only 19 more days til Christmas!

Thanksgiving 2010

Hey there! Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We had a very busy weekend celebrating our first Thanksgiving with Avery. It was so fun but pretty stressful trying to cook, get a newborn ready for driving around all day, going to both family's houses, and eating so much yummy food. Oh and may i add stopping up our garbage disposal to that list...yep Jonas had to break away from the Macy's day parade and take apart our sink because i thought it would be a good idea to push all of my sweet potatoe skins down the drain at once...not.a.good.idea. but nonetheless we had a lot of fun and enjoyed every minute with family and being thankful for all that the Lord had done for our family this year.

We also celebrated these little guys 3rd birthday last week with all of the festivities. I can't believe that they are 3 years old. Its crazy what all has happened since they were born and how far they have come! Levi got a good report from the doctor last Monday about his airway so we were so thankful for that! We celebrated with a fire truck cake that me and Ash made for them. It wasn't glamorous but we thought it turned out pretty good!

And for the first time ever, me and Ash went out at 3 am on black Friday. We always made fun of the people that did that and we mainly just wanted to go out and see what all the craze was about. It was pretty rough at first but after we woke up it was pretty fun and we got TONS of stuff!

And last but not least, i would like to send a shout out to my best friend, Emily Sparks, who is soon to be Mrs. Emily Palmore!!! Her and Justin got engaged the day before Thanksgiving and they will be married next summer! Em was one of my bridemaids back when we got married and i cant wait to now be in her wedding! Congrats you two, we love you!