Christmas Morning

Ava's note from Santa

The number 1 gift - A flashlight!

Happy 34th Birthday, Daddy/Bradley!

Happy Birthday to the guy who always makes us laugh! We love being silly with you and the crazy things you do for us. Thank you for taking such good care of us and for being a great Daddy and wonderful husband (let's say 98% of the time on that husband thing! ;)) We hope you have a fantastic birthday and that 2010 is a great year for you! We love you so much! Happy Birthday!

Picture Recap of Christmas Eve

Here are our Christmas Eve in pictures. Because we were under the weather we never made it to the Christmas Eve service at church and our usual dinner consisted of KFC and some side items I whipped up. Joe, Anne, and Bethany came over and we ate dinner and then opened presents. Ava had a great time passing out presents and opening everyone else's. These pictures are a combination of mine and Bethany's.

This is also Harrison's 1 month birthday.

Ava would open Harrison's presents and then show them to him.

Bradley was too late to get to the florist and get his mom's gift certificate so he made one using my scrapbooking supplies. My favorite part was the motto he made up, "Come buy our flowers!" Too funny!

Can you tell we love McDonald's? Ava was pumped with an Avatar toy and gift card from Aunt Bethany. It went with her new reading chair that she also got from Aunt Bethany.

And since Ava is so into making faces right now, we always have to end with silly ones. In this one you can see she is more interested in what everyone else is doing.

Christmas at Nanny's

The weekend before Christmas was spent at my Mom's Mom's house (known as Nanny). It was the first time my family (except my mom and dad) had a chance to meet Harrison. Unfortunately, I didn't take many pictures, but here are some highlights. (And the first couple are of Ava eating leftover batter from the Heath Bar cake we made to take.)

My Dad and Harrison

Bradley teaching Ava and Trayton to play Memory. Kind of tricky when there are 72 cards! Oh, and the kids are 3!

On our way back to TN we finally got a chance to stop in Draffenville, KY to drive through the park. It has a fantastic lights display which Ava loved.

Some cuteness while you wait...

Here is a little cuteness to hold you over while I am downloading pictures from Christmas. These were taken Christmas Eve night. Harrison started smiling on his own on the 20th (just a couple of days shy of 4 weeks old). Now he grins quite a bit and it melts your heart!

All in Calm, All is Bright

Got the brightness, check.

Got the calmness, well, not so much...

Merry Christmas to everyone. Here are the things that I did not get done this holiday season:

• Making candy


• Making cookies


• Mailing out Christmas cards


• Hosting my traditional Christmas Eve dinner


• Finishing up proofing Harrison's newborn pictures


• Sending out Harrison's birth announcements


• Doing my Daily December scrapbook


• Getting my Christmas shopping done before stores ran out


• Attending church


• Wearing makeup

But that's okay because....we had a baby this holiday season! ;)

Please excuse us for not being up to par this year and we hope that next year we will be back on track. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to all of our friends and family.

Here is a fantastic picture of what life is like at our house right now! Take care and God bless!