December so far..

Well this month has been crazy busy! Full of fun activities, shopping, and Christmas parties. Oh and Little Miss Ava is most certainly becoming even more independent and getting into her terrible twos ;) We love her more than words and she is so clever in the things she does and says but she can sure be naughty sometimes.

This is the angry face she gives me when she doesn't want to do whatever I am asked her to. Haha I still think she's cute though! I mean how could I not give in to this? lol
The last week in Novemeber we went as a fam to go pick out our christmas tree! A real one of course. I grew up always having a real one when we were in the USA. Russ was use to a fake one but that is one tradition I insisted we keep in our family. So every year we've been married we have had one. I just LOVE the smell of pine! This year Ava got to get in on all the action and help us pick one out. She had a blast running away from us up and down the rows of trees. She was pretty sad to go.

Finally she agreed to hold my hand instead of running wildly ;)

And the finished product! I decorated it with all silver and red. Its hard to see the decorations in this pic but I love our perfect 10 foot tree. But notice how the bottom has hardly any decorations? Ava likes to pull them off. Luckily she hasn't unwrapped any of the gifts yet..

Another fun thing we did was to go to Thanksgiving point to see the lights and meet 2 of Santas reindeer.

We decided to take the horse-drawn wagon ride though the lights. Ava loved it and the horses of course. It was really pretty and the crisp cold air got me even more excited for Christmas!

Love my little girl!

I'm so glad Russ likes taking us fun places! I think life is all about spending time as a family, making memories and living life to the fullest. I am so lucky to have these to to make memories with.

The ride.

Ava meeting the horses up close. She is obessed with horses. Any time she sees one in a book or on TV she goes crazy with excitment. I even got her a stuffed animal one. So I'm sure this was pretty awesome for her.

Ava is so silly. She loves to try on any glasses she finds. These are the 3D glasses from the movie. She though she was pretty funny. MY sweet little muchkin! haha too funny.

I can't believe Christmas is this Saturday!! Where has the time gone? I feel like December has flown by way to fast. I have so much left to do. But I am so excited to! This year Ava understands so much more and will actually be excited and have opinions about her gifts. I can't wait to see the look on her face! We have bought her so many fun things! Christmas with kids really is SO much better! And bringing little Ava happiness is really what makes me the happiest!

Thanksgiving Weekend!

Last weekend was incredible full of lots of fun, family and yummy food! 2 of my older sisters that live out-of-state drove out for the weekend and it was great to see them and just have fun hanging out. Tuesday night we did a big pizza night with everyone and we all made our own. That was fun. Then on Thanksgiving we all got together at my parents house for dinner. It was SOOO yummy and an all around great afternoon. It is a tradition in our family to go around the table and everyone say what they are grateful for. Well, this year I above all was so grateful for my little family! After dinner we a bunch of us went to see a theater movie. We saw the new Disney movie "Tangled" it was adorable! We saw it in 3D and loved it. It was Ava's first theater movie and she did pretty great. Although she wouldn't wear the glasses. haha



Then on Black Friday we just relaxed while Russ had to go to work. Friday night after work we braved the mall to see if we could find any great deals. And seriously we got SOO much! The deals on toys and kid clothes were awesome! It was really fun taking Ava shopping. She was seriously in heaven running around the store grabing things she wanted. She is at such a fun age and knows what she wants (which is most everything). Silly girl. Then kinda spur of the moment we decided to take her to see Santa and have her pic taken. There was no line at all.



Here was her pic. I adore it! I think she looks so cute. She was so brave and didn't cry but wouldn't smile either. She was really not sure what to think.

After the pic was taken the elf gave Ava this yummy sucker, which she LOVED. And then I got THIS nugget of a pic. TOO funny. Its the look, "Daddy don't even think about it. I got my eye on you. Its mine." haha but she was actually very happy to share her slobbery sucker about 5 minutes after this. Once she had had her fair share. Silly little girl. I sure do love her :)

Me and my little miss!

Okay so my cheezy face her was me tryin to get little one to smile.. Haha at least it worked :)

So then after shopping at the mall and getting awesome deals on toys. We headed to Toys R Us. I gotta say something I love about being a mama is getting toys and feeling young again. Its like I get to experience being a kid all over again except on my terms. Ava went for this toy Razor. We had riddin a real one over the summer at the dunes. SO maybe she remembered. She crawled over the metal bars and into the drivers seat. She's even pushing all the buttons. Funny.

Another view.

Another day we got together at my parents and made gingerbread houses. The real kind, not the graham cracker ones. It was fun. Everyone had their own style and ideas.

Silly cute little girl.

A few days later playin at my parents.

Here was Ava and my house. She helped out (by breaking it more than once) and so it was a bit hammered. But still I like my little beach house. It was fun to make and it will but fun to eat even though it will be stale by then. haha I sure do love christmas time and family and everything that comes with it.

As I said before, she is helping me ;)

Another thing happening is Ava and I both got pretty sick. Ava had a awful cold and was coughing and sneezing all over the place. So sad. From that I ended up getting a bad sinus infection and strep throut, not fun at all. I basically completely lost my voice andd was so miserable. I had a fever and was so nausous. After work one night my sweet husband surprized me with these beautiful flowers. He made dinner for our family and took care me. So sweet. I sure do love my man!!