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!!