Goodbye year #3...

Today is the last day of Avery's 3rd year of life!!! Tomorrow she will be 4...I cannot believe that my BABY is getting so old! When we arrived home today Avery had a surprise waiting on her by the back door!

Brenly wanted to get in on the action...

MiMi and Grandfather sent Avery a huge bouquet of balloons and the softest stuffed lion...


Good Night sweet 3 year old angel!! You are one of the biggest blessings of our lives! May God bless you in the coming year! We love you more than you will ever know!

We're getting a new nephew...

and this weekend, we got to shower Aunt Jenna with LOTS of fun presents!! We traveled to Dickson to attend a baby shower for James! God has continued to bless our family with such sweet babies and I can't wait for another one!! :)

Her very own cheering section...

and she was THRILLED!!! I sent several of Brenly's b-ball schedules out to people who had asked for them...and little did I know that they would ALL show up on the same night! Right before the game started...she look at her "cheering section" (which literally took up a WHOLE section of bleachers)and said, "I feel like this is a really big game for me...almost like the Superbowl!" You gotta love that kid!! and she did really good...I think she had 4 points and a few rebounds and played defense like crazy :)








I failed to get a picture of Brenly with Mr.Ben and Mrs.Callie at the game...but here they are at their rehearsal dinner last month!

100th day of school...

and we were supposed to make Brenly look like she was 100 years old...Did it work??

and if I take a picture of Brenly, you KNOW that Avery has to get her picture taken, right... Here is Avery on Brenly's 100th day of school...looking just as precious as ever!!

Avery's letters...

Poor Avery, she is SO the second child...we haven't spent near the time with her as we did with Brenly, as far as writing is concerned :( SO here recently, I have decided to really start working with her...and I have to say that she has done really well! She was SO proud of how well she is doing that she wanted me to take her picture with her board!



She has come so far in such a short time!

Brenly and her basketball...

This is the first year that Brenly has decided that she wanted to try basketball...and I think that it has quickly moved to the top of her list! She loves it and has done really well with it! The past two games she has gotten a "BEST DEFENSE" star..She is much more aggressive than I ever thought that she would be...so much fun to watch her!!

Snow Day...

was much better than our snow night...the wind had died down and it wasn't nearly as cold as the night before!! We stayed out for about 5 hours sledding and had the best time! Lots of laughs and lots of memories :)

We acted like we'd never seen it before...

IT WAS SNOW for cryin out loud...so why in the world did we see the need to go out in the blizzard to go sledding???? Because we had friends that invited us and it "SOUNDED" like a fun idea...and it was for about the first 15 minutes...then we realized how cold we were and how hard the wind was blowing :)
I could barely even get a decent picture because it was coming down so hard!















It sure was freezing...but it sure was fun!!!