Advent Day 17

Donut making with cousins. Yummy and fun. Audrey pulled out the paper and the door bell rang right after. Perfect timing.

Advent Day 15 & 16

Day 15 - Lesson about "the true meaning of Christmas". I talked for a loooong time and cried my eyes out. Audrey went and got one of her babies and showed us how she thought Mary took care of baby Jesus and how she held him. It was precious. If you ask Audrey what the true meaning of Christmas is she'll say...Santa. I'll try again next year.

After the lesson we made a nativity ornament. All pink.

Day 16 - Movie and cotton candy

I never let Audrey get cotton candy in a bucket or bag (it gives me the creeps) so she was really excited about it.

Liv'n at 9 months!

Livie Lou is nine months old!

We DIE over her. She's got such a fun little personality and LOVES to joke and laugh.

She loves using those little fingers to figure everything out. She can open her own yogurts and figures out her little toys.

Liv loves to watch movies of herself and Audrey. She also loves to dance. She'll dance if you make any kind of noise with a beat.

She says mama and dada for Kyle and I when she wants us. And she says "HI!" when she sees someone and points and waves. Really cute to watch her communicating. And she gets a total kick out of it too. She points to herself and pats her chest when she's asking for something or thinks something is for her.

She's in the fiftieth percentile for height and weight (as usual). She weighs 18 lbs.

Dance Show (1st ever)

This is also day 14 for Advent fairy.

Audrey REALLY enjoyed her first dance show. It was so much more fun than I thought it would be. Audrey was in three numbers with two costume changes and I was VERY skeptical going into it. But, it turned out to be super cute and most of all Audrey really enjoyed it. She kept saying, "it feels like my Birthday!"A huge thanks to our family and friends who came and sat through the whole show!

Grandpa Lon brought Audrey flowers and she was VERY excited about it. She's SUCH a sucker for flowers... and Grandpa Lon.

Advent Day 13

Watch Charlie Brown's Christmas and make a Charlie Brown Christmas decoration.

Avent Day 13

Go shopping for you own ornament.

This is a tradition I started when Audrey was born. I thought it'd be fun for her to select an ornament on her own every year. Then she'll have a collection for her own Christmas tree some day. It's fun b/c I make sure they have a date on them and then they always reflect what kind of a stage she's going through at the time.

Advent Day 12

Letter to Santa. Very exciting.

(Matthew 1:20-21) But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus: for he shall save his people from their sins.