Thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving and all of my family was able to be here. It was our last holiday with the whole family for a while as Jenny and her family are moving to Texas this week. She will be going to massage therapy school out there. Here are a few pictures from Thanksgiving Day...

Averi's Baby Dedication

Yesterday was a very special day as we dedicated Averi to the Lord in the morning service at our church, Shades Mountain Independent. We prayed and prayed for her all last week as she had a horrible, croupy cough which then turned in to an ear infection. Her fever got up to almost 104 degrees and was high all week. We took her back to the doctor on Friday and he put her on an antibiotic which immediately started working and caused her fever to break. I was stressed because I knew that if we waited until next time they had it then a lot of my family would not be able to be here, but my prayers were answered and she did SO well and everything went just fine. Here is a slide show of her dedication...

Mia & Daddy Go to Missouri

Mia got to go on her first trip with daddy this past weekend to visit his Grandmother for her 89th birthday. They rode out to Fredericktown, Missouri with Poppi & Nana and were gone for 3 days. It was a nice break for mommy and I got to have some alone time with Averi which was nice. It was SO quiet though that I was definitely ready to have them back by Sunday night. Here are a few pictures of their trip.

October/November Update

Well we are finally done with soccer for a few months. We're definitely ready for things to slow down for a while and just have some family time and start getting ready for the holidays. Both of our teams did great. They both finished first in their division for regular season play which we were so excited about. They worked hard for it.

Averi is now just over seven months. In the last month she has accomplished sitting up and crawling so she is trying to keep up with Mia as much as possible (which Mia is pretty slow so she does a good job of it:)). Mia starts saying "uh oh baby, uh oh..." because Averi is getting into all her stuff. She continues to be incredibly active and keep me on my toes. I am having to baby proof a lot more now. It's funny that I have a 2 1/2 year old and never really had to baby proof until Averi came along because Mia is just so layed back and if you tell her not to touch something, then she doesn't. And then there's Averi...

Mia was a princess for a Halloween which she absolutely loved. She really enjoyed the soccer season and has gotten really attached to some of the people on our teams and they got attached to her as well. This past weekend we were in Decatur at our State Cup and as we were walking to the field some teenage boy walked by and said "hey Mia" and I looked at her all puzzled and she said "that boy is my friend". She thought she was so cool! Apparently he had played ball with her on the sidelines or something:) It was pretty funny! She is definitely quite the socialite. I dressed her in a white Briarwood Soccer t-shirt and some jeans for the game and a few minutes later Mia says "let's go mom" and I turned around and she had about 5 strings of beads around her neck and her purse on her wrist (to go to a soccer game mind you). I about died! The plain t-shirt look just wasn't doing it for her so she had to dress it up a bit. Everybody just cracked up when they saw her. And she carried that purse to EVERY game over the weekend.

Well that's about it for now...I will attach some pictures of Halloween etc. that we have taken over the past few weeks.
Averi & I swinging at the park


Me, Averi, and 3 of our soccer girls waiting for our Awards Ceremony

Landon, Bree, Averi and Mia at Trunk or Treat


A not-so-great family picture:)

Our precious little pumpkin

Princess Mia