Christmas 2010

For My Parents:
(and any one else interested in our boring Christmas pictures)

Our Tree (after Santa came) The Morgan traditional picture on the stairs.

"Look what santa brought!"

The slinky was the biggest hit of all.

Ava helping Sadie who couldn't do it herself

Ava admiring her new princess umbrella.

Opening mom's present for her.

Sadie playing on her new bike.

Ava opening her new Kitchen. Also, wearing her new Dora backpack which is what she asked Santa for.

Playing with her new (partly assembled) kitchen.

Merry Christmas everyone. I hope yours was as wonderful and fun as ours.

And Happy New Year!

Ava's 3rd Birthday

For my own personal amusement I have to put pictures from Ava's 3rd birthday on here. If my house burned down tomorrow at least I'd have all the pictures I've posted on my blog, right?

This is Ava's official 3rd Birthday picture. She's got on her party skirt and she's giving me the best pose I could get (even if she is looking at the TV instead of the camera!)

We had a pizza party before the birthday party and this is Ava with cousins Bennet and Paul.

Ava was so happy with our singing job that she gave us all a nice applause when we finished.
Then she blew out the candles!

Opening presents.

Ava and cousin Wyatt singing on Ava's new CD player.

Ava modeling her apron from Grandma.

Happy Birthday Ava

Today (what's left of it) is Ava's 3rd birthday! How time flies.

For some reason I can't get any more pictures to post so I'll have to do Birthday pictures and Christmas some other time.

Anyway, Happy Birthday to my sweet, but sometimes crazy, little girl. I love you so much!

A little preview

Here is a preview of what is happening on The Best Me today. Go HERE to learn how to tie your scarf like this:

Family Pictures

I wanted to get some new family pictures taken to send out with Christmas cards this year since my last family picture is more than a year old. Thanks to Stephanie for coming to our place on such short notice to get these done for me. Sadly, Sadie was not happy about taking pictures and didn't last long. We got in a couple of good ones before she lost it though. Here are just a few.

FHE & Turkeys

For family night this past week we decorated our Christmas tree. Its the first year we've been able to decorate so early because in the past we've done live trees. This year I bought a prelit tree and it is so nice. I do kind of miss the feel of a real tree but with kids it is so much easier to have a fake. Ava had a really fun time decorating. I don't have a lot of ornaments but that's okay because her attention span only lasted long enough for the ones I do have. All of the ornaments ended up on the bottom 1/4 of the tree, and some branches had two or three ornaments a piece. I fixed that after the kids were in bed.

Sadie didn't really care about decorating the tree. She just liked the FHE treat. She does however really enjoy undecorating the tree! I pick up ornaments all day long!

Now what kid hasn't done this?!! Chris found Ava hiding behind the tree eating a candy cane.

In Other News:

We seem to have adopted two wild turkeys. They are here every day usually right by the back door. After a few weeks I decided to name them. They are now known as (left to right) Thelma & Louise.

Just Pictures

I don't have anything new to post about but I'm sick of looking at the last post and I'm sure you are too so here are just a few pictures from the past couple of weeks.
Ava loves to help out in the kitchen. No matter what I make she wants to be part of it. Her favorite thing to do is help with the flour. As you can see she also likes to play dress up!

Here she is helping me make bread.

Ava is lucky enough to have cousins close to her age who also live close. Her (2nd) cousins Paul and Wyatt came over to play with us a few days ago and Ava and Paul somehow ended up playing on the window sill.

Ava and Sadie eating blueberries and raspberries for breakfast one morning. I love how happy Ava is and how Sadie looks like she got up on the wrong side of the bed.

Do It Yourself

With the holidays here its the perfect time to make yourself some holiday sparkle. Go to The Best Me for a full tutorial on how to make your own ribbon pearl necklace. No jewelry making tools required!!

Who doesn't love the 80's?

I took this picture after I got Ava ready one morning (complete with side ponytail) because I couldn't help but think she belonged in Girls Just Want To Have Fun........

And now I know why!

Pink calf length leggings and ankle boots. Not exactly the look I was going for when I got Ava dressed but I guess these days anything goes!

Lollipop Lollipop

Oohh lolli-lollipop!!

So You Think You Can Dance?

I know I already posted on facebook that I went to this dance tour but it was so much fun I have to brag a little bit more and post pictures of course. This is the second year in a row that I've gone to this. The first year we were up in the nose bleeds and though it was still fun (the best part being that the girl I was staying with thought I was trying out for the show not watching it! haha. too funny.) it wasn't as fun as being 14 rows back! This is a picture of all the dancers that were on the tour. They were so good and it is so fun to watch. If you haven't ever seen the show you've got to give it a try. I love it!

This is (left to right) Veronica, Phoebe, and Me. I'm already excited for next year!

Hair School

My sister Sally was a guest author on my other blog today with some great tips for how to keep your hair looking fab! Click HERE to get a few tips from "Hair School".

Hold Your Horses

After riding today Chris brought his horse to the house so the girls could ride it. I had serious doubts about both of them willingly getting on the horse but it turns out I was wrong. After her inital timidness Ava got pretty comfortable and even let Chris lead the horse around the yard.

Sadie, who has, up until now been terrified of horses was the biggest surprise. She loved it!

And I mean LOVED it. She cried and threw a fit everytime we made her get off. She loved it so much her cousin had to ride with her because we couldn't pry Sadie off.

When Ava was ready for her second turn Sadie still wouldn't get off so they shared a ride.

Thanks for the fun ride Daddy!

And So It Begins......

Last week we got our first snowfall of the season. It seemed to come out of nowhere. I had a picture but I just now accidentally deleted it so we'll just skip over that....

With the snow came all of our leaves. They hadn't started falling yet because our Fall has been so warm. Do you see the person in the hidden picture? :)

We got rid of our sandbox for the winter so the leaves have been good entertainment.

Of course, what's a Halloween/Fall season without pumpkins. This was Ava's first experience and she was really hesistant about pulling out the "guts" but she loved the carving part.

Ava's final product (that's Dad's free hand handiwork!)

With Halloween being on a Sunday this year we decided we'd stick to just doing the ward "trunk or treat". Then I decided that wasn't enough so we did a "Halloween parade" through downtown too. This was Ava getting ready to go to the parade.

In case you can't tell, she's a fairy. (we got a lot of princess comments but I'm pretty sure princesses don't have wings!)

Sadie was our little witch!

We took the girls to see their Grandparents and Great Grandparents before we went to the "trunk or treat" so they could see their costumes. This is the girls with their Great Grandma.

Happy Halloween!