Christmas has come and gone!

Waiting to open next....

Tag Reading system

One of her Presents

Eating away on Christmas Morning

Playing with her monkey she got

After Bath time



Meeting Santa for the 1st time for both!

What a great Christmas we had! Hope you all had a great one too!

On Thursday night, we drove to Canby for the Giese Christmas. It was a busy night Friday night with all the family out at Lori's house! It was fun though and, of course, great food! Gabrielle got a Nintendo DS, some games for it, clothes, Barbie house, Barbies, Tag reading system and some others I am sure I am forgetting! Avery got some clothes and a lot of toys! It was a great time had by all! Santa found us at Lori's house so that was nice too!

Then on Saturday we came home and unpacked everything! Settled back into the house. Then Sunday we went over to Jim and Linda's house. Celebrated Christmas and, of course, ate MORE!!!

We are continuing to pray for my Grandma Gudvangen as we have found the cancer has spread. She is having a couple more procedures done and will be doing chemo from my understanding.

Laughing at sister

Not so sure about this cereal stuff!

Not sure where she got these moves from!

Preschool Christmas Program and such!

Love this pic of her!

So Big!

Waiting at the Christmas Program!

Cutie!

Miss Poser!

Playing music for Jesus!

Singing for Jesus

Dancing for Jesus

Today was Gabrielle's Christmas program at the preschool she goes to. They all did such a great job singing and doing the actions to some of the songs! It was so much fun to watch. So proud of Gabrielle and what a great kid she is! Love her! Today was their last day of school until the 4th of Jan. Nice break for everyone, especially the teachers I am sure!

Everyone in the house is recovering from colds and such. What fun it is! House was never sick (except a sinus infection here and there for Jake and I) and now Gabrielle started school and the germs are flying! Fun fun! I am already counting down the months till the snow is melting. I know a few days to go still, but have to be positive about this weather somehow!

We made a nice visit to my Grandma Gudvangens house and The Hanson's also. Gabrielle got a kiddie snowmobile for Christmas along with some other goodies. Pretty sure she is SPOILED.....a 4 wheeler and snowmobile in the same year...yep that equals spoiled for sure! Nice seeing my Grandma G, Mom, and sister Kelly and her family. Been awhile since we had seen each other. Need to get together more. Darn 5 hour drive kinda puts a downer on the drive in the winter months.

Please Pray and keep my Grandma Gudvangen in your thoughts as she was just diagnosed with cancer. We will know more in the weeks to come.

Hoping everyone has a Very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year (safe one that is!).

December is here!

Wow I just can not believe 3 weeks till Christmas! This year just flew by! Getting the last Christmas presents bought and checking with Santa to see how good Gabrielle and Avery have been! See if presents are in their future! Just kidding- they are great kids! Love them to pieces!

Gabrielle is getting over some kind of sickness she had. Throwing up a couple times, but seems to be on the road to being better! Thanks to Grandma Linda who watched her, cleaned up after her, and snuggled here till we got home. Thanks!!!

Avery is doing great, like always! Finally over her cold and so is everyone else! She is a great baby!

Almost December Already!

So nothing to new around here is going on. We are ALL sick with colds. I hate when my kids are sick. The feeling of being so helpless, especially to Avery. Poor girl. Think she is getting over it though! Pretty Princess!

Gabrielle is still loving school. Making a lot of new friends and seems to talk a little to much about this boy, Hudson, in her class. WOW, it is already starting and she is 4! Mom and Dad are very interested in this little boy who has "caught" Gabrielle's eye. :) We did some school shopping for here yesterday in Sioux Falls. Found some great deals!

Avery is doing great---laughing, giggling, cooing, and rolling over. Avery thinks her Big Sister is the BEST!!! Avery no more then hears or sees her and she is just a moving and super excited!

I will be sharing more pictures next post. Believe it or not I have not taken any since the last post!

Have a great Thanksgiving if I do not post again before that!

4 Months Old

So today was the BIG SHOT day again! Like the 2 month shots, not sure who cried more, Avery or Gabrielle. Gabrielle was full blown crying, holding her leg in pain, and holding onto me trying not to look at the shots!!! What a big sister, guess she loves her little sister and feels her pain.

Avery is 13 lbs 4oz ( 50 percetile), 24.5 inches long (60th percentile), and has a "big" head at 41.5 cm (73rd percetile). The docs say she is doing great and growing nice. We can start her on very little rice cereal now, but we shall see since we do not want her getting "backed up", which runs wild in the family!!! :) Yes TMI I know!

She is now rolling over from back to belly and belly to back! This only happens sometimes! We will walk into the room and there she will be rolled over, thinking a little help here please....someone.......anyone!!!!

We are so blessed to have such great girls and love them tons!

1st Day of Preschool

1st day of Preschool!

So today is a BIG day at our house! Gabrielle went to preschool for the first time today! This morning was a hard one for her, " Mom, I do not want to go to school, I do not want to go!" This was said over and over while crying this morning, while in the other room I have Avery crying to be fed and she is not liking the fact that Gabrielle is crying! (They get sad when the other is crying, makes for some interesting times at the Thovson household!!! But they both got over it, both ate breakfast, dad came home and had a "pep" talk with Gabrielle about going to school! Off we went to school. We (just like normal Danelle style) were the 1st ones at the church, followed by some kids and their dad shortly after! She had some classmates curious about her name and what she wore for Halloween. I stood around for a few minutes watching her interact with the kids. And by the time i left she was holding hands with another little girl! I left on such a good note!!! So happy for her and can not wait to hear about her day when I pick her up at 11:30!!!! I am going to get her something special so she can remember this day (thinking a jewelry box with the dancing princess into) and Dad, Avery and I taking her out for dinner! Have to make this a GREAT day for us all!!!!

I can not believe my 1st born is this old already! Man, do I love her to pieces!!! She is such a great kid! Love ya Gabrielle!

Updated 1:34pm (after preschool)

So she loved it and said she made so many friends! So happy for her! She goes again on Thursday so we shall see if that morning is better!!!!!

October is here (and 1/2 over)

Gabrielle

Big Smiles from Avery

More smiles!

Pastor Katherine and Avery at Baptism

Well it has been awhile since I updated our blog. We have since moved to Slayton MN. Jake is working with his dad and I am staying home with the girls! ( and love it!) Jake is REALLY enjoying his job! We sold our house (close the 27th of this month) in Harrisburg and have a house in Slayton.

Gabrielle is enjoying being in dance here and trying to get to know some new friends in the area! She is doing a great job at being a BIG sister and is tons of help for me! She is always concerned about Avery when she cries.

Avery is 3 months and 1 week old! She is SUCH A GREAT baby! Sleeps great, eats great, really never cries, smiles, and giggles all the time! She goes for her 4 month appt on the 10th of Nov and we get to see how much she has grown since her 2 month appt!

I have been busy taking pictures every weekend. But I am done now till the end of Oct. Nice little break I guess!