Little Miss Avery

And one of Gabrielle!

Just wanted to share some new Avery pictures also!

7 Girls and 1 Boy Birthday Party

Opening presents

Girl Fun



The Crew!

Eating the Yummy Cupcakes

Making mud pies

Gabrielle's Cupcake

Yummy Cupcakes!

Swing set time

Jumpy Time

This past Wednesday, Gabrielle had some friends over to the house and enjoyed playing outside, cupcakes, running through the sprinkler, water balloons and making mud pies! The party went from 3pm-5pm!

It was a lot of fun and involved a lot of questions from the kids! Which is to be expected!! I'm hungry, I'm thirsty, When are we doing the slip and slide, I'm cold, I'm hot and the list goes on!!!

Gabrielle Turns 5

She LOVES Barbies!

Wow, so stunning and "grown up"

And this is her 5 years later, a stunning Princess full of love and life!

Sleeping on Mommy's shoulder

Mommy and Gabrielle at the Hospital (one of the few pics of her and I)

Daddy and Gabrielle at the hospital

Today our oldest Princess turns 5! Seems like just yesterday Jake and I were "racing" to the hospital in our Monte Carlo to the hospital. We would spend what seemed like forever waiting for Gabrielle to make her appearance! She FINALLY decided to show show at 8:07pm at 7lbs and 5 oz of pure love!

Every since then she has had her Mommy and Daddy (and many others) wrapped around her finger! I love you sweetie!

Love Mom, Dad, and Little Sister Avery

Avery is a walkin......

One of our stunning Girls!

And.....the other one!

Avery took some steps back on the day of her birthday while my family was in town visiting from up north! She had been on and off since then. Braving some steps here and there! And then this Friday/Weekend she just took off....practically running at times! We are so excited about this new adventure of her! Did I met ion how much I love my girls and how much they inspire me to be a better Mom/Wife/Woman! I just love them to pieces, the good and bad days!

I have been trying to do some school shopping for Gabrielle since her 2nd year of Preschool is coming up VERY soon! She is so excited to see her teacher and friends. Because "Mom I miss school, It is fun there!" Guess Mom and Little Sister are not enough excitement for her!

That is all for now! Have a great week and much love!

Birthday Fun

Cake session outside (she was more interested in crawling around!)

This past Saturday we celebrated Gabrielle and Avery's birthdays! It was a great day shared with friends and family!

Thanks to all who came and shared this day with us!

Still can not believe my little girl is 1 and the other is soon turning 5!

The Big 1

Playing in the water spouts

She loved this!

Yummy, pool water......or not!

Avery snuggling with Great Grandma Hanson

Avery swinging and laughing at Gabrielle, who is being silly on the slide!

Just a swingin

It was official at 8:59am today our little girl turned 1!! I still can not believe it. Just how fast time flies by and how fast our little ones grow up! We celebrated today with a trip to the swimming pool as a family for the 1st time! Avery loved the pool...it was a huge bath tub to her!

We had a nice weekend with the Hanson's visiting! My dad, Ann, my grandma and uncle all came Friday and left this morning. This morning they even got to see Avery take 4 steps. That was fun for all of us! We had a very nice visit with them and good laughs. Nice for them to come down and celebrate the Birthdays with us!

This coming weekend is the BIG birthday party for Avery and Gabrielle. They will be sharing the day of celebration with our family and friends! Some of Gabrielle's friends from school are going to be there! Should be a great time!

Have a great week and see some of you this Saturday!