Christmas, Birthday, & New Year's

Christmas is officially over at our house...I finally took down the tree and decorations yesterday. We had a lot of fun this year, Ava really likes Christmas and gets very excited about it now that she's older. She helped me hang ornaments which was the first time in EIGHT YEARS I haven't done it alone!!! Of course I had to go back after she went to bed and move them around so it didn't look like a pack of elves decorated. Mark had to work Christmas week so we didn't make it home, but got to go for a couple of days for New Year's. We took Ava's jeep that she got for Christmas and had a blast watching her and her cousin, Sydney ride around! They took turns driving and neither one would steer the thing, they just did donuts in the yard while laughing and eating snacks. It was a short trip, but we had a ton of fun!

Daddy and Ava reading the "Baby Jesus" book as Ava calls it. It's a really good book if you have little kids.

Zoe digging in her stocking always makes for a good laugh! Get it squirrel!

Miss Ava loved her jeep, I hope enough to never have to go back to the "breeding ground for germs", Toys R Us to play on the cars there.

We refer to her as Bam Bam around here! HAHA!

Zoe playing with my parents' dog, Lola! I wanted to put her in my bag and bring her home, she's too cute!

Sweet Addison! I have the cutest nieces EVER!!

I love this picture of Sydney! She looks like a little Gap model!

My crazy, clumsy girl! Laughing the whole time...she had a bloody nose and never knew it!!

This picture makes me laugh, they loved the lawn mower and Ava has plumber's crack! HA!

The two nuts, who I pray never drive a real car the way they drove this day...not paying attention, playing with the radio, laughing and talking, eating while driving, passenger pressing the gas pedal, driving while standing, drinking juice, and peeling out!