One more week until Christmas...

and we are ready!

Here are two photos of Ava playing in the snow last week:

I think her favorite part was eating the snow.

After Ava was finished making snow angels, we warmed up with some hot chocolate.

What do best friends do for each other at 3 years old?

Ava's dance moves

Who do you think taught her how to dance like this?

Christmas is almost here

Our Christmas tree is up and our stockings are hung. We so love this time of year. Ava is loving our Christmas tree lights. She loves turning off all the lights with only the Christmas lights on. We also decorated her room this year with lights. She loves it! We are trying to start a few new traditions this year. One being our advent calendar. There are LOTS of ideas out there. I got my idea from a friends blog. You should check it out here. We also have been reading this to her everyday. (Thanks, Catherine!)

Setting up Ava's nativity set




Little treats are inside and something special written that Ava gets to do everyday with mommy and daddy. I get just as excited as she does.

Thanksgiving

First of all, the last post was to promote Shutterfly and in doing that they will give me 50 free Christmas cards. Here's the link if you are a blogger and what to do the same.

Promotion

We had a pretty low-key Thanksgiving. We stayed home for the first time this year. Even though we missed being with our families, it was nice to not travel with two kiddos. Our friends, the Newells, let us come over on Thanksgiving to spend with their family. It was such a nice time of fellowship. (We missed Amber though.) Thank you, Jan and Chris, for letting us spend the day with you. The food was DELICIOUS!

My sweet Ava


Priceless

Jan, Ava and Kristen