My Birthday

Today is my 29th birthday! I had a wonderful one, hanging out with my handsome husband and joy of a 2 year old. We were essentially snowed in all weekend, but I needed to take it easy anyway, seeing as how there's roughly 2 weeks left until "Baby Sister" makes an appearance. I'm feeling good so far, relishing my time with Dave and Avery as a family of 3 before things get crazy around here. I'll keep you posted in the coming weeks with a hopefully happy announcement!

Thought you might get a kick out of Avery singing Happy Birthday to me. She loves birthday parties!

Snow Storm- a real one this time =)

We had a real snowfall this weekend! Yay! Avery has had so much fun sledding and playing in the snow, and we're glad for her to see some real winter weather, considering she was born in Michigan and all =) Yesterday it was freezing, gray, and windy, but we still had fun walking around the neighborhood... the roads were too bad to head out anywhere in town. See post below where I uploaded a video of her sledding.

Today, however, was sunny and beautiful. We met up with our friends and neighbors, the Hannolds, to take the kids sledding. They live around the corner and have a 3 year old daughter, Addison. They're also expecting a baby this spring, so we have lots in common. We had so much fun sledding, and then having hot chocolate and lunch at their house afterwards. Here are some pics from today:

We even built a snowman- a big one! Check him out, you know Avery loved that, as she is still obsessed with Frosty the Snowman =)

Fun with Friends

Avery had so much fun at Abby McKinney's birthday party last week. It was at Pump it Up, an indoor jumping playground, Avery's favorite! Dave and Jared went to med school together, and they are some of our dearest friends. They live in Nashville too, but in the southern-most suburb while we are in the northern-most suburb. Boo! It's still fun to get all of our little girls together.

Thanks to Jared for helping Avery along... my 9-months-pregnant-self wasn't too good at the inflatable obstacle course =)

super fast slide!

We've also gotten to see Mimi and Granddaddy several times lately- here they are playing ball together, so fun!

Zoo Date

Last weekend, it warmed up a bit, so we decided to meet up with some friends from My Gym at the Nashville Zoo! Avery and Lagan got along great, holding hands throughout the zoo:

riding in the wagon and eating snacks:

 riding the carosel (she did like it, but was a bit concerned as her expression indicates):

and of course looking at all the animals:

I was pretty impressed with the Nashville Zoo, hadn't been there in many years... there were lots of good animals and they were all so active the day we went. Look at these Zebras!

Our Snow Day Today

Avery says she wants to go on a "winter walk".


Ignore my weird breathing/laughing. I'm 9 months pregnant for goodness sake- a) it's hard to breathe and b)she was making me laugh



"Can I have some more snow, please?" She would have stayed out there ALL DAY.

Baby Sister in MY Tummy =)

Avery Chats and Colors