The Morris Family Blog

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Dressin' up Lucy

We've done a lot of dressing up here in the Morris household lately and a lot of playing princesses, thought you might like to see pictures of the girls just messing around =)

Here is Avery with her love, Ariel. She prefers Ariel when she is in the "pink dress" from end of the The Little Mermaid movie, not when she has a mermaid tail, so we are constantly on the lookout for Ariel paraphernalia that showcases the rare pink dress.

Avery dressed as Rapunzel

Lucy's first day of dress-up, just got the tutu that day.

My birthday- the big 30!

Lucy's 2nd day of dress up- fairy wings, tutu, and fairy wand this time.

She really loved the wand- check out this video- ha!

Cutie Lucy

my girls in blue after church

Lucy hugging her "beets"

Lucy's 3rd day of dress up- the Little Mermaid herself! Ha! She was confused at first, but got used to it =)

Ah, the joys of being a little sister.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Snow Day

Last Friday we had ANOTHER snow day and decided it was time to take Miss Lucy out for a walk so she could see what this white stuff was all about. She was pretty curious- insisted on walking herself in it, and though she never really smiled or laughed at it, she didn't cry either =)

this was after she had just face-planted... no crying, but looked concerned

wanted to get her hands in it!

Mommy got her workout for the day pulling these kids all over golf course hole #8!

Monday, January 17, 2011

Lovely Lucy

I can't believe she is 11 months old! Lucy's walking all over the place and is so busy. She loves to play in her "kitchen" with Avery, rearranging princesses, moving all the dollhouse furniture around, spreading her balls everywhere and tossing crayons all over the ground. Oh and Lucy LOVES ELMO. She got tickle me elmo for Christmas, hated it for the first few days, and now totes that big heavy doll all over the place =) She is getting better about not putting EVERYTHING in her mouth (Strawberry Shortcake is pleased about that), but has started to be a drooler, so a bib is now a full time part of the wardrobe. She is still just saying Ma and Da, but loves to point her finger at everything, and has started imitating Avery so that's pretty darn cute. She buzzes her lips when Avery does and pats and pokes on her all the time. Avery is such a good big sister- helpful, patient, and loving, what more could I ask for!

Friday, January 7, 2011

Happy New Year!

Last weekend, we went up to Indianapolis to visit our dear friends from residency, Ron, Andrea, Vivan, and Beckett Suh. They lived just around the corner from us in Ann Arbor, and we miss them a lot! Vivian is 6 years old and Beckett is 3, just a week younger than Avery, so they had a blast playing together. And what a treat for me to take them on a trip where there is constant built-in entertainment! Whoo hoo!

Our little New Year's Eve Party:

Beckett & Avery's "office", where they practiced their favorite activity: cutting

the kids

On New Year's Day, we went to Ron's parents' house for a traditional Korean New Year's Day. We had a delicious Korean feast and dressed up in Korean outfits to perform a ceremony where the children honor their parents

check out Avery bowing to us.

Avery was LOVING this! You know she is the dress up queen, and Daddy was even dressed up!

The rest of the day we just hung out, sang karaoke in Ron's parents' basement, and relaxed while the kids played together. What a treat!

Back at home, we finally had a warm enough day to play outside so the girls were enjoying their swingset.

This was Lucy's first time to play outside since she truly mastered her walking skills so she was having a great time.

heading out across the golf course- Bye!

sister to the rescue!

GARTH!

The week before Christmas, Garth Brooks did 9 shows in Nashville to raise money for flood victims, and me, the ultimate Garth Brooks fan, attending 3 yes, THREE of the shows =) Whoo hoo!

Here I was the first night, Dave & I had date night but we weren't sitting together... got my new Garth fan friends to take my picture =)

best show ever! He played all the good stuff.

Show #2, I took Mom and Dad - here we are before leaving to head downtown

we were sitting together this time, though we had the worst seats ever =) Oh well! It was still a blast!

Show #3, we took Nancy & Jim

seeing how far my camera could zoom in =)

our seats weren't together that night either, but the seats around Dave weren't full so I joined him for the second half of the show

Garth is retired you know, so he doesn't do these kind of shows anymore... just has the acoustic show in Vegas. You could tell he was loving his wild crazy auditorium fans, though I don't know how he survived 9 shows in 6 days!

Gotta love how much the audience sang along.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Family Christmas

We had such a nice Christmas! No drama, not much stress, just a lot of Christmas spirit 3 year old-style, quality time with our family, and some quiet time to think about all the blessings we've had this wonderful year.

Nana and Daddy Jim

the girls helping me whip up some Christmas goodies

Mimi

Mimi and Granddaddy before heading to our church's family Christmas Eve service.

The church service was wonderful- Avery was so cute at the end when the Mary & baby Jesus, Joseph, Shephards, Kings, etc. came walking down the aisle. The look of adoration in her eyes was priceless- I think she was more excited to see them than she was to see Santa Claus.