The Morris Family Blog

Wilson County Fair

Here are some pictures we took at the Wilson Co. Fair last weekend. We live in Sumner County, but our fair isn't quite as elaborate as this one, so we joined some friends and made the trip over to the next county =)

Love love love this picture

fun night!

Avery turns 4

On August 19, Avery turned 4 years old! At 39lbs and 41.25 inches tall, she is a joy in every way. The weekend before her birthday, Mimi and Aunt Katie came to celebrate, and we had a party with all of her friends at My Gym.

Here is the birthday girl

With her Rapunzel cake (that I made!)

My Gym parties are so much fun, the teachers there are energetic, the games are age appropriate, and they just do such a great job of making the birthday "girl" feel special.

The best part is when they dressed her up as a princess and rode her around in a circle on a motorcycle, the look on her face was priceless!

her sweet friends

silly face!

towards the end of the party doing a "go to sleep" game. check out Lucy.

happy girl!

Silly Girls This Summer

Here are some misc pictures from our summer adventures. I sure have some fun, silly girls!

Avery really likes the movie Peter Pan (broadway version) and Peter Pan's signature move is to "crow". Here is Lucy who builds up to it, but finally gets her crow out =)

Avery started taking ballet lessons this summer and really enjoyed that. Here is a picture with her and her friend Annie. The fall session just started up last week and they added tap dancing. You know Avery loves to tap!

Avery and Lucy learned what water balloons were this summer and LOVED them. Lucy liked to squeeze hers, and Avery cradled hers like little eggs until she would accidentally drop them.

On July 23, Dave did the Music City Triathlon, and he had the cutest spectators around.

here is a little interview with Avery & Lucy hanging out around the house

Avery is really into drawing this summer, and loves to draw portraits of her family. (She also likes to draw Rapunzel, Peter Pan on Capt Hook's ship, and rainbows). This picture is of Daddy, Avery, Lucy, & Mommy, with Mimi and Granddaddy. Note the puffed sleeves and eyelashes for the girls and curly hair for Mimi.

My sweet sweet babies!

Destin, FL July 2011

Ok, sorry, I have been really bad with the blog this summer! I will try to catch you up if anyone is still listening =) Last month, we took a family trip to SanDestin to hang at the beach for a few days and had so much fun!

Some friends from Hendersonville, the Prestages and the Valentines, overlapped a little with our trip so it was super fun to have friends to hang out with! Thank goodness for Granddaddies with beach houses!

we did a lot of hanging out and playing outside

feeding ducks

swimming at the pool

and hanging out on the beach

At the end of our trip we got to hang out with another family of friends, the Baders! Jess, Brad, and Kaitlyn were dear friends of ours in Ann Arbor, and we haven't gotten to see them since we both moved away 2 years ago. We hadn't gotten to meet their newest addition, Brayden, and they had never met Lucy. We had so much fun catching up, and I wasn't surprised a bit that our friendships picked right back up where they left off. If you've been with me here for a while, you remember them (click here for their last photo shoot)