Well Hello There!

Wow! I knew I had not updated this blog in a while, but had not realized it had been almost a year!
I just recently did Avery's Fall portraits when I realized I had never posted the ones from last year. Here are just a few of the ones I snagged last year. I'll try to get some from Halloween from last year as well....they were too cute! Cutest horse I've ever seen!

Fall 2010



Christmas Eve 2010

Avery with the 'Happy Birthday Jesus' cookie cake - she got to blow the candles out this year and did it all by herself on the first try!!!

                             Opening the first gift with Grandaddy and Caroline

A hairdresser chair for her babies

Matching toilet bowl mugs for work - they loved them!

 Mommy doesn't even own a ironing board! Maybe Avery can do some ironing for me.

Yep, this is the cute "smile" we get now-a-days  :)

 

COOKIES!!!!

One of our favorite family traditions is baking Christmas cookies...well, eating the raw cookie dough and finished cookies is the favorite part :)  And....we get to do it twice!

Christmas Cookies with the Garvins

                  *Notice the tongue....essential to the perfect cookie cut!



Sneeking a bite of dough

Helping Aunt Christy decorate

Christmas Cookies with the Greenways

Snuggling with Grandaddy

Merry Christmas!

Visit with Santa 2010

Well, it looks like I've fallen quite behind on the picture front! With my last post being in mid October, I've missed a month! Here are some pics of Avery's visit to see Santa this year....not a single tear this year....but no smiles either. I finally had to tell Avery to just look at Santa so we could get some pics without the serious scorn on her face. She was excited to tell him that she wanted a "Mommy Baby" this year. When he asked if that's all she wanted. she said 'yes, just a Mommy Baby'. Easy enough!

If you want to see the pictures the event photographer took, you can see them here: (Avery is the covergirl - pictures 1 - 13) http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0Acs27JkzbN2bi4

Hilton Head 2010 - part 1

Okay, okay. I know I promised these pics long ago, but I just took way too many this year. I could just slap them on here with no editing, but that's not how I roll. So, I'll just have to post them in stages.
I'll start with some father-daughter pics from this year's Garvin-family beach trip. Some of my favorite pictures to take are of my two favorite people. I just love pics of Tripp and Avery together....they make my heart smile! You can just see the love....



There's nothing like being Daddy's Little Girl!



School Portrait 2010

It's already that time of year! School picture day. The second week in September, Avery's special needs school had picture day. Now-a days they have you order the picture before they are ever even taken! So you fork over the money and cross your fingers for a decent pic. Believe it or not, getting Avery to smile for the camera is not an easy task.....this photographer has my vote for photographer of the year!

* Don't worry family & friends, I ordered extras!
Thanks Aim, for the adorable dress :)