Christmas Pictures 2009

We had a visitor.... SANTA!Opening her stocking
Playdough!

Presents from Auntie Brittany, Uncle Rich, Morgan and Matthew (Charlies sister in Florida)

Books from Santa

Dora Tent

Drums with other instruments inside

New Chair for the living room

BABY! Any time you would ask Avie what she wanted from Santa, she would always say "Baby"

New Battery Operated John Deere, Daddy and Santa must have been talking

Taking her baby for a spin

Playdough with Daddy

Coloring at her new art table

CHRISTMAS WITH MAMAW AND PAPAW BURR AND UNCLE RYAN

New chair from mamaw and papaw

New cow pillow

Tinker Belle, however Uncle Ryan looks more excited than Avie

CHRISTMAS WITH GRANDMA DEE AND GRANDPA CHUCK

Fur Real Kitty

Seasme Street Kitchen

Cousins: Justina and Danielle

As you can see we had a WONDERFUL Christmas! Thank you to everyone for making this day so special for Avington, and inturn making it special for mommy and daddy too!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas but most importantly Happy Birthday Jesus!

I have to admit, I woke up at 4:50 this morning and could not to back to sleep. I am still very much "a kid a Christmas", but I am not excited for selfish reasons, I cannot wait to see little Avie and how excited she will be. I am also very anxious to give all of the presents we bought to our family.

While I was laying awake this morning, I began to think of Mary and Joseph. My mind wondered to how proud they must be as parents, to know that the child they gave birth to came to save the world. I also thought about the wise men who traveled miles and miles to come to see the Christ child, how amazing and wonderful that 3 men traveled so far to see a child they didn't even know. What a wonderful day that would be for Mary, Joseph and really for me. Jesus came here for me and you.... how wonderful.

So from the Wright Family this CHRISTmas season.... Have a very Merry Christmas and remember how loved and special we all truely are.

Playing in the Snow

Big Girl!

Sitting on the big girl potty in her big girl undies! Unfortunatley she did not do anything besides sit there, but hey... its a start! (Can you tell she had spagetti for dinner) Watching Papaw drive away... notice the undies!

"Big smile" in her new undies. (yes we are still under construction in this house... hence the shop vack, broom, and unfinished floors... but we are making progress!)

Tears of.....

I don't know if I should cry tears of sadness or happiness! A part of me is so proud that we are going to begin potty training Avington, but a bigger part of me is sad that our "baby" is moving into the next phase of her life! During Christmas break, we have decided to start Avie with the potty training. She has had a big girl potty for several months now and sits on it and "pretends" to go. She actually has peed in it 2 x, purely by accident though. We think its time though, she is smart enough to know, so pray for us as we start this "adventure".

A few new ones

After tubby time this week.
Here I tried to get her to pose infront of the Christmas tree. She had her big smile and then she noticed daddy with ice cream and my "Moment of Christmas" picture became a Christmas memory!

This is Avie yelling for Harold, our neighbor. She looks out there for him almost every night after her tubby time. She will yell for him and then look at us and say "sshh" as if Harold is sleeping because he isn't out there. She usually can wait to yell for him after her diaper and jams are on!

Its beginning to look a lot like...

A living room!

He is a mostly finished version of what our front room/living room is looking like these days :) Charlie worked very hard over the last 3 days (along with much appreciated help from my dad, Chuck, and my brother) to get us this far. This is a view from the front door. The furniture is in an awkard arrangement, but we had to make room for the Christmas tree to go up. The red wall is not decorated yet, but we do have the things to go on it. Also as you can see, the fan is missing its shade... thank you Lowe's for giving us a shattered one. This si a view from the kitchen/dining room. We still need to get our curtians up. The empty corner is where the Christmas tree will be going.

Remodeling Continues

New cabinets on the new half wall! We LOVE them!!!

Stairway to basement! I have waited so long for steps to our basement!!! Before this week anytime we wanted to go to the basement, we would have to walk out into the garage and down the garage steps into the basement. This used to be our old bathroom (that white little square you can see on the wall is the old toilet paper holder) I will post before and after pics as the progress continues.
On the open half wall you see directly infront of this picture, we are having cabinets for storage put there. Also al of those pieces of wood to the left is now a closet, but I didn't take that picture yet to show it "finished".

Not Working

For some strange reason my updates/new postings to Avie's Adventures are not showing up on other blogs. It is still showing my last update as being "Trick or Treat: Our Chick" on other blogger's blogs. Does this make sense?!

For example: on Parker Loomis' blog under the "blogging friends" thingy where you can link to Avie's Adventures it still says:
Avie's Adventures
Trick or Treat: Our Chick

When in reality I have updated her blog 2 x's since then with a "Living room remodeling" and with "Miracle on Main Street".

Anyone know why? HELP ME!

Miracle on Main Street

The gang: Sam Carter, Parker Loomis, Avington and Emma Shrek Don't they all look so serious?!
Papaw, Avie and Roudlph
Watching the band
Camden Ann looking so pretty in her red christmas coat

She wasn't too thrilled the Roudlph tried to touch her

In the sled watching Frosty the snowman

Frosty, Mamaw and Avie