Baking with Mom---Fun Fun Fun

Kinsey loves to bake with her mom. She loves to bake cookies, bread and any other item of food that she can make a mess doing. It really is a joy to see her have such a fun time "being lik her mother". The ples sid of this is that I get to eat all of the goodies that are made. Actually, During valentines the girls baked goodies for their friends and for the basketball teams. It was fun for them to go and give the treats to the team. They really look up to those teens. They like to call each player by name and learn more about them. They are getting to the age now where they do not like for the guys to graduate, because they will not get to spend time with them next season. It is neat to see the relationships your children build with others.

January to June :)

Well it seems as though we are setting a record for writing on our blog twice a year. So in order to continue our blog without letting it die out, I am going to pick a few highlights of the year of 2009.

January and Feburary we were really busy with basketball season. The Lions finished up making it to the Final Four of the State play-offs for the second year in a row. We cam up a little short in the game but enjoyed a great season. Oue final record for the year was 26-6 we finished second in our region, as a runner up to the eventual state champs. Chad is having a little fun at the region championship game and toying with the refs a little. After arguing a call the officials told him to stay in his seat....so he did just that and continued to express his opinion about how he thought the officials were doing a GREAT JOB! Ha! Memories that last!

January

Well, we finally got snow! And the girls had such a good time playing in it.

Avery tried very hard to catch it in her mouth.

So cute!

We did not get very much, just a slight dusting, but it was wonderful.

We also took a trip to visit GiGi during

January and enjoyed it greatly.

Avery had a wonderful time playing games with GiGi.

And Kinsey loved hearing Grandma read to her.

It was a wonderful trip.

Happy New Year!!!

What a busy month! Santa came and went and we had so much fun

during December. The girls each had a wonderful Christmas. Kinsey

even woke up the day after Christmas wondering when he was coming back.

So much fun opening gifts. She could do it all day if there was enough to open.
Avery made a ton of Christmas cookies for the police and fire departmnets in Dalton.

One of their many gifts this holiday season was an easel from

Grandma and Granddad. And they love it!

Of course, the holidays would not be complete without a visit to the man in the red suit.

Hope you and your family had a wonderful christmas and have a great 2009.

October

October was a fun-filled month. The girls had a blast dressing up and showing off. We hope everyone else had a great month. Now it's on to basketball season!

Our beautiful girls. Kinsey wanted to be Snow White and Avery wanted to be a ballerina. Beautiful girls. They had lots of fun at a friends church.

At our church on Wednesday, Avery was a cowgirl and Kinsey wanted to be Cinderella. Again, very silly but very cute. On Friday at CHS, it was Book Character day. Avery chose to dress up as Gigi (God's little princess) She really enjoyed herself. Such a girly-girl.

Is it just me or does anyone else notice that Avery is wearing pink in EVERY costume?

Avery Lee is now 5!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AVERY! Avery was greeted early by her classmates on the day before her birthday. She really enjoyed wearing the birthday hat at school. Her classmates enjoyed the day also becasue they got to eat cupcakes...YUMMY:)

GIDDY-UP GIDDY-UP Let's GO! Avery had a cowgirl Birthday party! We had about 25 people over. She wanted to invite the varstiy girls basketball team and a few of her friends. I think she had a great time and she definitely loved all of her gifts. She has been playing with them all weekend. She is still learning to share, so a few of her toys are on hold for a little while until she learns to share them with Kinsey! This is the outfit below that she wore at the party!

BASKETBALL COWGIRL! I think they had hoops in the wild west..If not Avery thinks they should! She is the highest scoring cowgirl in the land! Great Form!

She really liked her cake that her mom made and it was very tasty!
Kinsey really enjoyed the cake and ice cream! She is just like her dad!

Seth's Birthday Party

Kinsey was invited to a friends 3rd birthday party over the weekend. When we got the invation, it said, wear dirty clothes, and right away we knew this was going to be a fun party. As soon as we arrived, they handed Kinsey a tool belt and a paint brush and said have fun. They had put together a playhouse made out of cardboard boxes that needed to be painted. Well, Kinsey got straight to work. I am not sure if she got more paint on her or the house, but she had fun.

Yes, she really did have paint all over her. Good thing it was washable.

Look at the tiny toolbelt. Precious!
I love this picture because it looks like she is really concentrating on her work. SO CUTE!
She decided to take a break and play.

Here she is with the birthday boy and another friend.