Merry Christmas

We had a great Christmas, although we did miss our families it was nice to just be our little family and have no schedules or places to be.  Christmas Eve we just hung out and watched Christmas movies and baked cookies.  We had a big Christmas Eve dinner and I made a ham so we had our neighbor Aunt Krislyn over and she had dinner with us. We then got all ready and went to Christmas Eve service, it was beautiful and Aubrey made it for most of it.  She hung out in the nursery for a little bit and then we went and got her for the candlelight part at the end and she kept trying to blow out everybody's candles.  Kyle then suggested we get some hot chocolate and go look at Christmas lights so we did exactly that.  We went to this place called Hidden Holloway that my mom and I had tried going to before but when we went it looked like a scene straight out of Deliverence so we didn't get out and high tailed it out of there.  When we went on Christmas Eve thought it was the exact opposite, it was all lit up with lights and Santa was even there.  So we got out of the car and walked around for a little while and checked out the ducks in the lake, the petting zoo, and finally Santa who got nothing more than a scared glance from Aubrey.  Her face was priceless as he (yes Santa) took Our picture.  I need to download it from Kyle's phone because it's a really good picture and Aubrey's face is priceless.

We then came home and did one present and Aubrey got Minnie Mouse socks she wore to bed, I got new pjs, and Kyle got a running armband for his phone.  Christmas Eve was ended with some last minute wrapping and a phone call to South Africa to talk to my sister and her family as they were just waking up for their Christmas.  Christmas day was absolutely perfect. We woke up and just hung out in our pajamas most of the day.  Aubrey took her time playing with each present as she opened them.  She was so excited that HO ho ho had come and left presents and some pretty awesome goodies in our stocking.  She woke up and had popcorn, chocolate, and lifesaver gummies for breakfast (really healthy, huh).  We opened presents for a while and then made our traditional breakfast of ham and eggs and overnight cinnamon rolls.  It was a perfect day of playing and relaxing.  We are truly blessed to have such an amazing little girl in our lives, she's perfect in every way.  Here's a video with all of our pics and videos from this Christmas.  Warning it's about 9 min because it's all of our pictures and video from Christmas. 

Just Relaxing

It's soooo nice to be back in our own house. As much as we love visiting family, living out of suitcases for so long was starting to get old. We are enjoying just relaxing, playing, and enjoying not having to go anywhere, pack, or unpack. We will definitely miss being around family this weekend but we have a weekend full of family time, including cookies, going to look at lights, a big ham for a small family (lots of leftovers), opening presents, and so much more.

Here are some pictures from our weekend up at Kyle's sisters house.  We had a lot of fun playing with Baby Caden.

Uncle Jeff playing Elmo videos for Aubrey and Caden.  Youtube videos are the way to Aubrey's heart, haha.

 Aubrey loved playing with Daden (as she called him).

Uncle Jeff took her outside to play in her pjs and she had a blast.

 Bath time with Daden was fun too, even though she didn't need a bath I knew she'd be trying to get in so I just threw her in there with him.

 He was like her little baby doll, she loved feeding him.

 Aunt Shelby (or Aunt Shelbert- as Kyle calls her) came over to play.

We can't wait for Tata (Aubrey has been calling Kyle Tata instead of Dada recently) to do more fun things like making gingerbread houses.

 Of course with some eating while making.

 By both parties.

Christmas Week and a 18th Month Birthday

Well yesterday was Aubrey Lynne's 18 month birthday and off to the doctor we went just for a check up.  We took care of all the shots a couple months ago so we weren't doing shots right before Christmas.  I'm not good about keeping stats on the blog but I wish I would have been better so I could look back in one place and be able to see how she grew.  But here is Aubrey in a nut shell at 18 months.

Weighs 28 lbs (95%)
34 inches tall (99%) Holy moly is she going to be a tall girl
Favorite Foods: ba ba (chicken-she makes the sound of a chicken), little oranges, edamames, green beans, goldfish, and veggie chips
Cute words- Tata (dada she says it funny now for some reason), Ernie, Elmo and Abbey, Minnie, baby, Dadan (is Caden and Aidan's names), hair (and then will play with my hair, it's always been her comfort thing), puppy, Pe (is penguin), vava (is car her version of vroom),
Animals she knows: sheep, cow, fish, giraffe (she's made up her own sound), lion, elephant, snake, horse
Favorite shows- Sesame Street (mostly Elmo's world), Chuggington, Barney(she sings well kind of sings the I Love You song) and Mickey Mouse Playhouse (her hot dog dance is ridiculously cute), she's mostly out of the yo gabba phase and she gets really excited when Clifford comes on and starts yelling puppy puppy, but then quickly loses interest

She is so much fun and we love seeing her little personality shine. She makes us laugh alll the time and we're just loving our little toddler (definitely no longer a baby).

Yay blogger app

Life just got easier on the road! There is now a blogger for the I phone well not my phone but kyles you know its all the same. Kyle just got in from a day and a half at the hospital in Tennessee and now we're headed out again tomorrow for 2 interviews and Christmas in Columbia. Our visit back has been ummm how do we say it... Exciting to say the least. We had the present that kept on giving. Aubrey and I both got the flu and it's been the most sick I ever remember being. Thankfully my mom was around to help(and had already had gotten sick) so Kyle could focus and get some sleep for interviews. Let's just say me and the hotel in springfield, il bathroom floor and toilet and I saw a lot of each other. But everybody is back to normal again and ready for another road trip. Aubrey is definitely happy tata( her version of dada) is back! They love them some you tube videos, Elmo, chuggington, and Mickey mouse clubhouse are the favorites right now.