Part 2 - Santa!

Holland, Kris and Riley hosted a Santa party again this year. Last year Audrina came down with a cold, so this was her first real up close a person contact with Santa.

Hmmm, not sure about this guy!

Dancing in her Santa dress.

Oh wait, Santa gives presents? Not bad after all.

The best part of Drina's evening was meeting Baby Chloe. We've been talking about babies so much lately she was excited to actually meet one!

Riley and Drina showing off their great fashion sense!

Thank you to the Nelson's for a great party!

Christmas Festivities - Part one Cookies!

A week or so before Christmas I hosted a Christmas cookie party with Audrina's friends. We were not very productive, but all had a great time! And they surprisingly made just a small mess of the kitchen.

Audrina and James getting all the cookie cutters ready.

All the kiddos. James, Audrina, Riley and Alec.

The girls doing the decorating.

Figuring out that the frosting is much better to eat than decorate with!

Concentration.

We then had a second cookie baking day at Mimi and Papa's house. Much more productive!

Helping T-Schell measure.

Make the dough into balls.

The best part of baking? Licking the dough off the beaters!

And a close 2nd, decorating!

Abote girls.

Thanksgiving and the Zoo!

We had Thanksgiving this year at Zach's parents house. Shannon's side of the family was there, it was a little small this year, only 28 people.

All dressed up!

My funny girl, mouth always moving! I wonder who she takes after...

Little kids table. Audrina's art table at all other times.


After Thanksgiving Day we took our first trip to the Zoo! The weather was perfect, we beat the crowd and Audrina loved every minute of it!

We had the stroller, but all it carried was our coats and my purse. This was Audrina's desired mode of transportation.




My mom and John got us family passes to the Zoo for Christmas. We are all so excited to be able to go this next year!

October!

This year Audrina was able to go to Anderson Ranch Farms twice to see the animals and all the pumpkins. Pictures from our adventure with out little friends are on my other computer so I'll have to publish those later. She got a second trip with Daddy and Papa, giving Mom a nice quiet day at home.

Feeding the cows.


And the goats.


Pumpkin Carving!

Cleaning out the pumpkin is a must.

Showing Mom some design ideas.

Drawing her own pumpkin.

George and the hat from the 'Man with the Yellow Hat'

Audrina loves Curious George (as can be seen above), so when given a choice for a Halloween costume, she happily chose George! Holland and Riley invited us to come play with them at the gym they go to. Audrina and all the little ones had such a great time exploring and playing with everything. I know all the moms were exhaused from chasing them all around, at least I was!


Ball pit is a new favorite. Although I don't think you'll find us in the ones at McDonalds any time soon (or ever).

Monkeying around.

All 4 on the trampoline. With all the working out costumes were quickly shed.

Checking out the loot!

Mom and kiddos after. Erin and Alec, the yellow schoolbus, Holland and Riley the chicken, Katy and James the dragon, Me and my little Monkey!

Pictures from actual Halloween are also at home, so I'll add those later as well.

No theme, just cuteness!

Wearing her pj top as pants, she tries to put everything on!

Learning to dunk Oreos

Crashed out with Georgey, we cannot go ANYWHERE without Baby, Georgey and Ba (blanket). Along with her diap bag and my purse my hands are always full.

Watching Auntie T Schell get ready.

Doing some shopping!

Helping Papa paint.

Finally Baby is getting a bath!

Hard day of work.

Where'd all these clothes pins come from? Oh wait I put them there!

Self portraits

Yesterday Audrina got ahold of my camera and was very impressed that she could see herself of it. We took many pictures of ourselves and she then spent a good portion of the morning looking through all of them.

While she loves looking at herself, the one of the dogs was her favorite!

On Saturday we went to our first 2nd birthday party for Alec. They have so many friends with little kids (15 under 2 I think)? Audrina was a little overwhelmed by all of them, but we had a great time celebrating with Alec.

Music time!