my sweet little family

Christmas Eve

10:51 AM

The girls opened a few things throughout the day. We waited until after church service to open the rest!

Olivia has been asking for "the white dog with the leash" since she was 4. She finally got it, and her expression is priceless!

Avery received some more lego friends, and she got right to creating more!

"Baking" cookies for Santa!

Writing our Santa letters!

It was a nice quiet day....just us!

Christmas Eve-Eve

10:47 AM

Since we are home-bound this Christmas, we decided to spread out the gifts over a span of a few days! ;) Christmas Eve-Eve we opened gifts from Daddy's family!

Avery loved all of her gifts! Thank you Nana and Bapa and Jon and Holly! (THANKS for the giftcards Uncle DJ and Aunt Rachelle!!!)

Olivia loved all of her gifts, too! :) Girl must have every lalaloopsy item there is! :)

Liv got to creating right away! She loved the glitter glue :)

Avery got right to her lego creation! She then made a stop motion video with it! Very neato!

Daddy and I opened up a gift that Avery made in school! Just love it so much!!! :)

*The pups are ready for birth, and may be quite still as they rest in preparation for the marathon to come. *Your dog may appear uncomfortable and restless or anxious. Nesting behavior may start or she may seek out a quiet area.

Merry Christmas!

10:11 PM

9:34 PM

I *may* be the only one who thinks this is neato, but...just in case I'm not....here's miss Winnie's belly, with her sweet little pups moving around! You might need to look close to see them, but they were an active bunch tonight! :) enjoy!

4:58 PM

Buddy has been being a silly little elf this Christmas! The other day we woke up to find him zip-lining in our kitchen!

I had lunch with my favorite 10 year old last week after a dentist appt

and, our family is ridiculously excited about this....

7th week

4:53 PM

Winnie is beginning to get uncomfortable. She is also getting super chubby! I was able to feel her puppies moving around in there this week! So so neat! We're getting close to d-day!

in the 6th week....

5:04 PM

Winnie is just being adorable....

getting chubby...

and growing puppies!

cra-cra

8:35 PM

This is my Livie ...not much else to say! tights, leggings, shorts....a great combo!

And, Buddy has returned! He actually came back to us on Dec. 1st. Today he was observing baby Jesus I guess! Always something fun going on around here!

Week 6

8:32 PM

Nana Dianne helped give Winnie's tummy a nice shave! I never knew that in preparation for birth, a dog will shed it's hair on it's tummy...odd. So, a lot of folks have their dog have a "maternity hair-cut". So, Nana Dianne did it! :)

Winnie gained almost 2 lbs this week. She is much more chubby, and her tummy is getting awfully "tight". She did throw up again today, which is all part of this fabulous adventure!