I Finally Feel My Brother!!

Avery was finally able to feel the baby kick today! She is so so happy about this! Every night she has been resting her hand on my belly during our story time and has not been lucky enough to feel anything... And finally, after her nap, she was the only one awake and came out to snuggle. Still half asleep she curled up with me on the big green chair and bam, bam, bam! He went crazy in there and Avery could finally feel the baby moving!! Of course, she had to call Brandon right away and tell him the good news!! Then she fell fast asleep waiting for more kicks! This has to be the highlight of my week, maybe of my month-- I don't know... I never get to snuggle this little peanut anymore, much less have her sleep on me! I'm feeling blessed! 

Ashley turns 30!

With the help of a few friends, I was able to plan Ashley a surprise 30th Birthday bash for Ashley! She thought it was going to be just the two of us going to dinner and when we showed up-- she had 20 of her friends waiting to celebrate with her! Brandon was in charge of watching the girls (they were so excited for a sleepover) and I was in charge of the birthday girl! We had a wonderful steak dinner at Axel's Tavern in Loretto. The day before our party, Birch's called saying we needed to make a $2,500.00 deposit to keep our reservation... the manager apparently "forgot" to mention that steep fee when when booked a table! So, very last minute, we changed the plan-- and it all worked out just fine! Dinner was great, everyone had a great time! We were out WAY later than I ever imagined, rolling into the driveway at 2am! Good thing the girls both went to bed great for Brandon and everyone was sleeping when we got home! 

Practicing Our Faithfulness

After reading Avery's Awana story tonight, our assignment was to talk about making promises and being faithful. We each made a promise to one another and  we will make new promises all week and try to always be faithful like God. 

While brushing teeth tonight, Avery says "dad, I promise to be good tonight, and all of the nights... Well in promise to be good forever until I die to heaven!" I said, "wow, that's a big promise, it will be hard to keep your promise, but think you can don't if you really try hard" 

She immediately replies "I can keep my promise, I will be good until I die to go to Heaven, and I reeeeally hope they have monster cookies in Heaven"! 

Us too babe- us too! She is something... Always making us smile!