Ho-ho-Holidays!!

This post is going to be mainly a photo dump.  We had an amazing Christmas Break. 

 I enjoyed being a stay at home mommy for two short weeks.  

I dare you to look AT the camera Avery!

helping Mommy and Daddy

It wouldn't be the holidays without spending time with our family. Mom and I took Laila and Avery up to visit Grayson and Andrea for a couple hours one day over break.  Somehow we timed it perfectly and got them all asleep just in time to eat lunch together in peace.

The weekend before Christmas we drove to Aunt Nicki and Uncle Jeff's house to celebrate Christmas with the Ellington's.  We found out Aunt Mary and Uncle Mark are also having a baby girl, Sadie Ruth.  The girls will out number the boys which I'm sure Patti/Mimi is fine with considering she has 3 boys.  Bring on the tutus, smoked dresses, and of course hair bows.

Ellington cousins playing together

Opening her ECU Barbie Doll 

They will hate me for this one day!!

Christmas Eve was spend at Gigi and Pop Pops house as usual.  Some of our family came down with a pretty bad stomach virus, so they were sadly unable to be with us.  We ate delicious food and spent great quality time together.  These kids sure do love their Pop Pop and Gigi!!

My baby girl

Last Christmas of a family of 3

Maslow Family

Baby Pearl Annie

Awesome sleeping bags Gaggy

Joe, Avery and I spent a quiet Christmas morning opening gifts and enjoying our time together.  Mom, Dad, and Grammy came over for brunch and I do believe we stayed in our PJs ALL day.  What more could you ask for?

It's a....

We were able to find out the sex of the baby a week before Christmas.  I had a feeling I knew what it was going to be, but of course there's always a 50% chance of being wrong (or right). I surprised myself at my restraint and allowed the doctor to put the gender in an envelope and immediately gave it to my sister.  She went out and bought silly string to match the color of the gender. The rest of my family came over that evening for pizza and of course the silly sting episode.  It didn't go exactly how planned, but it was still fun.   

All prepared to spray"up" instead of at us... 

and so we got it in the face

It's PINK!!!

Avery not happy about the string all over her