We heart spring break!!!

All dressed up and ready to go see Daddy at work!!!

We had visitors!!! Ave got to visit with Karrington, Kennedee, shea shea and Uncle Scott! We also had a wonderful visit with G-Pops!!!

This is what we did every morning of the break! Since the time change, Avaree has been sleeping 10-11 hours every night with just one wake up in between!! (YAYYYY!) So around 7:30 every morning, I would go get her and put her in bed with me!!! I fed her and then we would talk and play for at least an hour before we did anything else. It was pure joy, especially on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings when Daddy got to be with us too!!! :)

Avaree got to play with all of her toys at home!!! She loved being home (and so did I!). :)

We got to walk outside in the sunshine every now and then! It was really windy this week, but ever so often, it would die down and we enjoyed the vitamin D!!! :)

Why do we love spring break? We got to relax with DADDY! :) This is the cutest picture!

Monday was Brandon and I's anniversary, but he had to work. So...on Tuesday, Bran, Ave and I went to Olive Garden for lunch! Mema and Paw Paw had given us a gift card for Christmas and we were saving it for a special occasion!! :) (Thank you!!) So...this is what our anniversary lunch looked like: Brandon and Ave on one side (part of the time)....and Mama and the elephant on the other! :) hehe... We wouldn't change our lives for anything in the world, but we did laugh about how things had changed! :) It seems like we have lived a lifetime in just two short years! :)

We looooooove Spring Break!!!!

Mama has looooooved being home with Avaree this week. It has been just a little taste of heaven and it will be soooo hard (on both of us, I think) to get back into our school routine. It will be a long haul until summer! (But, I am very thankful that I will get to be off this summer with my baby girl! This will be my first summer off since my sophomore year of high school; AND I will get to spend it with my favorite!)

A lot happened in Avaree's little world this week:

--She started wearing size THREE diapers! (tear!!)

--She started taking a PACIFIER! (She was gnawing so hard on her little hand that she made her tongue bleed and bruised her hand; so I (yet again) put the paci in her mouth and this time she took it!)

--She can sit up (pretty well) without support!!! She does lean toward her feet a little though! :)

--She went on her first real shopping trip (to somewhere other than Target, ha!). We went to the Banana Republic outlet to spend Mama's birthday gift certificates (Yes, I know that was six months ago, ha!)! She was sooooo good and clearly has good taste in clothing stores, hehe! We might have also stopped at Baby Gap and Carter's Outlets too. :) We found Avaree the sweetest Easter dress...can't wait!

Spring Break has gone by sooo fast and I still have many, many things to check off of my to-do list, but my most important item on the to-do list is sleeping soundly, so I am off to grade more research papers! Thank you, Lord, for my sweet, healthy, precious baby girl.

We go this afternoon for Avaree's 6-month well-baby visit, so stay tuned for her latest stats! Love to all!