Thanksgiving

We had such a great and busy Thanksgiving! Audrey Claire got to see all of her grandparents and lots of aunts, uncles and cousins. We enjoyed visiting with family in Jackson, Crystal Springs, Wesson and Brookhaven. Here are a few pictures from our two day journey home:

Audrey Claire and Uncle Justin

Audrey Claire and Pawpaw Lang (my mom's dad)

My mom's brother, Steve, with his wife Cheryl and daughter Brookley. Not sure where their son Tyler was.
They loved playing with each other!
She loves walking behind something. And please notice we have shoes on! YAY!!!!

Here is Seth, Mr. Donnie (Seth's dad) and Mawmaw June (Mr. Donnie's mom)

When we went to see GiGi's side of the family, there was a cute little boy there named Ryan. He loved playing with Audrey Claire. She was not so sure about him though. It took her a while to warm up to him.

GiGi gave her a toy to play with but she preferred the wipe holder.

More new cousins she had never met. These little girls belong to one of Seth's cousins. They are absolutely beautiful little girls!

She had a love/hate relationship with this puppy. She really wanted to touch it and get close to it but when it would get in her face, she didn't like it.
I can't tell you how many times I caught her doing this while we were gone...
I found this one on my camera. My mom must have taken it. Looks like she was helping ReRe clean like she helps Mommy.
Showing off her new dresses. She LOVED shopping for them. She had a fit anytime I took something away from her. She has a love for beautiful clothes.
As usual, we didn't get a picture with everyone! We were on the go so much while we were home that sometimes I just forgot to get the camera out of the car! We are really excited about Christmas and I promise to take more pictures then!!

My lastest trick by Audrey Claire

Guess what! I have a new trick. Wanna know what it is?

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That's right! I can stand up all by myself. I can even walk a little by myself. Ok so I can't walk all by myself. But I can walk behind this nifty little toy Mommy gave me. Her and Daddy only think I am all over the place now. They just need to wait until I can really walk by myself. I am thinking maybe by Christmas time.

Anyway, Mommy says she probably won't post much this week because of Thanksgiving but I at least wanted to show off my trick. Apparently we have LOTS of people to visit or something like that... But check back this weekend for lots of pictures of me and my grandparents! And thanks for reading!!

I will leave you with my "I am so happy I get to see ALL my grandparents in the next two days" face.

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Tuesday of this week was Seth's birthday. Audrey Claire and I, along with several friends, put together a surprise party for him that night. And boy was he surprised. I asked my friend Lydia if we could have the party at her house because it's bigger and we could have a bonfire in their backyard. She (and her husband Justin, can't leave him out!) was ever so gracious and agreed to let us party there!

I knew Seth would want to go out to eat for his birthday so I planned on telling him we could go on a date and Lydia was going to babysit Audrey Claire. I thought this was a perfect idea because we have done that before and he would suspect nothing. When we showed up at Justin and Lydia's house to "drop Audrey Claire off" several of our friends were standing in their living room! Annie and Matthew even made it for the surprise via Skype. We have been blessed with such a great group of friends! And don't worry, we got to go on a real date later in the week.

The fire got a little big. This picture shows how far away we could stand and still feel the heat.
Tucker spent the night with us and took AC walking outside the next day. I had to laugh at this picture because it really looks like a senior portrait of Tucker!

All the babies at the party. At times it looked like a baby's party rather than an adult's. We were missing one too! Baby Owen wasn't feeling his best this day so he didn't get to come.
We LOVE this kid-

Somehow our friends Bradley and Maggie avoided the camera but they were there too!

Fun With Friends and Family

I am really late posting this too. You'll have to forgive me. I just wasn't in a blogging mood last week. Anyway, last week we had several visitors. First Seth's dad came to visit. He brought along Tucker (Seth's brother) and his girlfriend, Kelci. We let the guys pick the eating place and we ended up at Buffalo Wild Wings. (Such a man place by the way.) Here are some pictures from that outing-

The next day some of my friends came to visit. Whitney and her husband, Chris wanted to do some baby shopping here in Hattiesburg at the same place I was taking AC to get Christmas pictures taken. Whitney is pregnant and due in April I think. I have asked her several times and can't for the life of me remember her date. Anyway, Lindsey met us and we had a mini-reunion at my house after shopping and pictures. Later, when her husband Brian and Seth got off work, we headed to Chili's to eat. We has so much fun hanging out with them! I wanted a group picture of everyone at Chili's but we had to leave early. Let's just say, someone's diaper leaked while Mommy was holding her... You can tell by this picture she had fun with them!

Ten months

Can you believe that my little monkey is 10 months old! I am a little late with this post but figured better late than never! So what is she doing these days?

• She is pulling up really well now!
• She is crawling EVERYWHERE. No place in this house is off limits to her (or so she thinks!) And don't think you can walk out of a room without her following.
• She can stand for a few seconds on her own. Honestly, I am not rushing her to stand and walk. I can barely keep my house clean now with her crawling.
• Not much weight gain this month. She still weighs about 21 pounds.
• Her appetite is so unpredictable these days. One day she loves green beans and the next day you will be wearing them if you put them in her mouth. One thing that has stayed the same is yogurt melts. She knows where we keep them and would eat the entire bag in one sitting if I would let her. Also, she is starting to want what we are eating instead of baby food. And who can blame her? That stuff looks terrible.

• She LOVES bath time. When we turn on the water, she immediately drops whatever she is doing and heads for the bath room. Those times when she realizes it's not her turn and it's actually Mommy or Daddy getting ready to take a shower, she falls apart. Which leads me to her next new trick.
• If she is not getting her way, by all means she will throw a fit. She will fall over and lay out on the floor crying. I don't know where she gets that from.
• And last but not least she has a new tooth on the bottom!

You may have noticed that I don't have many pictures to go along with this update. That's because I am too busy chasing Miss Priss around that I forget to grab the camera! Here's a family shot from our Family Dedication at church this past weekend.

Helping Mommy (by Audrey Claire)

Boy have I been a HUGE help to my mommy this week. I have been all over our house trying as hard as I can to help her straighten things up. Here are some pictures of a few times I had to help her out this week-

Don't worry. I eventually went back and emptied that ENTIRE basket of socks.

And I eventually got ALL the books off the shelf and scattered across the office floor.

And yep, you guessed it, ALL the plastic containers were scattered throughout the kitchen.

Mommy wouldn't let me in the dishwasher. She said something about it not being safe. But just know I at least tried!

And I loved helping Mommy with laundry! All the pretty colors looked so good together.

You know, I am really not sure how Mommy would keep our house clean and in order if I wasn't around to help her! Good thing she has me!

Thanks for reading,

Audrey Claire

Date night with Mommy and Daddy

Not much has been going on around our house lately. Seth took finals Monday so we are enjoying spending time with him during his trimester break. Here is a picture of my little monkey before going on a date with Mommy and Daddy the other night.

How cute are those jeans? I mean, if they had them in my size, I would totally wear them. The only thing that could make this outfit any cuter would be some little brown shoes. Too bad our chunky little feet still wont fit in any shoes!!