Birthday girl

I still can't believe I have a one year old! Audrey Claire's birthday party isn't until this weekend but she did get to do a little celebrating on her birthday. Seth's dad and brother came to visit her Tuesday afternoon. She had a great time opening gifts, playing, and even got to have sweet tea at supper! Here are pictures from the afternoon~

Every child needs a good old fashion "corn popper" and she loves hers!

A slide for outside!

She has her own mailbox now in case any of you want to mail her something :)
Yummy sweet tea!

Enjoying her last bottle! She woke up the next morning and started taking a sippy cup. Told you she was a big girl!

Here's a video of my cousin Madison singing Happy Birthday to AC.

I love how she looks at the phone, looks around like "I know what I can do with this", then sticks it in the mailbox. We thought it was hilarious!

My First Christmas

Audrey Claire had a very busy and exciting "First Christmas". Let me go ahead and warn you this post will be long. I had to narrow down the 95 pictures I took to just a few for you to see!

Have you seen the movie "Four Christmases"? Well, in a way, I completely relate with Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn because that's exactly how many Christmases we went to. In a time span of about 36 hours! So that explains the 95 pictures. Take a deep breath and let's get started...

We started in Jackson at Mawmaw June's house. Audrey Claire enjoyed visiting with some of Seth's family and opening gifts, which she really got in to. Most importantly though, she enjoyed playing with Georgie (the dog). And she has started saying "dog" now. Well, her version of "dog". I put a video at the end of the post of her saying "dog" and calling the dog. Some of Audrey Claire's gifts in Jackson were baby dolls, a stroller, a ball, and a cute little monkey!

Here are a few of the pics from Christmas Eve-

Let the unwrapping begin...

(FYI- Seth was in a tie because he was a pallbearer in a funeral earlier that day. Our family get-togethers are not that formal! )

We spent the night in Jackson and actually slept late Christmas morning. (If you call 8:00 late!) Once we were up we headed to Crystal Springs to visit my family and open gifts with them. Here, Audrey Claire got a new movie, some barrettes, clothes, a sippy cup, and more! We had a big lunch there then headed to Brookhaven!

Here are some pictures from CS-

The kids opened gifts before we got there so AC had lots of helpers...

Trying to get her pants on!

Somebody finally helped her get them on!

Showing Pawpaw how to drive...

All of the Lang grandchildren

While in Brookhaven, we visited with more of Seth's family and opened more gifts. Audrey Claire got a new piggy bank, more baby dolls, and a Dippin' Dot maker. Seth joked and said he was quiting his job and opening a Dippin' Dot booth at the mall! I think he might need to stick to the cell phone business though.

Here are pics from that visit-

Um, GiGi, that baby is crying. Can you make it stop?

Trying to feed the baby

Loving the baby

Trying to "grab" the light coming through the window...

Still trying to catch the light...

Our next stop was Wesson for the last of Seth's family. It was getting late by this point but Audrey Claire did great. She played and opened gifts like a pro!

Memaw is so funny!

Annie and Matthew stopped by on their journey from Brookhaven to CS. Memaw loves her some Matthew and Annie and was very excited when they surprised her! So was Audrey Claire as you can tell by her face in this picture!

Hunter playing Santa and giving everyone their gifts.

Wondering what her favorite gift of the day was?

What could it be?

One of the baby dolls?

No...

Her basketball goal????

Nope....

Clothes??????

Not that either.....

BABY WIPES! YAY!!

Haha... That is by far my favorite picture of the day!

So as you can see, we are blessed with LOTS of family who love us and our precious little girl. My little monkey had an amazing first Christmas. It was so much fun and I feel so blessed to be her Mommy and get to celebrate times like this with her!

Here's the video:

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!!

Sunday with the Brown Boys

This past Sunday, Seth's dad and brothers came for a visit. They met us after church at Crescent City Grill, one of our favorite places to eat here in Hattiesburg. It has REALLY good New Orleans cuisine. Audrey Claire slept for a while when we first got there which was good since we had about a 45 minute wait. Once she woke up, she sat in a big-girl chair and I fed her green beans which are now her favorites! (No picture! Sorry)

At lunch, Mr. Donnie asked "So what kind of home project do y'all want to do today?" At which point I almost jumped out of my seat. I have been wanting more cabinets in our kitchen since we moved in our house. So, like any good daughter-in-law, I immediately took over the conversation at this point and gave suggestions on how we could use their help:)

So after lunch we fought the temptation to take naps (well most of us, you'll see what I am talking about later) and headed to Lowe's to get the cabinets. I was so excited to finally get more cabinet space!! Here are some pictures of how the afternoon went-

Of course before any work could be done, Audrey Claire had to get some play time in with her Popa D.

Uncle Hunter had to get some play time in too!

Hunter was such a good helper while we were all busy in the kitchen!

Here they are putting finishing touches on the cabinets

And as usual, we couldn't have done it without Tucker!

Sorry Tucker. I had too! But in his defense, he DID babysit AC while the rest of us went to Lowe's. So I guess he deserves a little credit.

Thanks for helping us out Brown Boys!!