Avery's Annual Picture with the Santa Doll

Every year, we have taken Avery's picture with the Santa doll...

2002--newborn

2003--1 year old

2004--2 years old

2005--3 years old

2006--4 years old

2007--5 years old


2008--6 years old

Merry Christmas!

We had wonderful Christmas celebrations. We opened presents with Nana & Papa the day after Avery's birthday--thanks for traveling in the blizzard! Yikes!! It was worth it to see the looks of joy from Avery and Cooper as they opened the American Girl doll and the remote control cars :)

We had a great Christmas day at home. Santa brought Avery a horse for her American girl doll and for Cooper Elmo live. ...and stockings full of goodies.

Adrianne and Mike joined us later in the day and we opened presents with them and then headed over to our friends, the Orletskis for dinner--yummy--thank you!

The day after Christmas we traveled to New York. On our way to Kiehle Christmas we enjoyed our stay at Aunt Sheila & Uncle Dave's as usual :) Kiehle Christmas at Aunt Joan & Uncle Joe's was fun and an all day event as usual!

The following day we enjoyed breakfast with the Kiehle's and then hit the road back to Albany for Swedish Christmas with Matt's family. We had a great time! I will post pictures as soon as I get some from Nana's great new camera (I didn't take any pics at all!)

We enjoyed time with family and all of the great traditions. Thank you to everyone for making this such a great Christmas for us all.

Birthday Girl

We celebrated Avery's 6th birthday at Dorena's Dance in Bath where Avery goes for ballet, tap and tumble. She and her friends had fun with Miss Dorena tumbling...

...and then decorating cupcakes...

Happy Birthday Ave!!!

O Christmas Tree

We went out in the snow yesterday to cut our tree.

And today we got to decorate it--it feels like Christmas time in Maine :)

Catching up/Cooper's Haircut

It was time for a change--so here it goes. I was having a hard time downloading to our old website. Several friends have great blogs on here, so I am joining the fun.

Cooper's first professional haircut went surprisingly well :)

At first he wasn't too sure...

But Avery helped him feel okay...