Wow! Only 5 months since I've logged on!

How time flies when you're having fun, right? It has been crazy these past several months. Aspen started kindergarten and is loving school! Ava is keeping me on my toes with her amazing ability to thump me and everyone else at the match game. Alex is now 11 months old, walking and trying to talk more and more each day. Today I said, "I love you" and made a long smooch sound and I swear he tried to say it back! He's such a sweet boy! I could have never imagined how life was going to be with a little boy!

We had a nice Thanksgiving here at home and my parents came to spend it with us. I went in for a hysterectomy the day before, but was home early on Thursday morning, enjoyed a wonderful meal prepared by my mom, dad, Kerm and the girls and a relaxing day all together. I browsed the fliers for any "can't miss out deals" even though I knew I wouldn't be doing any shopping on Friday, but I did have some things for both my mom and Kerm to pick up for me. I'm healing fast and feel wonderful, actually, I'm not sure why it went so well considering, but it did!

We are ready for Christmas and I was a little unsure about how to handle the tree with "Little Mr." but I went ahead with my plans and got it up and decorated sometime in early November. He was great for the 1st month and now he's quicker than you might think when it comes time to grabbing ornaments off and tossing them as fast as he grabs them! He's having fun with it, I can't say that I am so much, but it has been okay. We will be in Sidney for Christmas this year, spending with Petersens on Christmas Eve and the Mindts on Christmas Day. Hopefully the weather holds!

This weekend has been bitter cold and snowy! -10 as I am updated the blog and the low overnight is supposed to be -22! What's going on??? We're not in Sidney! Anyway, the week looks like it's going to continue to be cold, so hopefully by next week it'll start to warm up. It's never fun traveling with little ones when it's so cold.

Sherry and Delilah

These are the newest members of the Petersen Family! Aspen is holding Sherry who is actually Ava's and Ava is holding Delilah! These two girls have been a lot of fun so far and we're anxious to have them housebroke so they can hang out with the kids more than just outside or in their pen.

Sherry has a personality a lot like Ava! She's wild and playful and Delilah is more laid back, but is definitely an instigator, a lot like Aspen!

Alex's 1st Tooth!

Alex cut his first tooth on Saturday and is very curious as to what that is poking out of his gum line on the bottom. His tongue is always down there and he looks so serious as he tries to figure out what's going on!

Ava's 3rd Birthday Celebration

We celebrated Ava's 3rd Birthday over the weekend and had a GREAT time. She turned 3 on Friday and we along with Papa and Grama Mindt, cousin Alexis Mindt, Grandpa Petersen, Uncle Kagney and Aunt Brittney, spent a few hours at Geyser Park and rode Go-Carts, Bumper Boats, played putt-putt golf and lots of games. Ava and everyone else had a really fun time! Saturday was her actual birthday party at Big Splash Water Park and she had lots of guests to help her celebrate! She even went on the big slides with Mom and Tonya and to top the day off, we went to the Texas Roadhouse for dinner with all of the Mindt's in town and they sang to Ava and then we checked into the C'Mon Inn and swam the rest of the evening!