Living on Love, leftovers, and credit card debt...

And then some...

Here are just some pictures of what we've been up to...

Aves is going through a phase of dress up where all she wants to do is wear my clothes...here she just has my shoes and necklace, she was helping me pack!

Hanging out in Seattle with great friends! I traveled with Annie up to Seattle for Michelle's wedding...it was a great weekend and a beautiful ceremony.

The ceremony

Waiting for the reception to begin...

Hanging out with Kari and baby Evan at the ceremony, a very cool place.

Me and my beautiful KP...love that girl.

Me and my travel buddy Annie went through a lot this weekend...we had fun with mustaches before leaving:)

Craig was brave enough to put one on his face:)

Reliving bluefield moments

Even Evan joined the fun!

After flying back I picked up Aves and we headed to her first ballet! The ballet was "Messiah" performed by the ladies that I sometimes join on Tuesdays for ballet. It was very fun to see all of them perform and to bring aves to her first performance.

Avery and Jill after the performance

My great friend Jen joined us for the adventure...we loved seeing Jill perform!

Aves' hair is getting long enough to braid and we have a lot of fun with it:)

Myla is starting to love the camera!

Showing off all of her teeth!

Oh these 3...Avery, Myla, and Yamikani all hanging out together...all of their faces here are amazing.

Aves loves to do performances, especially for Daddy.

Avery had her first preschool Christmas performance this year and she did great!

Posing with Daddy!

My 3 loves!!!

Sweet Stella

As I'm sure all of you have heard by now our sweet Stella Moustache passed away 2 days after Thanksgiving. She had been sick for about a week, spent the whole day on Friday at the vet getting antibiotics, anti emetics (for nausea) and pain medicine as well as IV fluids. The vet felt that it was safe to send her home Friday night so we took her home. She spent the whole night hiding from us. We put her to bed at the usual time and unfortunately she never woke up. Saturday was a hard day for all of us:( Stella was a really great dog, she listened well, played with the girls relatively well, and was very cute. Here are some pictures of her short life!

Here's Ms. Stella trying to get into our bed

Her first time at the vet...she was very nervous.

biting on toys with millie:)

and cuddling with myla...these two really loved eachother.

She just kept growing...this is a picture of her cuddling with a water bottle and trying to fit into her bed.

after getting fixed, she hated the cone but it was pure entertainment for us!

Missing us while we were on a trip

She had just graduated from puppy school the week before she died...she did a really good job:)

Thanksgiving/Myla's Birthday

It just so happened that Myla's first birthday fell on Thanksgiving this year (well now that the post is late this past year:) so as you can imagine it was a crazy time/day. I (Haley) worked every day that week except Thanksgiving and Andy worked Thanksgiving morning (he had a service). I stayed home with the girls in the morning and we played with some of Myla's new toys and then we headed over to my parents' house to meet up with the whole family and celebrate together. We had the usual 45ish people over to eat, it was a really yummy meal. It was even nice enough to eat outside! Then, around 6, some friends came over to help us celebrate Myla. My great friend Becca and I had worked really hard to create fondant elephant cupcake toppers which combined with some pretty pink flowers made Myla's "birthday corner" quite special. We ate (more) dessert which was not easy after a Thanksgiving meal and Myla helped open her presents. I couldn't believe how expressive she was with everything she opened...it was as if she was really excited. Here are some pictures from the day:)