Before I start-pictures from top to bottem are: 1. Avery with "luncle onny"(Uncle Lonny),2. Avery with Aunt Melanie,3. Avery serving tea,4. Aunt Pam, Avery and Campbell, 5. Avery with Bobbie,6. cousins,7. Grandma reading to Avery. Johnny, Avery and I left for Louisiana on Christmas Eve(2 separate flights...long story). We made it to his parents house by about 7pm, after leaving our house at 4:30 in the morning--yuck! Avery and I had a 3 hour layover in Denver, where we made some friends-shared popcorn,drinks and play-doh with them. The time went by much quicker that way. Johnny had a layover in Phoenix...by himself :( Anyway, we made it with no big problems. Christmas Day we spent with all of Johnny's family, where Avery met her cousins, aunts and uncles. Everyone came to his parents house and we had Christmas dinner and later opened gifts. By that time, Avery fell asleep in my arms. So, she didn't open gifts with everyone. We spent the next 3 nights or so opening the rest of her gifts. Aunt Melanie, Uncle Troy and her cousins Mary, Erin, and Lauren got her a zebra tent which she loves. We set it up and kept it up all week. She had all her toys, DVD player, and pillow in there. Grandma and Grandpa Nobles gave her a tea set, so she would serve us tea from her tent too. Avery and I were also able to spend time with friends of ours-Bobbie and Harold. They were dying to meet Avery too. We had a such a good time together. Once we got back to Johnny's parent's house, Avery was excited to play with "boy" (that's what she calls her cousin Jeb) and Campbell. We celebrated New Year's Eve there, while watching and listening to major fireworks all up and down their street! Then, New Year's Day, we headed for home. I had promised Avery all day that when we got to Sacramento Airport, we would get to ride the shuttle bus to get the car. She was way excited for that and kept asking about it. Turns out that Johnny landed a while before us and went to get the car, so when we arrived, I had to take Avery on the shuttle bus...to nowhere! She loved it though, we met Johnny back at the car just as he was packing in our last bag. Once we got home, she was so excited to see her kitchen! We told her to go upstairs and start playing, and that we would be up as soon as we brought all the suitcases in. We finally make it upstairs and she is sitting in her chair at her little table, with her apron and chef's hat on...ready to play.
