January Birthday Action

We've kicked off the new year with many 3 year old bday celebrations. Here are snapshots from a couple:

Karoline had a perfect princess party with all the trimmings! She's in the middle next to her dashing prince, Watson. Isn't he cute?? hehe

AM with fellow princess, Harper.

Karoline's mommy, Kathryn, was dressed as Cinderella herself! (and Daddy was in a tux as the real prince!)

Birthday girl blowing out her candles!

AnnMarie in the mush pot during the toddler dance party. Hilarious!

AM and Betsy Grace (aka Snow White) had a great time dancing.

The next day we went to a jumping party for Jackson. This was a BIG hit! Here is AM waiting in line for her first big slide by herself. She went down a couple times with Sean, but after that she was on her own!

Look out below!

Whoa---this one was a really steep one!

Let's try it backwards...

After all that bouncing we took a break to sing Happy Bday to Jackson and open some presents. Here is Betsy Grace with her daddy, Bryan.

AnnMarie and Cody working very intently to decorate their "3" cookies.

Here's Jackson!

AnnMarie showing off her finished product while trying to say the official "cheeeeeeeeeeese". :)

And this one I just threw in because it's (she's) so stinkin cute...

Christmas '08

Well, the Svobodas had a GREAT Christmas and felt very blessed as always. Here are some shots to fill you in on our holiday: Can you spot the princess inside the castle?

Oh, how AnnMarie loves makeup. It's a slight obsession. Here is a perfect shot of just how she fixes her mouth when putting on"princess" lipgloss.
Super proud of the princess bike Santa left! (You will notice an overwhelming princess theme, but it's hard to avoid folks.)
Santa's spread:

Santa's spread...

Josh and Julia gave her a complete Fancy Nancy outfit with a purse and sunglasses. woohoo!

AM and Gigi. (Football in the background---wouldn't be the Jurgensen household without it!)

Digging through her stocking. We had so much fun watching her because she got so excited about every little thing. So sweet!

A couple days after Christmas our Jurgensen cousins from Memphis came for a visit, and the girls went to Salado for a day of shopping. After we had been quietly winding through one of the stores, I looked down to find AM like this. She'd put her legs through the arms in her coat. For some reason it cracked me up!

As J&J were leaving, we found June in the car ready to go! We got a kick out of her looking like she was ready to drive off!

AnnMarie with Aunt Cindy making a peppermint cake. It was sooooooooooo good!

On New Year's Eve we drove to Midland to have Christmas with the Svobodas. AnnMarie was thrilled to get more princess makeup and dress up clothes (notice the excitement in her face), and she had a ball playing with Uncle Jonathan!

We love Grandmommy!

Gamma and Pepaw gave her (drum roll please...) the entire set of Disney Princesses! I really don't think this Christmas could have gone any better for this little girl! :)

Big News!!!

You read it right! AnnMarie is going to be a big sister!!! We cannot wait until July 19th! (which also happens to be our anniversary) yay! :) Any votes as to whether it's a boy or girl? The verdict comes in probably around the end of February or so...