Avery's Big Day!

We started Avery's birthday off with her opening our gift to her! It is so funny because Darin had a meeting with the pastor the night before and I actually had to take Avery with me to get her present. She fell asleep on the way home so I hid it and she forgot all about it. So she was a little surprised to see what she forgot she had already got!

Please don't look at the garbage bag wrapping.

Another thing to start our day off is to notice that Cooper fell asleep with gum in his mouth. That ended up in his hair and making two pillows stick together!

Our Big 2 Year Old!

Then we got dressed to go to the park. It was suppose to be the Pastor's sons birthday party but they didn't have enough money to have the party. So we took the opportunity to take some photos.

Happy Birthday Avery!

Cooper loves taking pictures! I think he should get into some kind of modeling ;) Just kidding Darin!

CHEESE!!!!!!!!!!

Ashlyn at almost 5 months old.

One kiss from brother............

.............. then one kiss from sister! I think you are loved Ashlyn!

Sisters!

This was the best one we could get of all 3 of them together. I say it gets harder with each child. Unless you are the Buhl family. All of their pictures are picture perfect!

Me and my BABY girl!

And me and my BIG boy!

There was a team that came in from Arkansas so the family sent a box to them so they could bring it for Avery's birthday. It was so exciting them arriving on her birthday so she could open it up.

Baga sent lots of CANDY!!!!!!!!

Then there was something from Nana and all of her aunts and uncles! It was a surprise to all of us. It was so sweet!

She loved every gift!

She even got to unwrap stuff! It wasn't even in a trash bag!

She started reading immediately.

Some presents she even kissed.

She is such a good girl. After she opened her presents she picked up all the paper and threw it away!

Here is a little video of her telling Nana thank you for her presents.

Thank you Baga, Nana, Uncle Phil, Aunt Jill, cousins Graham and Grayson, Uncle Kevin, Aunt Gina, cousins Jeffrey, Jay and Mei Ling, Uncle Derick, Aunt Heidi, cousins Jackson and Alexis, Uncle Matt, Aunt Angie and cousins Cameron and Caden. Avery loved all of her stuff. It was so sweet for you all to send her something. We are so blessed with such a great family. Not just for the presents but just the love that we feel being so far away from them. We know that we are always in their prayers as they are ours. We love you all so much!

Happy Birthday Avery!

It is so hard to believe you are 2! What a big girl!

TWOmendous Avery!

As you can tell.......... the party got a little wild ;-)

Bowden, Coop and Landri making their silly faces.

We were so excited to see they have the Great American Cookie Company here. So of course we used Avery's birthday as an excuse to get a great big cookie cake.

Poor Avery didn't feel to good at her party. She had a fever before we left and as we were singing Happy Birthday the medicine just hadn't kicked in yet. It looks like Darin is enjoying it though!

She didn't want to blow them out...........

.......... so daddy blew them out for her. I think it was so he could start cutting it and get him a nice piece of cookie cake.

Avery started feeling a little better when she saw the Haynes give her a present.

I have never seen her so excited to open a present. She was squealing with excitement.

This is what we call....... the Mercer tongue thing. Darin and most of his family do this thing with their tongues. So proud so see that she is "officially" a Mercer!

Avery had such a good time. It was a small but sweet party. It was us, the Haynes, Julio and all of our favorite servers at one of our favorite restaurants. The servers love Avery. They are always walking by the table yelling her name and bringing her M&M's. She really is treated like a princess there.

Little Ashlyn enjoyed the party as well.

I know these pics are kinda hard to see but Bowden loved taking some pictures. I think they are still very sweet pictures.

Cooper is always cheesing very well for the camera but I love when you can catch his smile in action. He is seriously the cutest little boy ;-)

Landri loving on Avery!

One of the workers had a motorcycle so he allowed the kids to sit and play on it.

The kids were so worn out. They all fell asleep after all the excitement from the party!

Happy 2nd Birthday Avery!

We love you so much. It is so hard to believe that you are growing up so fast. We are so excited to see how the Lord is going to use you. He already does by making you a beautiful little girl where people stop to talk to you! You open the door for us so much that you don't even realize. You are God's little princess!

Holy Moley

Our Little Girl is Turning TWO!

How can that be? It is so sad how fast it goes by. I just wanted to post a few random pics of our little spunky princess!

Here is her with a mole. Cooper thought it was hilarious that he just had to get in the picture with her. She really didn't care since she was eating her favorite meal..... spaghetti.

We love our little princess and are looking forward to celebrate another year of life with her March 20. She is so beautiful and we love her spunky little attitude.

Lambert's Last Day!

The kids had tons of energy and it was such a beautiful day!

Here are the kids running out in front of the house with their cups in their shirts. It was pretty funny watching them trying to drink out of them while the cup was in their shirt! I wonder who started this one? If I was doing a bubble questionnaire I would fill in the 0M!

Little baby Ashlyn. It is so sad how fast she is growing.

Seriously, can you get more adorable than this?

Ryan and his baby girl! Too sweet.

Now this is adorable!

I wasn't sure if Avery or Sam were enjoying it more!

I think this picture is hilarious. It reminds me of the one of Cooper that I decided not to post. It just looked like he was in to much pain.

It looked a little like this one ;0)

Ummmmmm...........Darin............I think it was cuter when Sam was on there with him!

Our little monkey girl!

QUESO!

Don't worry LilyBug, it is just a picture! You are still his one and only!

The "kids" running around the fountain.

I sure do miss you Sam. Kinda wish I would have dressed up more for ya ;)

The BOYS!

Coop's favorite picture! I think Cooper thought Ryan was only there for him. He constantly asked him to fight with him or to watch SpiderMan with him. Ryan didn't seem to let Cooper down either. He would even watch SpiderMan after Cooper would find something else to do. What a sacrifice........ considering he loved it!!!!

We had such an awesome time with you all and can't wait to see you guys again!

Thank you so much for giving up a week to come here with your little girl and seeing our work here. Not many people would do that so we really appreciate you all for being obedient to the call. Thank again!