HaPpY bIrThDaY bAbY AvErY!

Today is officially Avery's 1st birthday! She was born at 7:20 a.m. via c-section. The little stinker was breach and after a painful attempt to turn her, she remained bum first! So, here's a little treat for you all. Her, right after they pulled her out! We had her little party at a park in St. George on Saturday. So, I will post more pics of that later. We love you Avery and are so blessed and thankful to have you in our family! You have the funnest, cutest personality and we look forward to the years to come! We love you monkey!

My Little Vampire!

Yesterday, Avery was having a rough day. I think she is teething, she was tired, and super ornery. We have a fire place in our apartment and she is quite fond of it. Constantly, she is over there digging in it. The good news is, it's fake. It has fake wood, fake flames and the heat actually blows out of a vent on the top. So it can't hurt her but I don't want her to think fire places are for play. So, lately we have been trying to teach her what no means. When she is doing something I don't like. I grab her hands, hold them in mine, look her in the face and with a firm voice, I say No! She totally knows what that means now. So, as she was digging in the fireplace yesterday, I did my little teaching method, she got mad, made a grunting noise, bent down and BIT ME!! Then when I pulled my hand away, she tried to bite my knee. What a stinker! I'm trying to tell my self that her little fit was coincidental but I'm sure she was just being a turd. Is biting at one normal?

Lets just see!

Thankfully, the time has come and the election is over. I am not surprised by the outcome. Rather, i am saddened by the changes our country has made and will continue to make. We are becoming a country that believes that consequences shall not be paid, allowing abortion for those that cannot understand that when you get pregnant, the choice has already been made. We are becoming a socialist country which will punish the successful and hand out to less ambitious. Yesterday, the people spoke, but I believe they acted out of emotion rather than understanding and comprehension. Did they truly understand Obama's tax policies? Did they really understand the cost for his desire to get all American's health insurance? Doing that will hurt small business and punish those who have worked hard to achieve what they have achieved. All I can say at this point is that, I respect the office and who ever holds it, but I do believe people will be surprised when they realize they should have done their homework and voted on the policies rather than persuation and emotion. Let's just see what he does with our country and hopefully, after the four year term, Romney will run again!

Avery overload!!!!

Lately, I've been taking so many pictures of Aves and I can't keep up with posting them. So, there are going to be quite a few. She is so funny these days, and she is into everything. She almost walks on her own. She walks around everything! She finally got her first two teeth a couple of weeks ago. It wasn't too bad but I fear for the rest. She is into everything and just yesterday, I hadn't seen her for awhile so I went to find her. I found her in her room and she had pulled every blanket out of her drawer and was playing in them. Earlier, she had pulled her little duck tub out of the bathtub and I caught her sitting in it. I can't believe she pulled it out all by her self. I must admit, she is growing way too fast, and I am getting really sad. She is one in a week and a half and I just want to cry. I don't want to let go of my little baby!!! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

Avery eating raspberries! They were everywhere! Let's just say, I haven't given them to her since!

PuMpKiN tRaDiTiOnS!

Fall and Halloween have always been my favorite. I love the weather change, and I love anything to do with pumpkins. Ever since Erik and I have been married, it has always been a tradition for us to carve pumpkins and watch Sleepy Hallow. So, last night we ate cookies and milk, carved our pumpkins, and watched Sleepy Hallow. This is what we came up with. Can you guess whose is whose? Yep, mine is the goofy one. Every year I do a goofy one and he does a scary one. He was kind of bummed when I told him his looked like Ezma on Emperors New Grove when she gets turned into that cute little kitty. Ha ha, that is totally what his looks like. I love our little tradition and can't wait to include our kids in the fun! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

A few fun days!!

I haven't posted for a while, and we've had a few fun days. So, the pictures are piling up. A couple of weeks ago, we went to an orchard and pumpkin patch. You could pick fruit, find a pumpkin and tons of vegetables. It would have been cool if the pumpkins hadn't been so picked through. This past Friday was our trunk or treat. Aves didn't let me get very many pictures. It will be way more fun when she can walk. More Halloween pics later. Saturday we went to a little carnival with some friends, the Manuele's. We tried to take the kids on some rides but they wouldn't let us on very many, but it was still fun to hang out with our friends! Our husbands look so goofy on this ride! Ha, I love it. Oh, here's our house thus far. Like I've said before, totally ugly on the outside but the inside its nice, I'll have to post some of those soon!

Happy 5 Years!!!

Then(I just realized I don't have a lot of my wedding pics on my computer)

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO US!! My love and I have been married for five years today! These past five years have truly been amazing. We have had a lot of changes, both good (Avery) and challenging (Iraq) but it has been an awesome five years. I married the most wonderful man! He is everything I could ever want in a husband, friend and father. He works hard, puts his family first, loves the gospel, helps me with household chores and with Avery, spends as much time as he can doing fun things with Avery and I. She loves him so much I just love watching them together. I am so thankful that five years ago on this very date, we chose eternity! I love you babe!Now

A halloween costume for our little lady bug!

I made this little lady bug costume for Avery for Halloween. Our ward trunk or treat is next week so I made it a little early. I can't take all the credit for this idea. I always make tutu's but hadn't made a tutu dress. My friend Andrea made a fairy one for her little girl for Halloween so I decided it was way cute and I could do it. I love lady bug stuff and her room is full of them! I had to take pictures of it, because I tried it on her before it was finished and she didn't seem too happy with it. Halloween should be a blast right? She has cute little antenna's to go with it. Can't wait to see her in it!

pUmPkIn ChOcOlaTe cHiP cOoKiEs!!!!

A couple of years ago, my friend Nicole shared this recipe with me and here's the kickier, it only has three ingredients! These cookies, are so yummy, fast, and easy so I wanted to share them because I make them all season long and they are the best! I love pumpkin anything! So, make these if you think they sound good and let me know what you think!

1 small can of pumpkin
1 box of spice cake mix
1 1/3 cup of chocolate chips

Mix ingredients together, bake at 350, if you make the cookies a little large like I do, bake them for 15 minutes. Check them with a toothpick to make sure the middle is done. I promise these are so good. I make them every fall and they are moist and awesome to share with neighbors and stuff!

Oh my the memories!!!!!!

Okay, I've wanted to do this and a few of my friends have already done it. I've just been so afraid of what people remember about me, but this is just too funny! Here it goes!

This is a great idea!. As you comment on my blog, leave one (or 2 or 3 or 10) memories that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember.2. Next, repost these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty fun to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you are playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave a memory about you. If you don't want to play on your blog, or if you do not have a blog, I'll leave my memory of you in my comments. Have fun!!