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Manicure

For an Elder's quorm activity we had they took us to the beauty college and the husbands had to give their wife a manicure. It was fun. Brett did a surprisingly good job. Even though he did pick colors I would not normaly pick. He was all about making me look like a Florda Gators fan. (check out the orange tips)

She loves to play

Grandma Stephens found Avery this kitchen at a thrift store and she loves it and my mom gave her dishes for her birthday. She loves to play in her kitchen and she loves the chair that came with it. She pushes that little chair up to everything to climb up. She even made it on top of the kitchen table one day. We're in trouble. Such a happy little girl.

We have had quite a bit of snow lately so I took Avery out to play for a little bit. She loved it and didn't want to go inside even though it was pretty cold outside.

Decided to go Short

I decided to get a hair cut. I had a hard time deciding whether I wanted to grow it out or get it cut. I really wanted to grow it for a while but I hate that stupid awkward stage in the growing your hair out phase so I decided I couldn't take it and I got it cut. It isn't my favorite. I took my chances by going to the beauty school and the girl who cut my hair, to put it nicely, wasn't very good. Her trainer had to fix everything she did. I did not leave there very happy. It is shorter than I wanted it, but there is nothing I can do about it. I guess I'll just have to wait for it to grow.

Funny Funny Funny

Definetly Daddy's Little Girl

The other day I was making dinner and I looked over at Avery to find her standing in her Daddy's shoes... too cute! Avery also loves to talk on Daddy's phone. She is learning so many things and is such a joy to have in our life!

The best time of the year

On Monday we got out our Christmas tree and put it up. I love the Christmas season... everything about it! Avery and Dad making the tree look good

Avery was excited to help with the ortaments... well actually just play with them and pull them off the tree after we put them on. Oh well :)

Our beautiful Christmas tree!

Thanksgiving in Washington

This year we went to Washington for Thanksgiving to spend it with Brett's family. We had a really good time. Thanks Mom and Dad! We got to spend time relaxing... just getting a break from school and work. We went and saw the movie The Blindside all together while Avery stayed and played with Peyton. It's a great movie. I definetly recommend. Brett got to watch lots of football and play basketball while the girls went thrift store shopping. Brett's Mom specializes in thift store shopping :) She always finds the best stuff. We also all went shopping on Black Friday, but we didn't get up early to go fight the crowds... there wasn't anything we were dieing to get. We had a good time just spending time as a family. Here's a few fun pictures from our stay in Washington...

Playin in the leaves while Grandpa tries to rake them up

Avery loves her Dad! She is so cute she will always come up to us and hug our legs now. It is so fun and so cute. I just love her!

Brett has a little cousin, Peyton, who lives right across the street from Brett's parents so him and Avery had a good time getting to play together while we were in Washington.

Avery's favorite part of Thanksgiving dinner was the corn and peas... She loves um :)

Weeeee!

Avery liked Grandma's swing. She got mad every time I took her out of it.

This is on the car ride home but believe me she was not this happy the whole way. 8 hours in the car is not Avery's idea of fun, but she did suprisingly well. The only bad thing is that Avery gets car sick she threw up about a half hour into the ride both ways and then when we were getting to Washington she threw up just as we were pulling up to the house... talk about timing.

Friends :)

There is this pretty new place here in Rexburg called The Craze and they have mini golf and laser tag and a bunch of arcade games. It's a pretty cool place. We all went and played laser tag and had a great time. It's way fun. We love hanging out with friends and it is so fun to have Brett's little brother and sister here in Rexburg with us so that we can hang out with them too. Family is so awesome.