Father's Day

I know Father's Day was a few weeks ago but I am just now getting around to blogging about it. This Father's Day Brett got a grill! He was really excited to get to have lots of bbqs with friends. That is not the only time we use it though. It seems like Brett has been asking me almost every night what can I grill for dinner.... so of course I really like it too. He has made at least half the dinners since we have gotten it and that never really happened too often before :)

Well enough about the grill... I am so happy to have Brett in my life. He is such a good man. He is a very loving husband. He is so wonderful to me and I am so grateful for him. He is also such a great dad. Avery adores him. We love him very much! He is such a hunk!

New Babies

A couple of our really good friends have had babies in the past little while. It is so fun to get to hold newborn babies. It makes me want my baby to come now, although I really don't yet, I don't know how I am going to do it with two children. One child takes up all my time already, but there are crazy people out there like my mom who had seven. She is amazing. I love you Mom! These are our friends Andrew and Arianna, but to Avery they are both Anna :) (sorry Andrew). They had a little boy and named him Jacob. Our Friends Kreg and Tati also had a little boy about five weeks ago and he is so cute too. His name is Jett. I will have to get a cute picture with Avery and him sometime. We are so happy for our friends and their little families!

Avery loves her Daddy

These two are my most favorite people! I love them so much! Avery spent lots of time tonight decorating her Dad with stickers. At least they were boy stickers and not just a bunch of flowers and ponies.

Summer time Weather... Finally!

The other day we it got warm enough to fill Avery's pool and let her splash around in it. We were excited to finally have some decent weather. It has been so rainy lately and windy. She loves to play outside.

I also made these fun cute little summertime treats. We had a bbq with some friends the other night and I made these for it. They are jello orange slices. They are fun to make and so fun to eat. Avery really loved them. They were a big hit with my adult friends. I am sure they would be a even bigger hit with a bunch of little kids. All you do is cut an orange in half and dig out all the yummy insides and then fill it with jello and let it set; then cut them into slices later. I made it with normal jello and with jigglers. They both worked but the jiggler ones were more solid.

Getting to be so BIG!

We got Avery's toddler bed put all together and thought we would let her try to start sleeping in it. It is the third night and so far it is a big hit. Avery was so excited to have a new bed. We found it at the D.I. and Brett took it to work and got some help welding on the side rail so she won't fall out. The first night Avery crawled right in and went right to sleep; she even waited for me to come in and get her in the morning before she got out of bed. The second night wasn't so smooth. She mostly just didn't want to go to bed at all. I finally got her to lay down but I stayed in there by her side till she fell asleep. When I went to get her in the morning she had already had some toys out and one shoe on. Tonight she is in there and I haven't heard a peep; so far so good. :) And of course I always like to share some pictures, so enjoy!

She even got her own new big pillow.

I love this picture, even though her face is disgustingly dirty and she has bed head, because she is cheesing it so big.
These last two pictures are just fun recent pictures of my big girl.

(Rachel she is brushing her teeth :)

The kindest lady in our ward that used to watch Avery for me gave Avery this slide. She loves it. We usually just leave it outside, but it was a rainy day and Avery wanted to play :)