Pumpkin Carving

Halloween is so much fun. Avery is a little monkey this year. Here is a sneak peek at her costume I might put more of Halloween after we have it, but doesn't she look so cute. Our friends Blake and Celeste came over and carved pumpkins with us and we got finger paints for Avery and let her make a mess. I think that she really liked it. After I showed her how to do it she started painting it on her own. it was cute and she got the paints all over herself as well as the pumpkin. In this top picture she was just so happy and screaming. It was so funny.

Big eyes and crazy hair

Look at my pretty painting job

Our finished pumpkins minus Celeste's and Blake's. Brett's is in the middle and mine is on the side. Celeste won scariest pumpkin... Blake's won the one with the most faces (he put a face on both sides)... Brett's won the cleanest insides and coolest face... mine won the lamest (mine wasn't very good this year, but I still had fun), and Avery's won the colorfulest.

FALL

We took Avery to the park to play in the leaves! At first she wasn't to sure about it and then she seemed to like it. She didn't want to get back in the car, she just wanted to walk around the park. Here are just some cute picture of her. It is so fun to have Avery and show her new things.

Birthday Dance

Avery has started dancing recently and it is so funny. Here is one I caught on camera. I could watch this all day. So cute!!! Sorry it is sideways but I had the camera turned that way and I can't rotate the video. But ENJOY!

Birthday Birthday come unto Earth day...

Avery had her first birthday on the 16th of October. I can not beleive she is a year already. Time really flies. She is so big and has learned so much. She walks great, she claps, she waves goodbye, she gets into everything, she makes all kinds of funny faces and always makes us laugh. She is gonna be running soon too I think; we will say "I'm gonna get you" and she will take off and sometimes she gets going to fast for herself and falls on her face but usually just laughs in that situation. Avery is such a joy to have in our life.

Her very own cake. It didn't turn out how I had planned but oh well she still liked it.

Opening her first present. She just pulled on the bow I had to unwrap it for her.

Excited to see what's inside

It's a book. Avery loves books! She brings them to us now and forces them into our lap so that we will read them to her. She loves to be read to.

A skirt I made Avery. I have become quite the seamstress since I was given my grandma's sewing machine... not really but I have sewed a skirt for cousin Mel and a baby blanket for one of our friends and now this skirt for Avery. I am so glad my mom taught me how to sew. That is something I plan on teaching Avery someday.

We also got Avery this Puppy. She loves puppies. It sings to her and talks to her and even says her name. Here she is showing her puppy some love. Thank you to all who came to Avery's party. She got lots of adorable clothes and fun toys.

Avery didn't like this party hat. She didn't even leave it on long enough to get one good picture.

I made a cut banner around her tray with my cricut that says one a whole bunch of times.

She didn't qutie now how to blow out the candle so I did it for her and wished what I'm sure she would have wanted me to... for a new baby brother or sister :) ... someday

The first taste... frosting... I think she liked it!

Diggin in!!!

She was such a mess. There was so much cake and frosting stuck between her fingers that she couldn't move them.

I'm done! It was yummy!

I love my little girl and I love being a mom!

Brett brought home this binky for Avery. It is so funny. So Brett's mom went and bought one for Trevor, her cousin so they could look funny together.

Snow!

I feel like I haven't blogged in forever. Our summer was so busy and full of fun stuff to blog. We are still very busy but we haven't done to many exciting things recently. I am just busy with school and Brett with work. Avery is just her happy fun little self. Brett has had a couple of baseball games and his team has been winning, so yeah for that. but anyways IT SNOWED! Avery saw snow last year but this year it is fun for her. Brett took her out to show her the snow and she reached out like she wanted to touch it but I think that she wasn't quite sure about it. We will have to take her sledding out at the sand dunes this winter. :)

Just for fun...

Family Pictures

We had family picture taken this past weekend. My friend Julie is quite the little photographer. She took our pictures for us. These are the favorites. It was fun to get pictures since the last family picture we have is of when Avery was 2 months old. Avery is now a little over 11 months. She is growing so big. She is walking like a pro now. She goes everywhere. Brett has just been working a lot and baseball starts this week for him so we are excited to go to his games. I am still chugging along in school trying to get good grades. Enjoy the pictures!

Avery and her puppy

When we were at Wallowa Lake we bought Avey this puppy and she is so cute with it. She loves it. We will ask her "where's your puppy" and she will look around for it and point it out and get it and give it a big hug. It is so cute. It will be so fun when we can actually have a real dog. Avery is almost 11 months now. She is walking more and more. She walks between things but isn't running every where yet, but I'm sure that will come soon enough. I love Avery. She can always make me smile. She is a very happy little girl.

She loves her puppy!

I start school again this Thursday. I am dreading it but I want to finish school so it will be good. I will have this fall and then the winter and then next fall I will student teach and I will be done! I am not looking forward to not getting to spend as much time with Avery, but luckily my sister is willing to watch her a couple days a week and somone else in my ward 2 other days and she will get some daddy time on Fridays because Brett doesn't work on Fridays.