HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY

I laughed when I read Dana's blog and found out that she didn't like Ava's cake because Avery's cake did not turn out either...and it looked much worse than Ava's.  I was trying something new and decided I will never do that again.  Avery didn't like it either so we ended up giving her a cupcake we made for her guests and she LOVED it!!! She loved the tissue paper (of course) and her little lion walker. She did laps back and forth for over an hour, we had to drag her to bed.

Avery and Mommy, isn't that hat too cute?!

Avery and Daddy

She loved the party favors

Grammy and Grandpa.  They were such good sports about wearing their party hats too!

YUMMY!!!!

She kept trying to do what everyone else was doing

It was nice of Avery to let us "share" her presents

This is the mess up cake, it looks like a 4 year old made it... actually they probably would have done a better job.  The icing was melting, her name was dripping off the side.  I was ready to cry. Everyone tried to console me, but they were unconvincing because they knew it was as bad and I thought it was

Thanksgiving 2007 and Fun Shots of Avery

Avery loves to play with cords!!!

This is her special basket, she loves to find her treasures

She was helping with the camera... see she wants to plug it in

She loves generic chex, she could eat them all day

Mmmmm...would you like some?

We went to Barbara's house for Thanksgiving, it is becoming a tradition. Mom did all of the cooking while the rest of us watched football and ate yummy snacks.

Grandpa was trying to get Avery's attention, but she and mommy were to focused on the game

Here's Avery tired, but yes, still watching the game.

Isn't Daddy cute though?!

Avery's 1st Ward Halloween Party

Avery's 1st Halloween!!! She's so sweet!

Brian and I went as Snowboarders,I've never been big on dressing

up so I thought this was pretty good. Avery kept the hat on for a few mintues, and

then she was done. That's usually how hair things go.

We love our little pumpkin pie!!!

She wasn't quite sure about all the dressed up people.

Some made her a little nervous

I just threw this picture in. This was the first time she went down

the slide. She thought it was fun even though her face doesn't show it.

Grandpa Came for A Quick Visit

It had been a little while since Avery had seen her Grandpa

so she didn't come to him right at first, but he knew how to

win her over...BLACKBERRY

He was so nice to let her call his bosses and secretaries

They had so much fun


Grandpa put it away, thinking they were finished. She crawled
over and said," Ah ha, that's where he keeps it."
Obviously she wasn't quite done.




She loves to talk on the phone and this is a
REALLY COOL PHONE

Grandpa and let her get the rings off his head,

over and over again

Avery and Trena's son Jordan

These two were so funny. They were fighting over the

wooden spoons and Jordan accidently smacked Avery in the face.
They were crawling around side by side. Avery showed
him her room (supervised of course, no boys in the room without an Adult present)
and Jordan showed Avery how to open ALL the cabinets in the kitchen. Thanks Jordan.


Jordan is my old roommate Trena's son. Avery is just two months older.

Grandmother and Grandpa Jerry Came to Visit

Cousin Melissa came to visit everyone. Avery enjoyed her knitting.

This is our four generation picture. I was really sick that night,

but was glad everyone could be together
We try to make her smile but mostly we get this!!


More frowning

She loves to play with her rings

It is so funny now that children are in the picture they command

all our attention... and we love it Ü

Grandmother had major surgery a few days after these pictures.

We are glad she is recoving well. We understand she was pretty funny while

she was heavily medicated.

Visiting Aunt Becca and Uncle Blair

Avery with Aunt Becca, our last day...sad

This is the gang minus me... I just take the pictures!
We had so many ducks by us, we think they came for Avery

Avery wasn't scared at all, she wanted to get closer


Aunt Hannah was taking good care of her

Isn't Aunt Hannah soooo cute

Avery makes some of the funniest faces

Uh oh, she ate a flower, "Who was on Avery duty when she did that?!"

What's the deal with so many pictures, I can't smile anymore.


Okay, one more!
She didn't want to touch the flower. Come to find out, that's the one she ate.

It kind of grew on her after awhile

We found these flowers called "Sexy Rexy" and we thought that

would be a cute picture...judge for yourselves.

We went to a real life tractor pull at the Spokane Fair. Surprisingly enough

Avery and her cousin Britton really liked it. However, they didn't like

us covering their ears everytime the pulls began.

Brian wanted to show us his rock climbing skills.

He was very fast, we were all impressed.Coming down after the big climb.