everyday life

Cousins

It's always fun to visit with the cousins in California!  Ava has such a great time.  You can just see the joy bursting out of her little smile!

 

Such little posers!  :)  We had some time to visit one of our families favorite restaurants in LA, Philippe's!  So yummy!  I can totally remember this brick wall from when I was a kid!  I love traditions!

And Bailey has learned a few new tricks.  Her favorite one is this "OH" and pursed lips.  She will say "OH" over and over until you do the same thing with your face!  Always good for a laugh!  And she has learned to wave 'goodbye'!  Cute stuff!

We stayed as dry as possible through all of the crazy weather.  I could not believe the amount of water on the streets!  Dang it was wet and cold!!!  Now we are back home and enjoying the sunshine.  I'm actually looking forward to it warming up a bit.  Crazy thought, I know!

yesterday we made some brownies

yesterday afternoon we made some brownies and of course, Ava was right there helping me every step of the way!  We are total spoon/bowl lickers!  I even leave a few extra spoonfuls in the bowl just for the fun.

I turn around to put the pan in the oven while Ava is still licking away and when I turn back to her she says "Momma, Heavenly Father sure made us a good snack!".  Yes He did baby girl.  Yes He did!

I think she gets her flare for the obvious from me.  AWESOME!

Boodle Bugs

Bailey Boo

Baizey

Bailey Boodle Bugs

Bugsy

She responds to any of the above!  In ten short months she has changed our life completely and sometimes she doesn't get enough face time on the ol' blogerdoo!  So, today we had sometime to ourselves (translation....Ava was at school).  Usually we are at the gym but today we switched the schedule around and I took the opportunity to take a few pictures.  She is in full 'teething' mode and hasn't been the happiest.  But she has her moments and her little personality is coming out more and more everyday!  She has an opinion and isn't afraid to let you know it!  Ava can still get her laughing hysterically over things we really don't understand.  She has figured out how to eat snacks on her own and has a new love....yogurt!  I'm in the middle of planning her 1yr. old birthday party and I just can't wait!  Time is flying by but it's so good and we are making the most of every success, every milestone and every adaptive skill she develops!

The above picture is one of her many 'adaptive skills'....the splits.  It's how she reachs most things and she is very good at it!  She will walk her hands out and get her belly on the floor, reach for whatever she wants then walk her hands back up.  She also has a leg turn thing but I haven't got a pictures of that yet.

She is healthy, happy and now FINALLY getting some teeth!  The second one is right next to the first and should be nice and sharp any day!

a new decade

2009 is gone baby gone!  It was a great year for our family and I loved going through our family calendar and being reminded of all the great things that happened!  It was a full year and not with out challenge but we made it and we have a brand new start right now!  I love the feeling of a new start....makes me want to clean something!  ;)

One thing that looking back on 2009 taught me was that I need to record more of our life.  There is something I can do everyday to 'record' our life so we can look back at this time.  I've been keeping journals for the girls and 4 years ago I started this blog but I know there is more.  It will be something I will concentrate on this year so that 5 years from now I won't be sitting wondering where the time went and why my children are looking so old!  We have (as a family) many other things that we will be working on this year and I'm excited for the change.  This is a new decade and it's gonna be a great year!

Here are some random pictures from the last week or so....

A picture we took of ourselves on our little vaca!

 

A day to run errands and Ava wanted to look 'just like you momma'!  oh my!

 

talkin' to dad....

 

And this last one might not make sense to some of you....

Today Facebook suggested that I 'share the latest news' with Katie Dunn and I should 'write on her wall'.  Oh, Facebook.....how I wish it were that easy!  I think I'll start crying just typing this (ok, now I'm crying) but my sister is doing great on her mission and I'm looking forward to getting an email from her tomorrow.  Aside from her wonderful attitude, amazing spirit and this life changing thing she is currently busy with, I MISS MY SISTER!  I miss being able to call her whenever I wanted, text her funny things and plan her next trip to come clean my closet!  I wonder when Facebook will suggest this again?

 

{OK, enough of my pitty party!}

Here's to you Twenty Ten!  Looking forward to a year full of wonderful memories and the opportunity to record them!