MY BABY LOVES TO EAT!

We started Amelia on Solids the night of her 4 month appointment as soon as I got the Okay from the Doc. She is not the best night sleeper so he told me to give it a go and see if it helps her. This is her enjoying some rice cereal and sweet potatoes.



She also loves to pretend that she can drink from a sippie but once she gets it she just chews on the lid.

I love that face. She is such a good eater. However she is still an awful sleeper.

BIRTHDAY GIRL

Here it is my little sweet Ava's 3rd Birthday. It's taken me so long to write about it because i am in so much shock. I can't believe I have a three year old. Ava loves the Backyardigans Cartoon So this is my attempt at making a Uniqua Cake which is her favorite character.








Ava getting mad because Amelia being the big eater that she is grabbed the cake before we could get a picture.




However No fear Big sis helped her clean up.

Ava got so many fun gifts. Thanks to everyone for coming. It was so much fun to celebrate.

DANCING QUEEN

A few weeks ago Ava's dancing class celebrated Crazy Hair and Sock Day! This is the best we could come up with.




Isn't that the face of an Angel.



Waiting in the front room for her car pool to pick her up. Ava loves dancing class. It is so cute to watch her dance. I just hope she listens to her teachers better than she listens to me.

FOUR MONTHS!

Well little Amelia is four months and what a Doctor appointment we had. Not only did she gain 3 more lbs. Now tipping the scales at 14 lbs. 12ounces, but she grew 4.5 inches. All of that in two months, but to top the appointment off, she was diagnosed with chest congestion, ear infection, eye infection, and a yeast infection. What kind of mother have I become. Poor girl I just thought she had a little stuffy nose.

THIRTY WHAT!!!!

So ya I hit the big 30 and Have to admit it wasn't as bad as I thought. I was so scared of turning thirty. I think I just thought okay, well now my life will be different I'm old for one, My skin will instantly turn to crap, my metabolism will be shot, and my child bearing years will be over. However now that I am here It's not to bad, my skin is still good a few wrinkles here and there, metabolism? get back to you on that one, and kids well I'm sure there will be more if it is up to me. I don't know why the kid one bugged me back when I was 21 I never wanted to even get married and have kids until I was beyond 30 because I wanted to just have a little bit of ME time. I guess the Lord changed my mind. I am grateful for the thirty years so far they have been very wonderful and eventful. I hope I have thirty more wonderful years in me. Thanks to everyone who worked so hard to make the day a great one especially Troy. He is the best hubby it was worth giving up the ME time to snag him.

Dinosaur Fun!

So the other day we decided to go to the Dinosaur Museum in Lehi for a family activity. We invited the Christensen's to join us.




Troy and Ava Digging in the dirt at the museum.

Troy made a whole lake with Islands.
Paul (Wyatt's Dad) made a Dam which eventually broke through. I think Him and Troy had more fun then the kids.

Climbing thru the cave.

Ava, Wyatt, and Their new Friend!

This is our attempt and trying to make the photo look like Troy was being eaten by a shark all we got out of it was......if you look really close you can see Troy's Gum in his mouth.

Don't ask what Ava's shirt was doing she was pitching a fit because she didn't want to sit by this scary thing.

The little Paleontologists. At the end of the museum they have this area where you can dig for Dinosaur's. The kids loved it. Thanks Wyatt for coming with us Ava had so much fun.

TRICK OR TREAT

JORDAN THE FROG



LUKAS THE COW



AMELIA THE CAT



AVA THE MERMAID

SHAYLA AND AVA TRICK OR TREATING

WHAT PRETTY PRINCESSES

BUNNY(AUBREY) SHAYLA AND AVA

A.K.A. SNOW WHITE, CINDERELLA, ARIEL

NICK IS A HOBO KEATON IS A RACE CAR DRIVER

WE HAD A GREAT HALLOWEEN. MY KIDS HAD SO MUCH FUN WITH THEIR COUSINS AND FRIENDS. AVA WAS GREAT AT TRICK OR TREATING SHE WENT UP TO EVERY DOOR AND ALWAYS SAID THANKS. SHE WOULD THEN PULL OUT THE CANDY AND WANT TO EAT IT. THE BEST THING OF ALL IS THAT TROY SHOWED UP AT HOME IN THE AFTERNOON AND WAS ABLE TO SPEND THE EVENING WITH US BEFORE HEADING BACK TO WORK.

PUMPKIN FUN WITH GRANDPA!

Since Troy was gone the night before Halloween we dicided to use the next best man. Grandpa came to help Ava carve her pumpkin.






So Ava does not care much for carving but more for blowing out the candle inside the pumpkin. Thanks Grandpa for helping.

It's a Bummer Aging!

So Milie is now three months old and I was trying to get a picture of her because I thought she was looking really cute. Well she thought otherwise. I snapped the camera and she got ticked off. this was the result.



Still not happy.



Finally there is my pretty girl.

Happy Birthday Shayla

CHUCK E CHEESE PLEASE!



So In case you can't guess what we did. For Shayla's 3rd Birthday we were invited to go to Chuck E cheese with their Family. It was a lot of fun. Ava at first hated it and cried because of the life sized Chuck E Cheese Band. Poor girl it scared her to death. Aunt Jennifer comforted her and soon she was just fine. She loved playing on all of the toys. Most of all we loved this photo booth in case you can't tell. For one token (25cents) you can get your picture taken. I figured hey this is cheap photography. So went to town taking photos.



Amelia being held by Shinae!



Ignore me in the background I was trying to get a photo of Ava and Amelia and this was the only way I could get cooperation.



Great family photo for only a quarter.....kidding. It was a great day Thanks for inviting us.

WHAT DO YOU DO IN RAWLINS

JUST THREE THINGS



Sit in a Trailer. That what we did for most of the time while out visiting Troy. It was so cold there that we didn't want to take little Milie out so we watched a lot of movies. Rawlins is a small town that basically shuts down at 5pm.




Second thing to do in town....Bowl but only for a few choice hours a day is the bowling alley open. Go figure it took us like three attempts to find it open.

Ava lost interest on the 10 frame. But she loved it she had a 6lb ball that she could barely carry.

Last thing to do in Rawlins is this train. Just some random train in a park. No reason just there. There is also a historic Prison in Rawlins but when we went to go they only took cash which we didn't have and by the time we went to go get it and go back no luck because they only do two tours a day and we missed them both. Then we went back another day and they were closed to decorate for Halloween. Oh Well! We had fun with dad and that was the reason for going. We miss you dad finish the well out there and come home.

Harvest Time!

APPLE PICKING ANYONE!

My sweet little Ava.

The darling Shayla.

What a Pair of beauty's.

So most of you know that my dad is a Crop Duster who can't seem to retire. He sprayed apples for some rancher out at west mountain and the guy told us to come and pick some. Well we took advantage as you can see. We felt like savages out there. It was so fun we just kept picking and didn't realize that we had so many. Poor rancher will never ask us back we definitely took advantage of the situation.

PUMPKIN TIME

Well Here it is our little Harvest of Pumpkins. I thought that it would be a fun thing to grow this year little did I know how big a Pumpkin plant gets it took over the whole garden but the out come was worth it we got 6 pumpkins in all.

This is the only one Ava could carry.