Blessing

We blessed Avery on June 17th which happened to be fathers day.  Jeremy did a wonderful job and so did Avery!  :)  We were able to come back to our house to have all of our family and a few friends over.  It was so nice to be able to have everyone come over and have enough room! We ate excellent food and roasted in the sun!  We cleaned up outside and continued the party inside.  Avery was such a happy girl that day and did good being passed around and loved on by lots of people! 

It was a fun fathers day!  Thanks to Jeremy for being such a great father to Avery and husband to me!  

First family photo in our backyard

Lots of canopies for shade

Bree and Katie enjoying each others company!  

Fun friends

"We are Family"

Maren and Micah getting their turn to snuggle!

That afternoon she just loved laying on the floor to kick!  She may have needed a little "no one needs to hold me" time!

Avery loves her grandmas and grandpas!

I wanted to get some pictures of Avery in her dress but after church she wasn't the happiest.  So that night after she had a good nap I got her back in her dress and got these sweet pictures on the beautiful quilt that Aunt Barbie made for Avery!  Her dress was special because it was my dress when I was blessed.  I only had to buy shoes and a headband for her!

Being so cute makes for a tired girl!

This was my bonnet.  I didn't have any hair so my mom said I wore a bonnet.  So we had to get Avery in a couple pictures with the bonnet.

Happy Father's Day!

She slept well that night!

A couple weeks later I took Avery to Target to get some professional pictures in her dress done.  I wasn't too impressed with some of the pictures (and they charged me an arm and a leg to buy the digital copies).  We will not be using Target Studio again!  But hey, can there be a bad picture of Avery?  I think not.  Kinda like . . . can there be bad ice cream?  Nope.

Mothers Day 2012

We had a fun Mothers Day this year.  It started Saturday night when we headed down to Mapleton to celebrate with my mom.  We had a fun time going out to dinner then going back to my parents house to hang out with everyone.

After church on Sunday we headed up to Roy to visit Jeremy's grandma with his family.  Grandma Ona and Ralph have a lot of property with a wonderful garden and lots of fun animals for the kids to look at and enjoy (and then for Ralph and Ona to enjoy later on the dinner table!)

All the kids looking at the chickens.  

Grandma Ona meeting Avery

How many grandkids can fit on Grandma's lap?!

So sweet!

4 Generations

After visiting with Grandma and Ralph we headed back to Jeremy's parents house to enjoy yummy food and the great weather outside!

Grandpa Greer

Avery got snuggled and loved on by everyone there!

Charlotte

Hm . . . I guess I didn't even get a picture of myself with Avery that day.  Opps!  But I sure do love being a mom!  (even though I don't have a picture to prove it!)

Jeremy was so sweet and for Mothers Day gave me these cute chairs that I have loved and wanted for a couple of years!  (They go much better in a back yard rather than on an apartment deck!)

Just pics

Here are some pictures of Avery from her first couple of months.  She looks so little in all of these!

April 23rd

I only used this sling for a couple weeks then after that I felt like I was smushing her . . . .  so I stopped!  But she sure loved it when she was in it!

April 30th

Little crossed feet

May 4th

May 5th

She would take such good naps on her bobby!  

(Hence all of the pictures of her sleeping on it!)

May 6th

Dad was helping Avery make pretty funny faces!

May 10th

May 14th

 I feel at this point she started to look a little chubby . . . just a little!

May 19th

My sweet coworker made me a bag full of hand made crocheted things.  One day I put Avery in them.  She looked so cute and I can't believe all the work it must have been to make them.

Sweet yellow dress

Cute pink onesie

Look how cute this little Mermaid outfit is!  She even gave Avery a matching barbie!

May 23rd

She LOVES her swing!  I LOVE that she loves her swing!  :)

Jeremy swaddled her a good one here!  She is looking up at the hanging bears on the mobile above her she just loves them.

Snuggling with dad on the couch.  There isn't anything better!

May 29th

I put this headband on her and thought it made her look like she was going for a workout!

May 30th

My other coworker made these cute hat and booties for her.  She was kicking on her changing table like crazy when I put the booties on her.  Either she thought they gave her superpower or she was kicking so hard to get them off!  Either way, I think she looked so super cute!

June 2nd

Our friends Brock and Melanie came over with their Bree.  

Bree loved holding Avery which was good practice for her since she was getting a new baby sister in July!

June 10th

Sitting on dads lap at the computer desk

Those are just a few of the random pictures that I wanted to post.  I still have a bunch from my phone that I need to put on here!

Fotofly Photos

When Avery was one month old I took her to Fotofly in Draper to get her "newborn" pictures taken.  My mom went with me, which was a good thing since Avery cried practically the WHOLE time!  Don't let all the sleeping pictures fool you!  Luckily we had the baby whisperer as a photographer who was able to settle her down after each position he placed her in.  I am so glad we got these pictures taken so we could remember her smallness and cuteness and sweetness and everythingness!!  

Enjoy!

We're back!

Hello blogging world!  We are alive and I am going to try to do better in posting more often.  Our laptop stopped working for a while and then once we fixed that I ran into the whole "out of blogging room" obstacle which made it hard for me to be motivated to figure out what to do and how to solve the problem!  (excuses, excuses)  But with Jeremy's help I think I will be good to post for the next little while!  Although I am sorry, since becoming a mom, all of my posts will most likely be centered around Avery. . . . so there . . . you have been warned.    

Out of blogger room?

What do you do when blogger tells you that you have run out of space?  It won't let me upload more pictures . . .  this is the message I get.

"Whoops! You're out of space. You are currently using 100% of your 1 GB quota for photos. Upgrade storage

Photos are stored in your Picasa Web Albums account and are included in your 1 GB free quota for photos. Additional storage you purchase is shared between several Google products and is in addition to your free quota. Learn more"

 It sounds like I can buy more storage.  Do people really do that?! I could go back and delete old posts too, but am not too interested in that either!  I know that I have heard of other people having this issue, but can't remember how they resolved it!

3 yEaRs!

Today is our 3 Year Anniversary.  
It is crazy how time flies!  
I didn't think on this day that life could get better . . . . 

and somehow it did!

Jeremy brought home a dozen red roses and sour candy for me.  Jeesh . . . he knows me well! 

We celebrated by enjoying a night out to Cafe Rio and then a quick trip to Lowes.  

Life is good