Naked Baby

Avery had a huge blow out at the store yesterday.  I came home and was getting her cleaned up to get her in the tub and she was being oh so cute!  I put her changing pad on the floor when I went to fill up the tub and snapped these cute pictures!

Rice Cereal

Avery's first experience with Rice Cereal.

She got the hang of eating from a spoon pretty quick and seems to like it! 

Looks a little concerned!  

All done!

A few days later we got her high chair set up.  She didn't love it at first but now she does good in sitting in it to eat and will sit there and play with toys for a little while!

Playing then sleeping after a full belly!  Yum Yum!

 

Venable Family Reunion

We got together with Jeremy's family (cousins, aunts and uncles) for the Venable family reunion.  We had a great lunch and played fun games.  Avery and I enjoyed relaxing in the shade while everyone played different Olympic games.  Jeremy brought home a few medals for his wicked throwing skills!  

 Avery playing before we left

Yummy finger

Playing Bingo!

Grandma, Levi, Robin, Charlotte and Jeremy

Big Girl!

When did she get so big?!

Wasn't this just yesterday?!

My Birthday

For my birthday a few weeks ago we headed down to Mapleton.  We celebrated it on Saturday since you can't do much on Sunday birthdays.  Grandma and Grandpa watched Avery while Jeremy and I went to lunch and a movie!  For dinner Nate's clan and Abby, Chad and Tessa came over for dinner and cake & ice cream.  It was a perfect birthday!  Here are some pictures to prove how awesome it was!

Two cute girls

Cold Stone ice cream cake.  Delicious!  Yep, I am the youngest and still pretty spoiled. 

 There isn't anything better than ice cream and Mapleton summer nights.

We got home pretty late that night.  Avery had a rough ride home and of course fell asleep about 10 minutes from being home.  I got her out of her car seat and just laid her right in her crib without waking her up.  I went to check on her a few minutes later and this is how she had positioned herself.  Bum straight in the air!  She slept for another few hours like that then woke up where she got a midnight snack, a new diaper and clean pajamas.  What a cutie!  This is my last year in my 20's . . . . . . weird.

Lisa's Wedding

One of my best friends since I was born (it sounds funny saying that but it is really true!  We grew up in the same ward so we have known each other our whole lives) got married in Pennsylvania so they were able to come to Utah in August and have a reception.  It was so fun to see the happy newlyweds and visit with them!  The reception was held in a beautiful back yard and the weather was just perfect!  Aren't weddings just the best?!  We are so happy for them!

The cute couple Jon and Lisa!

Avery, Me, Lisa and Emily

Do you see that table behind us.  It was full of candy in dishes that you could scoop up into a little cute jar.  Talk about fun and yummy!  Happy wedding!

Millions of Peaches (and tomatoes, tomatillos and plums)

When we bought our house one of the things we loved about it was the yard, garden space and the already 5 fruit trees that were planted (apricot, plum, pear, and 2 peach trees).  Jeremy had such motivation to get things ready to plant a garden and has done so great in taking care of it the past few months!  It was a lot like the Little Red Hen story where I just benefited from all his hard work since I mostly just stayed in the house and took care a baby!  But I got my turn to work after it was all picked and we needed to do something with it all!  Thanks to my moms help (and Jeremy's help on the weekend) we bottled tomatoes, peaches, peach jam and salsa.  We have been enjoying fresh plums every day too (unfortunately our apricot and pear tree didn't produce this year).

Avery was a real good helper!

The dang birds started eating our peaches so we had to put netting over the tree.  Can you spy Jeremy in the tree?!

The peaches were beautiful and big and oh so yummy!

I look pretty terrible in this picture, but after a long day of working in the kitchen it was nice to cuddle with this sweet thing!

Peach Jam!

Tomatillo Salsa

A perfect peach

Life is just a bowl of peaches!

Crazy tomato

Even crazier tomato

I went to enrichment night (or whatever they call it now) and they taught us how to make bread so I thought I had better try.  It turned out ok, I need to perfect it though.  I think I need to improve my kneading skills!