How could I forget? I have to show off this one!
Monday, January 24, 2011
Oh So Beautiful!
Last September we got together with our friend Kathryn Bacalis and she did a family portrait session with us. The pictures turned out great except, unfortunately, all the ones of just Ava and I were lost due to a corrupt memory card. Kathryn felt really badly about the whole thing and wanted to get together with just us two to redo that part of the shoot. We weren't able to do it until just a couple weeks ago, due to the busy-ness of the holidays. Anyway, the pictures are fabulous and I am SO happy with them. I love her photography and I wish we had known her when we got married! I would have loved to have had her do our wedding photos (that's her forte and she's amazing at it). Anyway, here are just a few of the pictures of me and my girl. I love being her mama!
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Pictures!
Ava was a ladybug for Halloween, as were some of the other girls at her school. She likes to think she's one of the "big kids"!
Decorating the Christmas Tree with Daddy!
One of Ava's new ornaments from Grandpa and Gigi.
Eating rice cereal in her highchair!
Christmas celebration with Grandpa, Gigi, Uncle Toby and Rachel! Ava was very much spoiled by them all.
In her new jumper at Nana's house!
Christmas outfit #1 of 4.
Opening stocking stuffers on Christmas morning!
Christmas morning with Nana (outfit #3).
Ava really enjoyed opening presents. She likes to rip paper!
Final (and most fancy) Christmas outfit right before Christmas dinner.It's About Time!
We're back! And with a fresh new look. This is something I've been wanting to do for a long time. It's hard to believe it's been over three months since I last blogged! Ridiculous, but there just hasn't been time. Now that the holidays are over and I'm back to working four days a week instead of five, I'm finding a little more time to do things other than just the basics of living. Not only am I back to working four days a week but my day off is now Friday! How awesome is that? A three day weekend every weekend? I'll take it!
So what's new with us? Well, Ava is getting so big I can hardly stand it! At her 6 month check up she was almost 17lbs! She's in the 50th-75th percentile for weight and the 90th for height! We're not sure where she got that. She can do all sorts of things now. She crawls . . . well, she can crawl but for some reason she doesn't love it so she has to be pretty motivated in order to do it. She can sit up from any position and moves around like she's been doing it all her life. She eats baby food and/or cereal at all three major meals. And yesterday during what should have been her mid-morning nap, she figured out how to pull up and stand in her crib! I'm not so excited about that one. We struggle enough with naps without that new trick keeping her from sleeping. She's been teething a lot, but those darn teeth still refuse to actually come in. All in all she's doing very well and is even more of a joy now than she was when she was born!
The holidays were good, but crazy and a little hard. We spent Thanksgiving in Colorado Springs with Grandpa and Gigi. That was a lot of fun and there was tons of good food. For Christmas we spent about five days in Montana with Nana and Papa Ernie. Everyone was amazed at what a good baby Ava is. We've been telling them! We are so thankful to have Ava around as a distraction from the sadness of missing our parents. That was especially true around the holidays, and even for our extended families as well. She brought a lot of light and fun and excitement where there could have been a lot of sorrow and pain. She took her first trip out to Ol' Granpappy's grave on Christmas Eve. It was very cold and there was a lot of snow on the ground, but she was very good and almost seemed to understand the importance of the occasion.
Our new year is off to a pretty good start, although Tim has not been well. He's been suffering from shingles for almost four weeks now, and has a cold to go with it this weekend. We're really hoping the shingles gets better soon. Who knows why it suddenly came upon him (he's pretty far from the average age!) but it has really been a bummer. He won his Fantasy Football league, so that was pretty fun and exciting. A little surprise cash is always nice to have around! We submitted the plans to the Town of Wellington yesterday in order to get the necessary permit to finish the basement. So hopefully we'll be starting that project soon. It's going to be a long one. But first we're doing a quick remodel of the laundry room. It will be nice to have that done and have a little more storage downstairs!
That's about all the news for now. See the post above for some pictures from the last few months and hopefully I'll be blogging again soon!
So what's new with us? Well, Ava is getting so big I can hardly stand it! At her 6 month check up she was almost 17lbs! She's in the 50th-75th percentile for weight and the 90th for height! We're not sure where she got that. She can do all sorts of things now. She crawls . . . well, she can crawl but for some reason she doesn't love it so she has to be pretty motivated in order to do it. She can sit up from any position and moves around like she's been doing it all her life. She eats baby food and/or cereal at all three major meals. And yesterday during what should have been her mid-morning nap, she figured out how to pull up and stand in her crib! I'm not so excited about that one. We struggle enough with naps without that new trick keeping her from sleeping. She's been teething a lot, but those darn teeth still refuse to actually come in. All in all she's doing very well and is even more of a joy now than she was when she was born!
The holidays were good, but crazy and a little hard. We spent Thanksgiving in Colorado Springs with Grandpa and Gigi. That was a lot of fun and there was tons of good food. For Christmas we spent about five days in Montana with Nana and Papa Ernie. Everyone was amazed at what a good baby Ava is. We've been telling them! We are so thankful to have Ava around as a distraction from the sadness of missing our parents. That was especially true around the holidays, and even for our extended families as well. She brought a lot of light and fun and excitement where there could have been a lot of sorrow and pain. She took her first trip out to Ol' Granpappy's grave on Christmas Eve. It was very cold and there was a lot of snow on the ground, but she was very good and almost seemed to understand the importance of the occasion.
Our new year is off to a pretty good start, although Tim has not been well. He's been suffering from shingles for almost four weeks now, and has a cold to go with it this weekend. We're really hoping the shingles gets better soon. Who knows why it suddenly came upon him (he's pretty far from the average age!) but it has really been a bummer. He won his Fantasy Football league, so that was pretty fun and exciting. A little surprise cash is always nice to have around! We submitted the plans to the Town of Wellington yesterday in order to get the necessary permit to finish the basement. So hopefully we'll be starting that project soon. It's going to be a long one. But first we're doing a quick remodel of the laundry room. It will be nice to have that done and have a little more storage downstairs!
That's about all the news for now. See the post above for some pictures from the last few months and hopefully I'll be blogging again soon!
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Pumpkin Patch
Ava went to her first Pumpkin Patch today! As a matter of fact, it was my first as well. After church this morning we went to a friend's house for some chili and biscuits and then went out and picked some pumpkins for carving. We got one Ava-sized one (it turned out to only weigh one pound!) and a couple big ones for us. The carving happens next weekend. It was a big day and now Ava is exhausted.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Miscellaneously Cute
Sorry about the long lapse in blogging (about 7 weeks, I think). I quit right about the time I went back to work. It's taken a while to get used to the schedule with me working and all that that entails. It has been an adventure. It's going fine and I'm happy to be back at work (although I do sometimes long to be at home with Ava again) and Ava is doing well, we are just SO busy! It's hard to find time for all the responsibilities we always had plus a baby (I know, all you seasoned parents are chuckling; yes, we did know this would be the case). We're starting to get the hang of it, though! Ava is doing well at "school". I've been meaning to take some pictures of her classroom ever since she started but haven't managed that yet. Lately she's become the queen of the half hour nap there, but I think that will pass. There's just so much going on that she doesn't want to miss out! She wakes up happy and is generally happy there, so I guess it's not all bad.
Work is going well for me. I have gone down to working four days per week, which has been fabulous so far. I have Thursdays off (random, but it's the day that works best) and I consider them my "work-at-home" days. My goal is to accomplish much of the cleaning and grocery shopping on those days so that we have less of that to do on the weekends. I try not to be overly optimistic with my to-do lists, as it is hard to accomplish much while taking care of a baby. I love the extra time with Ava, though, and try not to let my busyness distract me from the joy of having time with her. And this day off is how I am managing to do this blog entry today. :)
Other than our trip to St. Louis, nothing ground-breaking has happened since I blogged last. We dedicated Ava at church on September 19th. One of our friends snapped some pictures for us, but they're pretty dark (it's really hard to get decent pictures in our church sanctuary). We'll have to see if we can get them lightened up a little to show off. The day before that we did a family photo shoot with our friend Kathryn Bacalis, who is a photographer. We should be seeing those pictures in a couple weeks and I can't wait! It ended up being a cool, rainy day, which was a bummer since we did the shoot outside at the Oval on the CSU campus. The trees protected us from the rain some, though, and the lighting was great for pictures. Ava was a good sport. Afterwards she experienced her first outdoor football game. We went and hung out with Grandpa Clint and Garney while Tyler (Clint's nephew) played pee-wee football. Quite chilly, but still fun (they won, yea!).
Tomorrow evening we are driving up to Beaver Creek to spend the weekend at a condo with the other couples (four others) on our small group. It should be fun and I'm sure the fall colors will be beautiful! Ava's new friend Chase (about 2 and a half weeks old now) will be there, too.
Since it has been so long, we have quite a few random pictures of Ava that I will post here. She's getting so big! 3 months old (14 weeks tomorrow) already!
Sitting at the dinner table in her Bumbo chair. She was pretty interested in what we were doing. :)
Her first walk in the stroller without the car seat. She seemed to love being able to see where we were going!
Work is going well for me. I have gone down to working four days per week, which has been fabulous so far. I have Thursdays off (random, but it's the day that works best) and I consider them my "work-at-home" days. My goal is to accomplish much of the cleaning and grocery shopping on those days so that we have less of that to do on the weekends. I try not to be overly optimistic with my to-do lists, as it is hard to accomplish much while taking care of a baby. I love the extra time with Ava, though, and try not to let my busyness distract me from the joy of having time with her. And this day off is how I am managing to do this blog entry today. :)
Other than our trip to St. Louis, nothing ground-breaking has happened since I blogged last. We dedicated Ava at church on September 19th. One of our friends snapped some pictures for us, but they're pretty dark (it's really hard to get decent pictures in our church sanctuary). We'll have to see if we can get them lightened up a little to show off. The day before that we did a family photo shoot with our friend Kathryn Bacalis, who is a photographer. We should be seeing those pictures in a couple weeks and I can't wait! It ended up being a cool, rainy day, which was a bummer since we did the shoot outside at the Oval on the CSU campus. The trees protected us from the rain some, though, and the lighting was great for pictures. Ava was a good sport. Afterwards she experienced her first outdoor football game. We went and hung out with Grandpa Clint and Garney while Tyler (Clint's nephew) played pee-wee football. Quite chilly, but still fun (they won, yea!).
Tomorrow evening we are driving up to Beaver Creek to spend the weekend at a condo with the other couples (four others) on our small group. It should be fun and I'm sure the fall colors will be beautiful! Ava's new friend Chase (about 2 and a half weeks old now) will be there, too.
Since it has been so long, we have quite a few random pictures of Ava that I will post here. She's getting so big! 3 months old (14 weeks tomorrow) already!
Sitting at the dinner table in her Bumbo chair. She was pretty interested in what we were doing. :)
Her first walk in the stroller without the car seat. She seemed to love being able to see where we were going!Sunday, September 26, 2010
Ava Rolls Over!
On this last Thursday night Ava started rolling over! I was home with her during the afternoon (as I usually have Thursdays off now) and had her doing some tummy time. Kind of out of nowhere she started lifting up higher than usual, getting her whole chest off the floor. I was very impressed and cheered her on. When Tim came home that night I told him about it and we put her on her tummy to see if she would do it again. Well, she did that and so much more! She rolled over and subsequently did it several more times, every time we placed her on her tummy. She's a little rockstar, she is. And we got it on video. Check it out
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