My Avery is 18 Months old!

Avery is now 18months old! How
does the time pass so quickly!

She is about 22lbs or so and still
only has 6 teeth but I think that is
about to change because I can feel
a few more teeth breaking through.

She is a sweet spunky little girl that
loves to pick out her own bow in
the morning and loves to play with
her big brother!

100th day of school!

Jan. 30th marked the 100th day of school
for Aaron. His class did a few 100 day
projects.  The first was to collect 100
can goods for the food bank-- they collected
102! The second was to bring 100 of something
to show what 100 looks like-- we choose
pasta. And the third was to dress like an
old person on the 100th day!


Daddy popped the glass out of his
old pair of glasses and mommy drew
the mustache on him with a marker.



Here he is counting his 100 pieces
of pasta to bring to school

Happy Sunday!

Another Sunday morning photoshoot-
I love this Mardi Gras dress that
Avery has on! And yes Aaron has
a tie on with a vest-- some things
are just not worth arguing about
before church.

January Happenings

January has been pretty quiet at our
house.  Aaron is back at school and
Avery and I are trying to keep busy.
We had 2 weeks of solid rainy days
so we are so glad to see some sunshine
lately!

I took Avery to the Little Gym this
week for a free Intro class- Aaron took
classes when he was this age. She had a good
time but she isnt as outgoing as



We visited the park on MLK Day

I took a soap making class - it was fun but I
think this will be my only batch of homemade soap

Happy Sunday!

Avery's First Pedicure

I painted Avery's toes for the first
time today. She kept pointing to my
toes after I had them painted so I
decided it was time to paint hers.
She actually sat still and let me paint
them. She has been showing them off
all day.

A Look Back..

This last trip makes #5 in the past 6 years.  People
always ask why dont we go somewhere else or
why do you want to go again... the answer... because
we LOVE it! We love everything about Disney-
the ease of planning, its always clean, you know your
are gonna have a great time, and you never get the
same experience twice.  Each time we have gone its
been a different vacation either b/c at first we didnt have
kids or b/c they always have something new! Disney
is such a great place to start traditions and I hope we
have many more trips in the future!


2006-- our 1st anniversary trip



2008- our after Aaron was born trip


2009- Aaron's first trip at 2 years old


2011- 8 months pregnant with Avery!


2013- My surprise Christmas gift from Andrew!
and Avery's first trip!

Photopass pictures

Here are a few of our Photopass
pictures...









Aaron was getting his Jedi certificate-
he told the man he had a star
wars birthday party

Day 3 & 4- Magic Kingdom and Epcot

We spent our last 2 days at the Magic
Kingdom and Epcot. For some reason
we have NO pictures of Epcot probably
because the crowds were a little
overwhelming.

Aaron's favorite at MK was Big
Thunder Mountain and Goofy's
Barnstormer rollercoaster

Avery's favorite was It's a Small World


Waiting to ride the new Ariel ride


Avery liked the sea shells




Avery danced alot during It's a Small World and
then she wanted to sit in her brother's lap


About to ride Big Thunder Mountain
for the first time!







The only epcot picture-- Gram and Paw Paw had
Avery so we went to dinner in Japan...Aaron liked
the chopsticks but wouldnt taste the food

Day 2: Animal Kingdom

Our second day we went to Animal
Kingdom. We are not really big
fans of this park but we were
surprised at how alert the animals
were on this day.

Aaron's favorite was playing on the
dinosaur playground

Avery's favorite was watching
the Lion King show

My worn out kids!

My worn out kids slept
in the same bed all week
and did really good. Avery
definitly surprised us with
how well she did sleeping in
the bed with her big brother!

Jedi Training Academy

Besides riding the big rides this
year ... this was Aaron's other
favorite park experience!

I have some video of this too that I will be
uploading when Blogger will let me

Disney Park Day 1

We knew that since it was New Years
Day that most of the crowds would be
at Magic Kingdom and Epcot so we
decided to do Hollywood Studios
on our first day in the parks.

Aaron's favorite thing was participating
in the Jedi Training Academy

Avery's favorite was watching the
Beauty and the Beast show-- she
watched the entire show from Paw Paw's
lap!


Photo taken by Aaron


Photo taken by Aaron




Photo taken by Aaron


Aaron with his very own camera





Avery wasnt impressed with the characters-- she
laughed and pointed but didnt want to be close to
them