Avery's Birthday Pictures by Molly Mankins

Molly did a great job with Avery's first birthday
pitures! I am super pleased with how they turned
out. So glad that I hired her to take the pictures
and that I didnt spend the entire party behind
the camera.

Blue Bayou

Pop Pop treated us to a day at Blue Bayou
water park last Thursday. We were a little
unsure of how Aaron would like the park and
the slides but we were all suprised at how much
he LOVED it. He even rode 3 big slides including
one all by himself! He has asked to go back
next summer as well-- which Pop Pop will
be more than happy to take him back!

Also a big thank you to Gram for keeping
Avery ALL day for us so that we could have
some water park fun!








This is the big slide he rode all by himself

Our first trip to the Circus!

We attended our first family circus show this
Sunday. Our very good friends (the Davis Family)
joined us as well. Aaron and Kinley have been
friends since they were born... everyone had a
great time! Even Avery loved the show and the
animals. We also enjoyed $12 cotton candy!


No activity is complete without some of mommy's
shirts!


Just clowning around!



Aaron's turn



Ready for the show!






Aaron insisted that his favorite part of the
circus was the motorcycles






Everyone is enjoying the show!



Avery sporting our $12 cotton candy
hat

Those crazy kids...

Here are just a few pictures
from the last days of summer
break with both kids at home
with me. I am sad and excited
all at the same time... here is
a little taste of the craziness....


For some reason Avery loves
to just lay on the kitchen floor--
maybe she likes that it feels cold?





Art time



I walked into Aaron's room to
find her standing on his stool--
this is right before she also took
his night light apart

guess she was tired..

Summer in cell phone photos

summer morning trip to the zoo--
the animals were the only ones smart
enough to lay in the shade!



Just clowning around



Fun with the new walmart buggys

Birthday Party Preview

We had a wonderful birthday
party for our girl at home on
Saturday. This is just a preview
of the birthday party pictures-- this
year I hired a girl from church
to take the party pictures for me b/c
I feel like I miss out on the party when
I'm always behind the camera--
so this is just a few before we get our
pictures from her...


Daddy assembling the top tier
of the HUGE cake



This cake is exactly like my
first birthday cake when I was little--
thanks to my mom that kept my
cake topper and ebay which
provided the other clown parts of
the cake



Avery loved her cake!


In her circus outfit made by
mommy


Gram and Paw Paw with our
birthday girl

Happy Birthday Avery!

On Friday her actual birthday
we picked up our free winn dixie
smash cake and celebrated her
birthday at home. Big brother
blew her candle out-- I told him
next year she wasn't going to
let him do that... haha

Summer In Cell Phone Photos

My Birthday Girl! Can't believe
she is already one!


Watching the Carousel at the mall



I tried really hard to talk Aaron
out of this spiderman booksack
b/c I wanted to order him a nice one from
LLBean-- well I gave in-- he was just
to excited

Sunday Morning Photo Shoot

I thought my kiddos looked
so cute for church Sunday morning
that I had to take a few pictures.
I always made fun of my mom b/c
she kept alot of my outfits when
I was little-- I thought alot of them
were so ugly (some of them still are)
but there are a few that I have been
able to put on Avery and I know mom
would have loved that! She looks so
darn cute in her vintage dress!

A baby girl with her baby doll

Avery received her early birthday
present from Mommy and Daddy--
matching PJs for her and her baby
doll! A thank you to Gram for
picking them out for her!

Happy Thursday!

Trip to Pop Pop's

Aaron was able to spend a few nights away
from home with Pop Pop and Ms. Judy at her
house in Lafayette. There were stories of
alligators, rice krispy treat making, eating at the
park, feeding the ducks, and fishing! He had a
great time!


















**Thank you Pop Pop for the pictures!**

Bathtime

Bathtime on an almost 1yr old
with a cast can prove to be a
little tricky-- we started
with sponge baths but then
started wrapping her leg in
plastic bags to bath her with Aaron

This cast doesn't slow my baby down!