Avarie's First snow day

Here are some pictures of Avarie's first venture out to play in the snow. Every time Derrick goes out to shovel the snow Avarie has wanted to go with him and help, but we did not have any boots for her. Yesterday we found some and she got to go out and help dad. She was having a lot of fun until she fell face first into the snow and white washed herself.

A funny face

Here is a newer picture of Avarie where she is pulling a funny face.

Avarie's First pony tail

Avarie's Birthday

Here are some pictures from Avarie's birthday. The one with her in the chair is her in her new rocking chair and two of her new toys watching her Elmo video that day after her birthday. The next picture is of her birthday cake.

Graduate school

Derrick got a reply from one of the schools today. He has an interview at bellermine in Louisville Kentucky. We are so excited! hopefully we will hear from the other schools soon.

I hope everyones holidays are going well and Merry Christmas.

Avarie's one year old pictures

Well on Avaries B-day we got her pictures done and the photographer put htem up on his website. You can see the one of her on the first page and then if you click on the blog you can see two more of her. the link to his site is http://steveharrington.net/
Avarie is the one in the polkadot brown dress. On the blog area there is another one in the dress and one of her with the cake. they are adorable. Thanks to the photographer too. He did a great job.

Derrick and Grad school

well I have had a few comments on which school we would like to go to for Derrick's graduate school. Our first choice right now is Baylor in San Antonio. The program is 5th in the nation and it emphasis is exactly what derrick would love to do. He is really excited about that one. The other bonus to the school would be that we would only owe the army 4.5 years and he would get a salary while he was going to school so I would be able to stay home with Avarie.
Derrick keeps going back and forth on which school is his second choice. it goes between regis in colorado and U of U. I think it changes daily, but I am sure if he interviews with both talking with professors and looking at the areas would make up his mind where they both stand.
Derrick's last choice is Bellermine in Kentucky as of right now. Again that could change with interviews and looking at the area. I hope that updates everyone.

Avarie's Birthday

Avaries Birthday was yesterday. It was so much fun. We had 2 sets of great grandparents, both sets of grandparents, all of my siblings and one of Derrick's brothers and his sister were there for a party. I will have to post pictures with this soon.
Avarie got a baby doll from her cousin Kaylee that laughs when you push on the stomach. It is so cute and she thinks it is the funniest thing and has been carrying it around since. Whe she unwrapped the baby doll she pointed to her eye and said eyes. It was so cute. Another word has come out. She also got a rocking chair that is her size that was passed down from my grandfathers grandma through my grandfather to me and then to avarie. It is adorable and she loves rocking in it.She also got some markers that are hard to get away from her once we show them to her. So thank you everybody she loves her gifts and has been playing with them since.