New Years Eve Fun

Here are some pictures of our outing to the park today. Avarie had so much fun playing with her daddy at the park. Although we are having a hard time adjusting to 70 degree weather in December. It has been a little weird and it doesn't feel like winter. We have only had a few days this winter so far that have gotten below 50 degrees. Oh well atleast we do not have to shovel snow off the driveway.

Christmas 2009

Here are just some pictures of Avarie playing with her Christmas. The third picture is of our cat Sadie. She claimed a present for herself and was napping on it. It was really cute.

Here are some pictures of Avarie before and after opening her Christmas eve pajamas. Apparently we got it right she wouldnt take them off all Christmas.

We are so Grateful for the Christmas season. It was in someways nice to have our own little family Christmas. It really helped me to have the time instead of running around to reflect more about the holiday season and what it means to me. We had a wonderful day. We did miss our families though that was a little bit hard but with skype we were able to see and talk to them which was nice. I hope everyone had a wonderful day! We wish you all well!

My update

I have not been up to much other than getting ready for the baby and Christmas. It has been a little hectic with Derrick's schedual and everything to get ready. I have finished a few recieving blankets for the baby and have loved being home and playing with Avarie. I got a rotary tool and board for cutting material so I will have to make a few more things for the baby and Avarie. I have been planning on making a quilt to match her room to go onto her bed and then have some material to make a quilt for the baby. There arent any pictures of me lately due to me avoiding getting them taken.

Derrick Updates

The first two pictures are of Derrick's Officers training graduation. After graduating OBLC He was able to go through two weeks of orientation and get things set up the rest of the way for school. This made him antsy to get started with the school work and he is now waiting patiently to start school. He will be starting that on January 4th. He has been able to be home last week and this week with us which has been really nice to have this time before things get crazy for him.

Here is a picture of him in his dress blues. I think he looks pretty good but I am a little partial.

Avarie Playing

Here are some pictures of Avarie and her new favorite thing to do. She has loved dressing up over the past week or two. It is so cute.

More Random Pictures

Here are som more random pictures. This first picture is of Avarie in her new dress. Avarie loved it. This morning Avarie decided to put on her dad hat and wanted to put on his boots so here are just some cute pictures of that. If you can't tell she loves her daddy so much and wants to be like him. It is so fun to watch her copy her dad and luckily she has copied anything bad from either of us yet.

Avarie's Birthday

Here are a few pictures of Avarie's Birthday yesterday. First is the cake I made her. It is a little sad, but she didn't seem to care. This is Avarie playing with her toys that she got having a fun time.

Here is a picture with Avarie playing again and yes there is finally a picture with me in it.

This is a picture with Avarie before opening her presents. She was sitting on one and looked for posed.

Misc. Pictures

These are some pictures of my goofy husband. I had asked him to cut up and onion for me one of the sundays just after he had gotten back from the field and they still had their gear. Apparently he didn't like the smell and the watering eyes from the onion. I turned around from what I was doing and he had pulled out his gas mask and put it on to keep out the onion smell. There is rarely a time in our family that he is not making Avarie and I laugh. We love him so much and his sense of humor. Everytime he does something like this I laugh because his and my dad's sense of humor is so similar. These are just the type of things I grew up with my dad doing and now I am married to a man who does it also. The saying you will marry someone like your father could not have been more true in my case.

Here are some Picture of random things lately. This was Avarie's first experience with Finger paint. I was a little paranoid up until now that she would eat it so I held off. This was the day before Derrick got back from his first week out in the field and Avarie was making him a "welcome Home" poster.This first picture is one of her first reactions to the paint on her hands and trying to figure out why mom was letting her get dirty.

This picture is when she figured out the fun and was taking full advantage of it.
This is a picture of the poster she painted.

Update

Sorry it has been so long since I have posted on the blog. We have had a lot going on. We had my cousin Kristin and her Husband here 2 weekends ago. We had so much fun with them here. Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures because I didn't think of it at the time. We were able to spend Saturday and some of Sunday with them. We took them to a medical museum on base which was a lot of fun!!! Kristin is a nurse like me and her husband Daniel is in medical school so it was a lot of fun to have people that understand a little bit to go through the museum with us. Avarie loved having them here. She just want to play with them and probably talked their ears off.

For Thanksgiving we were unable to go back to Utah so we spent the day with some friends. That morning Derrick played in a "Turkey Bowl" with some of the men from the ward. He had a lot of fun. Avarie loved watching her daddy and playing with some of the other children that were there. We were able to have a wonderful holiday and long weekend with our little family.

Next thing is Avarie will be turning 2 on wednesday. We are so greatful for a sweet little girl. She is talking like crazy and is busy playing running around or reading books. She loves Princesses and is playing or pretending to be them constantly. She is growing up before our eyes and we love her dearly.

Sorry for the long post. I hope everyone's holiday season is going well!!

Funny incident

Yesterday I went to the bank while running some errands and the bank we are using is one for military members and their family. When we walked in there was a picture of a couple of soldiers in their uniforms and kevlar helmets with a helicopter in the back ground. Avarie all of the sudden kept saying "Daddy, daddy, daddy"!!!! I couldn't figure out what she why she was saying daddy, but finally she pointed to the pictures of the soldiers and said "daddy!" in the cutest little voice. It was so cute!!

Halloween

Here are some pictures of Avarie on Halloween. I wasnt able to get any good pictures of her when she was at our ward trunk or treat because it was too dark outside.

San Antonio River Walk

About a week and a half ago we took Avarie down to the Riverwalk for a boat ride. She was excited. There are some pictures of the scenery and some of Derrick and Avarie.

Pictures

Here are some pictures of the things we have done in our apartment and our new table.It is kind of hard to see the grain of the table which adds a lot of the character but you can get an idea.

Here is a picture of Avarie's new pink and purple room that she loves so much.

Big girl bed

2 days ago we decided it was time to set up Avarie's big girl bed. She loves sleeping in larger beds than her toddler bed and she has been running into the side rails the past week. She had to help her daddy with the tools and screwing in the screws it was really cute. After we were done I put her new sheet set on, which is pink and purple polka dots. When it was finished we showed her the bed and she started to giggle. She then proceeded to climb up into her bed , waved to us and said "na, night". It was only 6 pm. She was so excited!! since then she keeps taking her pink fuzzy throw pillow and using it to read books or snuggle with. Today after breakfast she went into her room again and to me to leave so she could lay down. It was really funny!

Chocolate milk

We had an interesting incident yesterday. I was repairing some clothes and various things that I had been putting off since before we moves and I heard avarie coughing slightly. I looked over and this is what I found. Aparently I had left the chocolate milk mix on the counter and she had taken it down, opened the lid and was trying to drink the mix. When I asked her what she was doing she laughed and said "milk". It was a little hard to get mad at her with that face, but not exactly what I was expecting her to do. She really is funny.

New Pics

Here are some random pictures to update everyone. Ignore the dates on the pictures. Derrick's Camera has the date wrong in it and I just realized it today.

These two pictures are from today at our complex just walking around. Avarie climbed on the rocks and was having fun.


This was a picture of Avarie a few days ago when she wanted to take the dog for a walk. She was being silly as you can probably tell.

This is a picture of Avarie and Derrick during conference. They both aparently were really tired that day. It was cute!!
Avarie fell asleep in her daddy's arms this day at the hotel. It was just really cute. She was so excited when he came home from doing everything on base that day.

This is Avarie playing and being cute at the playground they provided at the hotel we were staying at. She was having a lot of fun.
This is another picture of Derrick in his uniform.