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.