New Pics

We have gotten a few good pics with our phones over the last few days so we thought we would post them, since we can't upload the ones from our camera until we can get to the cords on Wednesday. Yes, we were smart enough to keep our camera from getting packed, but then forgot to get the cords.



This one is Avarie when she first put on her "Lella" dress in the hotel. As you can tell she is very excited. She took dad out in the hall and was walking up and down the hall, giggling the entire time.

Being in a princess dress she had to do some twirling.

As some of you know, we went to Sea World the other day. All of the pictures we took while we were there are on our camera, but I got this picture on the ride back to the hotel. We all had a blast and Avarie loved being able to feed sea lions, pet dolphins, and especially loved the show with acrobats, divers, and dolphins and belugas doing tricks.

San Antonio

We are here kind of. We arrived a few days ago, but cannot move into our apartment until Oct. 7th. We are in a hotel until then. Today we went to the river walk and avaried loved that. She had so much fun watching the ducks, pidgeons, and the river boats. She kept wanting to ride the boat or get into the water. It was a pretty place though. We also went to the disney store and Avarie got a Cinderella dress and glass slippers because we did not have one fit or even crying the whole drive down here. When we got back to the hotel room she had to put on the dress and the shoes and the had to dance with her prince (daddy). She was twirling and kept looking at herself in the mirror and laughing it was really cute. I have some pictures, but our cords for a our cameras are in storage waiting for our apartment to be ready. I will post some pics later when we have the cords.
Derrick will be reporting on Monday officially. He had his active duty swearing in yesterday which was fun to watch and meet some of the other students that will be in the program with him. We are so proud of him and his abilities. sorry for the long post but I thought I would catch up a little bit.

Moving

Well tomorrow is the big day. We will be moving to texas. The movers are packing up our things in the truck as we speak. This has been a little bit hard, sad, and exciting for us. Hopefully we will find joy in our now place of residence.

swimming

Yesterday Avarie's cousin Ashlynn turned 1 and we went to the pool for her party. Avarie, kaylee had so much fun.

Baby News

We went to the doctor yesterday and had a check up with the baby. We are having a boy! we are so excited!! Derrick is just exstatic.

Family Pictures

Everyone was together for the homecoming so we had some family pictures taken. Here are a few to see.

updates

Sorry it has been awhile since I have posted anything. Last week Derrick's brother Justin got home from his mission. Avarie got to meet her uncle Justin for the first time. She was so excited after she got used to him to have another uncle. She had so much fun later the night he got home playing games with him. It has been great to have him home.