Mallory smiles

I finally caught Mallory smiling on camera. Here's the first smile picture. It's not a great one, but she was sitting on my lap and started smiling so I grabbed the camera to try to get a quick shot and this is what I got. She's been smiling nwo for a couple of weeks, but I just couldn't quiet catch it!! Now if I could juts catch Layla smiling on camera lol. :) enjoy! OH, and yes... that is red hair. Both Layla and Mal have quite a bit of it. We'll see how long it lasts!!

Father Daughter Dance and 1st Sleep Over!

Last Friday Avery and Chad went to the Father Daughter Dance at the trac in Pasco. I was so glad they got to go together. Avery looked so pretty in her new dress! It took Katy and I a whiel to get her hair to do much of anthing lol. I am so thankful for the time that Avery gets to spend with her Daddy. I hope this becomes a tradition every year. Jeremy (Uncle Norris) and Mia came over from Olympia and he took Sage to the dance too. Mike and Gracie went, and Dan took his two girls. It was nice to have a little bit of time at Katy's with just the mom's!! Well, and Jo, Eli, Cole, Ethan, Hayden, Charlie..... lol. It was nice anyway.

After the Dance, Jo decided that he wanted to have a sleep over with Avery, so we brought him home with us to try it out. It actually went really well! We had a little rough patch at about 2 in the morning and both him and Avery ended up sleeping with me lol, but he woke up in a great mood and him and Avery had a lot of fun! Here are a couple pictures of Jo in his pretty pink jammies (he had a little accident the night before...) and Avery with her beautiful bed head morning hair going on. She had lots of hairspray in her hair the night before!! lol. I think these will make some pretty good blackmail pictures in the future.

Birthday Cakes and Big Girl Beds!!

I can't believe my baby is 2!!! Avery turned two years old yesterday. We had a big birthday party on the 14th with Joey and Coleslaw, but we decided to have a little party at home on her actual birthday. I made a little cake, and we got her a big girl bed (btw Andrea, thank you so much for the princess stuff!! she loves it). She was so excited when we went to pick it out. And of course the first thing she wanted to do was jump on it. Tonight is her first night sleeping on it, and surprisingly, she fell asleep about ten minutes after I shut the lights out!!! I was shocked. I knew she'd like it, but I figured she'd try to get out. We'll see how tomorrow at nap time goes. Happy Birthday girly!!! I love you more then you know :)

Fun weekend

This last weekend, my friend Jen and I went over to the Seattle area to visit a friend of mine I haven't seen for a long time. Whitney was up for a few days from Folsom, CA. Her daughter Dayna is such a ham. She is adorable! We had lots of fun. Here are a few pictures from the short trip.

Jen and Mallory

Whitney and Layla

Avery and Dayna

And!!! I am at Katy's house, so I'm finally able to put up the video of Avery on the bungee. So here ya go!

Party Time!!

Last Saturday we had a birthday party for Avery, Joey, and Cole and Garland's Gymnastics in Kennewick. It was so much fun, Chad and I have said that we're doing it there every year!! The kids all loved it, and Avery especially loved the sling shot part. My cousins, Dawn and Mo, also came over for the weekend and stayed with Katy. I spent most of the weekend there visiting with them. it was a lot of fun!

Avery never took that sucker out of her mouth. She didn't even take it out to blow out her candles lol.




This was definitely her favorite part. She's getting ready to bungee across the room. I have a video but can't put it up...dial up...

She really liked the zip line too. I was surprised she was able to hold on all by herself!

This picture cracks me up. I wish I'd a gotten a good one of her looking at me. After she went down the slide her hair was full of static.

My cousin Dawn with the twins.

Cousin Mo with the twins.


Layla and Mallory after a bath. Can you tell who's who???



The babies are doing so well. Growing fast! I'm not sure how much they weigh, but I know that they are a LOT bigger then they were a month ago lol. They're smiling now, of course I can't catch it on camera, and they are cooing a lot. I'm planning on taking them and Avery in soon for Avery's 2 year picture, and their first photos, so I'll be putting those up as soon as I get them!

Tough kid I got here...

Avery has had it pretty rough the last week or so. She got her finger slammed in a door, she fell of Chad and I's bed the other day, and then at my mom and dad's last Saturday she got burnt on the fireplace. Not sure exactly how she got it, but it looked like it hurt! Poor kid. She's pretty tough though. she hasn't complained at all about the finger or the burn. Her back is better now, it's kind of scabbed over. It never blistered, which was made it easier to take care of!! but it looked pretty ugly there for a while. Here's a picture of that burn a day or two after it happened.

Chocolate Face

I always figured I was the biggest sweet tooth/chocoholic that there was. That is until I had my first daughter. Avery loves loves loves loves loves chocolate. Well, anything sweet really. I gave her a tiny little cup the other day with some chocolate chips in it because I was making brownies and she HAD to have some. I didn't realize such a small amount of chocolate could make such a huge messy face lol. She's not exactly the cleanest eater out there... Love you kiddo!