My Baby is 2!

I can't believe my baby's 2! She is such a handful, yet our little angel! We love her so much! She is so smart and doing so well in many things. She still loves singing her ABC's... counting to 13... Barney Songs.. and any we make up! Dancing is her new favorite thing... wearing her fun Tu-Tu's... dressing up with her crown and dress up shoes! Even though she gets into EVERYTHING.. and we have to watch her like a hawk... she still is so sweet and loving. Always saying please and thank you.. and giving lots of hugs and kisses! She is our little Princess and we all love her so much!

We are in for it!

Boy am I in for it! Can I tell you all the stories I've heard about the terrible two's? I never had to experience it with Preston. Honestly, he never went through them! He was such an easy and good child.. those of you who know him can attest! I thought all of you who told me your horror stories were just being wimps, that 2 year old's aren't as bad as you all made them out to be! ha! ha! UNTIL NOW! Avery has been two what? All of a week? Well, now I know.. you were all being honest with me! :) If this is what 2 year olds do.... I'M IN FOR IT!

This is Avery... putting on lotion! She LOVES lotion, which is fine... unless she sneaks the Brand New Tube of BUTT CREAM! Yep! But cream! I guess her face is going to be awfully soft! ha! ha! No rashes on that cute face! Heaven Help Me! ha! ha! At least it wasn't the bottle of Nick's Wart remover this time... and the second time... Yep! Two bottles of wart remover were all over her New Cute Clothes, our bed, pillows and her! She thought she was painting her nails! Just shoot me now! ha! ha! But how can you not love her? Look at that cute little INNOCENT face! These photos are even with a lot of it already wiped off! I blame it all on Nick! Preston was a fabulous child.. Never caused me any grief! It's Nick's blood in this child that is paying him back for all the trouble he caused his mother! ha! ha! So why do I have to experience his paybacks? ha! ha! I think it's going to be an eventful couple of years! Wouldn't you say????

Avery turns 2.. and a Trip to Lava!

Wow! What a whirl wind this past little while has been! At the beginning of the month, Nick’s Mom came to visit for Avery’s Birthday and will be here all month! We are so excited! We love it when she visits and hate to see her go! We really wished they would move here… HINT! HINT! Ha! Ha! Avery and I went to pick her up and as you can tell Avery was very excited to see her Grandma Monie! She ran to her yelling, “Grandma! Grandma!” It was very cute! So she jumped up on her lap and gave her a big hug! She loves her so much!
Preston is still playing basketball, so it was fun to have his Grandma here to watch! Avery is a crack up because she will follow him up and down the court yelling, “Hi Bubba!” Preston acts a little embarrassed… but we know he just eats it up! He loves his little sister and she thinks he walks on water!

We also took a fun trip down to Cabela's and Avery LOVED it! She was running all over looking at all the animals, and we couldn't get her out of the fish tank.. everything was, "Daddy's Fish!" Pretty funny! For Avery’s Birthday we told Ramona that we were going up to Rex’s in Lava for the weekend to celebrate. She knew Nick’s sister Kathy, and great family friend Tami were coming into town too.. so we thought it would be fun to go up there where we could all hang out.. all at the same house… little did she know we also had some other things up our sleeves!  Me? Never! Ha! Ha! Nick’s Niece and I, Lalena thought it would be great to have all the family that could also come in for the weekend because Ramona was also turning 80 on the 17th and we wanted to do something special for her! We didn’t know if we could do it.. but we kept it a secret for 2 whole months.. that was so hard for me as most of you know! Ha! Ha! I get so excited about stuff like this and usually give it up.. but not this time! So Lalena and her Daughter Mary Jane, Nick’s brother George and also his Nephew, Niles and his family were also able to come and visit.. Rex came home from Mexico.. and Nick’s other Brother.. Uncle Bub and Nephew Seneca and his girlfriend Mandy came up with us! It was so fun… until we all got sick with the flu! Little Mary Jane got the flu Thursday night when she got to our house and boy, did it spread like WILDFIRE! So needless to say, little Avery had the flu on her Birthday.. but it didn’t stop her much! She'd get sick... and then get up and start singing her Barney songs and clapping! Yep, She was a trooper! I can tell you this… after a week of cleaning up throw up and having the flu myself.. I need another vacation! Having the flu is Over Rated!

Needless to say, we had a great time visiting with everyone and miss them already! We were able to relax, watch movies and just enjoy each other’s company! I’m so glad they were all able to come and can’t wait until the next time! Avery and I went for a little walk to get some photos for her birthday! There was so much snow, and not too many places to go.. hope you enjoy! I can’t believe my Baby is already 2 Years Old!

When we got home Monday.. we had another birthday party for her with my family and Ramona and Uncle Bub came too… it was pretty fun! Thanks to everyone for making her birthday special! We love our families so much! I know I say this often.. but we are both very blessed to have such great families! So Happy Birthday Avery and Happy 80th Birthday Mom! We love you!

I took Avery out again the other day by our house and tried to take some cute photos for her birthday.. she wouldn’t smile much… note to self.. don’t try and have a photo session during nap time! Ha! Ha! I think they still turned out cute! She’s getting so big!

The rest of the photos are coming soon! There are so many to sift through.. but they are worth waiting for! ha! ha! At least I think so! I'll get them on here monday.. they are on my other computer!

Finally Done! Yeah!

Okay! So the decorating and putting the rooms back together is FINALLY DONE! I am so glad! Here are the photos of the kids rooms! Enjoy! I hope you like it! You'll have to let me know what you think! There is a cute little funny below the slide show.... Our little Avery just keeps us cracking up!

On an end note... Last night Nick and I were watching the Bachelor.. WAY TOO INTENTLY! ha! ha! Anyway.. we heard some papers wrestling around and we looked over and there was little Miss Avery.. in her favorite spot.. the laundry basket.. where she watches Barney.. or just sits and plays with toys, reads books.. you name it... anyway... this is what she was doing! Can I tell you... Nick was a very proud father at this moment! He said this is a moment when she is just like her father! Okay! What ever! ha! ha! He thinks she's going to be this little Miss Fisher Woman when she grows up... who knows.. maybe she will! She LOVES to fish and gets so excited with Fishies... as she calls them! Pretty cute though huh? She was very intent with this paper.. and talking to all the fishies that were in it! We got a good chuckle out of it and thought those who know our family so well would too! Like father like daughter I guess!