Swingset!!

While Grandma and Grandpa were here, they got Avery an early birthday present...a swingset! She was over the moon excited about being able to swing in her own backyard, and I was just as thrilled. Now I didn't have to go to the "park with swings" everyday, or at least here about how we couldn't go! We go outside almost every day to swing on her new toy. Thank you so much Grandma and Grandpa!! These are the last few pictures of their visit as well. It seems as though I didn't take as many pictures as I had originally thought. Oh well, we did get some good ones just the same!

Today we are heading to a preschool in Orcutt for Avery (and daddy and mommy) to check out. She is so excited but my heart is aching!! I can't believe my little munchkin is ready for preschool. She won't officially start until the fall, after Baby Squirt is born, but we wanted to do some research on different schools in the area before making a decision. I think it will be good for her to have some time to play with friends and do things by herself, while baby and I get some quality time together as well. Hopefully all goes well! Right now, I think she thinks Matt and I will be going with her so when the actual day comes, I'm praying that she'll be all right.

Anyway, enjoy the pictures of Grandma and Grandpa's visit!

This is awesome!

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Look how big and strong I am!

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Grandma taking her turn to push.

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Going down the big slide.

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One last picture with Grandma and Grandpa. :(

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Mommy, Avery and Daddy. She looks much happier with Grandma and Grandpa doesn't she?? Little stinker!!

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Wine Tasting

Needless to say, the day after the launch we didn't do much. We all took naps and then headed up to San Luis Obispo for the Farmer's Market that evening. We ate some yummy BBQ and bought all kinds of yummy things to bring home. On Saturday, we took Tom and Rose wine tasting. We had a wonderful time and I was at least able to smell the wine! We brought home so many bottles of wine, and once the baby is born I will most definitely be enjoying some. The first winery we went to was absolutely gorgeous. I'll try to keep the pictures to a minimum, but I can't promise!!

Avery was a trooper the whole day, she did so well. She kept cracking us up because every time we got in the car she kept asking if we were going "wine tastin". :) Thankfully that stopped after a few days.

P.S. I wish I could remember all the winery names, but I can't at the moment!! We went to four and they were all within a half hour of our house.

The ladies at the first winery adored Avery, so we ended up taking home a mardi gras mask and 3 bead necklaces! Here is Avery showing off her fancy new accessories. What a ham!

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Grandma Rose and Avery posing by one of the beautiful entryways to the winery.

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Mommy and me! Poor baby Squirt is probably getting squished while I posed for the picture. Ha ha

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Me and my Sweet Pea

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Smile!

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Grandma Rose and Avery, showing off the beautiful landscaping of one of the wineries.

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Just being a goof!

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The whole family. :)

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Missile Launch

The night Grandma Rose and Grandpa Tom got in to town, there was a launch here at the base. Matt was on the launch team, so we all ventured out at 2:00am to watch the "rocket ship" (as Avery calls it). Avery was a trooper and actually stayed awake the entire time. Thankfully, as soon as we got back home at around 3:30am, she went right back to sleep. It was such a neat thing to see up close and am so proud that my husband was a part of it. It's one of those times when you get chills to think how wonderful this country is (even in the state it is today) and how proud I am to call myself a military spouse.

The missile launch.


What a little trooper. By the way, I forgot to mention how cold it was that night! I think it was in the 40's with the windchill. And to those of us in CA, that's cold!! I have already forgotten how cold cold can be from living in WY!

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The gang....on the left are our friends Stacy and Grant (I think they tried to avoid the picture!), Grandpa Tom is in the middle back and Grandma Rose and Avery on the right.

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Last of OH

These are officially the last pictures from our trip to OH. Being in CA and WY where it is typically dry, we don't get the mass amounts of worms all over our yard. If it does rain, we will occasionally see some slithering across the sidewalk. With this said, these last pictures are with Meemaw and Papa exploring the underside of the sandbox. What do you think we found? :)

Wow, look at all those yucky bugs!

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Look what I've got, mom!

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Papa, Meemaw, Avery and "the worm".

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Papa and Avery playing on the swingset.

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Video of Avery and her friend "the worm". She's such a curious little girl, but what cracks me up is that one minute she'll want to play princesses and the next she'll want to play with bugs! She's a well rounded little girl, I guess. :)

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Almost done

I promise, I'm almost done with our visit to OH! It's been a whirlwind these past couple of weeks. Matt's parents came to town and as soon as they left, we took a mini family vacation to San Diego. I have many pictures to share from that, but for now enjoy some more pictures from OH.

Since it's been so long ago now, I forget what day this is, BUT we were able to spend some time at Michelle and Eric's house for dinner. Avery, Alexis and Riley had a great time playing together and we also discovered that Avery can drive! Ha Ha Riley has a ride on 4-wheeler and much to our surprise, (oh, who am I kidding? It's Avery we're talking about here!) when we weren't looking Avery figured out how to manuever the vehicle. It was quite a comical site, after making sure everyone involved was all right. Of course, no one had a video camera rolling at the time but we all laughed hysterically.

Riley helping Avery drive the 4 wheeler.

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Very proud of herself.

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Safely riding on the back while Riley drives!

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Changing gears a little (no pun intended!), Avery and I met up with my dad for lunch one afternoon before we left. Between the 10 bathroom visits, we were still able to enjoy a nice lunch with Grandpa Randy.

Same expression. Can you tell they are related? :)

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Me and my ham.

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