Back to OH

With Matt's parents coming in to town today, I figured I'd better hurry up and finish my trip to OH since we will be taking many more pictures with Grandma Rose and Grandpa Tom!

Monday and Tuesday of our visit were pretty relaxing (aside from Avery getting sick Tuesday night). We spent all of Monday with Meemaw (my mom) and Tuesday we were able to hang out with Mae and her daughter, Lily. It was so great to spend so much time with them since I'd never met Lily! We usually only meet for dinner so to spend the whole day was a treat. Avery absolutely loved Meemaw and Papa's swingset and wanted to show Lily some tricks when she came to visit too! I'm so excited to see her reaction to her little sister's arrival in August. Yes, I can't believe I forgot to post this on our blog earlier, but we did find out last month we are having another little girl. Matt has already conjured up ways to ward off the boys! Ha Ha Anyway, enjoy the pictures! We'll be back with more from OH and then our visit with Grandma Rose and Grandpa Tom this week.

Meemaw helping Avery up the slide.

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Going up the right way "all by self"!

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My mom and Jeff have an oversized Elmo and Lily couldn't get enough! Of course Avery had to join in on the fun too. :)

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Avery and Lily enjoying the nice weather.

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Trying to be a big helper.

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Extreme close up of the cutie!

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Mae and her little Lily-bug (as they affectionately call her)! She has the most beautiful blue eyes!!

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P.S. Yes, most of the pictures on here are date stamped 2004. Sometimes my old camera did that, but thankfully my husband bought me a new one for Mother's Day and we shouldn't have that problem anymore!!

Happy One Year Birthday Lily!!

WOW! I can't believe you are already a year old, Lily! We had such a great time playing with you last month and we miss you already. You are such a beautiful girl!!

Break from OH Trip

I have a ton more pictures to post from OH, but I wanted to take a break real quick to show off my new toy. Matt and Avery got me a new camera for Mother's Day and I love it!! I've taken it on some of our recent adventures. The first one is at the "park with swings". We only have about three parks on base that have actual swings and lately Avery has been obsessed with swinging. I think we've finally decided to get a swing set for our back yard so we don't always have to go to the park. She had a blast swinging while Daddy pushed (apparently he pushes way higher than Mommy).

The next adventure we had was at the base bowling alley. I thought it would be fun to take Avery bowling so we invited a couple of her friends to come with us. Aside from the "Surf Lanes Police" as my friends Stacy and Joy and I called them, we had a great time. The older gentlemen who ran the alley were apparently not so used to have little kids bowl...I'm pretty sure we all got yelled at for some reason or another! This was Avery's first time bowling and I have to say she didn't do too bad. She had a whopping score of 43! Ha Ha Other than battling with housing maintenance issues and power outages, we haven't been up to a whole lot. We've been enjoying the wonderfully nice weather this week. Hopefully it lasts while Matt's parents are out so we can take them to the beach without having to bring our heavy jackets.

Enjoy the pictures and videos!


Avery enjoying the swings. She actually says, "Oh my golly!" this time instead of "Oh my God!". She cracks us up....not even sure where she heard that one.

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She's probably asking "Big one, Daddy?" right here....meaning she wants to go higher on the swing.

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Her next favorite thing...the slide.

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Avery and Alec, waiting patiently to roll their balls down the lane.

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One technique used by Avery.....let's just drop the ball from really high up and see what happens. I'm pretty sure the men who ran the place cringed! Ha Ha

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After seeing her drop the ball, I decided to step in and show her to roll the ball between her legs. That didn't work so well either because the ball was a little too large to fit between her legs. It was a comical sight!

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The proud bowlers; Avery, Alec and Grant.

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Avery's attempt at bowling. I kept telling her to blow on the ball to make it go faster. At one point, one of the balls she threw ended up stopping half way down the lane! Ha Ha

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Visit with my Dad and Grandma

On Sunday, we were able to spend time with my dad. He treated Avery and I to lunch at his yacht club and since it was such a beautiful day, we took Avery to the little park by the lake. She had a great time climbing and swinging with Grandpa. That evening we met up with my grandma and great aunt for dinner. Avery was super excited when we sat down because Grandma Poochie (as she is affectionately called) brought cookies for her. She still talks about that! The little things that amaze a child, I tell ya. Here are a few pictures from our day with my side of the family.

My dad brought my old hobby horse from his basement for Avery to try out. She loved it!! It was so funny to see my daughter playing with something I used as a little girl her age as well. :)

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Playing with Grandpa.

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Climbing the pseudo-rock wall at the yacht club park.

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Peek-a-boo.

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Her face says it all. We desperately need to invest in a swing set for her...she enjoys them so much!

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Me, my grandma, and sticker head Avery at dinner. She was so tired from her fun filled day that I wasn't able to remove all the stickers from her hair until the next day.

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Visit with Matt's family

Since it has officially been a month since our last post, I figured I should probably update the blog! Avery and I had a great time visiting our family and friends in OH. As always, the trip went by far too quickly, but with Baby Squirt on the way, hopefully we'll be seeing our parents again soon. Traveling this time was just a little stressful. All of our flights, both to OH and from, were changed. Very long stories on both ends, but we arrived in both OH and CA safely. It was wonderful for Avery to spend time with her cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents. Speaking of, here are some pictures of Avery hanging out with Matt's side of the family. Avery cooperated for most of them, but some photos were hard to come by! Enjoy!

Avery and Riley...what a cute picture of them both!

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Avery and her cousin Devon. This was about the best picture I could get with them both. He was a little scared of Avery for some reason. Ha Ha She is a little crazy!! :)

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Alexis, Riley and Avery goofing around at Grandma and Grandpa's.

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Michelle, Eric, Alexis, Riley and Avery quickly pose for a picture.

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Trying to get Avery to get a picture with Grandma and Grandpa proved to be very difficult! This was the best shot I could get. They will be coming out to visit in a few weeks so hopefully we'll have plenty of photo opportunities!

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Jon, Jen and Avery. They brought Avery the biggest sidewalk chalk I have ever seen!! It was great...the kids had a blast playing with it at grandma and grandpa's house.

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Alexis and Avery on WWE! Ha Ha They were having a great time wrestling!

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