Happy Birthday Beth

We hope you are having a wonderful birthday, Beth. You are such a talented and caring friend, among many other things! Enjoy your day!! :)



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Happy Easter Bunny!

We just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Easter (or Happy Easter Bunny or Happy Easter Egg as Avery calls it!). We had our Easter one day early this year as Matt left today for Boston. He seems to always get out of spending Easter with us! Ha Ha I know it is just as hard for him to leave us today as it is for us to spend it without him again. We still did all the Easter fun while he was here though. And this year, Avery as actually able to help dye her own eggs. I think at Tim and Tammi's last year, she and Evan spent most of the time playing in the dog kennels! Today, Avery and I are heading to our friends' Joy and James house for Easter dinner and a little Easter egg hunt for the kids. We hope everyone has a wonderful day. Enjoy the pictures.

Before

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During (well, after the eggs have already been dyed. I thought it best not to have a camera out during the egg dying process)

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As you will see from the following pictures, my DAUGHTER picked out a Spiderman egg dying kit. Yes, my DAUGHTER LOVES Spiderman. Go figure?!

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Close up

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Daddy and Avery with the finished product.

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After eating some candy the Easter bunny brought...of course it's always great to give your child candy at 7:30 in the morning!!

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All dressed up for church.

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There's that smile. :)

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Seeing her basket for the first time. Happy Easter bunny! :)

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I can't catch it!

As I've mentioned numerous times before, my daughter cracks me up. Much like other 2 1/2 year olds I'm sure. Well this next video doesn't capture the funniest moments in her flashlight escapade. As usual, when I went to grab the camera it was almost too late. I did catch a little bit of the comedy but to fill you in on what is going on: I bought Avery an Elmo flashlight at the BX and she absolutely LOVED it. On a side note, it's a good thing we bought it because the very next day we had a power outage here and that was the first flashlight we grabbed! In this video, she is attempting to "catch" the light from the flashlight. At one point, before the video was rolling, she was spinning around so fast she ran smack in to our couch! She doesn't quite grasp the concept that the light is coming from Elmo's mouth. I hate to compare our daughter to a dog, but much like a dog chases the light from a flashlight, well, so does Avery Grace! Enjoy our little goof ball!


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A Big, Not so New, Announcement

I'm trying to get back on track to the blogging world! Here's a little update on what we've been up to these past few months (aside from moving!):

As many of you already know, Matt and I are expecting our second child in August. We tried to contact as many people personally as we could, but it seems word spread like wild fire! Thanks to all of you who sent us warm wishes and congratulations. I am currently 19 weeks along and due on August 12th. We are currently trying to prepare little Avery for the role of big sister. Since we won't find out the sex for quite a few more weeks, Avery has nicknamed her new baby sister/brother "baby squirt". She cracks me up! And she also keeps changing her mind as to which she would prefer, a baby brother or baby sister.

I've had two checkups and, aside from the dreaded morning sickness, everything is going very well. Thankfully the morning sickness subsided a few weeks ago and now I'm eating everything in sight! Avery and I are just enjoying our days together before baby Squirt's big arrivel. Now that I finally feel well we are definitely taking advantage of our nice weather. Enjoy the pictures! I'm going to do my best to post pictures and videos more regularly now. Our house is mostly in order and I am feeling much better, but getting back in the habit of posting has been a little more difficult than I thought.

Thanks for checking in on us.

Baby Squirt at 11 weeks 2 days. It looks like a blob to me, but apparently his/her head is on the left, body on the right. Go figure?!?! Ha Ha

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Me at 17 weeks. :)

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Fun in the Sun

I know I'm still behind on so many posts, but I wanted to get at least something up on the blog since it's been so long! We are pretty well settled in the new house, just a few small things left to do. We have upgraded in the sense that we can now talk on the phone and browse the internet at the same time! What a concept! I still don't have access to my computer, so for now I'm using Matt's. Hopefully this issue will be resolved in the near future. But for now, I wanted to get some pictures up of Avery!

We have had the most beautiful weather the past few days so we have been trying to take advantage. I really sympathize with those of our family and friends still in the dead of winter....BUT we are so thankful to be able to enjoy the outdoors year-round while we are out here in sunny CA. Enjoy the pictures and for those of you with snow on the ground, you are all welcome to come visit and share the sun!

The shirt says it all. :)

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What a ham!

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Getting ready to run through her Elmo sprinkler.

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Splish Splash

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Slip Slidin' away

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After a long day of playing in the sun, it's time for a snack!

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MIA

Hello everyone! I just wanted to do a quick post to let you all know that we are still alive! I apologize because there will be no pictures on this post. I know I have a million posts to catch up on but right now, our house is in shambles. We've been without internet for over a week (I know, how did we survive!!), but thankfully we are up and running now....sort of. We are currently sharing our phone line with our DSL so we can only get on a few times a day to check things out. We moved last week, and it seemed to sneak up on me quite quickly. Thankfully it's all over with and now comes the fun of painting, decorating and finding everything the movers misplaced. Sometimes I think they do this on purpose as a funny trick on the people they move. However, most of the time I just think they don't care and want to go home. Everything is starting to come together but we have a long way to go. Hopefully we will get our internet situation figured out soon and I can start to post some pictures.

We hope all is well with you!

Love,
Kim, Matt and Avery Grace

Happy New Year!

I hope everyone was able to enjoy the beauty and wonder of the Christmas season and may this new year be prosperous for us all! We are still enjoying my dad's company...but only for a few more days. He leaves on Saturday so I thought I should start posting pictures of his visit now in order to try and stay ahead of the game. I have a ton to post (imagine that) so I will do my best to condense them.

Here are just a few snapshots of Avery and her Grandpa spending some time together.

"Grandpa lap"

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We headed to Solvang, the usual place we take visitors when they come. It's such a neat little town with many different and unusual shops and restaurants. There are also the cheesy, typical tourist traps, but we enjoy the atmosphere.

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Stories before bedtime.

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Merry Christmas Eve. Avery "hamin' it up" with Grandpa under the tree.

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Merry Christmas

We hope everyone had a wonderful, plentiful, blessed Christmas day. Santa certainly didn't miss our house this year...Avery Grace was one spoiled little girl! We've had a wonderful day spending time with my Dad, relaxing and enjoy the 24 hours of A Christmas Story. :)

We miss all of our family and friends dearly. We are so happy that we have family out here with us, it makes the holidays that more special! Enjoy the pictures! There will be more to come. :)

I forgot!!!

We also went to see the Grinch at the BX on Friday. At first Avery was scared of him, which is why mommy had to be in the picture too. But by the end of our visit, she had warmed up to him a little more. What did she care? She got to eat cake before lunch! Ha Ha