Major Catch Up

Well blogging world, I am still alive.  I know  you were starting to wonder!  I got looking through some of my pictures and realized I have not posted anything this year yet!  Here it is almost April and I have nothing.  Well you are in for Averie Overload.  Here we go!

Christmas:  I can't believe I am posting about Christmas in MARCH.  Oh boy.  Well I will only bore you with 2 adorable pictures.  Averie was an absolute ball this year for Christmas.  It is so fun to have her in our family. 

 Our "Dino Princess".  This girl loves everything girlie and DINOSAURS!  She is OBSESSED with Land Before Time.  Did you know that there are 12 Land Before Time movies on Netflix?!?  I wish I didn't!!  I keep trying to get her to watch the Disney movies and she yells, "NO!  I want to watch Dinosaurs!!"  Of course when I saw these dinosaur slippers, I just had to get them.

 Speaking of dinosaurs, we were able to go to the Dinosaur Museum in Thanksgiving Point.  Averie was so excited, but that excitement quickly turned to fear as she thought there might be real "Sharp Teeth" inside.  It took us about 30 minutes to convince her that there were not going to be any "real" dinosaurs. 

 Here she is digging for bones.

 She got to ride on "Sara"

 Another fun thing that we were able to do is go to one of the Bounce House Play Places.  Averie had a blast.  I'm pretty sure we will be doing this for her birthday party this year.

 Valentine's Day:
Did your mom ever tell you not to eat too much candy because it will make you sick?  Well Averie proved this statement on Valentine's Day.  She had about 4 pixie sticks and then just puked out of nowhere.  Mother of the Year Award goes to me for allowing her to injest all of that sugar.

Aquarium:
We took Averie to the Aquarium about a year ago, but I had a day off of work and decided to take her again with my mom.  Averie had a blast!

 Dance:
Averie loves to dance so I figured it would be a great idea to put her in a dance class.  It didn't really work out as well as I had hoped.  She really wasn't that into it so I decided to put her in a Tumbling Class instead.  SHE LOVES IT!  It is so fun to see her practice the things she has learned.  And how cute is she in her little leotard?

Now that the weather has started to warm up, sort of, we have taken full advantage of living so close to a park.  Averie loves going down the slide and climbing up and down everything like a monkey.

Here is Miss Averie before Church this week.  I am LOVING that she is FINALLY smiling for the camera!  What a goof!

 

Well for now that is all I have to post about.  We are going to Vegas in a couple of weeks so I should have another post right around the corner.

Fall 2012

We nearly missed it, but we finally got ourselves up the canyon to take some pictures of the fall colors.  Don't worry, most of the leaves were on the ground, but  they did make a nice background.

 

Time to catch up

Life has been crazy and I have been MIA in the blogging world.  Things have been so chaotic with work and a busy 2 year old makes it almost impossible to have time to myself.  I don't mind though, just look at this little angel.

Averie is one fun little girl.  I feel bad that I have neglected all you from the last few months with her.  She is quite the talker and has such a fun personality.  The tantrums have slowed down a bit...Thank Goodness!  She still has her moments, but the fun Averie definitely outweighs the other side.

We have been up to some fun adventures this summer.  One of the things you all should go do if you haven't already is take a visit over to Kennecott.  The mine is literally 10 minutes from my house and we have never been there in the past 5 years.  We decided to finally take a trip to the mine to see it up close and personal.  It is a pretty incredible site.

This was one of Averie;s "questionable days".  She was ok, but site seeing wasn't the most exciting thing for a 2 year old.

Can we go home yet Mom?

The huge tires of the trucks up at the mine.

Our attempt to get a picture of Averie by the tire.

One thing Averie loved at the mine was the site seeing viewers.  She liked them almost a little too much.

This summer we found a great four wheeling trail right by our house.  It is awesome because we don't have to load the quads up and go anywhere.  I didn't take any pics of the ride, but I did snap a couple of Little Miss before take off.

Our most recent adventure was the trip to the zoo.  We haven't taken Averie this year so I was totally excited to take her to see all the animals that she talks about all the time.  Little tid bit of advise, don't go to the zoo at the end of September.  Don't go at 1:00.  There were so many people I thought I was going to have an anxiety attack!  Plus the kids are ruthless! Averie would wait patiently by the windows waiting to see the animals and just as we got close enough to see anything, kids would just push in front of her!  Urgh.  I just wanted to push them out of the way.  Haha.  Like I said, don't go to the zoo when there are 3 million people there.  A.W.F.U.L.

I love that Averie is starting to "pose" for pictures.  No more screaming and crying when she sees the camera!  Yay!

  

Averie loved the Sea Lions.  We sat and watch them for probably 20 minutes.  There were two that were playing and jumping all over the place.  They were by far the most exciting part of the zoo.

My little Teddy Bear.

Oh Averie, how I love your facial expressions.

Here are some more pictures of Averie and her best buddy in the whole world, "Dargent".

Cheese!

Making a fort in the family room.

"Give em the face Dargent.  Pose"

"Dargent!!  Don't Kiss!"

Yes, I really am this cute!

Awwww!  Best Friends.  It might be more one sided on Averie's part, but how could Sergeant not like the attention?

Well that was a quick update, but I just wanted to let everyone know that we are alive and well.  I hope everyone had a great summer!