Happy Birthday

My 26th birthday was on January 9th and we had a great time celebrating! Levi made me a great pancake breakfast while I got to play all morning with Avery! We went to lunch at my favorite sandwich shop"Neds Krazy subs" YUM! Then we visited with some family and friends! That night we got the best babysitter in town Peggy(Levi's mom) to watch Avery and we went and saw Avatar! It was full of action plus a love story. We both enjoyed the movie!
We got a giant cupcake pan at a white elephant gift exchange for Christmas so Levi made me a giant cupcake for my birthday. It was so tasty!

Merry Christmas

This Christmas we stayed here and hung out with Levi's family. It was alot of fun to have his whole family in town! It was our first Christmas with Avery and it was a blast. Avery wasn't to into her gifts but she sure loved the wrapping paper. Avery was so spoiled first by her parents, then by grandparents, then by aunts and uncles, then by cousins, and you could never leave out Santa! She got a lot of fun toys and adorable clothes plus money! Here are some pictures from our awesome Christmas!

Christmas morning

Avery enjoying her play center

Avery destroying Santas beard. She sat on Santas lap at our ward party and at our family Christmas party and both times she pulled his beard off!

Hatch Family photo

Avery was a sweet angel for the nativity

All the great grandkids putting on the nativity. It sure was tough trying to get a picture of all of them together. There was always one child running back to mom and dad! Good thing Avery had her dad right behind her.

A little late but here is Thanksgiving

This year we went to Utah for Thanksgiving. We were a little worried about the long drive with Avery but she was a champ and did really well in the car and there were not any freak-outs! We saw a couple of friends but mostly hung out with family! My mom makes the best Thanksgiving dinner ever. We had everything you could think of! Levi and I even contributed to the dinner by making Levi's Grandma's recipe of pomegranate salad..........DELICIOUS!

Avery had a good time seeing all of her cousins! I think they liked to see her to. All of Avery's cousins(ages 8 months to 7 years) tried out her Bumbo chair. It was pretty funny, too bad we didn't get any pictures of that.

Levi and my dad did a lot of work on my car. We are so thankful for my dad. He always checks out my car when we visit and he usually ends up doing a lot of maintenance on it. It definitely saves us a lot of money! Thanks Dad!

We saw the movie The Blindside. It was pretty good and funny. The last thing we did was get haircuts and I got my hair dyed DARK! Well dark for me. We did it twice. I wanted a slight tint of red when you saw it in the sun, but it turned out a little purple so the second time we put some more dark in it and it turned out pretty dark. It looked almost black but it has washed out some and I like it.

Reed wanted to hold Avery every chance he could get.

It was chilly in Utah so we had to keep Avery bundled up!

Avery hanging out with Grandpa

This is one of the few pictures we got of Avery smiling.

Avery rolling around with her cousin Daxton

Avery 4 months

One of my friends at work is getting into photography and she took some pictures of Avery! It was kind of hard getting Avery to cooperate she either had to be held was crying or had a pacifier in her mouth. So here are a few of the pictures that turned out well. Thanks Noelle! Check out her photography blog here
There were a lot of other pictures I tried to upload but it wouldn't work so these are the two you get. We also just took Avery to her 4 month appointment and she is doing great. She now weighs 14 pounds 6 ounces and is 26 1/2 inches long! Avery just learned how to roll over onto her tummy! Every time you put her down she rolls over then she gets upset because she can't get back onto her back.

Halloween

We had a great Halloween this year. I was a little sad because we didn't dress up this year like we usually do, but Avery did. Avery was a little duck! She was so cute and fun. We went to grandma's trunk-or-treat at her ward one night. Then in our ward we had a fall festival where we did a booth and all the kids came dressed in their costumes and got candy. We carved a PUMPKIN! It was a pirate ship with a skull in the middle. Then on Halloween we visited some friends and family since Avery really isn't old enough to trick-or-treat or eat candy!

Avery got a little scared when she saw Thing 1 and Thing 2

Happy Halloween

Avery at 3 months

Uncle Art and Avery

All of our family doesn't get to see Avery every day, and our family in Utah and elsewhere has been bugging us to put up some updated photos of her. She has been so much fun lately. Recently she has found her hands. She loves to put her fingers in her mouth. She drools all the time and all over everything! I hope that doesn't mean that she will be getting her teeth soon. She is showing more of an interest in toys that she can hold on to. We also have a play mat that has a mirror on it and she loves to stare at herself in it (probably because she is so cute). Avery also got to meet her Uncle Art for the first time. Art seemed pretty excited to have a new baby in the family. Art seems a little baby hungry while waiting for his baby boy to arrive in February. Here are a couple photos we have taken recently.....

Bow/clip holder

I recently learned how to make flower clips for Avery. So I have made a bunch of hair clips but then I had them scattered all throughout the house. I decided to gather all the clips up and store them in a box. However, I would totally forget about them and never put them on Avery. So I found a cute idea HERE! And Voila........this is how mine turned out!