Halloween 2011

The kids and I were in Utah this year for Halloween (Levi had to work :( BOO!) He sure was missed, but we still managed to have a good time. Avery was Dorothy and Mason was a scarecrow. They sure were cute! My mom made Avery’s Dorothy braids to keep her head warm. I was really surprised that she actually kept it on all night long. Avery went to a couple of Halloween parties. Once she realized that Halloween was for dressing up, playing games, and getting candy she was all about it. All October long every time we left the house Avery would say, “I want to see a Spooky house” which meant that she wanted to see a house that was all decorated. So everywhere we went I had to yell out, “look a spooky house.” I loved that she was getting into Halloween and loved to see every ones decorations. After seeing the decorations all month long I thought she wouldn’t be to spooked by them on Halloween night. Nope, I was wrong! She was okay at first but once one of the houses had some noise and some things that jumped out at her it was all over. To her that meant that every house with any decorations was really scary. Even if it had a cute little pumpkin she sure wasn’t going to walk to that door alone. Thank goodness we went trick or treating with my brother Danny and His family and my brother Brad because my back definitely couldn't have taken all the carrying of Avery that Brad had to do! Thanks Brad! Aunt Elise was even nice enough to pull Avery pretty much the whole night in their wagon! Thanks again! It is always so much fun to see Avery with her cousins and to see how much she loves them. I had a great time with all of my family and even got to see a lot of old friends!

Playing with Reed and Cache

Cutest scarecrow ever!

Dorothy and the Scarecrow

The group

Buzz, Woody, Dorothy, and The Scarecrow

Thank goodness for wagons!

BOO….B

I have a green wooden word that says ”BOO” out for Halloween to decorate a little bit and Avery the little smarty pants that she is brought it to me and said, “This is a B” I said, “yup it sure is”. Then I told her that the whole word said Boo. She kept looking at the word then at me. Letting her mind work. Then she said,”This says Boo (Then a short pause followed by) “B”. So all month long she has been going around with the word in hand saying, “This says Boo B”

HaPpY HaLlOwEeN

Pumpkin Patch

In October we took Avery to the Pumpkin Patch. We had a really good time along with Avery. I can’t say that Mason enjoyed it but he was really content sitting in his stroller(But what’s new? He is always content). First Avery got her face painted with a cute pumpkin, then we headed over to see all the animals.

Avery loved seeing the GIGANTIC  pot belly pig. She kept squealing at it. I on the other hand liked to see the little baby piglets, even though pigs are pretty DISGUSTING the babies were pretty cute!

Avery and I took a hay ride around the pumpkin patch while Levi and Mason took a little rest.

They had a little hay maze that was built short so you could see where the kids were at. It was really cute to see Avery telling Levi to follow her. She made it through the whole maze with Levi doing as told and following her.

hmmm which pumpkin should I pick?

Then Avery got to pick her very own pumpkin which she then decorated with stickers! To end the day Avery jumped and jumped and jumped in the bounce house!

ABC Sing With Me

Avery LOVES to sing. This is her singing the ABC's(Super Why version). Don't mind the crazy hair and the PJ's, she just got out of the bath tub. Also please excuse Mason screaming in the background.
Every week Avery goes to a group called Music Makers which she loves! She always asks if we are going to music makers. She is a little shy each time we go but she warms up pretty fast. At music makers we sing songs, listen to a few stories, get a snack, and play time of course
Averys favorite songs right now are:
Twinkle Twinkle
Jesus wants me for a sunbeam
Popcorn popping
I am a child of God
LA LA LA
ABC'S
We are the dinosaurs
She can sing every word in all those songs. She amazes me each day with what she is saying and doing. Oh yeah one other funny thing she did we were driving in the car and the Vanilla Ice song Ice Ice Baby came on and Avery was grooving right along singing Ice Ice Baby! Then she would shout at us to raise the roof and to nod our heads! Now whenever we get in the car she says,"Lets do baby Ice" Avery is HiLaRiOuS!!!! We love her to death!

Toy Box

I found this box at JoAnnes on clearance and thought I would make Avery a toy box for her room. I forgot to take a picture before I decorated the lid but you get the picture. This is the first time that I have used mod podge and let me tell you that stuff is amazing! The box wasn’t really square so it took me a while to cut the angles just right.

Finished toy box

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We have taken a few trips to the splash pad to cool off during the EXTREME HEAT WARNING!

Avery’s friend Jude came with us! Avery made sure we stopped for an ice cream on the way home!

Levi’s Birthday Pinetop

For Levi’s birthday he took Friday off and we went to Pinetop. It is always so nice to get out of the heat!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

This is the only picture we took on Levi’s Birthday.

These two got some much needed naps and cuddle time, while Avery and I spent some time outside going for walks, finding caterpillars, spotting bears(carved wood ones) and swinging.

We walked to the lake to feed the ducks

Levi pulled Avery and Mason on quite a few wagon rides

It was so nice and relaxing to get out of Mesa for the weekend. We should have waited on more week because the day we got home started a two week extreme heat warning of temps above 110.