Fashionista

This morning I told Avery to pick out an outfit and this is what she came back wearing... last year's swim suit and her Daddy's socks. Not quite sure where she picked up these poses but she had me cracking up everytime I told her to smile:)

Shout out to Airman

Watch this link and be inspired! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udaF3Y2N7Xk This picture is old ... and I am loving Scott's turquoise towel. On the right is Erik the star of this youtube video. He is my brother Tyler's best friend and family to me. He is a hero to many and I look up to him for his amazing attitude:)

Splish Splash

Avery fell in love with this shamu pool at the store the other day. I couldn't resist with this nice weather we have had lately. She was soooo excited when we blew it up that she wanted to sleep in it. Scott made it into a little fort bed and she slept in it for a couple hours. She woke up the next morning anxious to fill it up and swim. The water was super cold but she loved it!

Happy St. Patrick's Day

currently reminiscing our good times in Ireland...

Ireland was exactly the way I imagined it ... very green and beautiful.

Our cab driver that picked us up from the airport was for sure a leprechaun, all the clothes in the window displays were green, the food was good and the people were as friendly as ever (of course I loved their accents). We got to camp on the coast line, Scott surfed in the freezing cold water and we visited the Blarney castle. Hopefully we will return some day. In the mean time I will enjoy being Irish on this green holiday:)

The tennis bug

I just started giving Avery tennis lessons. She is totally into it. I think it is time to buy her a smaller racket though, she can hardly hold this one up. Don't you just love the shoes she chose to wear.

Afianced

My brother Tyler is an engaged man as of Friday night!! We are excited for Rachele to join the family:) Happy engagement you two love birds!

Say Cheese

We were at a clothing store when Avery spotted this cute little red bench. She hopped right on it and made this pose. I of course had to capture it:) Look how long she has gotten!

Rock N Rollerin'

We took Avery for her first visit to the roller rink. We were inspired by all of the ice skating we've been watching during the olympics. Avery and Scott did some pretty good imitations of ice dancing out on the rink (which just so happens to be Scott's favorite olympic sport hahaha:) Avery wasn't a bit nervous and loved every minute! We rolled around for about an hour until her tiny quads tired out from her super heavy skates!

***Snow Day***

We made an unexpected stop in a little town called Tehachapi the other week. There was gorgeous snow and we couldn't resist. We hadn't packed any snow clothes so we stopped and bought some gloves, shoes and snow pants for Avery at a local thrift shop (which explains her mis-matched outfit:). Avery had the TIME OF HER LIFE! She loved making snowballs with her Dad (to throw at me) and would run and dive into the snow piles head first. She played until she couldn't feel her feet! I think we will need to visit the snow more often:)

Oh, Oh, Oh the sweetest thing ...

We had the sweetest weekend and the most fabulous Valentine's day. I am in the process of downloading all of my photos to share but had to put this one up in the mean time:) We bought this adorable cupcake down in Laguna on the most perfect beach day ... It was sweet.

La Princesa

This princess dress hides in the back of Avery's closest every day. Anytime she sees it she refuses to wear anything else.

The other day she spotted it when I opened her closet a little too far:) The result was Princess Avery all day long. She danced like a princess the whole afternoon until she passed out on the floor.

Notice her awesome hair do ... she told me that princesses must wear lots of flowers and bows.

BFF

Last weekend we went down to Seal Beach to visit the Christensens. We had a great weekend...played some volleyball, took the girls for a wagon ride, built sand castles, Scott got to surf and Becca and I got some seriously hilarious massages in little Saigon. Thanks for the fun weekend Christensens ... you made us miss the beach and all our friends that much more:)

Vandyland came to town

We had so much fun with the Vandermydes last weekend. We went all over B-field. We took the kiddos to Murray Family farms which they loved and boogied it up at the Crystal Palace. We wish they were our neighbors so we could party all the time. Come back soon Tanno, Wintey and Map!!

Mr. Golden Sun~Welcome back~We missed you

Avery and I were so happy to feel the 71 degree weather today. We celebrated with an outdoor lunch party. The hot sun made us hungry for some ice cream so we set off on a bike ride in search of the perfect ice cream cone...

we settled for one scoop of rainbow sherbet at Thrifty but after Avery's first lick she said "yum yum yum delicioso" :)

After our delicioso ice cream, we rode over to the grocery store and picked up too many groceries for our little bike trailor trunk. Avery had to ride with some of the groceries on her lap and the trailor was awfully heavy to peddle home:) We sure LOVED the sunshine today and hope it sticks around for a while!

Worker Bees

The McDonald clan came to town and brought their gardening gloves. They helped us with some last finishing touches on our house and with this...

the demolition of our long cement runway out to our ... helicopter pad/dance floor? It was pretty ugly and we have been wanting to get rid of it since we moved in. Scott, his brother and Dad broke the whole thing up with a sledge hammer (now we can finally plant the rest of our grass:). We also got to celebrate a second Christmas with the McDs and enjoy some time together. It was great. Thanks for all your help guys:)

Christmas in pictures...lots of pictures

Pre-Christmas activities

Christmas Eve

Christmas

Our Christmas was just wondeful! My favorite part had to be Avery as a Shepherd in the Nativity play. It was just hilarious! I will try to post a video of it later. Hope everyone's Christmas was grand :)

EXCITED ...

that Scott is off work from tomorrow til Monday, to visit friends in Malibu tomorrow night, to go to Knotts on Christmas Eve with our Smith cousins, for the nativity and PJ party Christmas Eve night, for Christmas morning with little Avers, for my Dad's egg burritos, for Christmas day and night festivites, and for the McDonald fam to come visit us for New Years. Very grateful for the holiday season to celebrate the birth of our Savior and to be with those we love. Happy holidays!!

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Laguna Lovin'

A couple weekends ago we visited our old church in Laguna Beach. We have been to Laguna a ton of times since we moved but we hadn't been back to church there. It was so fun to see so many familiar faces and crazy to see how much the kids there had grown up. After church we went and walked around the Montage. If you haven't been there you definitely should go. It is beautiful! We wished we would have packed lunches and some extra clothes so that we could have had a nice picnic but ... we had a nice time wandering around and snaping pictures:)

Turkey Time

We started our Thanksgiving nice and early with the annual Turkey bowl and volleyball game.

The weather was sooo nice (80 degrees) so after we went swimming! The boys played melon ball and had a blast beating eachother up!

My family has a talent show every year and this year we decided to do a silly lip sinc with Chris and Nicole rather then our usual guitar song.

The day after Thanksgiving my brother Tyler put on his turkey tennis tournament. Ty and Rachele took first place leaving us in the dust.

We spent the rest of the weekend at the beach and hanging with family and friends. We missed the McDonald's but were glad we got to see some of our family on Scott's side:) Oh how I love this time of year!