A crazy week.......

The past 8 days have been crazy busy for us. It seems like since we returned home from vacation we have been going non-stop. Paul's dad was unexpectedly hospitalized just a few days after we came home so combining work, hospital visits, and various activities have really kept us on the go!! Thankfully he is on the road to recovery and should be going home soon. I decided my blog makeover could wait until after I had posted Avery's latest pictures....

Last weekend Avery enjoyed several "firsts": we attended a local community frontier days to watch Mekenzie dance and Avery sampled her first cheese nachos. We have still not met a food that our girl does not like.
Um...good! I can't decide if more cheese was ON her or IN her!!

After the festival Avery went to the costume birthday party of one of my coworker's daughters. There are 3 of us that work the night shift that have daughters very close in age. We were all pregnant together (even though I didn't have quite the physical characteristics that they had). Avery was a little hesitant at first with all the children around but soon she was right in the mix.

In her bumble bee costume! How cute is she?!?!?

Ava (the birthday girl), Rowan, and Avery. The little girls of the 2nd floor night shift! Getting all 3 of them to look in the same direction at the same time proved an impossible fete.

Avery was the winner of her first ever party game. They played a version of "pass the pumpkin" (think hot potato) with just a little help from their moms. Here she is with her winning pumpkin.

Paul and I have recently been trying out a new church. We love our old one but it is quite a distance from our house and getting ourselves and our daughter their in a timely manner every Sunday morning has not been an easy task. This new one has very similar characteristics and best of all is only 10 minutes from our house. We haven't decided to take the plunge and change our membership yet but I wouldn't be surprised if we did that in the near future. Avery doesn't seem to mind at all going into the nursery which is a major plus.

Last Sunday we dressed her in one of the outfits that we bought while we were in China and she was definitely the prettiest girl there!!

This past week has also found Avery discovery her dolls and doll stroller. We have tried to introduce them to her before but she really didn't show any interest. This week however, that seemed to have changed. One morning as she was playing she just went into her room and picked up the dolls and then proceeded to push the stroller into the living room where it has stayed every since. She has tallied up many laps in our house pushing that stroller around.

Sometimes she needs a break and since she can't figure out how to get herself into the stroller without it rolling away she just turns it on it's side and sits in it however she can!

Giving her baby a little love!!

My mom has been secretly working on a special project for Avery. She brought over the finished product Thursday evening and I have to say they are quite adorable:
Modeling the overalls grandma made!!

Yesterday we took Avery to the pumpkin patch for the first time. Of course we had to dress her in her newest outfit. She was really not in a picture taking mood and was more interested in the props than the actual pumpkins.

Trying to persuade her to smile at one of the photo displays at the pumpkin patch.

Don't you just love the face of the scarecrow?

Not quite sure about her first hayride.

She was way more interested in the wheelbarrows than she was the pumpkins. She was ecstatic when Daddy finally gave in and took her for a wheelbarrow ride.

Exploring around the pumpkins.

Our little country girl, hay stalk in her mouth and all!!!!!

Add in lunch with friends, soccer games, basketball games, and a great party on Saturday night and that's our week in a nutshell. We don't have much on the calendar for this week and we are very excited about that!!!

Thanks for checking in!!!!