Happy 24th of July!

In Utah the 24th of July is big for us! We headed up to Paradise to have fun with Davids family! We went to a place called Celebration Center. It has go-carts and mini golf and a few rides. All seven of us went putt putting! I came in 3rd place (Not to shabby) It was really fun but HoT!
So Becca finally talked Al into going on two rides with me! It was so much fun! It shot you up and then on the way down it you were facing down! I totally would love to do it again! Also Al was cracking me up. The things he was saying were so funny! I think he was more scared than I was!
Avery was such a good girl. She just sat in her stroller the whole two and a half hours! Then she decided that she wanted a nap!
This ride was like the pirate ship at lagoon! But way way faster! It was a blast and once again Al was hilarious!
The next night Byron (Davids dad) took everyone out to a really nice restaurant! My water had a lemon in it. We gave it to Avery and she loved it! But after like five seconds she got the funnest face! We tried to get it on camera but this was the best I could get!
This trip was really fun. I don't have a good picture of the last ride that I went on. It went straight up in the air then dropped you. It was such a thrill!

Swimming Fun!

Avery likes to swim, but she likes playing on the side more than being in the water!
Learning how to crawl! And looking cute in her swimming suit!

We love to swim! Our condo has a pool and we have been like fish! The other week Kaylin and her family came over to swim with us! Avery liked sitting out on the edge better than being in the water!! It was fun watching Easton jump into the pool. I can't wait till Avery is old enough to jump to us and learn how to swim!

A little this a little that...

This is Avery's new trick! She is always sucking on her feet. Well more like her big toe. I turn around from the passenger seat and this is what I am always seeing lately! Shelly has been gone for a week and a half. She calls me almost in tears because she is afraid that Avery has a new best friend! Paul and Tracey are always telling her that they are the new "Shelly". For anyone who does not know Avery is in love with Shelly. She sometimes will not even come to me if she has been with her for a long time!
Avery loves when I take her picture. When she is doing something cute,I pull out my phone to get a picture. She stops and smiles! Little stinker.
Davids Parents and Uncle Al came up and we went to lunch. Avery was digging the bread stick and Uncle Allen!
Ya I finally have a picture with her teeth in it! Now her top teeth can be seen under her gums. I think they will be here soon! Also last night Avery feel asleep in her crib. I think it was harder on me than her. She cried but I was able to rub her back and she feel asleep after about a half an hour. It was so to listen to her cry. But it was one giant step!!!

My little rocking chair!!

So a while ago we were up at Davids parents house. His mom has a rocking chair that is Avery's Great Grandparents. It was amazing seeing Avery in it. She loved it. She sat in it for fifteen minutes and had a ball! I loved how she acted almost grown up. But it is more amazing because I think that it is almost 100 years old!

My new Decor!

I put up my first vinyl saying last week. One on my wall and one an Avery's. I love them! I can't stop! LOL We pout this above Avery's changing table. It has a saying under it . I know that it is hard to read! It says... Soft as a whisper so precious and sweet, tiny perfection from her head to her feet. i thought it turned out good.

I put this in my kitchen. It is all from the Quilted bear. I love that store. I really think I could spend thousands of dollars! My goal is while the kids are with my dad I want to get all of my decorations up. I think I am also going to redo my room. But first my bathroom needs to get finished.

Happy 4th of July!

Our Forth of July was soo much fun. It started out with going to a bunch of fairs the weekend before! I love walking around looking at the different booths. We took my brother and sisters and just had a blast. Scott and Shelly got cute little frogs! I bought Avery a new bow!! One the actuall forth, David got up and made a yummy breakfast!! I had bought this dress for Avery before she was even born. So I have been waiting a long time to dress her in it! I thought she looked like a cutie pie! We did fireworks with my dad side of the family. My grandma Tuttle, Aunt Gina, Linda and my dad. My dad was in town picking up the kids to take them back to New Mexico. It was fun hanging out with my dad for the forth!
All of us together after we did fireworks! My uncle Buddy took the picture. He hurt his back and ribs so he could not move! But the good news... he was a great picture taker! It was nice to spend time with my Granny Tuttle!
The next day we had fun shopping while boomer went golfing twice!!! We went to Ikea and Quilted Bear! I bought some fun stuff for my house! We ate lunch at Cafe Rio! I love that place! Avery even loved it! It was a real good trip. He took them back for almost one month! I miss them! But it is always good to have a break!

Family Reunion!

Last week we left for our Peterson side Family Reunion!!! We went to a place called Happy Jack Arizona! We left early on Thursday morning. It was almost an 12 hour drive!! It was a little long but really fun. On our way there we stopped at the Glendale Dam. It was cool because my grand parents, over the years watched year after year them building it. This was outside the building. We dipped Avery's feet in the fountain because it was HOT outside! Welcome to Arizona!!! Just to let you know all of my pictures got out of order and I don't know how to fix it. Sorry I will just explain each picture!
This is just a picture of part of our drive. We made lots of twist and turns and had really beautiful scenery to look at. It was not just a straight and boring drive. On the way there everyone was happy and exited to get there. Avery did sooo good. We had to stop four times just for her. (poopy diapers) I think that was her way of telling us she needed to stretch! LOL
My mom took a lot of naps with Avery. It was hot with no A/C so she said it made them tired! It was a good excuse at least! Ha Ha

This is Cassie. She is 7 years old. She was sooo cute because it was the first time she met Avery. She went around saying how excited she was to have a new cousin. She also loved holding Avery. Her and her sister. Along with everyone else. Avery did good but got annoyed with everyone and just wanted to be with me, boomer, Shelly or my mom.
Avery with mamas shades on! Opps same picture!
On the way there it was only my threesome family and Shelly and Scott! Believe it or not they did not fight!! So it was nice and peaceful. We jammed out to some Toby along with many others!
We had a big dinner and breakfast the next morning. All of my moms brothers and sister were there! We had about 69 people. It was good to be with everyone! My uncle Keith does this trick with all of the little kiddos!!

This is Peyton. I know that is not how they spell her name, but I don't know their way of spelling it. Sorry!! She is TWO days older that Avery but her mom got her the same day Avery was born!!! It was a really neat story of how she was adopted. So that is really special to me! We both got our girls on the same day!
Boomer, me, and little chicken slept in tent!! We were truly campers. Yes, Avery did good and yes, she slept all night!!! That is what everyone has asked!! LOL
Me and my Grandpa dancing! A very different kind then what I am use to! Not bumping and grinding!!! A guy came to the lodge and sang all sorts of songs! It was a blast, everyone dancing and having fun!!
Just playing with Grandma having fun!

This is were it was not fun!! The way home. Everyone was tired and dirty! We had seven people in our car. It was a little smoochy! Avery was getting really restless. On the way up I was able to nurse her while she was in her car seat. But there was no room to do that on the way home!

This is me going crazy Scott was crying. Avery was crying. Kristy was crying. Mom was sleeping! Me, I was about to pull my hair out! LOL But we made it safe and sound, with no one dying!
This was mt favorite part! Horse back riding! For what ever reason I love riding horses! I got to go twice. The first time was just Shelly and me. The second was me, boomer, Paul, and Tracey! Both times were funny and made great memories! I wish I had a picture of Tracey. She was absolutely funny!
Strike a pose!!!! OK so I may not look like a cowgirl but I sure felt like it!
Me and Shelly heading off for our ride!

TEETH!

Avery's first two teeth are here! I am so excited!! I have been able to see them under her gums for some time now. But they have finally come through! Her first one come and her second one was not far behind! The only bad side.... It has made her a little cranky. I am hoping that will go away real soon!

You can't see them in the picture but they are there! I can't get a close up it just goes blurry.

A Hiking we will go!!

So I had this great idea that it would be fun to go hike Timpanogos!! Well about 3/4 of the way up it was not that great of an idea!! LOL I have done it once with my dad before and don't remembering it being that hard! Poor boomer, his knees were killing him. I had Avery strapped to the front of me, so it was an extra 17 pounds! We really did have fun. It was an awesome work out and felt great to be going something outdoors! I hope to be able to go again but maybe this time without my sweet chicken. I actually want to make it all the way to the top! Ha Ha!

Happy Fathers Day!

I want to say Happy Fathers day to my sweet Boomer!! He is such a good dad! The day that Avery was born changed our lives forever! He is so thankful for her but more than that he is sooo proud of her. His eyes light up when she does something new! She is a mamas girl but I think that will change as she gets older. While at a dinner party he was able to dance with her to a daddy/daughter song. He has to excuse himself before he started bawling! It was so sweet. Avery is very lucky! So I just wanted to shout that out there before we get going for the day! Also I would like to thank my dad for this last time he was visiting! It really was fun. Tracey's graduation and Lagoon for the whole day! I don't get to see him very much but it has been really good lately so Happy Fathers day to you! Also my "last" father... My grandpa Peterson. I have been very close to my grandpa. I am thankful that he is in my life. I love talking to him and listening to all of his wisdom. I am so grateful that he was able to seal me in the temple. I look forward when we are able to go over and spend time with them! HAPPY DADS DAY!

Night in the E.R.

So starting on Sunday my teeth were hurting. I thought it was because I had just had some fillings done and did not think anything of it. Well Monday they were hurting so bad I thought I was going crazy!! I went through that day just trying to put it out of my mind. That night We had bought a new car and Tracey and my dad had just gotten home from their cruise, of course I was trying to show it off. I got loaded up on pain pills so my mom kept Avery for the night! I can't even describe that type of pain I was in. I did not sleep. I even took more pain pills and even sleeping pills. Every time I would fall asleep I was woken up by this intense pain. Finally at three in the morning I was starting to panic and in my head I thought I was going to lose it. So we headed to the I.M.C hospital. It took about one hour, but I was numb and finally able to go to sleep. I had to go to a special dentist called and endoligist. I had a root canal. I hope no one ever goes through that. I want to give a special thanks to my mom. I forget that I still am a child who needs her mom. I called her about ever half hour. Yes even at two and three in the morning. She kept Avery for two nights for me! And helped me while my mouth hurts. Thanks you for being a great mom and a wonderful grandma. I am very lucky that you and Avery have a good relationship. It gives me a nice break!!!!! Thank you again for all of your help and love!

vrooom vrooom

So we had been talking about getting a new vehicle for a while. Our 99 maxima was giving a headache of trouble (the midas people knew us by name), so after the fourth time in the shop and another 200$ later we had enough. The hunt began. We had decided that we wanted a toyota highlander. We went to a big name dealership and they had one. We test drove it and got all the pressure in the world from him to buy it that day. My uncle is the general sales manger of a toyota dealership in New Mexico so we wanted to talk to him before be bought anything to see what kind of deal he could do for us. The day we talked to him the best deal he could do was more than the price we could get here so we decided to narrow the search. We decided that since were going to keep it for a long time to go with the Highlander that has 7 passenger seating. Well the one at the big name dealership didn't have that so it took that one out of the picture. Next we got on Autotrader and searched, we found one that was an incredible deal as long as there wasn't anything wrong with it. So we test drove it, oh ya by the way I was having the most incredible tooth ache of all time while doing this process. So anyway we test drove it and really liked it. David had to go back to work and I needed to pick up my brother and sister from school so we didn't really talk with the salesman about price. David then called back to the dealer and told them our offer. The car was priced really low to begin with but they knocked another 700$ then we went to the bank. We were approved pretty easily and we got the Highlander for $5000 under the actuall value of it. We walked in and paid for it with a check and then it was ours!!!!!