Monday, October 31, 2011
Friday, October 28, 2011
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Oh my goodness look at that fat face!!! Happy Birthday to my beautiful baby girl!
I can't believe we have this beautiful one year old running around the house! We love this girl and she means the world to us.
I can't believe we have this beautiful one year old running around the house! We love this girl and she means the world to us. I'll have to get her height and weight when we get back.
Her one year pictures on are November 3rd and I can't wait for them! Her outfits are almost complete. She's not going to get to dress up for Halloween so she's going to wear her costume in her pictures. I can't wait to get them back and we haven't even taken them yet!
Well, I better get back to packing for Las Vegas. Road trip--yay!
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Almost ONE!!!
Tomorrow this little girl is going to be ONE year old!!! I can't believe how big she has gotten! This past year went so fast. I heard a quote the other day regarding motherhood that said "the days can be long, but the years are short." I've only experienced one year of motherhood but I already know that quote is true.
Avery got her birthday present from grandma early. She's enjoying it this evening and but she likes to push it around.
David and I are so blessed to have her! We couldn't have asked for a better daughter! She is absolutely perfect! Every day I just want to eat her up. I love to smother her in kisses.
Avery got her birthday present from grandma early. She's enjoying it this evening and but she likes to push it around.
David and I are so blessed to have her! We couldn't have asked for a better daughter! She is absolutely perfect! Every day I just want to eat her up. I love to smother her in kisses. Man, one year old...
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Goodness.
I sure do love this girl but I sure am frustrated that she won't walk! I know one day she'll just do it but she just won't stick with it! I know that's normal but it's still annoying :)
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Excerpts from a Book.
Seems to me this is the plight of humanity. This is all of us. Beautifully written and so true. Feeling thankful this morning for a God who gives me grace and peace in a world of pain. I know my God is present.
"Can there be a good God? A God who graces with good gifts when a crib lies empty through long
nights, and bugs burrow through coffins? Where is God, really? How can He be good when babies die, and marriages implode, and dreams blow away, dust in the wind? Where is grace bestowed when cancer gnaws and loneliness aches and nameless places in us soundlessly die, break off without reason, erode away. Where hides this joy of the Lord, this God who fills the earth with good things, and how do I fully live when life is full of hurt ? How do I wake up to joy and grace and beauty and all that is the fullest life when I must stay numb to losses and crushed dreams and all that empties me out?
Is this the toxic air of the world, this atmosphere we inhale, burning into our lungs, this No, God? No, God, we won’t take what You give. No, God, Your plans are a gutted, bleeding mess and I didn’t sign up for this and You really thought I’d go for this? No, God, this is ugly and this is a mess and can’t You get anything right and justhaul all this pain out of here and I’ll take it from here, thanks. And God? Thanks for nothing. Isn’t this the human inheritance, the legacy of the Garden?
God said humanity was not to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. And I moan that God has ripped away what I wanted. No, what I needed. Though I can hardly whisper it, I live as though He stole what I consider rightly mine: happiest children, marriage of unending bliss, long, content, death-defying days. I look in the mirror, and if I’m fearlessly blunt — what I have, who I am, where I am, how I am, what I’ve got — this simply isn’t enough. That forked tongue darts and daily I live the doubt, look at my reflection, and ask: Does God really love me? If He truly, deeply loves me, why does He withhold that which I believe will fully nourish me? Why do I live in this sense of rejection, of less than, of pain? Does He not want me to be happy?
From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.
Satan, he wanted more. More power, more glory.
Ultimately, in his essence, Satan is an ingrate. And he sinks hisvenom into the heart of Eden. Satan’s sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully, ungrateful for what God gave.
Isn’t that the catalyst of all my sins?
Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.
Standing before that tree, laden with fruit withheld, we listen to Evil’s murmur, “In the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened . . .” (Genesis 3:5 NASB). But in the beginning, our eyes were already open. Our sight was perfect. Our vision let us see a world spilling with goodness. Our eyes fell on nothing but the glory of God. We saw God as He truly is: good. But we were lured by the deception that there was more to a full life, there was more to see. And, true, there was more to see: the ugliness we hadn’t beheld, the sinfulness we hadn’t witnessed, the loss we hadn’t known.
And still, we look at the fruit and see only the materialmeans to fill our emptiness. We don’t see the material world for what it is meant to be: as the means to communion withGod.
We look and swell with the ache of a broken, battered planet, what we ascribe as the negligent work of an indifferent Creator (if we even think there is one). Do we ever think of this busted-up place as the result of us ingrates, unsatisfied, we who punctured it all with a bite? The fruit’s poison has infected the whole of humanity. Me.
I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.
But from that Garden beginning, God has had a different purpose for us. His intent, since He bent low and breathed His life into the dust of our lungs, since He kissed us into being, has never been to slyly orchestrate our ruin. And yet, I have found it: He does have surprising, secret purposes. I open a Bible, and His plans, startling, lie there barefaced. It’s hard to believe it, when I read it, and I have to come back to it many times, feel long across those words, make sure they are real. His love letter forever silences any doubts: “His secret purpose framed from the very beginning [is] to bring us to our full glory” (1 Corinthians2:7 NEB). He means to rename us —to return us to our true names, our truest selves. He means to heal our soul holes. From the very beginning, that Eden beginning, that has always been and always is, to this day, His secret purpose — our return to our full glory. Appalling — that He would! Us, unworthy. And yet since we took a bite out of the fruit and tore into our own souls, that drain hole where joy seeps away, God’s had this wild secretive plan. He means to fill us with glory again. With glory and grace.
...That that which tears open our souls, those holes that splatter our sight, may actually become the thin, open places to see through the mess of this place to the heart-aching beauty beyond. To Him. To the God whom we endlessly crave. Maybe so. But how? How do we choose to allow the holes to become seeing-through-to-God places? To more-God places? How do I give up resentment for gratitude, gnawing anger for spilling joy? Self-focus for God-communion.
To fully live — to live full of grace and joy and all that is beauty eternal. It is possible, wildly."
--Ann Voskamp
"Can there be a good God? A God who graces with good gifts when a crib lies empty through long
nights, and bugs burrow through coffins? Where is God, really? How can He be good when babies die, and marriages implode, and dreams blow away, dust in the wind? Where is grace bestowed when cancer gnaws and loneliness aches and nameless places in us soundlessly die, break off without reason, erode away. Where hides this joy of the Lord, this God who fills the earth with good things, and how do I fully live when life is full of hurt ? How do I wake up to joy and grace and beauty and all that is the fullest life when I must stay numb to losses and crushed dreams and all that empties me out?
Is this the toxic air of the world, this atmosphere we inhale, burning into our lungs, this No, God? No, God, we won’t take what You give. No, God, Your plans are a gutted, bleeding mess and I didn’t sign up for this and You really thought I’d go for this? No, God, this is ugly and this is a mess and can’t You get anything right and justhaul all this pain out of here and I’ll take it from here, thanks. And God? Thanks for nothing. Isn’t this the human inheritance, the legacy of the Garden?
God said humanity was not to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. And I moan that God has ripped away what I wanted. No, what I needed. Though I can hardly whisper it, I live as though He stole what I consider rightly mine: happiest children, marriage of unending bliss, long, content, death-defying days. I look in the mirror, and if I’m fearlessly blunt — what I have, who I am, where I am, how I am, what I’ve got — this simply isn’t enough. That forked tongue darts and daily I live the doubt, look at my reflection, and ask: Does God really love me? If He truly, deeply loves me, why does He withhold that which I believe will fully nourish me? Why do I live in this sense of rejection, of less than, of pain? Does He not want me to be happy?
From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.
Satan, he wanted more. More power, more glory.
Ultimately, in his essence, Satan is an ingrate. And he sinks hisvenom into the heart of Eden. Satan’s sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully, ungrateful for what God gave.
Isn’t that the catalyst of all my sins?
Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.
Standing before that tree, laden with fruit withheld, we listen to Evil’s murmur, “In the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened . . .” (Genesis 3:5 NASB). But in the beginning, our eyes were already open. Our sight was perfect. Our vision let us see a world spilling with goodness. Our eyes fell on nothing but the glory of God. We saw God as He truly is: good. But we were lured by the deception that there was more to a full life, there was more to see. And, true, there was more to see: the ugliness we hadn’t beheld, the sinfulness we hadn’t witnessed, the loss we hadn’t known.
And still, we look at the fruit and see only the materialmeans to fill our emptiness. We don’t see the material world for what it is meant to be: as the means to communion withGod.
We look and swell with the ache of a broken, battered planet, what we ascribe as the negligent work of an indifferent Creator (if we even think there is one). Do we ever think of this busted-up place as the result of us ingrates, unsatisfied, we who punctured it all with a bite? The fruit’s poison has infected the whole of humanity. Me.
I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.
But from that Garden beginning, God has had a different purpose for us. His intent, since He bent low and breathed His life into the dust of our lungs, since He kissed us into being, has never been to slyly orchestrate our ruin. And yet, I have found it: He does have surprising, secret purposes. I open a Bible, and His plans, startling, lie there barefaced. It’s hard to believe it, when I read it, and I have to come back to it many times, feel long across those words, make sure they are real. His love letter forever silences any doubts: “His secret purpose framed from the very beginning [is] to bring us to our full glory” (1 Corinthians2:7 NEB). He means to rename us —to return us to our true names, our truest selves. He means to heal our soul holes. From the very beginning, that Eden beginning, that has always been and always is, to this day, His secret purpose — our return to our full glory. Appalling — that He would! Us, unworthy. And yet since we took a bite out of the fruit and tore into our own souls, that drain hole where joy seeps away, God’s had this wild secretive plan. He means to fill us with glory again. With glory and grace.
...That that which tears open our souls, those holes that splatter our sight, may actually become the thin, open places to see through the mess of this place to the heart-aching beauty beyond. To Him. To the God whom we endlessly crave. Maybe so. But how? How do we choose to allow the holes to become seeing-through-to-God places? To more-God places? How do I give up resentment for gratitude, gnawing anger for spilling joy? Self-focus for God-communion.
To fully live — to live full of grace and joy and all that is beauty eternal. It is possible, wildly."
--Ann Voskamp
Monday, October 24, 2011
East Canyon
We went for a drive last night. We've never been in this canyon before. At first I was a little disappointed but then we started climbing higher and then it became beautiful. What I like the most about this canyon is that you can see the other mountain tops.
Other than this drive our weekend consisted of a whole lot of nothing. Saving money for Vegas!
Other than this drive our weekend consisted of a whole lot of nothing. Saving money for Vegas!
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Another video
We love this girl so much. She never fails to make us smile. She's pretty much the cutest thing ever. Seriously.
We have recently found out that she doesn't like bananas and today I gave her some green beans and she would eat them and gag. I would laugh, she'd laugh, try it again and gag and laugh. It must be a texture thing because she'll eat pureed green beans.She gets really mad if you tell her no. For some reason I find it entertaining to watch her get frustrated or mad about things. I think it just shows me that she's becoming a little person and not so babyish anymore.
David and I laugh because alot of times she whispers something that sounds like "what's that?" I'm beginning to think she is saying that because sometimes she does it at appropriate times.
She's just getting so big and we're loving every minute of it!
I posted another video of her too.
Monday, October 17, 2011
A Little Update.
Saturday Avery and I went with our friends to a pumpkin patch. I didn't end up getting any pumpkins there, I got some from a place right around the corner from my house. David and I carved our pumpkins. Mine is the top one, his is the bottom.
I roasted the seeds and put worcestershire sauce with garlic and onion powder and sprinkled them with kosher salt and they were so good and made my house smell soooooo good. I also made some pumpkin bread the other day that was amazing if I do say so myself :) I sprinkled the pan with sugar and it made such a good sugary crust on the bread!
Avery seemed to have gotten over the runny nose she had last week but I'm thinking all the wind she was in on Saturday got her snotty again yesterday and today.
Yesterday we went Preston to start cleaning out the storage unit. When we came through Sardine canyon, it was so beautiful. There were certain sections that had the most beautiful blend of orange, red and yellow. It was gorgeous, especially in the spots that had some evergreens. The dark green contrast was so pretty.
Avery took some steps last week but it's been hard getting her to take more. I can't get over how big she is! She's funny. She's learned to shake her head no but she doesn't use it in the right context. She will hit something when you tell her no sometimes. We've been working with her to not claw us...mostly her dad. She finally says dada. She'll imitate some noises. Sometimes she cooperates and sometimes she doesn't. Typical.
I've been working on trying to get her to keep a bow in her hair but I've been unsuccessful. I have to put a pony on the top of her head to keep the hair out of her eyes and she's finally realized she can pull it out. I need to trim the right side of her hair, it's so long for some reason. It's already been trimmed once.
She jabbers a whole lot. And now she looks at you and makes facial expressions like she's really talking. I LOVE IT! I know, eventually I'll be saying "Avery please be quiet for 5 minutes!"
We're going to Vegas on the 28th so David spent last night learning how to play black jack so he can win lots of money. Hope it works out! I guess we're going to go to the Hoover Dam to see the new bridge. I'm not sure exactly what all will be done over the weekend or what I'll be participating in since I'll have Avery. Thankfully I'll have my own car so everyone can do what they want and Avery and I can go do whatever.
I guess it's safe to say on here that David is really enjoying his new job. The boss's wife brings bagel spreads and other yummy things for the guys to eat. She brings fruit and I don't know what else. They got something brought up there like 3 times last week. Coming from his last job, David is blown away by all the things the new company does for their employees. I'm really thankful he has the opportunity to work for a company that can afford and chooses to show appreciation for their employees. And the cheap health insurance is nice too :) The unlimited over time is nice too :) He's been impressing them with his work too. They've been impressed with his welding and he's been putting machines to use that they haven't been using. He's also been using the machines for jobs that apparently would have been done a much harder, longer way. For some reason, they haven't been using their machines to their potential. David hasn't been able to use them completely to their full potential because of some programming issues but he's been using them and surprising them with what they can do on them!
That's all I know for now.
I roasted the seeds and put worcestershire sauce with garlic and onion powder and sprinkled them with kosher salt and they were so good and made my house smell soooooo good. I also made some pumpkin bread the other day that was amazing if I do say so myself :) I sprinkled the pan with sugar and it made such a good sugary crust on the bread!Avery seemed to have gotten over the runny nose she had last week but I'm thinking all the wind she was in on Saturday got her snotty again yesterday and today.
Yesterday we went Preston to start cleaning out the storage unit. When we came through Sardine canyon, it was so beautiful. There were certain sections that had the most beautiful blend of orange, red and yellow. It was gorgeous, especially in the spots that had some evergreens. The dark green contrast was so pretty.
Avery took some steps last week but it's been hard getting her to take more. I can't get over how big she is! She's funny. She's learned to shake her head no but she doesn't use it in the right context. She will hit something when you tell her no sometimes. We've been working with her to not claw us...mostly her dad. She finally says dada. She'll imitate some noises. Sometimes she cooperates and sometimes she doesn't. Typical.
I've been working on trying to get her to keep a bow in her hair but I've been unsuccessful. I have to put a pony on the top of her head to keep the hair out of her eyes and she's finally realized she can pull it out. I need to trim the right side of her hair, it's so long for some reason. It's already been trimmed once.
She jabbers a whole lot. And now she looks at you and makes facial expressions like she's really talking. I LOVE IT! I know, eventually I'll be saying "Avery please be quiet for 5 minutes!"
We're going to Vegas on the 28th so David spent last night learning how to play black jack so he can win lots of money. Hope it works out! I guess we're going to go to the Hoover Dam to see the new bridge. I'm not sure exactly what all will be done over the weekend or what I'll be participating in since I'll have Avery. Thankfully I'll have my own car so everyone can do what they want and Avery and I can go do whatever.
I guess it's safe to say on here that David is really enjoying his new job. The boss's wife brings bagel spreads and other yummy things for the guys to eat. She brings fruit and I don't know what else. They got something brought up there like 3 times last week. Coming from his last job, David is blown away by all the things the new company does for their employees. I'm really thankful he has the opportunity to work for a company that can afford and chooses to show appreciation for their employees. And the cheap health insurance is nice too :) The unlimited over time is nice too :) He's been impressing them with his work too. They've been impressed with his welding and he's been putting machines to use that they haven't been using. He's also been using the machines for jobs that apparently would have been done a much harder, longer way. For some reason, they haven't been using their machines to their potential. David hasn't been able to use them completely to their full potential because of some programming issues but he's been using them and surprising them with what they can do on them!
That's all I know for now.
Friday, October 14, 2011
Height & Weight
Yesterday I measured and weighed Avery. So these numbers are approximate. Her height is 32" and she is 26 lbs.
Yesterday while I was on the phone she got into a box of coffee creamer that has the little plastic cups like you'd get at IHOP or somewhere. Well, she bit into some of them so she had creamer all over her and the floor and some buckets that the box was sitting on. At least she smelled sweet like vanilla :)
I used to be able to get her to clap her hands by telling her to but now she won't clap them at all. BUT she will open her mouth if you tell her to. I was so happy that she showed her newest trick to her dad yesterday. I made ringing noises (like a phone) and she got her little play phone, opened up and put it up to her ear. It was so cute! She'll probably never ever do it again.
She jabbers really long sentences now. She has a lot to say. It's so cute! She had her first sip of sweet tea yesterday but shhh don't tell. Actually I told David last night and he took it better than I thought. He kind of freaks if she has anything sweet. At all. Which is good, I don't want her drinking pops and junk but she had to try some delicous sweet tea.
She has never been big on juice either, which I'm glad about but I bought some locally made apple juice and she really liked it. So did David he kept chugging it down. She loves loves loves water, which I'm happy about, and drinks it better than anything else.
She's adorable.
Yesterday while I was on the phone she got into a box of coffee creamer that has the little plastic cups like you'd get at IHOP or somewhere. Well, she bit into some of them so she had creamer all over her and the floor and some buckets that the box was sitting on. At least she smelled sweet like vanilla :)
I used to be able to get her to clap her hands by telling her to but now she won't clap them at all. BUT she will open her mouth if you tell her to. I was so happy that she showed her newest trick to her dad yesterday. I made ringing noises (like a phone) and she got her little play phone, opened up and put it up to her ear. It was so cute! She'll probably never ever do it again.
She jabbers really long sentences now. She has a lot to say. It's so cute! She had her first sip of sweet tea yesterday but shhh don't tell. Actually I told David last night and he took it better than I thought. He kind of freaks if she has anything sweet. At all. Which is good, I don't want her drinking pops and junk but she had to try some delicous sweet tea.
She has never been big on juice either, which I'm glad about but I bought some locally made apple juice and she really liked it. So did David he kept chugging it down. She loves loves loves water, which I'm happy about, and drinks it better than anything else.
She's adorable.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
sHe'S sO cUtE.
Mmmm. I like english muffins! Yesterday Avery was very sneezy and had a runny nose. Thankfully it's all gone this morning!
These are her new PJs and she looks oh so cute in them! I have an obsession with baby pj's.
Dad, can I have some cheese and crackers, please?
I'm excited about Avery's birthday pictures. I've been coming up with ideas for it and can't wait! I just can't believe that we're no longer going to have a baby in the house but a toddler. This past year has gone so fast! We love that girl so much!
These are her new PJs and she looks oh so cute in them! I have an obsession with baby pj's.
Dad, can I have some cheese and crackers, please?
I'm excited about Avery's birthday pictures. I've been coming up with ideas for it and can't wait! I just can't believe that we're no longer going to have a baby in the house but a toddler. This past year has gone so fast! We love that girl so much!
Monday, October 10, 2011
Provo
Avery loves my cell phone and the GPS. She uses her little thumbs and navigates around the screen. It's kind of weird how she looks like she knows what she's doing...
Yesterday we went to Provo just for the heck of it. These pictures are at the mouth of Provo canyon. We didn't go into the canyon though.
Yesterday we went to Provo just for the heck of it. These pictures are at the mouth of Provo canyon. We didn't go into the canyon though.
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Old Man Winter
We went back up to Snowbird to ride the tram today and this is what we found:
Did anyone know that the worlds first KFC was in Salt Lake???
When we were there last week, the leaves were changing. Fall didn't get a chance, Winter came early!
Avery learned how to drink from a straw today! What a big girl!!
Did anyone know that the worlds first KFC was in Salt Lake???
When we were there last week, the leaves were changing. Fall didn't get a chance, Winter came early!
Avery learned how to drink from a straw today! What a big girl!!Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Where is She??
Lately Avery's been liking watching Sesame Street clips on youtube. She's mesmerized by it.
Yesterday she was playing in my room and after a while I went to check on her and she wasn't in there anymore. I went into her room. Not there. Looked in the living room. Not there. I looked in the bathroom and there she was. We keep the bathroom door shut so she doesn't play in there. Well I hadn't made sure the door was latched so she went in there and then shut the door. Crazy girl.
Yesterday she was playing in my room and after a while I went to check on her and she wasn't in there anymore. I went into her room. Not there. Looked in the living room. Not there. I looked in the bathroom and there she was. We keep the bathroom door shut so she doesn't play in there. Well I hadn't made sure the door was latched so she went in there and then shut the door. Crazy girl.Tuesday, October 4, 2011
October 4, 2011
It's been a wonderful cloudy morning. We got some rain last night and the news says it should only be 50 on Friday with some snow in the mountains! I'm so excited fall is here! The mountains are dotted in reds and yellows. When we went up into Little Cottonwood canyon on Sunday, there were alot of bold yellows and it was so pretty!
Look how big my girl looks here. She always crosses her ankles and I think it's so cute :)
Yum! Eating some goldfish crackers and wearing some on her face :)
Look how big my girl looks here. She always crosses her ankles and I think it's so cute :)
Yum! Eating some goldfish crackers and wearing some on her face :)Monday, October 3, 2011
October!!
I can't believe it's October. I can't believe Avery is going to be ONE at the end of this month!
We had a good weekend. We had dinner with friends and yesterday we drove around and then went up to Snowbird ski resort and checked place out. It was Oktoberfest but we were early so everyone was setting up. I think we're going to go back this weekend and ride the tram to the top of the mountain. They have a chair lift you can ride up there but I Avery's to wiggly for that.
We've been doing a lot of driving around on the weekends because we like to but also because we very strongly dislike the people below us and don't like to be here when they are. The girl sent me a text on Friday asking us to be quiet. That would be Avery and me. She always points out the pounding which is AVery crawling. Would she rather listen to Avery yell while I keep her confined? It's miserable living here and I'm hoping we can move. That would be a major bummer but I can't handle this living situation. The people below us make it miserable. They were supposed to move out at the end of the month but they're staying longer. Who knows who will move in after them? This sucks bad. It makes me so mad!
We had a good weekend. We had dinner with friends and yesterday we drove around and then went up to Snowbird ski resort and checked place out. It was Oktoberfest but we were early so everyone was setting up. I think we're going to go back this weekend and ride the tram to the top of the mountain. They have a chair lift you can ride up there but I Avery's to wiggly for that.
We've been doing a lot of driving around on the weekends because we like to but also because we very strongly dislike the people below us and don't like to be here when they are. The girl sent me a text on Friday asking us to be quiet. That would be Avery and me. She always points out the pounding which is AVery crawling. Would she rather listen to Avery yell while I keep her confined? It's miserable living here and I'm hoping we can move. That would be a major bummer but I can't handle this living situation. The people below us make it miserable. They were supposed to move out at the end of the month but they're staying longer. Who knows who will move in after them? This sucks bad. It makes me so mad!
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