Road Trips...

We have been on two road trips in that last two weekends. First, Avery and I headed to Austin to wedding dress shop with my sister. It was a success, my sis will be a beautiful bride and Avery got an adorable flower girl dress. (I'm dying to post a pic, but gotta keep it s secret!)

This weekend we all headed down to San Antonio for Luke's grandmother's 90th b-day party. It was a 5hr. road trip so we went to Austin the night before to break it up a little. Avery got to play with Mimi and Papa while Luke and I got a date night. Good times! The b-day party was lots of fun too. I hope I am doing as well as his grandmother is at 90, she is amazing! We had to turn around and drive straight back home after the party for church, not so fun. Thank goodness for portable DVD players! Avery did great with all the traveling, but she was very happy to be home to her bed and to see "Da Dogs". :)

Ready for the road trip!

us with the birthday girl

She had fun bossing around all the big boy cousins at the party. ;)

So happy to be in her own bed. She took a 3 1/2 hr nap today! I had to wake her so she would go to bed tonight. I love a sweet sleeping baby

Simple Pleasures

One of my favorite blogs to stock, Kelly's Korner, did this post on simple pleasures and I thought it was fun so I tagged along! Here are some of my Simple Pleasures,

Family fun days when Luke is home and we all do something fun as a family

Target with Avery!!

Olive Garden salad and bread, yum

A good pedicure with my sister

Shopping of any kind

Visiting my parents

Cooking something that is good (this is rare)

Summer nights in Texas

Buying shoes, especially for Avery

Back rubs

Playing board games with Luke

A clean house before I go to bed

Thursday TV night with Luke

Cuddling with Avery, I LOVE this simple pleasure!

Making a difference in at tiny person's life as a NICU RN

Girl's day trips with friends, we are in need of this one ladies :)

See Avery "play shopping" and thinking about all the fun we will have when she is old enough!

My greatest simple pleasure is seeing this little face smile

Dress Shopping Weekend

My little sis is getting married! I'm so excited! We are going to look at dresses this weekend and I can't wait. I love weddings and there isn't one more exciting and special than your sister's big day.(except your own of course) A certain little cutie is going to be the flower girl so we will be looking at and trying on dresses for her this weekend too; should be an event in itself. :) Check out their website ,it's still in progress.

Rainy Day

We had a fun day despite the yucky weather. We went to Paradise Pond with Avery's buddy, Casen and his mommy, Leah. We also shopped till the kids dropped at the mall afterwards and got some great deals on kids clothes for next year! When we came home, Avery and I both got in our PJ's and have been cuddling, reading books, watching Dora, and eating snacks all afternoon. My kind of day! The rain makes me want to curl up and cuddle with my baby. She's letting me so I'm in heaven. :)

Rain, Rain go away...

Play Date with Avery Kate

Avery Kate came over a few days ago to play and the girls had a blast! Avery Kate cooked several meals for little Avery and served her in the playhouse. It was so cute! I hid so I could take pictures and giggle at how cute they were. Little Avery actually played along and "ate" all meals. These girls are too sweet!

Mustard, cake, cupcakes, and pizza makes a great meal! ;)

How about some icing to go with that?!

Sweet friends

Have a good week every one!!

Swiper No Swiping

We've got a little swiper at our house! Avery loves to get into my jewelry and usually just wears it around the house, but lately she has been hiding it in random places. A few weeks ago she took Luke's wedding ring. He thought he had lost it for good,when one day Avery comes running in the bedroom with a kleenex box and pulls it out and runs to hand it to Luke. Crazy girl! I had been looking everywhere for a few days for a ring and my bracelet that I wear a lot. When low and behold, I go to put my work shoes on and stuck way down in the toes is some of my jewelry. The tennis shoes and heels had some bracelets and long lost Mac eye shadow too! It was all pushed back in the toes and hidden, I pulled it out to take a pic. I brought Avery in the closet and asked her if she put them in there. She looked at me with a grin like " Yes, what's the big deal mom?" I guess we will have to start hiding things better. :)

For those of you without a toddler who is addicted to Dora, Swiper is the character on the show who swipes things. ;)

Too Many Cookies!

two kids, too many cookies at small group....