About time for an update...

So we had a small baby shower for me and my friend Stacey that lives in our apartment complex, she's from Australia and has a little girl Ava's age that has an accent, it's SO cute! My friend Susanne made this cake for the shower, she couldn't come but we were really happy that she made us a cake, it was yummy!
This is Amy, Gretchen, and Tara. Gretchen and Tara are both in our play group that gets together all the time, we have a LOT of fun!
This is Jeanette, Dez, and Harmony. Jeanette is my Visiting Teacher and Dez and Harmony are in our play group too. We're REALLY sad because Harmony is moving back to Canada in about a month :( that will be a really sad day, we'll miss her a LOT!
And of course, the preggos- me and Stacey.
Here is my HUGE belly at about 33 weeks. Man I'm SO sick of feeling like a cow ALL the time!! Just a little longer, I can't wait to NOT be pregnant anymore!! Although, I'm terrified of having another baby, it'll be such a big change. Still no name for this little girl, and no end in sight. We aren't even close to getting one, it's SO frustrating, hopefully she'll have a name by the time she's born, but I have my doubts.
Ava wanted to pose with me. I don't know if you can really tell in this picture, but we cut about 4 inches of curl off her hair. I was glad that she still has a little curl left, hopefully she'll always have it, but probably not :( It makes me so sad to think about, I love her curls.

Ava Goofiness

So I just thought that I would quickly share a conversation that I had with Ava today, because well, I thought it was pretty dang funny. To give some background, I had made Ava a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch, which she usually really likes, but for some reason today she didn't. So she wouldn't eat it and she was wanting to eat my pb&j sandwich, I told her no because she needed to eat her sandwich. This is the conversation we had several hours later.


Me: Hey Ava, will you please sing me a song?

Ava: Nope

Me: Why not??

Ava: You didn't eat your jelly sandwich

Me: (laughing)

Ava: You gonna cry?

Me: No, I'm not going to cry

Ava: (Loud fart on my leg)

What a silly girl, she is cracking me up lately, she has such a great little personality.

BIG Post!

Ava's been getting MUCH better at posing for pictures. Here are a couple of her best ones, check out that smile- hahaha!!
We've been doing some finger painting lately, Ava loves it!! It's a dream for me, I thought it would be a MESS, but my prissy little girl is really clean about it. She has me wipe her fingers in between colors, and she's never gotten ANY on her clothes, it's great!

This is a headband that her aunt Kallie made her when we went to Utah, I got her to wear it a couple times, doesn't she look adorable?!

Just a couple more of her finger painting.
So we went to a place called Fairytale Town with our play group. It was SO much fun and the weather was AMAZING!!! This is Ava sitting on a bench while ALL of the other kids went down this big slide, she was not interested at all. She's quite the little wuss (I have NO idea where she gets that, ok, probably from me). She doesn't even really climb on all of the play equipment when we go to the park because she starts to like hyperventilate and freak out. It cracks me up to see all the kids that are younger than her and fearless going down the slide by themselves and Ava won't even climb up to them, hahaha, gotta love her.
She was climbing all over this candlestick with her friend Zeke, she loves him, it's awesome!

Here are a bunch of the kids from our group, don't they look fun?!
Ava was riding on the pumpkin carriage, Zeke wanted to get up to, it was pretty cute.
Well, things around here have been pretty crazy. Blayne has been working constantly, but luckily we've had good friends to play with and that will come get us so we don't go nuts in our apartment. Ava now refuses to wear pants and shorts, she will ONLY wear dresses and skirts, she's SO girly! She loves to play dress up too. I've been feeling pretty good, but not always getting enough sleep, there's this baby kicking me constantly, which makes it difficult. Blayne and I are having an IMPOSSIBLE time picking out a name, we're both being REALLY stubborn, it's awful. I'm really scared that this little girl won't have a name when she's born. I know I'm a little panicky, but if you only knew the battle of the names that has been going on here, you'd understand. If you have any name suggestions, please let me know, we've really got like nothing. Well, it's almost time to cook dinner, so I gotta go!

New Pics

I LOVE the above picture, I think Ava looks SOOO cute!!! Blayne looks great too, I'm just mad because I cut off the top of his head in the picture- whatever, I'm not a photographer OK?!
So, here I am at about 21 weeks! I'm totally poking out, I was definitely NOT showing this much with Ava at this point.

We were just trying to get some cute pics before church. In almost all of the pictures that Blayne takes of us I look nasty with no makeup and gross hair, so these look so much better, even though I have a totally fake looking smile, but oh well!
Oh yeah, and Ava ALWAYS picks her nose, we're trying to get her not to, but she thinks it's pretty funny, whatever little turd!

It's a.....

GIRL!!!!!!

We're SOOOO excited!! I was totally convinced that it was a boy for whatever reason, but Blayne thought it was a girl, so he was right. Now he says that he is more in tuned with this baby than anybody, oh brother!! Now all we have to do is pick a name, which is WAY more difficult than it sounds for us, we have VERY different taste, it's ridiculous. You'll just have to wait and see what we come up with. Anyway, that's our news and we are super happy.

Catching up on all the randomness... and some news!

I know we've already lived here for like 5 months, but we're finally getting around to decorating, we're slow alright?

Me and a couple of friends got together and made these blocks a couple of weeks ago, my friend drew the snow flakes, like I could do anything without a stencil.
We also got some family pictures taken a couple of weeks ago, I'll post some of those later.
We started getting festive, I like our little tree, it just makes me really happy! I don't know if you can tell from the picture, but the bows on the fireplace are not the same, Blayne grabbed 2 $1.00 bows, and they were different, it makes me laugh every time I look at them!!
Oh hey- by the way- I'M PREGGERS!!!! That's part of why I haven't blogged in SO long, I've been pretty useless! I got really sick, but I'm doing better and I went to the doctor last week and everything is going really good. I don't know if you can tell because this is a picture of the picture from the ultrasound, but you can see the little legs sticking out, and kind of the arms, not bad for only being about 10 weeks along. The doctor was really happy that we could get such good pictures so early and this little baby was moving all around, it was pretty cool!!
We got Ava these princess pajamas a while ago, she gets SO excited everytime she wears them, she just feels so pretty in them, she's posing for the camera in this picture, little doofus- hahaha!!!
Blayne's mom came to help when I was sick- she was a LIFE SAVER!!!!! Her and Blayne took Ava to feed the ducks one day, Ava LOVES feeding the ducks!!!
Here are some belated Halloween pics, I can't believe it's been that long since I've posted!! She was a fairy, she looked SO cute!! She actually made me put her costume on her today after church, she really likes it.

This is her and her friend Zeke, he was an Oregon Duck- his shirt had a big "O" on the front, he looked AWESOME!!! His mom made his costume, I was SO impressed!!
We also got to take Ava to the pumpkin patch, she couldn't stay away from the waggon, we didn't even get any pumpkins, but she pushed that wagon all around.

Vacation to Lake Tahoe

After Blayne's busy season he got to take a couple days off, so we went to Reno and Lake Tahoe- it was nice to get away as a family and spend some time together. Reno was kind of lame, but Lake Tahoe was GREAT, we REALLY want to go back.
This was in our hotel room (please ignore how disgustingly white my legs are).
Ava oinked out on raisins, she just sat on the floor and went to town, she ate SO many!
My little girl who is terrified of going past the first step in the pool, and HATES getting water on her face, was really brave at Lake Tahoe. She just kept walking, it stayed shallow for a long way out, but still, it was a big step for her. She was sitting down in it, and dipping her face in the water, we were getting in little splashing fights- it was great!


The water was SO clear- we could see right through the water everywhere that we were, it was gorgeous.







This is a goofy little video, it was just on our regular camera so there was no sound, but Ava was dancing in the water. There was no music, but she was sure getting into it. It was so cute.