Thanksgiving!

This year for Thanksgiving we went up to Boise, ID, to be with my family. It was so much fun because everyone was there and it was just a fun to spend so much time with the whole family. Of course we went shopping of Friday, all the girls went together and the boys went looking at cars and guns. We went to Twilight while we were there which was a great movie. We also had fun playing hand and foot. It was Kendall and I against my mom and Jen and we beat them so bad we made it my mom and me and Kendall and Jen. Of course my mom and I won and in Jen's defense she had just gotten her wisdom teeth out so she was a little out of it. Jen and Ryan both were under the weather while we were there. Jen had her wisdom teeth out and Ryan got his tonsils out. They were troopers though and hung out with us and had fun. Also while we were there we helped clean out my parents storage shed and we found some of our old toys. We found this baby doll that Avery LOVES! She always has it and if you ask her where her baby is she will look around for it. All in all it was a great weekend and we are so grateful that we were able to spend it with family!

Avery got her own special plate on Thanksgiving and loved every minute of it. She felt like such a big girl.

After dinner she thought she would help with the dishes.

This was her absolute favorite thing at my parents house. They had a nativity set and she was so fascinated by it. We would set her down and she would immediately head over to it.

My parents have this little rocking chair for kids. She was so funny because she would sit in it and rock her body back and forth to make it move. She is so smart!

These pictures are funny because she just randomly decided to pick up her diaper bag and carry it around. She is such a goofy girl.

Here she is just hanging out with uncle Ryan. Loving every minute of it because he was pushing her around in a box and she just thought it was the coolest thing ever.

Here she is just hanging with dad.

Fall Time!

We finally decided to rake our leaves and we had so many. Avery enjoyed being outside and we just let her crawl around. We sat her in a big pile of leaves and she just looked at us like "what is going on?" We were happy to get all our leaves raked up though because they are getting everywhere. Anytime we walked into our house we would track leaves all through it so now we don't have to worry about it anymore.

A Mover and a Grover

Avery has become extremely active. She is always going, going, going! After I clean up one mess she is already into the next. Here are some pictures of a typical day in our house.

This is her all time favorite thing to do. She crawls over to the oven and climbs up it and then blows bubbles for like 5 minutes. Then she will look at me to make sure I am watching her and then she will keep doing it.

This was really funny. We keep all her toys in a laundry basket and one night she was looking through it to find a toy and she just decided to climb in. She was so proud of herself once she got in there. She just sat in there for awhile reading her books and playing with her toys.

Here is another fun thing. She climbs under the recliner and attempts to stand up and then she cries because it hurts her when she tries to stand. But being the stubborn baby that she is she just keeps trying thinking that eventually she will be able to stand up.

This is another one of her favorite things to do. She climbs up the DVD case and pulls EVERYTHING off. It drives me crazy! She enjoys it though so I let her. Soon though I am going to teach her to put them back on the shelf.

Poser!

Avery has become such the little poser everytime I bring out the camera. Whenever I go to take a picture of her she immediately smiles. She is so cute! We just love her so much.

Game Night!

Kendall loves to have Xbox parties at our house. They set up Xbox's in a couple of rooms and link them together and all play against each other. This time Avery thought she would join in and it was pretty funny. We put the headphones on her and she could hear the Xbox live guys talking and she kept yelling back at them. We couldnt stop laughing. She is such a funny girl.