Tagged 4x4

Shannon tagged me for a listo-mania of the 4 variety.

4 Places I go:

Work

church

TJ Max

Target


4 favorite smells:

Ava's hair after a bath and its freshly dry, yum!

old books and new books

Cinnamon rolls baking

bunny's onion burgers


4 favorite shows or movies:

Bringing home baby

The Holiday

The Family Stone

Say Yes to the Dress (I'm watching this as I type)



4 recommendations:

I highly recommend riding to work or wherever your headed first thing in the day with your radio off. I started this two years ago as a new years resolution. Its nice to have quiet and peaceful time before the noise of the day starts, its very centering & calming.

I recommend Fresca in your Lemonade for a yummy summer beverage.

I recommend getting your hair cut at cottonwood salon, I get my hair cut about once every 3 months so I splurge and go to cottonwood, along with your cut you get a scalp massage, a ring cleaning, a hand massage while your hair is conditioning and just top notch service. I love all the special complementary touches, a nice way for some self care.

I recommend sometimes letting your house get out-of-control crazy messy because no one on their death beds says they wish the spent more time cleaning their house, sometimes playing with your daughter, eating lunch with a friend, preparing your bible lesson, watching a movie cuddled up with your hubby is a better use of time of and energy. (I am continually working on this on, it really bothers me to have a messy house)







four people I tag:



Lori & Matt, Laura Beth, Danielle & Daicia

Now that our second tooth made its way through

we are all smiles again, we had some rough nights the past couple nights and then I noticed today not one but two little teeth in the front of Ava's mouth!

This face says it best

This is how we feel about being tricked by the warm sunny days making us think spring was here. But it was just kidding us as today it was soo cold again. We can't wait for more sunshine days to come and stay! We are excited for picnics in the park, sandles on our feet, walks with Rory and lot of other fun to have in the sun!

10 Months

10 months! in two words: fun and tiring. I am finding each stage of new development some things are easier and always new challenges. but overall 10 months is a lot of fun. I can really tell this month that she is understanding so much of her world around her. Here's a few highlights at 10 months:

• Whoever thought Growling could be so cute. I am not sure how we discovered this but Ava mimics us when we growl and she does it with the sweetest half smile too.
• She loves to point now, she has figured out pointing gets our attention and she loves to "point" things out. (We've already had a few embarrassing social encounters when she points at people we don't know, like an older ladies Cane at church and other things she thinks we didn't notice but she wants to make sure we do).
• She loves to explore everything, opening cabinets, drawers, and anything she is probably not suppose to be in.
• She is starting to show some preference in food, blueberry yogurt is still her fav but she's started figuring out some vegetables aren't as yummy as the fruits and nothing is as yummy as yogurt.
• She can cruise around the room and crawl at a high rate of speed, she is starting to let go and try to stand on her own but so far falls down almost right away.
• She has conversations with herself and has really started to "play", talking to her doll and hugging on her stuffed animals, I love just sitting back and watching her at "play" it so captivating to watch. I wonder what her little mind is processing as she is playing.
• We conquered our first cold and cough, it lasted only a week and I am thankful she's been so healthy for the most part this year.

Still those precious big brown eyes!

Love's her daddy & her daddy is quite smitten with her too, they went this month for there first daddy/daughter day to the park, where I hear a fun time was had by all.


Her favorite cabinet to get into is Rory's cabinet, Rory doesn't mind because once and a while she gets something out of it:

Birthday

Well the birthday week started off not so great. Ava got her first cold and cough which she shared with me. Poor little thing did not feel good at all, so it was a long first part of the week but by the weekend we were feeling much better...





I got a new digital camera from Ryan, which was a wonderful surprise earlier in the week. Saturday started off with the birthday fun when I went to get Ava from her morning nap and found this:

We then met my family for lunch at Charlestons. After lunch we headed to the mall, where Ava tried her first chocolate chip cookie:

We also made time to head to the park since it was such a lovely day, I had hoped to get some 10 month old shots but she was not giving up the smiles easy, here's the closest I got to a grin:

That night we headed to Bellini's to have dinner with friends...

Ryan got me this wonderful Ribbon cake from Raspberries and Cream Bakery, it is one of my favorites and was soo good!

So it was a good day spent with those I love and have loved me for all or part of my now 30 years!

Snow cute!

More snow! I love when snow comes at night, you get to wake up to that shimmery blanket of fresh snow that magically appears while you were snoozing warm in your bed. Here's some pics of our snow bunnies checking out the morning magic:

Surviving the Snow...

A story best told in pictures.....

The gold fish pond out front. (When Rory was playing in the snow she totally didn't see or remember the pond was here and accidentally jumped right in it).

Our snow bunny was mostly unimpressed by the snow itself.

She did however love playing all day with mom and dad both home from work for a couple days:

and last but certainly not least, the most essential blizzard supply for surviving the snow, Marshmallow lovers hot chocolate: