Goodbye

My dear friend Laurel's mom lost her battle with ovarian cancer this morning. She is now happy and healthy in Heaven with our God, just where she wanted to be, but she leaves behind a heartbroken family. It's hard not to question God and His plans right now...Everyone please keep Laurel and her family in your prayers. Marla was such an amazing woman. I can not say enough about her. That's all I can manage to write.

A Tiny Tooth

Ava cut her first tooth yesterday! It is on the bottom. It is so tiny and adorable and white and perfect! Hopefully now we can get some rest. She is such a big girl!


Yummy-rice cereal!

it's been awhile

OK So it's been awhile...

Ava is teething. She is constantly chewing on whatever she can get into her mouth and she is soaking wet. SOAKING WET from drool all over the place. I have never in my life seen a baby drool as much as my daughter-it's insane. She has a big bump on her gum (the bottom) and I can just barely see a tiny, white tooth that is waiting to come in. This also means that we are not sleeping. Ever. She is up at least every two hours and if I don't nurse her she panics. She still won't take a bottle or binkey...can you tell I'm feeling a little frustrated?? We also tried rice cereal and she hated it. I wanted to wait on solids but I'm so desperate for sleep so I went ahead and gave her a few bites and she gagged. We have tried it a couple more times and she is tolerating it, not enjoying, but tolerating. I was asked by an amazing photographer to come and assist her at a wedding and I am DYING to work with her! It would mean leaving Ava for at least 10 hours since the location will be out of town and she shoots for 8 hour per event. How can I leave my stubborn little girl when I know she will just scream the whole time? Will she eventually take a bottle if she is hungry enough?!?!?!?!?!?!?! How can I work when I'm worried about her!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!

Moving on...Aden is wonderful :) I love my boy so much. He walks around all day saying. "Oh what is that?" Actually it's more like, "Oh wha dis dat?" It's so fun to hear the new things he comes up with. I let him carry his blankie around all day but I'm trying to cut back on the binkey usage. I give him his blankie and he says, "eeeeeekie eeeeeekie!" (binkey binkey) So cute!

So I have decided that it's time to go shopping! I seriously haven't bought new clothes (besides maternity clothes) in sooooooo long. I feel frumpy all of the time so tomorrow I'm going to shop the Memorial Day sales! WooHoo :) After birthing/nursing two children in under two years I think it's time to try and look good again.

Oh Oh Oh!!! Scott won a qualifying tournament here and now he gets to go play in San Fransisco and if he is in the top 4 or 5 spots then he gets to play in the US OPEN!!! How cool is that?!?!?! He is such a stud muffin. I wish that I had that kind of talent :)

I like my family...I think I'll keep them.

All You Need Is Love

On Saturday my little brother Jeffrey and his little Noelle got married! It was at the Mission Inn in Riverside. Going back there was so special for me-Scott and I were married there almost 5 years ago! The ceremony was absolutely perfect-there wasn't a dry eye in the chapel and we had a great reception after. I will post pics when I get them. You have never seen a more beautiful bride than Noelle, Jeffrey's knees buckled when he saw her...isn't love so cool?!?!?!?!?

That Funny Honey of Mine

This morning Scott left me this little suprise in the shower...
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We keep these letters and numbers in the shower because Aden and I love to play with them. We take showers together in the evenings...call me crazy but it is the best time we get to spend together all day. Scott keeps Ava and me and my boy play in there for the longest time. It's my favorite thing to do with him :) Does anyone else do this with their toddler?? Maybe I'm just weird!

A Good Morning

Right now it's almost 8:30am and Scott and Ava are sleeping in (why she won't sleep in for me-I"ll never know). Aden is awake and happy so I decided to make my family fresh banana muffins with strussel topping (from scratch OF COURSE!) YUMMY! I love to bake. I can't wait for fall to come around again so that we can go apple picking and then come home and I will turn the apples into delicious apple pie! Seriously, how great are September, October and November?? The weather is perfect and it's APPLE PICKING season!!!!!!!!! I can not tell you all how much I love that. The coffee is hot, the muffins are hot...WAKE UP SCOTT!

Anyway, Ava had her 4 month check up last week and she is getting sooo big! I can't believe that she used to be such a little squirt and now she is in the 70 percentile for weight-holy cow! She is 14 lbs and 10 oz. 24 inches long...that's the 39th percentile-she's catching up. Most of her clothes are still 0-3 months but we are slowly getting into 3-6 months.

My brother Jeffrey and his beautiful fiance Noelle are getting married this coming Saturday! I am the Maid of Honor-I feel special. We'll all be at the Mission Inn in Riverside-the most beautiful place to get married EVER. Scott and I were married there as well. We have a room there for the night of the wedding so it should be great. Aden has this outfit with a vest and tie-he looks incredibly handsome but he HATES it LOL I put it on him and he was throwing the biggest fit :) Ava has am amazing ivory, silk dress to wear-it is tiny up top with little sleeves and itty bitty purple flowers and then it just POOFS out at the bottom-just like a princess dress should be :)



Today Scott and I are going out to lunch-it's been awhile since we've had some time alone so I'm super excited. OOOOHHHHHHH This is random but I must share-I bought Aden the coolest pots and pans set! He loves to be in the kitchen while I'm cooking and I don't want to discourage him but it drives me crazy! I found this great set that is very realistic and comes with lots of cool utensils-he carries around the spoon and big pot everywhere. SOOOOO...now we cook together. He likes it when I put raisins in his pot-he stirs them around and then gobbles them up. Too cute!

So sleepy after a day of playing at home



Can you believe the beautiful lips on this little girl?!

No Fair

WELL...I've lost all of my baby weight (and a pound or two more)...so why don't all of my clothes fit yet? Ugg. Whatever.