Happy Birthday Daddy!!!

Happy Birthday Johnny! 

Thank you for being such a great Daddy to our sweet Avery and thank you for being the best hubby!

  

We love you very much!!!

Big Girl Bed!

Look who's sleeping in her big girl bed!!!

Now...if only we can get her to stay in it...  :)

Backyard Fun!

Johnny poured the concrete pad at the bottom of the stairs to our deck and we thought it would be fun to put Avery's handprint in it. She, of course, did not think this was fun at all so it didn't turn out that great but at least we got somewhat of an imprint. I think it will be neat (and sad) to look back years from now and see how tiny her hand was!
This face makes me laugh!

Singing her heart out into her microphone!

I LOVE this picture!

...and this one! Ha!

I love cute little grass stained feet!

1st Cardinals Game!

We took Avery to her 1st (of many to come) Cardinals game today! We were lucky enough to have tickets given to us. It was opening weekend against the Cubs. We weren't sure how she would do, especially because she didn't take a nap, but she did GREAT! On the way there we kept telling her about Fredbird (I don't even think she knew who we were talking about) so the whole time she kept asking for Fredbird. When he finally came out onto the field she got so excited and kept waving to him. Keep in mind we were pretty high up so there was no way he could possibly see her waving, but it was still the cutest thing ever! She enjoyed the typical ballpark food, especially her nachos and popcorn! She had the best time, she clapped right along and when the Cards hit a homerun she loved the fireworks! What a great memory of her first game, and to top it off the Cardinals ended up hitting two homeruns and brought home a WINNER!

Sporting our new favorite player's jersey!

GO CARDS!!!

Happy St. Patty's Day!

We took Avery to the St. Patrick's Day parade downtown on Saturday. Our neighbors had a tent set up with a port a potty and all so it was perfect! The weather couldn't have been more beautiful!!! The crazy thunderstorms held off long enough for us to see the entire parade! It only started pouring on our way home. Avery LOVED the parade! She kept pointing and clapping, she had a ball!

Best seat in the house!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Later in the day, Mike, Marcia and Connor came over for a bbq. We watched the kids chase each other all night, I'm guessing they both slept good that night!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Snow Day!

Well...it finally feels like winter and it's February! I was beginning to wonder if winter was EVER really going to get here. I was excited to hear that it was going to snow today because I've been dying to take Avery sledding. We have just enough of a hill in our backyard to make it fun. We waited ALL day (as it just flurried) and finally just as Daddy got home from work there was enough snow to head outside! Avery had soooo much fun! (I must admit Mommy and Daddy had just as much fun flying down the hill!) Testing out the snow

Love this pic!!!

Eating the snow...we made sure it wasn't yellow! Ha! We plan to make snow ice cream later tonight!



Big girl saying cheese as she goes down by herself!