Birthday, Camping, and Walking for a Cure

Whew, we have had a busy November, and it has already almost flown by! The month started off with Ms. Aleta's birthday. The morning before her party, Avery signed her card. Thinking about what to write...Ms. Aleta and her baby girl

Me and my baby girl

Yummy Chantilly Cake!

Avery loves her Mimi

We had a nice little celebration. We grilled steaks, had twice baked potatoes and mushroom.

The next week we got to visit with Josh, Jonnilin and Julian. They stayed at our house two nights and we all had a great time. Julian found our Easter Eggs.

Avery enjoyed playing with them too!

He also had fun with my sunglasses :) He is such a sweet boy!

We also went camping while they were in.

Grandma got to spend some quality time with her boy

It was a beautiful campground in Madisonville.

And it was also a great place to spend quality time together without a lot of distractions. Avery got to hang out with her Aunt Jo and Uncle Josh

Josh also built us great campfires every night.

I had both of my babies contained :)

Uncle Josh is funny and he sounds like Donald Duck!

I got to love on my Juju too!

Josh was able to stop by after work and was dying for a smore. Unfortunately we didn't have any sticks or hangers to roast the marshmallows on, so my ingenious husband improvised another way.

They came out perfect!

Saturday November 13 was the Juvenile Diabetes Walk for a Cure. Our family has been severely impacted by the disease, it has affected my cousin Jason and nephews Joey and Julian. We wanted to support the cause and our family. Here is our team. (wow, I JUST realized there is an orb floating in the front of the picture...I guess my daddy was there with us too!)

Me and my baby girl before the walk.

The kiddos ready to go.

Here is Julian's team sign. We love you Juju!

Josh and his mini me after the race.

Avery after the race. She was so cute, I tied the balloon to her stroller, but she still held onto it like it was going to float away.

We have had a great November! There was definitely a lot of family time and it means so much to me that Josh and I have such amazing family on both sides. Although we don't get to see all of them as often as we would like, it is very important for us for Avery to grow up in a large, close, supportive family. I will try to do a Thanksgiving post soon!

Pictures!!!

I had a bunch of cute, random pictures on my cameras when I uploaded them. These first two are from one day when Avery woke up from her nap. As soon as she gets up, she starts looking for Izzy, so I decided to put Izzy in the bed with her. She thought it was hilarious! "Izzy's in my bed!!!"

This is just one random day, she was dressed so cute. She was rocking her skinny jeans...haha.

Last Saturday we went out to the Monster Mash, it was a big Halloween party for kids in Covington. She was hamming it up to the camera before we left.

beautiful

Saturday night Jake and Angela had their engagement party! The future Mr. & Mrs. Danford! Jake with his women.

Their cake was beautiful!

and I loved these little napkins.

Avery thoroughly enjoyed her prunes one day last week.

I was getting ready one morning last week and she had crawled and gotten into my wallet. Ms. Thing pulled out my credit card like she was ready to go shopping!

Last Tuesday Ms. Aleta came up to spend the day with us!

We went out to eat and Avery was dressed up so cute!

Last Wednesday Avery had a Dr's appointment. She weighed in at 19 pounds and 12 ounces (70%) and 29 1/2 inches long (92%) so she is still a tall girl. She got her flu shot and last Hep. B vaccine and didn't even cry! Such a big, happy girl!

Happy Halloween!

We had a great Halloween weekend! It started off Friday night. Josh arranged a babysitter and we had a date night! We drove out to Bay St. Louis, MS, and had dinner at the Silver Slipper Casino. They had the best seafood buffet. We ate our weight in snow crabs! After dinner, we gambled a little bit and ended up winning enough to cover our dinner. So we got to go out for free. Avery did great with the babysitter, and Josh and I had a wonderful night. Here we are all dressed up and ready to go. Saturday we had our 3rd annual Halloween party! Josh dressed up like Lil Wayne, he painted his body brown, got a wig and a "grill" and made a huge brown mess with the body paint :) Since Lil Wayne is in jail right now, I dressed up as the arresting officer.

We had a pretty good turn out. It definitely wasn't as crazy as the past two years. It was actually a little more enjoyable that way, because there was no drama and less mess for me to clean up. I barely took any pictures! Here are the few that I did take.

Sunday was Halloween, we picked up the house and relaxed most of the day. That evening we got Avery all dressed up and headed over to Chip and Tanya's house for Trick or Treating. I got some cute pictures of Avery before we left.

I think it's cute they both have the same facial expression.

Avery did GREAT in her costume. I was worried the hat would bother her, but she didn't mess with it at all.

I love this picture!

Chip set up a hay ride for the kids. Avery had a blast.

Their neighborhood is so nice. Some of the streets were blocked off and there were a ton of kids out Trick or Treating and playing.

Avery even went Trick or Treating for the first time!

Once it started getting dark, we headed back to Chip and Tanya's. Avery ate dinner, we laid her down and she slept while we got to watch the Saints game. We had a great weekend, and were so lucky to be able to spend it with our friends and family.