Singing in the Rain

How could anything be cuter than this!?

 

Well, maybe this!

Avery Angel!

Monsoon season

Rain is a special event where we live. Avery had a great afternoon playing with her sister's umbrella and jumping in puddles.

Camping at NavajoLake 2011

Avery and Mom on the tube

Where are my sun glasses?

Avery loved riding in the boat.

Avery, Autumn, Aurora and Aaron at the lake shore.

Camping at Navajo Lake 2011

Chillin' in the shade

Now you see me, now you don't!

We look forward all year to juice boxes!

 

Summer in New Mexico

"Good Morning!" Avery just got up.

 

Eating Mango. Mmmmmmm.

Aurora took this picture for a photography class. Very cute subject!

This is a book we have with magnetic words. Avery can't read yet, but it is fun to play with the magnets. The color on her hands is from the previous project she was doing :)

Avery Dancing q-t-pi

Avery loves to dance! In this video she is dancing in circles, and then there is a slide show at the end with pictures Aurora took of her on her new camera. We love Avery SOOOO much!!!

Singing Star

Avery came up to Aurora while she was listening to her iPod and decided to sing along :)

February

So Glamorous!
Footie Pajamas and shades.

Finger painting!

This was a fun day. Autumn was craving pretzels (the only way we can get gluten free soft pretzels- HOMEMADE!) So we set up to make some. Autumn never does anything half-way. We made DOZENS! Avery got her own little pile of dough and her sisters helped her make her own pretzels. It was just as much fun as play dough and tastes better!

I think she tasted some raw dough. This is Avery's "ewwwww" face!

Dancing doing dishes

Beautiful Dancer

We sometimes find it easier to get the kitchen cleaned up after dinner if we have some good music playing. Tonight everyone was dancing around the kitchen and Avery really rocked out. Her shirt is missing because it got wet and after dinner is pajama time- no need to get a new shirt just to take it off again. So excuse her shirtlessness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crGlmrfGCOk

Aaron and Avery at Breakfast

All dressed up!

Christmas Morning. The kids all line up, youngest to oldest to come down to get their stockings. Stockings are our favorite part. We all write love notes to each other and put them in our stockings. After stockings we ate breakfast and then opened presents.

The nativity pageant: Every Christmas we act out Luke 2. This year Avery was Mary. She and Aaron sat in the wagon that Aaron got for Christmas while we did our pageant. It was much better than the traditional donkey!

Running around in her red pajamas!

Avery has a very soft spot for babies. This is her opening her Christmas Eve present. She looked concerned until we freed the baby from its packaging. During the holiday we went to see Toy Story 3. Every time the big baby appeared on screen she would coo "baby!" It was kind of a creepy baby doll, but Avery was totally enamored with it. At the climax of the movie, the "bad bear" pushed the baby doll. Avery screamed at the top of her lungs "BABY!" She cried until we sorted out that the baby was really okay.

Decorating the Christmas tree.

One of Avery's cheery morning smiles.