Vernal

I have a sister in Vernal who we visit whenever we can.  She and her husband have 4 kids, 3 cats, and a dog.  We love seeing them!

Sue, Summer, Sky, Avery, and I drove out for a long weekend.

Beth and I reupholstered her dining chairs:

I love the final result!

This picture is about as close as I got to having all the kids look at me:

Sisters.  I wish Tiff and Nat were there!  (And Matt too.)

These little girls aren't so little any more!  They are growing up fast.

Sky

Griffin

Moya

Cora

Pumpkin

Mysteria

Moya read a story to Avery :)

My little stinker with Sue

A Year of New Things

I'm trying new things this year...

I'm a mom.
I've been taking swimming lessons.
I cut my hair.
I learned how to ski.





I love it.

Avery is 4 Months Old

Avery has enough hair now to get it styled.  She is standing (but can't balance) and loves to taste anything she can get her lips on.  She is an adorable chunk of love! 

 In her swim suit and standing up like she loves to do:

And a close up just so you can see all the rolls ;)

We got a toy she can stand up in all the time, but she has to use a phonebook- ha ha ha.  So funny.
She hasn't learned to "play" with any of the cool buttons or toys on this thing yet, she just stands there and tries to put what she can reach into her mouth.

Here we've pulled her rat-tail into a pony-tail.  Looks better this way :).  Plus it covers her bald spot.

Another awesome hairdo

Trying on her snowsuit and the baby carrier.

She is so darn cute.

Snow Shoeing

We got snow shoes from Santa this year and finally got to try them out.  It was great!!! 

I've snow shoed before and thought it was OK, it was just hiking but with snow shoes on.   However, after becoming a "mom" who stays inside my house most of the time (I blame the awful inversion and cold weather) snow shoeing was AWESOME!  I honestly loved it.  And Avery did too. :)

We went with Kyle, Liz and Ruby

Avery had this awesome icicle-thing going on...

Ruby zonked out

Avery cried...

And then zonked out

Ruby with a mouth full of snow

Rock N' Roll Marathon

Todd caught the running bug and competed in his first Marathon last month.  He ran the Phoenix Rock N' Roll Marathon in 3 hours, 24 minutes and was in the top 7% of the runners. 

He is pretty amazing!

While in Phoenix, we picknicked and paddle-boated in the Tempe Town Lake. 

Avery nibbled her fingers for lunch.  Yum. 

Ray and EmmaLee let us stay with them. 

We really loved getting to know their kids and Tim and Libby's kids better! 

Cousin Henry (1 month older than Avery)

Todd and Tim and the newest Hammond family members:

I asked Henry's brothers to help me "get Henry to look at the camera." 

(I meant to stand by me and get his attention, ha ha.)

Sweet Andy 

Silly Jonah

Adorable Jumbo Jack 

The girls had a mani/pedi session. :) 

I somehow missed getting a photo of Cute Chloe, but she is a spit fire!

Brynlee, my little shadow 

James, talented pianist

Marrinne, gifted violinist

Blake, talented pianist who plays the trombone too

We had a great time and hope to see our Arizona family members again soon!