What we have been up to

This past weekend was conference weekend and we were able to spend Sunday with my family. My brother Mitch was in town from California, so it was nice to spend time with him. I always love conference we have my favorite thing my moms cinnamon rolls. I look forward to them all year. We had a great time getting inspired and spending time together. Evie and Stratton were being so cute! they wanted me to take pictures of them while they were posing. Stratton is always so creative and is so much fun to play with.

Avery has been giving kisses for awhile now, but this is the first time I have gotten pictures. I love getting kisses from my little girl they are the best!

Once again it was play time with daddy. She gets flipped, tossed and thrown around, and she loves it. She has so much fun with her daddy, and I love watching those two play.

Can you belive how big she looks in this picture. She is becoming a little toddler. Where has the time gone?

She loves carrying around the wrapping paper. She no longer wants toys. Her new favorite things to play with is boxes, paper, cell phones, keys, remotes.



Lately I have been hanging out with my friend Laci. Both of our husbands are gone alot, so to keep us sane we get the kids together and play. They are becoming good little play mates. Since the weather is still good we have been trying to get outside and enjoy it. Lets just hope it stays a little bit longer.

Avery and I also enjoy the nice weather going for walks just us two. She loves being outside,and I have no idea what we are going to do when winter comes. I guess we will enjoy the weather while it lasts. The nice thing about going for walks is its free what could be better!

Fun times!

She loves this chair at my sister's house. She climbs in and out a million times. I love this picture of her just chillin in the chair. I think I will have to get one of her own for Christmas.

On monday night we went to my sister's for dinner. She loves being over there playing with Evie and Stratton. Stratton had this idea to put the kids on the blanket and then pull them around. Avery loved it! she was going crazy and giggling so hard it was the cutest thing ever. Avery always has so much fun playing with her cousins.

Today I got out this box, and it has been the only thing she has been playing with. If I only knew she was going to have this much fun I would have got it out sooner. I guess I know now what to get Avery besides toys.

Muir family getaway!

September 18th-20th we rented a cabin in Park city for the Muir family getaway. We had a such a great time. So much to write about so I will just give the highlights.

Friday we got there about 4. As one of the first people to arrive we enjoyed hanging out and playing in the game room. Avery loved the arcade she loved pushing all the buttons. Brett and Randy had a great pool game while us girls mingled.

We had a great night first night eating a yummy dinner, and playing games. Their is always tons of laughs with the Muirs. The funny/sad experience that we had that night was giving Avery and Boston a bath. We thought it would be fun to put them in the jetted tub and have fun with the bubbles. I was feeling like it was getting a little too high, so I thought maybe the jets would still work, boy was I wrong. It wasn't quite high enough so the water was squirting in their eyes and mouth. They were both bawling hysterically and were trying to crawl out. Boston cried for a few minutes, but Avery could not calm down. The rest of the time Avery hated the bath, but good news when we got home she still loves her bath, so no worries.

Saturday morning the boys woke up early to go golfing. While they were gone Debbie, Jenn and I spent the morning mingling and watching the kids get into everything! After the boys got home us girls went for a day out. We went to midway to do a little shopping. Midway had the cutest little boutiques. We also went to the cutest little bakery with the most amazing cakes, and treats. The highlight was going to good old family dollar. Us girls got a new set of earrings to show off to the boys. I mean how could you miss them! Before we knew it we had been gone for 4 hours! the time flies when your having a girls day out.

After we got back we headed to the nearest pond. Brandon and Brett were bummed they didn't bring fishing gear, so they made their own fishing pole. We had fun watching them trying to catch something with Brett throwing Doritos in the lake. Just as we were saying these boys aren't going to catch anything they started screaming! They got a salamander and came to show us all. It was the ugliest thing ever, but Avery didn't' seem to care. So all in all we had a great time at the pond. Randy also found some friends as you can see in the picture.

We got back to the cabin with so much we still wanted to do. We started the night out with the craft Jenn brought. We did mod podge! We made blocks that say autumn. It was such a fun craft, and every ones were so different with our own little touches. I hope we make this craft night a tradition. After crafts we had a yummy steak dinner with a little birthday party for Randy and Debbie. We also watched a movie,but of course I fell asleep! What a fun day we had, but it went way too fast! We felt like their was so much more to do, but maybe next year we can stay an extra day.

Avery was so cute all weekend. she loved playing with her cousin Boston. They had so much fun roaming around a new place and getting into everything. She was a great sleeper even though the basement was freezing! Avery loved walking around outside, eating her cookies and carrying her doll around in her shirt(thanks to daddy for that).

Such a super fun weekend we all had. I think we should make this a yearly tradition. Thanks Randy and Debbie!

More family pics!

These are some more of the Muir family pictures. Nicole edited them all, and put cute sayings on them. Just wanted to share some more of them. Nicole you did an amazing job!

Random pics

She loves carrying things in her mouth while she walks around the house. It doesn't matter what it is just something to carry along the way. She is just one funny girl.

Her new favorite toy is this card Brett got for his birthday. Its one of those cards that has music. I don't know the name of the song, but she loves it! She carries it around opening and closing it multiple times. You would think I would know the song by now. She starts dancing and bobbing her head. The little things that entertain them! She just loves music so much!!! Just a couple of random things she has been into Enjoy!

Update

This is the dress her birthmom gave her for her birthday. Its still a little big, but its so cute on her. Of course she can't go anywhere without her doll.

On Labor day we went with my family on a nice walk. We went to the Ogden parkway. Its a paved walkway that goes for miles right next to the river. It was such a beautiful day to enjoy the outdoors. The kids all wanted to push Avery in her stroller, and of course she didn't mind. She loves her cousins and is so happy when their around. After we went to lunch at the greenery restaurant. We had such a fun afternoon with the family.

Brett is always finding something fun to do with Avery. He made her a superwoman with a cape and all. She loved it, and always has so much fun playing with dad. He is definitely the fun parent and has such an imagination with her.

She loves, loves being outside. She walks the sidewalks a million times a day. She of course has to have her doll to help her along. I love this stage so much. So fun to see her walking and exploring everything. She is loving her new independence. We try to hold her hand to help her, but she won't have it. She is wanting to do it all by herself.

We have such a fun park by our house. Avery loved the ducks, but didn't quite get that you can feed them. We tried showing her how to feed the bread to the ducks, but instead she would just eat it. She had so much fun walking around and getting use to shoes. She took her first steps a couple of days before her birthday, but since then she has just been taking steps here and there. I think she realizes crawling gets her places faster, so why walk. but this past few days she has been roaming around like crazy. She hasn't started running around, but she is for sure getting the concept. Its so fun to see her walk and trying to figure it out. We had such a fun night playing at the park. Her highlight of the night was playing with her cousins.

Just a cute picture I took today. Our smiley little girl!!!