The snow is SOOOO delightful. We were able to take the kids to BYUI today and go sledding. Ava had a blast. Teegan was tired, so, he just sat in a daze as the snow blew into his little cold face! Unfortunately, we forgot our camera. But not to worry....it's still snowing, so there will be more photo ops.
Seriously, I know I am ridiculously behind on posting to my blog, however, I just needed to vent on this particular issue. I HATE 2 AM BARFING...
Ava seems to always contract some NASTY stomach bug and come into our bedroom at 2 covered head to toe in vomit. I'm talking in her hair, on her face, down her pj's, in her pj's, on the soles of her feet. Honestly....did she say to herself, "I think I'll smear this all over my body before I go crying to my parents so they are forced to bathe me at some unholy hour in the middle of the night"?
And then, my darling of a hubby went to the store at 2:45 so I wouldn't have to trudge there with barffy Ava and sleepy Teegan this morning. Ah, the joys of parenting.
And Teegan slept through all of the fiasco.
Well, LOTS of things have been happening for our family this past year. Received a promotion at work, moved out of our house, let friends live for free in our house, filed and received a discharge on our bankruptcy, started a daycare, stopped a daycare because we found out we were unexpectedly pregnant, back into our house, job at work no longer exists and took a $10 and hour pay cut, been to the hospital twice for the pregnancy...still paying that off (and he's not even here!), trying to renegotiate with our mortgage company so we can keep the house, you get the idea. Through it all, we are still happy and love each other. We find joy in simpler things now, not necessarily a Maui timeshare, or an expensive car, but having Ava come into bed with us at the crack of dawn and snuggle to us and say "Hi, Daddy! Hi, Mommy! What you doing?" As we crack our eyes to the EARLY morning rays. Spending time with friends and loved ones because we just aren't sure how long we'll be able to live this close. Making new friends and keeping the old. We've been extremely fortunate in that regard. Though we may not have every material thing we would enjoy having in this world and we are essentially having to start over, we are grateful everyday for the blessing we have and the joys we are blessed with. Heavenly Father is exceedingly good to us. And we have much to be grateful for.
So, we are making some incredibly HUGE changes in our lives at present. We have moved out of our first home and have friends living in it. We are back to renting, and actually enjoying the lack of responsibility. For instance...our a/c was barfing water out of one of the vents. It was FABULOUS to be able to call the property owner and not have to worry about it ourselves. "what's wrong?" "how are we going to pay for this?" "Great, now what's broken?" didn't even cross our minds! Anyway, we live VERY close to a trail and we ride our bikes regularly as a family.
We recently had visits from Auntie Ra and Uncle J from Utah (that would be Rachelle and Jeff in Ava speak) and we had a blast. It was great to visit with them and Ava ADORES her auntie and uncle. Now, if only we could get her to meet Ross!
We are SUPER excited about the upcoming family reunion we get to attend in Idaho. This is the first vacation (ish) experience we've had in about 2 years and we are LONG overdue. Besides, we jsut love hearing how adorable Ava is and who better to tell us than a ton of family?!
Well....until next time!
So, we took Ava last Saturday to Just Kidz Kuts to get her hair cut. Mommy, Daddy and our cousin (on Mommy side) Max came along for the ride! And here's the proof that our daughter now has an adorable bob and no longer looks like a shaggy sheep dog! Sorry Aania...we wanted it to be you...but Utah's a long way to go for a haircut!
So, we're not all that super about remembering to blogg our adoring fans...but here we are. We've had pics requests and no need to fear...they will be honored! But really, we know everyone really wants to see Ava...I mean, hey, we get excited about seeing her every morning!
So her latest thing is time outs.
Daddy thought it was o.k. to allow Miss Thang to run and climb on our sofa...obviously NOT O.K....especially when said running and climbing involves trying to climb over the back and arms of the sofa (to our wooden floor and a broken head). So, we had a time-out. Ava protested and kicked and banged her head on her chair, but we made it. I got a hug and she has not attempted sofa diving again (yet).
