My Avery Baby!

It's hard to believe that my baby is already almost 18 months old! She is so fun and is full of attitude! She has been really sick with croup. We had to take her to the emergency room Friday night because she was having such a hard time breathing. She is doing pretty good now. She is coughing a lot and her voice still sounds pretty hoarse. It's so funny to hear her talk because she just has this little squeaky voice. I have to either sleep in her room or she sleeps in my room because otherwise, I won't hear her cry in the middle of the night. We slept with the windows open for a couple nights so she could breathe in the cold air, and during the day, we made frequent trips outside when she got congested. On one of those trips, I put her in her little tutu and took some pictures of her when she was walking around the yard. I bought these tutus (one for avery, and one for Mackenzie) a couple months ago with the intention of taking their pictures together and I just havent done it. I'll get to it one of these days!

Mackenzie playing on her bed with all of her stuffed animals. She has a TON of them and loves every one!

Finally!!!

After 2 weeks of sleeping on the couch our bedroom is finally done!! Dallas completely gutted our bedroom. He replaced the cieling, and the sheetrock on the walls. We were living in complete chaos! I thought I was going to go crazy! But, it was well worth it! All we have left to do is the door, the closet doors, the trim. and the floorboards. We are going to have the bedroom door and closet doors custom made, then Dallas is going to make the trim. Hopefully it won't take too long! We also got new furniture, new curtains, and new bedding. Dallas and I have never had a very nice bedroom so I am so excited to have it done! And I was happy to get rid of the log bed!

The only thing i'm not sure about is these pictures that I hung up. Not all of the frames have pictures in them yet! I think I need an interior decorator bacause I am not sure what to do! I like it, I'm just not sure if I like it there. any suggestions??

Little miss Dance!

The dance team at the high school does a fundraiser every year where they teach the little girls a dance and they get to perform at the girl's basketball game and get their picture in the newspaper. This is the first year we have been able to do it and Mackenzie had so much fun!! Also, this week in school is "pig out" week. Each child has set a goal for the week to read so many books. All of the first graders have the goal to read 10 books. Well Mackenzie is my little over-achiever. They started logging their books Friday night after school and as of Sunday afternoon, Mackenzie had read 37 books. She has been reading to Gavin, to Avery, and Friday night she had a friend over here to play and she sat and read to her too! She loves to read! At school, she will even stay in from recess to read. She has a love for learning and I hope that never goes away!