Weight loss!

I have now lost seventeen pounds, but I have not done to well this past week with the diet so pray I get back on board with it! I am so ready to wear my cute pre pregnancy clothes again!

Happy birthday to Rachel...Happy birthday to Aunt Ruthie and the 28th!

Yesterday was my 21st birthday! Poor Kev worked So hard on a big surprise date for me, unfortunately it all fell through last minute! That's okay though because I still got a night out... And next week I get to go on my surprise date...so I got two dates for one birthday!
We went to Old Chicago for dinner



Then to the movies... We had not gone to see a movie since I was about six months pregnant so this was a REAL treat!


Then we grabbed some McDonald's ice cream 9one of my favorite treats) and sat outside and ate it!


Our good friends Jessica and Dan came to babysit...we are so blessed to have so many friends practically begging to watch our sweet girl...thank you Jess and Dan!

The last week of August was always exciting for me and my sister Ruthie (better known as Aunt Ruthie these days) as our birthdays are two days apart! Tomorrow marks Ruthie's 24Th bday! She is in Florida now which is hard on us both...we are super close so it is hard being this far away! We love you Aunt Ruthie and want to wish you a HAPPY BIRTHDAY...miss you!




Last thing the 28Th also marks exactly one year from the day we found out we were pregnant with our sweet little girl!

That's right I took three tests before we believed it! Well tonight we found out we are... JUST JOKING...no more babies this soon...haha!

JEWELRY

Last night I had a jewelry party...it was a lot of fun! Here are some pictures to capture the evening!







My friend (and also my brothers girlfriend) stopped by and brought her sweet new puppy Sierra!

New template for Kevin!

I just changed the template to our blog... i went through a thousand different backgrounds and finally decided on this one on BECAUSE...I LOVE the colors and if you will look closely there are deers in it... Kev is all in to hunting and therefore I thought the deers fitting! So here you go Kevin baby you now have a piece of our blog! LOVE YOU!

Bath time!

Averi is almost always in a good mood right after bath time, I guess the warm water calms her down! So tonight I gave her her bath,like normal, and then wrapped her in a white towel, she looked SO sweet wrapped up in that towel and smelled so sweet...I HAD to take some pictures!

AV IS FOUR MONTHS...We cant believe it!

Today is Averi's four month day! WOW I can not believe four months ago I had just given birth to our sweet girl...where has the time gone? She is getting so big... her recent milestones were...

She is holding her head up and has rolled over twice (I guess she wanted to show us she can do it but now she refuses to do it again!)


She is laughing and smiling and chatting it up!

Beginning to cut her first tooth...which means drool drool and more drool!
Just after she was born...my how she has grown!





We love you sweet Av and it is a joy to be your mommy and Daddy!

The fair

Today my sweet friend Rebekah and Sarah helped me take the kiddos to the fair! We had so much fun looking at all the millions of booths full of things you don't need and can only find at the fair and then looking at all the animals...which was of course the kiddos favorite! Thank you Sarah and Rebekah for your help!

The animals!




Av kisses!


The three sweet girls I babysit!




LOVE my little bugga boo!

The Lincolns!

Weight loss!

So the diet has been CRAZY... I decided to come off the low carb diet...I was tired of being sick and exhausted all of the time! I have been using a web site called live strong (also known as the daily plate) that tells you how many calories you should eat in order to lose a particular amount of weight based on your height and current weight...I am thrilled to say that over all (since starting the low carb diet and all that) I have lost thirteen pounds...YEA! I do not know how much Kevin has lost, but I can certainly tell his belly is going away...let me just say ladies I have one good looking husband!

This is one of our engagement pics...I am determined to get back in these Capri's!
This picture is in Florida...just before I started the diet!


This is a picture at Brooke's wedding this past weekend... I am NO where near where I want to be, and you may not be able to tell a difference... but I am pleased!

Oh Av...

She LOVES her daddy!

chewing those hands...she always has either her clothes or her hands in her mouth now days!

I almost caught a smile!

Notice the drool on her chin...yea she is a drooler!
About all I talk about on our blog is our sweet daughter Averi Noe'l... She truly is a blessing! She is a well tempered baby and only cries when she is sleepy or hungry! She has gotten to be SO much fun this last month... she laughs and smiles at us and chats up a storm... I wanted to share some pictures we took the other night of her funny faces, I was trying to catch a picture of her smiling, unfortunately mommy is to slow with the camera so all I caught were funny expressions!