Come home Kevin

Kevin had to travel to Pittsburg this week for business... He left tuesday and comes home at nine tonight!!! Three days may not seem like much to most people but to us it's a lot, the most we've been apart since we got married, the most Av has been away from her daddy.
We are ready for you to come home Kevin... it's 6:00 now so we will see you in three hours at the airport... In case youve forgotten us we are your two favorite girls- a pregnant one and a super cute eleven month old... we will be waiting with lots of hugs and lots of kisses just for you!!!!

ELEVEN MONTHS!!!

I can not BELIEVE in one month my sweet baby girl will be a year old... wasn't she JUST born? it blows my mind how quickly she has grown! Praise the Lord for a healthy happy baby girl!
In Av's eleventh month she has become so FAST... she crawls almost faster the I can sprint (which I guess isn't saying much as I probably can not run very fast these days!) she tries to climb EVERYTHING- stairs, boxes, into the toy box- and can even manage to get to the third step faster then I can get from the couch to the stairs and yank her off... I have got to get some gates! She pulls up and walks holding things but has yet to let go and step or even stand on her own. She is taking around three bottles a day and I will hopefully be able to start weaning her off of them in the next couple of months! She laughs a lot and makes the funniest faces! She is a mama's girl, which I love, but is always crawling around saying "Dada... dada... dada" and is so excited she can not stand it when he walks in the door after work! She is tall and thin but eats like a horse, she will truly eat any veggies and any fruit... her fav being bananas! She waves bye bye at everyone, if she hears someone say "bye" on t.v you will sometimes catch her waving to the t.v as if they were speaking to you! She has mastered blowing kisses but doesn't do it nearly as much as waving bye bye! If you ask her where Dada is you can see her looking around for him and she gets excited when she spots him, the same goes for mama! She is sweet and hyper and a bundle of giggles and grins and I do not know what we would do without her! Mommy and Daddy love you sweet Averi!

Cirque du soleil

Kevin and I went to see Cirque du soleil a couple of weeks ago. I have seen it twice at Disney (once in high school and once on our honeymoon) and Kevin had seen it on our honeymoon... we are both in love with this show... the acrobatics and just uniqueness of the every performance is something that can not be described and is SO much fun to see. The act that we saw in Louisville was much smaller then that at Disney but was JUST as enjoyable! But what was even more enjoyable then that was having a date night with my guy... date nights have been few and far between due to Kevs school schedule and class demands lately so this night was especially special!
My sweet friend Lindsay babysat Averi, and did a wonderful job! We started our night out with dinner at BDs Mongolian grill... if you have not eaten here you should because it is delicious! We then headed to the show, where we ALMOST did not get in! You see we NEVER carry cash and of course didn't think about needing it for parking, we needed six dollars and managed to scrounge up four twenty five between the bottom of my purse, Kev's wallet and loose change in the car. Since we didn't have enough cash or time to head home and get cash we decided to find an ATM but then realized we had just received new debit cards and had NO idea what our pin numbers were in order to get money out of the ATM... THANK GOODNESS it was my best friend babysitting and I trust her with everything because the pin number had just come in the mail and she was able to go through our mail find it and tell me over the phone, Thank YOU LINZ for saving the DAY!!!So we got our six bucks and made it to the show in time! It was a perfectly lovely date with the best boy I know!

Lindsays bridal shower

The bride and bridesmaids!


I should have already posted this but I am a little behind...
As I have mentioned before I am in my good friend Lindsay's wedding in may. She had her first shower on Sunday, her church bridal shower! Everything was lovely... her maid of honors Hannah and Amber threw it but another bridesmaid, Sarah, worked just as diligently as they did... it was all beautiful and Lindsay walked away with many lovely gifts! It reminded me of almost two years ago when I had my bridal shower in that same room... Now two years, a daughter and another on the way I can not believe how time has FLOWN!!!
Lindsay opening gifts!


Playing the "bride game... my group dressed up jessica and altho we did not win I truly think ours was the best!


Kevin had a guys thing the same afternoon for sunday school so Averi tagged along for the shower!

Favorite photo friday- GREEN

The theme for fav photo Friday is GREEN... it took me FOREVER to find these pics, apparently we are lousy at celebrating St. Patricks day!

Kevin decked out in his green camo... I must admit I find something rather attractive about a man in camo!


Averi decked out in her green camo!!!


our nephew Addison holding Averi all decked out in her green camo!


our nephew Corbin in his cute green!

Bless this man

I am So blessed to be married to Kevin... i am NOT one of those people who has easy first trimesters of pregnancy (i didn't with averi and this one has been even worse), in fact I have pretty miserable ones... i throw up, i am sick and nauseated, i am exhausted and i have the WORSE mood swings in the world... all accompanied by guilt because i know it is a blessing my body gets to experience pregnancy when so many can not and because i know that all this is supposed to happen in order for us to get to meet our sweet baby and is therefore worth it!
Throughout all of this Kevin has been incredibly supportive... getting up early with the baby... making/picking up dinner, cleaning and doing laundry PLUS constantly telling me that I am handling this wonderfully (which believe me I am not!), rubbing my back, and allowing me to be happy cry laugh and yell at him all in a matter of minutes without once getting upset at me! Bless this man I get to call husband for he is one of a kind!

Favorite photo friday- THEN

I know it is Saturday, but I worked last night so I think I have an excuse for not posting the yesterday! The theme for Fav photo Friday is THEN

THEN- Averi Noe'l Yates April 21st 2008... a perfect tiny baby!




NOW- Averi Noe'l Yates, these were taken last Sunday, she will always be my perfect baby but I guess I have to admit she is growing up.... I can not believe she is almost 11 months old!

AVERI

My brother took these adorable pics of Averi on Sunday, he has a natural gift behind the camera! The pics turned out beautifully...Thank you Uncle Jon!

Favorite photo friday- Favorite february photo

Today is fav photo friday.... here are a few of my favs...

Here are me and my girls at BRIDAL WEEKEND!


Here is pics of the best news we got this month... new baby Yates!!



and here is my favorite little girl sweet averi

Where is Averi?

HERE SHE IS!







Here is a cute videp of her hiding under a blankie!

BRIDAL WEEKEND!!!

I am a bridesmaid in my good friend Lindsay's wedding in May, which I am very excited to be a part of! So this weekend one of the other bridesmaids, also named Lindsay and I threw BRIDAL WEEKEND!!! We wanted a time for only the Bride and her bridesmaids to get together and bond!!! We packed up the mini and headed to Bowling Green for the weekend! We spent Friday night eating junk food, playing games and even made a midnight trip to the local donut shop... we also stayed up entirely to late! We got up the next morning and headed into Nashville and spent the day at Opry Mills shopping and had dinner at Dave and Busters which was SO FUN! We were supposed to head back home Saturday night but it ended up getting REALLY late and the weather looked bad so Kevin encouraged us to stay another night and head home first thing in the morning! I missed Kevin and Averi LIKE CRAZY, this was the longest I had ever been apart from either of them... but I will admit, despite a little nausea due to new baby Yates I had A BLAST with my girls!