Saturday at the zoo

I took Avery to the local teaching zoo this past Saturday and we both had a very nice time.

Here she is coloring Flounder.


Showing me her coloring.




Eating popcorn.








She is not afraid to pet the snake, but she will not hold our 4 new baby chicks?!?!?


Trying to check out the snakes

Back from Italy

Well hello! We have been back for 11 days now and we are slowly getting back to life before we left. I have SOOOO many pictures from our trip and I'll be posting them soon, but in the meantime I'm going to work my way backwards and post a few from the past few weekends.

We took Avery to the beach last weekend and had the best time. She really does love the beach. We bought a summer parking pass, so hopefully we will go a few times a month this summer.






Chasing seaguls





I got this suit for her in Italy. It didn't fot real well. But she was still cute.

Randomness

Enjoying the beach this past weekend - spashing with Daddy

















Shirtless spagetti night :)


Cooking


She is jumping everywhere nowdays

She can pedal now!



Classic Avery

Railroad Pictures

At the beginning of the month we went out on a Sunday afternoon to our business to spend some time with Daddy while he was bidding. I had been wanting to try some RR track pictures with Avery and I knew the tracks behind the shop were rarely used. So we packed up and trucked through the woods to take a few pictures. The photo shoot didn't turn out as well as I would have liked - Avery was sick (with a cold) and I could see it in her eyes and attitude - I also had my camera settings all wrong, so the pictures were really grainy. I have to give props to my friend Katie - she did the color editing on a few of these photos. I did a little with this first photo, but she did all the cool stuff! Thanks Katie!

Another boat trip

Jay and Michelle created boating monsters! We had so much fun out on the water in February that we went out again with them a few weeks later. What a blast. Seriously, if the weather was like that every weekend, we would be at their doorstep begging them to go out.

I purposely left my camera home this time so I wouldn't obnoxiously be in everyone's face all day long snapping pictures - well - it didn't work too well - Jay brought his camera, so I used his camera ALL DAY LONG. :) Below are a few from the day.

The water was FREEZING - they didn't stay in long.

Freezing his *&% off!

The only decent tubing pic - I had accidentally bumped the setting on the camera and the others came out really blurry - never fear - I am sure we will have more this summer!


Avery SERIOUSLY enjoying her Capri Sun


Bird chasing with the boat is always easy entertainment. :)


Yet another cheesy cheeto grin from Avery


Boat view!

Lee Family Visit

My good friend Katie & her family came to visit us a few weeks ago. Her husband had to come to the east coast for work, so they took a little day trip to our place. I dragged Katie around the residential downtown and we took the girls to the park. Katie showed me a few things with my camera and Photoshop and was a great help. We snapped and edited a few pics below of their visit. It was a fun day - I know Avery really enjoyed playing with AK and we had a great time just hanging out.