Easter

We had a glorious Easter! It was quite a busy week between Haley working her usual shifts (tues, wed, fri nights), and Andy having added services on Friday night and a sunrise service at 0630 the morning of Easter. We also had a wedding to go to the Saturday night before Easter (Connor Dunn's wedding), but we survived! We were very bless by being invited after church to have an Easter brunch with the Rohrbach's at Kaitlyn's house. We not only had really yummy food but we also got to have an Easter egg hunt which we all loved! Thanks so much Dave and Judy for letting us be a party of things...we really truly appreciated it!


We found a lot of eggs in the bathroom!


She was an egg hoarder...


Family Photo!

March Madness!

Wow it has been quite the month!!! We've had a lot of visitors (Erica, Kirk, Meg, Connie & Avery), Haley's continuing to work nights, and Andy got officially voted into BellOne! Among other things, Avery is scooting all over the place getting into everything (despite our valiant efforts to babyproof that have totally failed), she's in her big girl high chair loving to eat fingerfoods including but not limited to freeze dried fruits, cheerios, puffs, pretty much anything we put on her tray, oh and drumroll please...as of Sunday we have our first tooth poking through! it's on the bottom in the front and it's a slow grower but comin' in! We also just weighed and measured her yesterday...she's weighing in at 20lbs. and 28in! She's growing like crazy. Oh, and she's "talking" like crazy, more of little scream outbursts. Also, when she gets excited, she doesn't quite know what to do so she tenses up, turns bright red, and then lets out a huge scream. In the pictures below you'll see her first trip to the beach...Mommy wouldn't brave it alone so she brought her great friend Amy who helped with the babe. There's also a picture of the Avester meeting Katieanne (Haley's first roommate at Biola) for the first time as well as her playing in a little pool that now sits on our patio that Daddy bought (you'll learn quickly she's not the biggest fan).

Although this month has been great seeing everyone and full of adventures, it has unfortunately not been without tragedy. One of Haley's Uncles (Uncle Charlie) just passed away Sunday night from cancer that he's been fighting for a while (this is Connie's sister's husband). During his last weeks, our Uncle Roger (Connie's brother) was also diagnosed with cancer and is still deciding what treatment to choose. Please keep our family in your prayers as we go through these hard times.

We love you all and miss you all, enjoy the pics!

finally!

SHE FINALLY GIGGLES!!! (oh and don't mind the bed head...she had a bath before going to bed and her hair turned out a little crazy:)

What we've been up to!

Here are some photos of life the last few weeks...enjoy!

These are a few of her favorite things!