Monterey

My sweet cousin Lacie got married last weekend in Monterey and asked Avery to be a flowergirl.  As you can imagine, Avery loved it.  She got to have a spa day to get her nails done, then be a part of rehearsal and the big day.  She got to get ready with the big girls which meant she wanted nothing to do with mama:)  At the reception she couldn't bear to dance with family, only with someone from the bridal party.  Overall, a good weekend.  Here are some pictures of our adventures:

We got there a little early so before heading to rehearsal we hit the beach!

Well okay we hit up Starbucks and then the beach:)

Our sweet Myla Bea did not love her first time touching sand.

Avery on the other hand couldn't get enough.

She went exploring with Daddy

Waiting for rehearsal to begin...

Myla loved looking at the san from afar!

Avery and her cousin Sami (one of the other flower girls) at rehearsal

I don't know that I've ever seen this girl so excited

Sassy pants the day of the wedding.

Avery and Sami hanging out with the big girls.

Dressed and ready for pictures!

They took pictures together before the wedding.

This is hilarious to me...

Walking down the aisle!

The Koning 4!  Thanks Lacie for a fun weekend getaway!

Christmas 2012

Christmas was as crazy as ever last year.  We both worked Christmas Eve but had Christmas day off, despite that it was our only day off that week it was a very special day and we loved staying home in our comfy pants all day.  The Sunday before we were able to celebrate with my siblings and Christmas Eve night we went to one of Andy's services and then headed over to my parents' house to meet up with out extended family.  Despite the fact that it was totally crazy, it was great.  We told everyone that as far as Christmas day went, if people wanted to see us they had to come to our house so we got some good visitors including my parents, Andy's Dad, Janet and Grandparents, and our friends the Lynch's came over for dinner, we had a rib cookoff and it was amazing.  We celebrated later in the week with Andy's Mom and Roger and our Christmas celebrations were finally complete!  Here are some highlights from the week:

Aves loved her "Mirada" dress from Brave:)

Myla playing with eggs that she got.

Our Christmas corner.

Our biggest Christmas present...Piper!

The girls got a trampline from Grammy and Grandpa Rog and they LOVE it!

Jump jump jump all the time!

Myla Bea and Grandma Bea:)

The girls got some ridiculously cute coats from Nana and Pop-pop

Christmas Eve

Kisses for sister

Hanging out with cousins

Aves loves being the oldest.

Playing with Auntie's earrings:)

Grandma and Grandpa Larsen

Myla and our newest edition Lyla!

Aves and Myla playing on Christmas morning

And then some...

Here are just some pictures of what we've been up to...

Aves is going through a phase of dress up where all she wants to do is wear my clothes...here she just has my shoes and necklace, she was helping me pack!

Hanging out in Seattle with great friends!  I traveled with Annie up to Seattle for Michelle's wedding...it was a great weekend and a beautiful ceremony.

The ceremony

Waiting for the reception to begin...

Hanging out with Kari and baby Evan at the ceremony, a very cool place.

Me and my beautiful KP...love that girl.

Me and my travel buddy Annie went through a lot this weekend...we had fun with mustaches before leaving:)

Craig was brave enough to put one on his face:)

Reliving bluefield moments

Even Evan joined the fun!

After flying back I picked up Aves and we headed to her first ballet!  The ballet was "Messiah" performed by the ladies that I sometimes join on Tuesdays for ballet.  It was very fun to see all of them perform and to bring aves to her first performance.

Avery and Jill after the performance

My great friend Jen joined us for the adventure...we loved seeing Jill perform!

Aves' hair is getting long enough to braid and we have a lot of fun with it:)

Myla is starting to love the camera!

Showing off all of her teeth!

Oh these 3...Avery, Myla, and Yamikani all hanging out together...all of their faces here are amazing.

Aves loves to do performances, especially for Daddy.

Avery had her first preschool Christmas performance this year and she did great!

Posing with Daddy!

My 3 loves!!!

Sweet Stella

As I'm sure all of you have heard by now our sweet Stella Moustache passed away 2 days after Thanksgiving.  She had been sick for about a week, spent the whole day on Friday at the vet getting antibiotics, anti emetics (for nausea) and pain medicine as well as IV fluids.  The vet felt that it was safe to send her home Friday night so we took her home.  She spent the whole night hiding from us.  We put her to bed at the usual time and unfortunately she never woke up.  Saturday was a hard day for all of us:(  Stella was a really great dog, she listened well, played with the girls relatively well, and was very cute.  Here are some pictures of her short life!

Here's Ms. Stella trying to get into our bed

Her first time at the vet...she was very nervous.

biting on toys with millie:)

and cuddling with myla...these two really loved eachother.

She just kept growing...this is a picture of her cuddling with a water bottle and trying to fit into her bed.

after getting fixed, she hated the cone but it was pure entertainment for us!

Missing us while we were on a trip

She had just graduated from puppy school the week before she died...she did a really good job:)