Sorry it took a little while but here are Avery's professional shots! Grandpa Rog has copies of all of them as do we so if you want copies...contact one of us. ALTHOUGH...Kathy did order a bunch and she may have ordered you some so maybe talk to her first??? Love to all!

More Visitors!

Well Andy just left to drop off Grammy and Grandpa Rog! We had an absolutely great time with them visiting and continue to feel very blessed to have Roger joining our expanding family. Both Grammy and Grandpa Rog were completely enamored the whole weekend with the baby...in fact they refused to sit in the front seat because they wanted to sit with Avery. Our time together included eating sushi, taking lots of photos, church, shopping for suits for Andy, a yummy homemade dinner followed by both oreo balls and cookie dough truffles as well as getting Avery's picture professionally taken. We all had a good time and look forward to our trip to Oregon in 5.5 weeks!


This is Avery's new favorite toy...we probably all spent a few hours around it!


This is Avery's new favorite bunny (thanks to grandma judy on Easter!)


Grammy reading Avery her nighttime story



All she wants are glasses till you put them on her face!



Grammy, Grandpa Rog, and Avery.


Singing the abc's to Avery in spanish!


The chefs!


She's a good eater!

I tried to upload the professional pics that we took but they're not quite working..we'll have to try again later! stay tuned!

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!