Trick or Treat

Avery had an awesome Halloween. It started off at my work. The department had a party for the kids. It was great to see all the little kids and big kids too. Avery crashed in the Bateman's truck on the way home and woke up just in time to get ready to hit our circle. She really got the hang of things and before the neighbors could answer their doors she was holding out her hand for candy.

Lovin some candy. This was the first time (at my house, I'm sure her NaeNae has snuck stuff to her) she has had candy. She was spinning all night.
Trick or Treating her own Dad.

Avery's big sis Morgan.

Leading the way to more candy

Avery's big sis Chelsea

Let me start by apologizing to Becca.

Bec, please don't be mad I didn't do Olivia's hair. I do have a good excuse, just look at my kid, she has no hair therefore I don't have any experience doing little girls hair. If it makes you feel better, I didn't even have time to do mine. Okay, now that that is taken care of, here goes my post. Katie and I made plans to go to the petting zoo today. We headed out so early that I realized Lynly would have time to meet up with us, so I gave her a buzz. What a surprise, when we got there they were having a little Halloween Carnival. The kids got their faces painted, tattoos, animal balloons, horse rides, carriage rides, and did a little craft. We stopped for a sec to eat lunch and then finished up. We had a blast.

Avery HATED her tattoo. She promptly picked it off the instant she got it.
Olivia protecting her balloon dog from Jack.
Avery people watching. She wouldn't keep up with the group because she preferred to watch EVERYBODY!
Jack checking out his tattoo.
Rylee and Avery taking a lunch break.

Olivia was a little shy at first, but with time warmed up to everybody.
Avery showing off her face paint.
Here's all the kids and Lynly ready to take a carriage ride.
The clown had to hid behind us because the kids were terrified. Olivia had a death grip on my shirt. In fact she flashed by boob to the whole Lehi population.
Mmmm...lunch.

Blue Boar Inn getaway.

Duane and I spent the weekend in Midway Utah. We stayed at the Blue Boar Inn instead of the usual Homestead and we LOVED it. Duane golfed with his family while I took in the beautiful fall scenery. We did a few seconds of shopping and drove around trying to find a small cabin to buy. I did miss my baby girl and was excited to come home, but the small vacation was awesome.

We had a five course breakfast and let me tell you it was UNBELIEVABLE!!!
Here was the adorable room we stayed in. We had a awesome view and the room was so cozy.

Living it up in Idaho.

Avery loved the snow. Here she is in her fashionable "get up" playing in the record breading early October snow fall.
Avery and her PaPa.

Bye Bye for 7 days.

Bye Bye for now my little pink stink. Have fun at NaNa's.

I've been tagged.

Here are the rules:
*Link to the person who tagged you
*Post the rules on your blog
*Write six random things about yourself
*Tag six-ish people at the end of your post
*Let each person know he/she has been tagged
*Let the tagger know when your entry is up

Thanks to my good ole' friend Jerolyn for this one.

1) It drives Duane crazy when I try to stick my finger in his bellybutton. He covers it up super fast and cries "dooooooon't".
2) I want to move to Vermont and live in an old farmhouse.
3) I think I died in my former life in a plane crash. I have reoccurring dreams about horrible plane crashes. I hate them. By-the-way, I will be driving to Vermont.
4) My nephew Gavin told my mom the other day that his middle finger is the flipper finger and if he uses it he will get beat up! I think this kid is the funniest thing that walked the face of this earth.
5) Duane and I met on a blind date set up by his former date which was my cousin. WHAT???
6) I'm so bad at this kind of post, it just took me 20 minutes to finish. I am horrible at writing.

Now I tag Nikki, Gina, Bridy, Chelsea, Angel, Hellstrom

Avery's one year pics.

We had Avery's pictures taken yesterday by Sara Boulter. Both Becca and Di had their chillins done by her. She's great I loved her. Here's a sneak peak.

Canadian Thanksgiving.

Duane and I had the privilege of being invited to share in Canadian Thanksgiving with the Miller family (thanks Nancy and Randy for the awesome time). It is on the second Monday in October (we celebrated a couple days early), and let me tell you the food was awesome. The Millers are such a warm and inviting family that I almost forgot I wasn't one of them. Thanks Millers.

Angel bribing the kids with anything she could find.
Olivia had a blue ring pop. How can you tell?
Becca made these shirts for all the Miller kids. It spells CANADA. Get it?
Avery eating some random persons left over chocolate cake. Angel didn't care what she was eating as long as she was sitting on her lap.

Auntie Roylene, Duane, Avery and I boarded the train to downtown Salt Lake to hit the AWESOME bodyworlds exibit Saturday. This was the first time on the train for Avery and she loved it. She was such a good baby for the full 90 minute tour of bodyworlds.

Is this how this thing works?

Auntie Angel got this for Avery's b-day. She loves to turn in upside down and use it as a chair.