Dedication

Last weekend, we dedicated Avery to the Lord. It was an amazing experience. Since we had the serivce on saturday night, we held a party here to celebrate Avery's special day with our close family and friend. Here are some pictures:

Avery in his dedication outfit. The sweater was knitted by his great grandmom Moylan

Getting prayed over

Mimi and Gramma made the trip from MD!

With his Nana and Grandpop

Our family

Pictures of Avery's first 4th of July

We met my sister Michelle, her husband Jake and kids at the park for some yummy chicken and fireworks...here are some moments of our night!


Avery with his cousin Nathaniel, who is holding his cousin's Brayden's pinwheel....

Family Photo

Trying to reach the fireworks

Pretty fireworks

Just chillin out on the blanket

My fav photo of the day!

The day was amazing! He was an angel all day long. But we wore him out. We finally got home around 11 and he went straight to bed, only to be woken up by the neighborhood kids lovely fireworks show that went on for and hour or more. So Avery is currently sleeping again! He slept through the night, got up around 5:30am, ate and went back to sleep until 9:30 then went down for a nap around 10:30 and he hasn't moved! Poor kid! We wore him out with our first fourth of July!

Avery is 3months!

Our Avery Bear is 3 months! I can't believe it. The time has flown by! And, for the first time, Avery has slept through the night. (actually two nights in a row) It has been amazing to get 6 hours of sleep uninterrupted. I have handled the sleep deprivation really well over the past three months. Probably because for years I barely got any with going to school and work full time! At this point Avery can:

• Play under his playmat and grasp and pull the dangling toys
• He has found interest in his hands
• Can lay on his belly and hold his head up for a while
• Smiles non stop
• Talks non stop
• Still loves to cuddle!
• Loves singing and dancing together
• Will sit through us reading him a book... he seems to focus on the pictures...

His three month picture next to the bunny ( i take it every month to track the growth)

His three month picture.

At the same token, 3 months also marks a huge change. Its time for me to go back to work. I love my job. But I LOVE spending time with Avery. I have gone back to work twice a week in June, but now, I am going to be away five days a week! Eight hours at a time. I just hope we adjust well. Avery is really comfortable with Brant and other of our family members down here. But I know it is going to be a new adjustment. Even though I am nervous and honestly not happy with the timing of Brant's real estate appraising class, I am hoping that for this short season of life, I will only have to be a working mom, and in two to three years, he will be established to where I only have to work part time if any. Not only am I going back to work, but for July and August, Brant is leaving us for five weekends (thankfully not all in a a row) to go up to Columbia (2 hours away) to take his classes. After August he will hopefully get an internship and will have to take 4 more classes. After the classes, two years and 2000 hours he will be a certified real estate appraiser. I just hope that the two years (it will probably have to be more actually since he has to still work full time) goes by fast and as less stress as possible. I just pray that we all fair well in this transitional time.

Daddy has a secret..

Daddy loves to talk with Avery. Avery is so talkative lately. And Avery tries to mimic what Daddy is saying. I caught a couple of the moments on camera at the park this week!

Talking to each other!

Avery has a secret to share....

And Daddy does too!

Our First Wedding Anniversy!

I know it has been over a month since our first wedding anniversary, but I wanted to update our blog. I created this blog for family members far away as well as to document my family. Hopefully many years later, it will help us keep the memories! We spent the day together as a family, then dropped Avery off with his Nana and Grandpop so we could go out to eat. We ate at this authentic Italian restaurant called Tomatoes. And the food was to die for! Then we came home before getting our boy! Brant had me sister come in and leave a trail of rose petals everywhere, a dozen roses and some chocolate! Needless to say, I was really surprised at Brant's creativity. I love him so much!



Our cake and topper one year later

The trail of rose petals...

Husband and wife. My outfit is actually the dress I wore when I left the reception! I can't believe after a month and a half from giving birth, that I could fit. It was snug tho!

Fourth of July

HAPPY 4TH of JULY

We are just waiting for Daddy to get home from work, then its off to Church to thank God for our country and our independance, then we are going to the park for a picnic under the fireworks!

Happy First 4th of July Avery!