God has blessed us with another precious little baby on the way!!!! :)

This friday will mark 3 months pregnant for me. Due date for our little one is December 10th 2010. This pregnancy already seems alot easier than when I was pregnant with Ava. I had just a few weeks of the constant nauseousness and only a week of true morning sickness. For the past week, as long as I have small snacks through out the day I seem to feel alot better. But if for what ever reason I go too long with out eating something I start to feel sick all over again. Cody and I told Ava about the new baby I dont think she understands just yet, but I know she will in time. Last night she did walked over to Cody and I then she rubbed my tummy and kissed it. So cute! Ava is such a fun loving little girl. I really hope and pray that our next little baby boy/girl is just as sweet as her and as easy as she is. We have been so spoiled with Ava... She makes me laugh and smile pretty much all day long. Yesterday I had gloves on doing the dishes and when I was done I turned around and looked at Ava and there she was.. She had found a glove and put it on her hand. :)

Ava getting to ride on the backhoe with her daddy!!! :)

Some more exciting news that we have is house news... Cody worked on our property to get the house pad ready for footings. Last Monday we submitted our plans to the county. It may take a few weeks, so we are on hold for now. The house plans are gorgeous! More than I could dream of having. The original plans have five bedrooms or four plus office, but we are only going to build it with three bedrooms for now and add the other two on later (for financial reasons of course). Cody is such an optimistic person and I tend to be more umm.... not negative but maybe more realistic and scared. I have no idea how we are doing this, but Cody does. I guess that's all that matters, is that he knows what he is capable of and has a plan. I am glad he is the way he is though, because we would never take any risks if he had more of my personality.

It is so hard to believe that Ava will be turning one is just over 2 weeks! She has definitley started to turn in to a "big girl" rather than our little baby girl. She is getting so much more independent. She loves getting into things and exploring the house. I can't even blink my eyes with out her being in a different place than before or into something else. It is fun watching her find things and try to figure them out.

Ava and Duke looking out the window to see who just pulled up to the house. :)

Ava is far from being ready to get potty trained but Daddy really wanted to get her a potty. Later that evening while I was downstairs cooking dinner I heard Cody yelling "hurry come look what Ava did!!!" So I went upstairs and there was Ava with her diaper off standing next to her new potty. I looked inside and there it was pee!!!l lol It crossed my mind that maybe Cody just put water in there and that there was no way she had tinkled in her potty. But she did! Cody said as soon as he sat her on the potty seat she went, must have just been perfect timing.. She is only 11 1/2 months old.

Ava being "independent" wanting to feed herself. She grabbed the bowl right off the tray and dumped it all over her head. lol I had to take a picture. I dont think she ended up getting any if the spaghetti in her mouth lol

Ava and mommy enjoying the nice warm weather in phx....finally. I went down to the valley to help out my friend (who just had a baby girl) with house stuff and watch her 2 year old son. Ava and Braeden became best friends during our 11 day stay. I had alot of fun too! It was nice to thaw out, the winter weather took it's toll on me... Cody just happened not to have any work that week due to the snow, so he was able to be there with me majority of the time. I was happy because I would not have been abl to stay away from him that long.

So we are back at home now. (back to the cold) Hopefully it will start warming up soon though. Everything is going pretty good here. Ava is just getting better. Friday night she started running a high fever 104.2. I panicked, she had never ran a fever over 102.5 before. I called the on call nurse and she they dont worry until it is over 105-106 for over 45 mins. So we gave her motrin and the fever went way fairly quickly. But in the middle of the night I checked on her and she felt extremely hot. I took her temperature it was 105.7. Her motrin was due so I gave her more and once again her fever went away. We took her to the doctor first thing in the morning. They said she had a mild ear infection in both ears and prescribed her antibiotics. After two days no more fever and she is feeling good.:)

Family Pictures 2010

We decided to spend the weekend down in Buckeye to visit family and friends and also enjoy the beautiful weather! Our friend had a co-ed baby shower that we went to also.. They are expecting baby #2. They are having a little girl this time, Cody and I decided to lend them them Ava's clothes. We don't mind at all because we have been blessed with so many hand me downs from my little niece Cheyenne and some from my niece Lauren. We had so many clothes for Ava that I know that she didnt even get a chance to wear them all.

Ava's 1st birthday is comming up in just a few months and I am hoping to get picture invitations... So I asked my sister in law Mandy if she could take some pictures of Ava and while we were at it maybe some family pictures too! Our last family pictures were when Ava was only a week old. She has changed so much! She is such a cutie pie :) Cody and I are both blown away to see these pictures because she looks so big to us. She is no longer our little newborn. Though we are loving the stage that she is in now too. We bet she will be walking anytime now. She has taken just one step at a time so far then she looses her balancen and falls. We went to the Stride Rite Outlet on our way to phx, to get a pair of walking shoes for her. The lady working there measures her feet and said her feet are tiny. Ava's foot size is measures at 3 -6 months lol Her grandma Renea and Great Grandma Joyce have very tiny feet so maybe this is a sign that she will be short and little like them.?? Anyways they do not make walking shoes for her size so we bought the smallest size they carry (infant size 2) that way when her feet do grow we will already have the shoes at home ready for her.

This was a fun picture to take. Though I must admit I was afraid that I was going to fall with Ava. Thankfully no accidents happend.

Our little family.

We are so thankful for everything God has blessed us with.

Ava hanging out in her high chair while mommy bakes (:

This is a picture of Cody getting ready to go plow.

We have had quite the snow storm all week!! This is only my second winter in snow country... It is so beautiful to look outside and see everything covered in a thick blanket of white. When we heard that a snow storm was on it's way, we did some major grocery shopping and stocked up on a lot of things. I am so glad we did! The freeways have been shut down for the past few days and who knows when they will re-open. Cody and I have been following the weather on noaa.gov and it says to expect up to another 11" of snow tonight. I think of all of this snow as such a blessing because with Cody's line of work you always expect the winter months to be pretty slow or non-existent. So he has definitely taking advantage of all the snow that has came, he hops in his backhoe and drives through the neighborhoods asking if anyone needs their driveways plowed. He also is a great help to people who end up getting their vehicles stuck in the snow.

With all of this snow Ava and I are staying inside and keeping warm. (: I have been doing a lot of baking/ trying a few new recipes (anything to keep me

from getting cabin fever lol)... I tried a new recipe for maple wheat dinner rolls and they turned out pretty good, today I made wheat banana muffins with semi sweet chocolate chips yum! Oh ya and last night I made some hot cocoa with homemade marshmallow cream. I have never tried that before, but it came out pretty good too. I am also planning on making cinnamon rolls... I plan on starting those tonight so they will be ready to just throw in the oven in the morning. I am glad we live close to Cody's brother and mom so we can share all this food I've been baking!lol