Did I Mention I'm a Horrible Christmas Shopper?

Still not done Christmas shopping! Every year it's the same story. Also Patrick's Birthday is on Dec. 27Th so I need to hustle and get that done too!

I'm excited for Ave's first Christmas! Here is a quick video of her. She loves playing with the dogs. She was laughing at Bangle, but I only caught a little bit of it. Then you will hear Patrick in the background :) she loves her Daddy!

It's just too cute

I wanted to make the blog more Christmas like, but this picture is too cute so I have keep on the blog for a little longer :)



I was at lunch with a couple friends yesterday and realized that Christmas is only two weeks away! Really? I've only bought one present! But lets just be honest for a second, anyone who really knows me, will know that I will do the majority of my Christmas shopping the week of... like Monday or something. I find it's always better to put things off until the last minute, but I really don't know why. That's just me!

Happy shopping everyone!

6 Months and a Tooth!

It's funny how major milestones are supposed to be celebrated, but instead they make me sad. Avery is half a year already and has a top tooth trying to poke its way in! I seriously almost started crying when my sister Chelsea found it. I wonder what will happen when she starts crawling, walking, or says her first word! I will probably be a wreck!

Thanksgiving was last week and I must say it's hard to get back into the swing of things when you have almost a whole week off and binge eat pretty much the entire time!

The Martens (aka my sister Lindsey, her husband Brandon, and my nephew Drew)drove the eight hours to be here. I didn't take any pictures accept of Aves in her cute little hat my sister bought her.

Check this out!

Who doesn't feel like they either need to loose weight, get stronger or healthier?

I know on thing... I'm still struggling everyday to get the rest of this baby weight off! Well any who Patrick started a blog that has lots of great info on it so you should check it out and also if you like what you see you should "follow it" ( FYI-click the link up at the top left that says follow, but you have to be logged in to do this)

So go to www.etpfitness.blogspot.com and check it out!

Happy Thanksgiving people!

Fun night out... mmm not so much

So I know Brittany will appreciate this post! Last weekend Patrick, me, Avery, Britany, Devin, their little baby Avery, and son Jackson, oh and Greg, his wife Sheila, and two twin boys that are my Avery's age went to Texas Roadhouse. So in restaurant terms that's 7 with 3 slings and a highchair. Come on this is Utah they should be used to this kind of baby madness right? Wrong!

I will try and sum this 4 hour adventure up the best I can.

4:00- Britany starts calling TR (Texas Roadhouse) to try and get our names on the list for a 6:30 arrival time.
6:00- Britany has been calling for two hours straight! So she decides to just go a bit early. She tells the hostess that she has been calling for two hours and gets nothing but a busy signal. The Hostess says sorry, then one of the other ones laughs and says, "that's because ewe took the phone off the hook", BTW the majority of the hostesses there are 19 year old skanks with attitude problems, anyway she says she will put our name on the call in list and it shouldn't be any longer then a 45 min wait.
8:00- we finally get seated! The waitress takes our drink orders.
8:05- she comes back and manages to dump an entire glass of Coke into Avery's car seat! Yup that's right! Oh and a little bit of milk too! It had her blanket, coat, hat, and bundle me, but no worries Avery wasn't in there or the title of the blog would have been- I slapped a waitress at Texas Roadhouse! Of course she feels like a jerk and I couldn't see the extent of the damage because I was stuck in the booth. So I didn't freak out right away.
8:20- She gets the floor cleaned up, takes our order, and Patrick goes and gets Avery a bottle from the car.
8:25- Avery knocks an entire glass of water onto the table, myself, and the floor! Could it get any worse? Yup!
8:40- Still no food, Avery has drank her bottle and is screaming now because she is so tired, and over stimulated from the noisy atmosphere of TR. I am starting to loose my mind because of her screaming and all the noise too! Then I remember that Avery's car seat is a Orthopedic so there is memory foam underneath the still wet cover. Argh! So I tell the waitress in as nice a voice as I could manage at the time to box up our food because we've gotta go!
9:00- Patrick and I are laughing at how crazy a simple dinner with friends turned into such a fiasco while we are eating our yummy TR at our own Dinner table and Avery is in dream world.
There was alot more madness to the whole thing, but you really had to be there. So the good thing is we got a free dinner, a gift card to go back (if I can ever get the courage to do so) and a funny story to tell :)

P.S. Britany if you read this we need a do over date night soon!

Buzz Buzz

Let the festivities begin! I know, I know it was a little late to start setting the mood for the season, but in typical Mandy fashion better late then never!

On Friday night we went to dinner (Mmm Chilis 2 for $20) then went to a haunted corn maze. So let me just tell you quickly that I haven't nearly peed' my pants that many times in my life! Not because I was scared, but I was laughing so hard at everyone else!













Then came Halloween. We were all bees thanks to Aunt Kristie's borrowed baby bee costume, cheap yellow T's and black duck tape. I amaze myself sometimes with my crafty-ness...NOT!
We went to McKade and Stacie's house for a Halloween party and decided to leave candy out for the little ankle biters. OH, and get this, we come home that night only to find the entire bowl gone! Not just the candy, but the actual bowl! Damn them kids!

Say What?

Do babies "find their" voice? Well if so Avery has found hers! Yesterday she started squealing. Take a quick listen to this...


She also figured out how to suck on her toes!


Some other quick updates w/ Aves...

She turned 5 months two days ago!

She has had a few major blow outs! I had to spray her down in the shower and throw away a onezie- it was that bad! Gagging and all! I guess I should get her bigger diapers!

She is so much more aware of her surroundings. If her mom or dad isn't holding her she knows it!

She can roll over! Yeah!