Turkey Day

We spent Tues night through Sunday in Dallas last week for the Thanksgiving holiday. We stayed at my parents house, but actually celebrated Thanksgiving with Scott's family since his brother hosts the dinner and lives about 5 min away from my parents. We also got to spend some time with my aunt and my grandparents, which was really great since they hadn't seen Avery since she was 2 weeks old. Thanksgiving at my brother-in-law's house was fun and crazy as usual. We all took turns trying to beat my 8 year old neice at a racing video game and played Monopoly and card games as well. Whenever we were at my parents' house, Avery was busy crawling into the kitchen to go play with their little dog, Lucy. She loved watching Lucy jump up and down like a pogo stick and sticking her fingers through the gate to get some puppy kisses. As for Scott and I, we got to go out alone--twice! Friday night we went to the Dallas Stars hockey game. We had 8th row seats, which made it really exciting. Saturday night we met up with some college friends that now live in New York. They told us that they are expecting a baby in June, so that was really exciting. Congratulation guys!

Avery's 1st Halloween

For Avery's 1st Halloween she was a bumblebee. When I saw the costume, I knew immediately that was what she had to be. Coming up with a family costume centered around the bee however, was not as easy. As usual, we waited until the last minute possible to throw something together for our Sunday school party. After I said that maybe we should just stick band-aids all over ourselves, Scott had the bright idea that we could be beekeepers. We probably could have come up with a beekeeper costume that looked more convincing had we started sooner on it, but I think everyone still got the idea.
A few updates on Avery are that she now has two teeth (bottom front) and is finally beginning to crawl forwards a little. Up until now she could only go backwards and would get stuck up against things. She is becomming quite the social butterfly too. She laughs all the time and just seems to be more in tune with other people around her. She also loves seeing herself in the mirror. Everytime we walk through the hallway she looks in the mirror and smiles at herself. I guess this is the only time a person can do that without everyone thinking they are conceited.