Birthday Party!

We had a pretty low key birthday party this year, but I think Ava had a happy day. We actually did presents and cake the day before her birthday because Brent had to work late on the day. We had such fun celebrating our big one year old and remembering what we were doing a year ago. It is a lot more fun having Ava on this side of my belly!

Here is Ava enjoying her new toys!

 

For dinner we had one of Ava's favorites, spaghetti!

Cake Time

From our little bitty new baby.....

To our big 1 year old!!!

Happy Birthday Ava!!! We love you!!

1 year old!!

What an amazing year it has been. We never could have imagined how much we could love our sweet little Ava Claire. It had been so fun to watch her grow and learn!

At Ava's one year check-up she was weighting in at 21lb (50th%) and 29inches (75th%). Still a long skinny girl. She has four teeth, with four more pushing through. Ava has taken a few steps but is not yet consistently walking. She talks ALL the time, although not much of it is actual words. She still loves to sleep, eat, play outside and read. 

Anytime she is playing with something soft, she lays down on it like she going to sleep. I love it.

Loves her bath time. If only she could learn not to pull the drain plug out.

Her new fascination is with the microwave. I think she likes that she can see herself in it.

Finally holding the bottle on her own!

At the her year check up. She completely shredded that paper waiting for the doctor.

Estes Park with the Dixons

The first weekend of October Brent's parents came in town. We all headed up to Estes Park for a few days. The weather was great, the fall colors were in full swing and it was elk season. We had a nice relaxing time, watching the Cowboys game, eating out and hiking. Thanks for a good weekend Dixons!

Snuggles with DD

As always....laughing with Pops

Sweet...love these two

Hiking in Rocky Mountains National Park. Notice the one Aspen behind us.

My little climber at it again!

Another Race...Aspen

Brent and I both had a race this time. The weekend of September 24th we headed up to Aspen with my cousin Emily who was in town from Texas for the race. It was a beautiful weekend and the Aspens were starting to change for the fall. The race was a half marathon through the mountains of Aspen. Really hard, but great scenery. This was Brent's third time to do the race, my second and Emily's first. Emily did awesome, I did mediocre and Brent, unfortunately, had to stop because he was sick. It was still a great weekend and we had so much fun getting to spend time with Emily.

View from the road. Love seeing Aspens start to change.

Ava taking it easy at dinner.

Pre-race

The start...the first mile is straight up a ski slow.