New Years Eve

Honestly the years go by 10 times faster when you have a kid, can't imagine what it will be like when we have a handful of kids!

We have had a lot happen this year, not all has been that great and sadly enough a lot of the things I wanted to accomplish DID NOT happen, but Ava changed a lot and that was my favorite part!

Ava has:
Gained 8 pounds this year
Grown 5 1/2 inches
Gone from 12-18M clothes to 3T

1 year ago Ava was still army crawling and had JUST started pulling herself up on things. She had 0 teeth and could say 1 word?

She was my little chunky baby 1 year ago and now she's my energetic toddler!

I've worked a TON this year. Brittybird has gone really well and I've stayed extremely busy. We are almost up to 1000 sales on Etsy!! I have been busier than I had ever planned. For most the year I kept telling myself that I needed to work more so that we could pay for things like infertility treatments but I've decided to take less orders this year and focus more on changing myself and losing weight and then hopefully we won't actually need to pay for infertility treatments.. (hopefully).

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE my work. I want to make new projects this year that I haven't tried before and with more time that should be possible. I've already started this year off with a new project, recovering my friends car seats!

Merry Christmas

Christmas with a nearly 2 year old was a ton of fun!! She suprised me with how much she was interested with everything else going on but not exactly unwrapping her gifts. She wanted to wander from one person to the next to see what they were doing :) She only focused on her own stuff for a little bit. This was our first Utah Christmas however I was totally sad that there was NO snow and that it has only snowed 2 (maybe 3) times this year... not even an inch each time. UM yes this is ME saying this! I guess I wanted a little bit of a winter wonderland for the year I'm not traveling... Now that Christmas is over we have our countdown till Little Miss turns 2!!! 2 1/2 more months (which also means spring will be here in 2 1/2 more months!) I am excited about that!

2011 in Photos

If you haven't noticed this is my yearly tradition (since 2009) seen here, and here..

So another year has come and gone and we are heading into 2012 now!!! Can't believe it! Our baby girl will be 2 soon and she is the light of our life... hence why the following pictures will pretty much all be of her!

January: Spent most the month indoors away from the cold cuddling with this little girl

February: Celebrated Ava's first Valentines Day

March: Celebrated Ava's 1st birthday!!!

April: Ava got her first tooth on April Fools Day

May: Ava finally started walking!

June: I turned 25 (and these photos were my birthday present :)

July: Ava got tubes in her ears! SO thankful for tubes!

August: Lisa Ava and I went to MONTANA!!

September: Ava turned 18 months and started nursery :)

October: Family photos and Ava's 2nd Halloween

November: 2nd Thanksgiving

December: 2nd Christmas

No truer words

We've hit 1 year since we have wanted a 2nd baby. 1 year and no closer to baby number 2. I thought we'd be having a baby in January. Mothers day weekend I had 3 positive pregnancy tests (yes I kept taking them) but lo and behold I'm not pregnant and not having a baby next month. Chemical pregnancy/early miscarriage, whatever you call it, I call it heartache. I pray with all my heart that by this time next year we will indeed be pregnant expecting our 2nd. Ava truly is a blessing from the start and continues to be the greatest gift I've ever been given.

Santa photos

Awesome Santa vs FAIL Santa

The first photo was taken at Fotofly (at thanksgiving point) and the other at the mall!! AH! We had plans all along to just do the Fotofly photos but we were at the mall over the weekend, and decided to see how Ava would do with Santa so stopped by and saw him. EPIC FAIL! So don't go see the scary Mall Santa! Go to Fotofly at Thanksgiving point! (SIDE NOTE: fotofly pics were taken on a NO nap day!!!! unbelievable!)