Almost to 10!!!

The scale said this morning that I'm 1/2 lb away from 10lbs GONE!!! Okay, I'm excited. It's been a lonnnnggg time since I've been motivated enough to lose some weight, especially after years of all that infertility crap and drugs and stress, not to mention a bit depressed. I'm feeling good and actually enjoying my workouts at the gym. Food is the hardest for me to change, snacking is in my genes (just ask my Mom). But I'm making small changes at a time. Though after 7 weeks of this I would have liked to have lost more, its okay, slow and steady wins the race! I do have a deadline though, Jeremy is dying for another baby!!!! We have an appt next month to talk about using our frozen babies w/in the next couple of months. So I'd like to get off a bit more before I become a whale again. But hopefully I'll be better at exercising and eating right while pregnant this next time.


All else is good around here. Ava still continues to grow and make us smile each day. She's copying everything we say, like today she learned cookie (well kind of) and got to eat a few too many of them. Dang Girl Scouts! We are getting excited to see all the family out in Minnesota in 2 WEEKS from tomorrow. Everytime Ava does something cute/funny, Jeremy says "Mom and Terry (sister) are going just going to love this." Though, those who know Ava already know she is cute & fun! I know his Mom and sister are way excited to see her though, and a bunch of other relatives as well! New pics to follow soon....are computer is OLD and running out of space, so instead of buying a new one (cheap husband), he ordered some additional memory to install. My computer comes to a stand still when I open Kodak pictures & try to edit them. Oh well!

9 Blissful, Happy Years! HA!

On the 5th we celebrated 9 flipp'n years together, not quite sure how we made it to this point, but its a shocker to some people that know us! :) So I planned this whole weekend up in WA on the Olympic Pennisula at one of my Dad's timeshare places, which was way nice! My Mom was so wonderful to put up with Ava for the weekend, our 1st time away from here. And they had a great time, Ava acted like this perfect Angel for Grandma until we showed up, then the true toddler came out w/ all the whinning and crying to go along with it. Glad she was good for Grandma though!

This is the view from our deck, it's on Discovery bay. The other above pic is from some tidepools we went to, didn't see alot but it was fun climbing around on the rocks.

Saturday we were out in the nature ALL day hiking and exploring the beautiful area. We went to some waterfalls and to the beach and the tidepools, not quite the relaxing trip I planned, but fun. At least I got my exercise for the weekend done.

The deer in front (to the right, can barely see it) walked right out in front of us and stood there for awhile while I shot lots of pics. Then he started walking toward us and stopped, then this other deer walked on out and they crossed the path together. Later on another trail we got close to yet another deer and we also saw a coyote booking it down the beach, gotta love animals out in wild!

So on our actual Anniversary, Jeremy made us watch our wedding video and re-live all the fun of that day. It's pretty funny to look at, we were SOOO young! Alot of my fellow bloggers where on there like Audra, Kerry, Jeniece, Korrie, Melissa, & Sarah. I think its pretty awesome that my cousin Kerry caught my bouquet and got married about 6 months later, guess it works sometimes! Memories are great! To another wonderful, joyous year of Marriage!!! :) Or so we hope!

Pigtails & Tongues!

I haven't played w/ Ava's hair much since she discovered I was putting clips in it a few months ago and she'd yank them out right away. So while she was enjoying lunch today, I got to style her hair and she just sat there & let me. I think her pigtails turned out quite cute and I even got a clip in there w/out her pulling it out all afternoon.

Yesterday Ava & I had fun sticking out our tongues at eachother, she's very good at mimicing us these days.

We are getting ready for our 1st Weekend w/out Ava!!!! On the 5th is our 9 YEAR Anniversary, so we are dropping Ava off w/ my Mom and having a quiet, fun weekend alone! I think I may have already mentioned this, but I'm just excited because its in 2 days! Right now I'm cool w/ leaving her, but hopefully I won't breakdown once we're there--though I think Jeremy might! :)

So last night I took at class called Bodyworks at my Gym, the instuctor is a NAZI of a trainer! I had taken the class a couple years ago and kind of remebered how hard it was, but WOW, it was a killer! I've made a goal of going to the gym 3-4 times a week, and have so far kept it for the past 4 weeks and I'm down about 7lbs w/ lots more to go. So I thought since I've been doing good this class wouldn't be too bad, but I'm hurting and I know tomorrow will be worse. Oh well, I like it when my butt feels all hard, even if its killing me!

My little Toddler!

I still think she's my baby, but I guess she's a toddler now! Ava is ALL over the place, now that her legs work great there is no stopping her. She tries to run, but crashes quickly. After about 5pm she is the clutsyist girl-runs into everything, trips, falls, cries and screams! One of the pics show her pushing her baby stroller/shopping cart, she'll circle the house with it over and over again everyday. It's funny to watch her throw her dolls & toys or whatever she can find in there to go for a ride. She's starting to mimic every thing we say (guess we need to watch our language more carefully!). Yesterday she learned "Hi" and says it in this very girly soft voice, Jeremy just loves hearing it. She's great with Daddy or Dada and getting better with Mama. Also knows 'nana' for banana and runs to her highchair when I say its time to have one. She still just blabbles away while reading her books, very funny to listen to. And when I say Naptime she'll (sometimes) run to her crib and grab for her blanky. It's amazing how cuter she gets by the day. Don't get me wrong, she is far from a perfect Angel. Ava already knows about throwing tantrums and hitting Mom & Dad and pulling out our hair and throwing food all over the kitchen. We have our moments! But it is fun most of the time. That's my update on Ava.

We are still battling the wind here. We got to see a power cable that had snapped and was hitting the ground and sparking up, luckily the firemen were there. We had just got back from a walk to the park to check out all the downed trees. Then the cable flew up and zapped another cable then blew the transformer and a huge spark or what Jeremy called an Arc ???? went off. And our power was lost again for 2-3 hours. Crazy stuff! But it's finally calming down out there, just lots of cleanup for some of our neighbors. Jeremy's garden trellises are a mangled mess, but that can be fixed later. I'm soooo ready for the rain to just come back, didn't think I'd miss it but it's alot calmer than what we keep getting!

Every have a candlelit dinner with......

The ELDERS!!!! Our weather has been WACKY this winter. The past couple days we've had horrible wind and last night 2 minutes after the Missionaries got to our house and introduced themselves, the lights went out!!! Now we get wind all the time, because we live near a river gorge and when its high pressure the east wind just pushes down the gorge and smashes us. But this is the 1st real power outage we've experienced. So we lit candles and had a yummy Spaghetti dinner together, it was great. Two hours later it was back on, then went on/off all night. Of course it was off again when we woke, but turned on so I could blow dry my hair and get ready for church. There are trees down all over the place, fences ripped apart, roof shingles flying and its just a mess! This poor girl got smashed in a car by a tree falling on it, she's very hurt. Jeremy walked to the parks and took pics of all the trees down, I wouldn't want to be around them while its still windy. Crazy weather in Oregon, Vegas was sooooo much calmer!!! But we LOVE it here!!!!

Our 2nd Christmas....

We made it to WA the saturday after Christmas and only got to stay till Sunday night, but it was a fun trip. Here is my Step-dad Bill & my Mom, Chris

My cute Nephew Kael, he loved this stroller/shopping cart that Ava has, so I had to go find him his own shopping cart (that wasn't pink!). He loved it!

Ava is ready to open more presents, yippee!

My brother Brian, niece Kiera & sister in law Shanda

Shanda & Kiera-beautiful girls!

We even got to have another big, yummy feast and celebrate! Families are soooo important, I love every chance we get to spend with them.

We had quit New Years', well sort of. We went to bed around 11pm (bums!), but people and their illegal fireworks woke me at Midnight. So I wished Jeremy a Happy New Year and went back to sleep when they finally shut up! Exciting, I know. Sleep is important though and Ava still wakes around 7am!

Hope each of you have a Happy New Year!!!!!

Our Holidays...a little late!

I've been so lazy, I check everyones blogs but don't update my own! So here are some of our Christmas pictures. We got snowed in and had our 1st Christmas in our house (we've lived her 4 years!). But we have gone up to WA to my Mom's since we all moved from Vegas, so we missed it with them.

My sister Melissa came up with the bright idea of making Snow cones w/ all the beautiful snow outside. And I just happened to have flavoring for it, turned out yummy!

My sis Melissa, modeling off the outfit we got her for Christmas. She's soooo skinny, lucky girl! My siblings & I started doing a rotating gift exchange since there are 6 of us, thankfully I had my sister this year or else she would have gotten nothing on Christmas! We had a good day together.

The Frey's! Ava looking a little doopey!

Funny Ava, she's obsessed with dolls right now, so we got her one for Christmas with money her Frey grandparents sent for her. She opened it and was sooo excited, then Melissa and Jeremy tried to get it out of the box and Ava lost it! Love the pic, captures her little tantrum while Melissa gets the doll out.

Life is better now, doll is mine!!!!

Later Christmas afternoon we drove across town (slid on the freeway a couple times, scared us a bunch) to my Grandparents house and had dinner w/ them and two of my Uncles' families. It was a great day, though sad not to be w/ my Mom.