musical debut

our musical daughter....

Raisin lovin'

now that we've figured out how to add video, i can share this great video of avery and her love of raisins :)

from july 07

eating her turtle :)

she's just 5 months old at mike & heather's engagement party :)

tomatoes

our garden tomatoes are finally ready! we're so excited, because until now we've only been able to collect a few cherry tomatoes here and there, which avery usually eats right away (she love love loves tomatoes) i was so happy to get this big, beautiful heirloom tomato, it looked so delicious! i handed it to avery to bring inside, and...

she, apparently, couldn't wait to have it for dinner either :)

zuccini

zuccini straight from our garden!

she put my pearls on herself...

she gets very excited when we go into the garden,

and loves to help me bring in the veggies

(if i can get them in without her eating them first)

7/26/08

oh, how i love these long summer days....





Shepard Family Reunion

this is the gang.

avery did not want to cooperate for the pictures :(

she had a great time eating the chicken, pasta salad, and blueberries. she also liked the muffins i made, even though Nonnie classified them as "health food muffins" - which i don't think was meant as a good thing :)

(okay fine, they did have wheat flour, flax seed, and the hidden ingredient of summer squash)

she also played on the playplace with her cousin Austin, whom she loves. she absolutely loved the water spraypark, which daddy was so good to bring her around in. she played in her wagon with all of her little cousins, auntie katie, uncle jack, and van.

and before we left, we took a ride on the trolley, and auntie merri took some great pictures, which i'll share with everyone :

thank you meredith!

again?

we were at the doctor's again this morning...poor little avery now has a viral throat infection! i feel like we're always in there, but the doctor was looking over her chart this morning and said "wow, she's a healthy little girl, isn't she?" so i guess, overall, we're not really in there as much as it feels like. anyways, the virus will just have to run it's course, so we'll be keeping it pretty low key with lots of clear fluids and popsicles :)