Pickin Pumpkins

The day has finally come that we were able to pick our pumpkins! Hurray! I took my camera and we barely got this girl to smile; but she loved looking around at all the pumpkins! At times she was distracted by this huge jumping thingy at Cornbellys and this is the second time that we told her we couldn't go in :( sad. But tomorrow is the day she will get to jump and play all she wants!

Pumpkin Carving!

Finally! Pumpkins! It took two tries to go pick them but finally we have them and we stayed up all night carving away! It was so much fun. Chris went downstairs and came up with an array of power tools and saws. We googled our ideas to get pictures and started away. Surprise surprise when Lil Miss Avery didn't want to get her hands dirty. Every time she gets anything on her hands she freaks and wants to wash them so this time was no different. She did like watching though.

Avery and daddy

Ya Avery wanted nothing to do with touching that icky pumpkin insides.

Stephan and me carving away with power tools and knives!

Our pumpkin creations!

Chris's self portrait! hehe....We all thought it looked a lot light  dwight from The Office. But that was probably because we were watching a really bad slasher movie with him as one of the leading stars. Yikes!

Miss Avery's pumpkin. And what better than a George pumpkin.

And for me Jack from Nightmare Before Christmas! Hurray for pumpkins!

You may need earplugs for this one!

WARNING: turn down volume or else don't blame me its loud I was about to die on Tower of Terror! 

Chris made me video myself as I was falling down 13 stories in an elevator. You can't see much but you can hear me screaming my guts out!

YAY! for family vacations!

So I promised that I would write about our fam vaca. So here I am writing about it. We flew into California thursday night and hitched a ride in this awesome party van with snoop dog as our driver. Well it really wasn't snoop; but this dude literally looked exactly like him and sounded like him too! We got to the hotel and just hung out and relaxed, good thing we did because Avery decided she wasn't going to sleep at all that night. YAY! 

Friday we jumped on our FREE shuttle bus to downtown disney to meet my aunt and uncle. SURPRISE! my dad ended up meeting us there too. So we walked around and Avery enjoyed all the water features there. She kept saying, "water! water!" ps be prepared to spend mucho bucks to eat any sort of food. We spent 25 bucks just on breakfast; but it was sooo yummy!

Friday night we hit up the Halloween party at California Adventures! It was soo much fun we were all dressed up in our Halloween garb and got to trick or treat throughout the park.  They had Character throughout also and Avery thought they were so COOL! She kept wanting to butt in line to see them which is a HUGE step from last year when she would scream bloody murder if they would even look at her. 

The first ride we hit up was Tower of Terror. And of course Avery couldn't go on it so Chris decided he would go on his own. Me and Avery walked around outside where she met a monkey who she became friends with instantly and proceeded to scream, "MOSTER!" to everyone that had a costume on she didn't recognized. Chris came out of the ride of course all hyper from the adrenaline and said you HAVE to go on this ride. Now I have NEVER been able to go on Tower of Terror because for some reason every time I am around that ride (since it opened when I was twelve) it has been shut down! So the TERROR has been building for 12 years! And ya right I am NOT going on a ride by myself (for those of you who know me I don't like to do things by myself) let alone the Tower of Terror. Chris of corse had other ideas and proceeded to bug me the rest of the night to go on the ride. So all night I was shaking in my boots freaking out talking myself into going on this stupid ride! We walked around tried to go on Mosters Inc. (which broke down just as we were close to the front) and then I FINALLY talked myself into it. I went, shook a whole lot, screamed a whole lot, almost passed out on the ride since I was screaming so much, screamed some more and did it and did it all by MYSELF! YAY! I know I'm the coolest ever.

Saturday came around and we met up with Taunya's fam(chris's sista) and his mom Sandy and my cousin Liz. We hit up all the rides we could. Doing fast pass, baby pass, and multitasking rides so we didn't have to wait as long. The minute we got there we hit up the kids ride and the very second Avery saw the carousel she was like, "horsy! horsy now! so that was the first ride we went on. It was soo much fun this year. (Last year we went to Disneyworld with Avo and she sure didn't enjoy as much as this year) She would get to the front of the line and say "ride my turn my turn!" And we sure got a lot of laughs since Avery had to wear her monkey leash the whole time. But hey you try chasing a 2 year old in a crowded area. We have decided that this is going to be our family vaca every year. (Since we have done it 2 years in a row this time.)

Sunday we hit up our swimming pool for a bit since Avo is a little fish and had a blast Avery loved swimming with her daddy! Then we headed to the beach! Hurray! We walked around and shopped, ate dinner at this really cool fish place for Taunya's b-day, then Me, Chris, and Avery walked on the sand. Avery also loved all the birds. She kept saying , " duckies come here come here." And she would pat her leg.  Avery is like her mommy she absolutely loves the Ocean! She would chase the waves back and forth and run up and down the sand.  Then it was off to our airport. We were early so we took a cab to the mall, Avery passed out from exhaustion (which we all know is next to impossible for her to sleep anywhere but a quiet room) Then to the plane and finally 11:00 and we are home in our comfy bed cuddled up next to our puppies! 

So this our lovely family vaca, which I had a blast on and can't wait until next year to do it again! 

DISNEYLAND!!!!

Here are our pics from our fun trip to Disneyland! I will write about it later because this took me FOREVER! So finally.....An update of some sort for all you Hadlock Clan avid readers. More to come just be patient until I have my house back in order and a schedule intact. 

Avery's Myspace

Avo Potato

"Ohhh SNAP!"

Female

2 years old

Poota, Utah

About me

I'm a crazy girl that is always on the move. I like things my way and know what I want. I'm stinkin cute, "what you have a problem wit that?" and I love my two chihuahuas Cooper and Nelly, sleeping in, chilin with friends, dancing, and riding my bike.

Music

Disney anything. Hip Hop. Fergie. The Ting Tings. The Aquabats. Vampire Weekend.  Anything with a good beat!

Movies

I'm way into Curious George right now. Jungle Book. Lady and The Tramp. 101 Dalmations.

T.V.

Yo Gabba Gabba. Dora. Curious George. Imagination Movers. Winnie the Pooh. Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. Deigo. 

Books

One Googley Eye. Colors. Buzz-Buzz Busy Bees. Pretty much any book I LOVE to read!

Status: Single and lovin it!

Hometown: Lehi, Utah

Body type: Little with a little pot belly

Zodiac sign: Scorpio

Children: Someday

Education: I learn everyday who needs school right now?!

Occupation: Being adorable

Income: Unlimited funds, I just bat my big blue eyes and get whatever I want yo!

My little bugaboo

So here is the low down on our little cutie. Avery is turning into quite the little lady. She has started understanding things more when you try to explain something and definitely has an opinion on everything. We always try to give her options so she feels like she has some choice.  She is starting to put words together. Like come here, oh snap, good boy, and good girl.  She is so funny because she'll see something she likes and say, "cool!" or "awesome!" She is still quite the picky eater and loves mac and cheese and chicken nuggets. I think she has a food phobia because if she doesn't like the way it looks she WILL not try it.  Avery has learned to go down the slide by herself at the playground and will run straight to the slide when we go outside or her friends Jenna and Taylors house. She'll say, "mom mom slide slide!"  Avery can pretty much say any word you ask her to say EXCEPT I love you! She'll say I and you but not love :( We'll always try to trick her but nope she won't do it. Miss Avery loves every animal. She will always point our horsies and cows while we are driving down the street. And of corse she is still way into dancing. Avery is also learning that by grabbing the remote and saying gabba we will turn on her show. Its pretty cute. On the intro song to Yo Gabba Gabba she'll sing along. In fact I catch her trying to sing along to a lot of songs. Avery is also way into riding bikes. She hasn't quite gotten the pedals so our neighbor Sheri let us borrow the little fire truck and she just rides it around all day long! Thanks Sheri!  

My Favorite number...

I got tagged by michelle to do this little thingy... So my favorite number use to be 3 but now is 11.. sorry michelle (I'm not trying to copy cat) its just the day Avery was born 11/11 at 7:11. But 3 is good too because thats the day me and chris were married! So I guess i'll start with 11 then if I can't think of 11 things I'll do 3.

11 shows I like to watch:

1. LOST

2. Survivor TONIGHT YO@ 7:00

3. Grey's Anatomy

4. Heros

5. Private Practice

6. Pushing Daiseys

7. Ghost Hunters.... deep down I want to be a paranormal investigator but I'm too scared to do it and we all know if you become an investigator you can't be scared!

8. umm.... Ugly Betty

9. Yo Gabba Gabba (my fav kids show)

10. 

11. 

11 things I did yesterday...

1. Woke up

2. Ate breakfast

3. Fed Avery breakfast

4. watched cartoons

5. Took a shower

6. Gave Avery a bath

7. Went to Alisons

8. Retouched some pics/ blogged

9. Took some modeling pics

10. Ate dinner

11. watched some tv

11 places I love to eat okay 3 places...

1. Yapona

2. Olive Garden

3. Chilis

11 things I'm looking forward to

1. DISNEYLAND!

2. Averys dance recital

3. Survivor night tonight

4. Thanksgiving

5. Christmas

6. Averys birthday

7. Halloween (Trick or treating with Avery)

8. Going to Roberts to get 50% off Halloween decor!

9. Running tomorrow (hopefully I stick with it)

10. Having Chris come home from work

11. Lacey's sensie party

11 places I want to go:

1. Hawaii (I was born there and just would like to go back sometime)

2. Cancun (I've been twice in high school and I wanna go with Chris!)

3. England

4. Ireland (where my ancestors are from)

5. Panama (where my mom is from)

6. Tennessee (Where Chris went on his mission)

7. Yellowstone

8. Jacksonhole

9. San Francisco

10. Europe

11. Egypt?

HAHA 11 places I want to go isn't even in the survey but I'm not erasing it!

11 things on my wish list:

1. 70-200 mm L 2.8 Canon Lens

2. Studio lights

3. Audi A3 complete with rocking awesome wheels

4. House

5. Another baby

6. Our family to be safe and healthy (yes I know cheezy)

7. A studio

8. Unlimited supply of moola

9. A vacation with just my hubby

10. Avery to sleep through the night

11. An in home Chef! YAY

Tag anyone who wants to do it!

dancie dance

Today Avery had dance again and since she was the only little girl that didn't have tap shoes(her feet are miniature so we haven't been able to find any small enough) we went on a journey to  find tiny mini tap shoes. 

Luckily the glass slipper had some. They were twice as much as anywhere else but now Avery will have her shoes. She absolutely LOVES them! She was tapping her feet all afternoon and laughing at the noise her little feet were making.  

I grabbed the camera.  And Avery actually wanted to take pictures [one word.... miracle] I would say K go over to the chair and we'll take a picture and afterwards you can look at it.  Avery would jump up say cheese and run back to me, grab the camera and laugh at herself.

She did take some of me but lets just not go there...

I love this one! [this was the first picture we  took, hence the REAL smile]

This is her cheese face after a couple of pictures....Fako/evil look/I'm done with this

Awww.... mommy/daughter pic  I just love my little side kick!

The days of nap time are nearing the end

I was looking through old pictures just in awe how tiny Avo was. I found this picture and it just makes me miss those days of cuddly nap times and consistent ones at that. 

For the last THREE days Lil Miss Avery has decided to veto her naps. Which those of you who know Avery know that she never has missed naps. In fact I can count only three times in her life that she has missed a nap.  I can't complain though because she has slept better through the night (probably because she was exhausted from going all day long).  

I have been putting her down like normal and she would just sit and play and jabber and talk to her dolls. I left her in there hoping she would fall asleep but nope she wouldn't. Until today that is. She has finally taken a nap! HURRAY! Break time for mommy.  I cleaned some, watched so me tv, blogged a little, and put up our halloween decor.

 I just love halloween. The crisp air, fall leaves, and dressing up. (I know thats off the nap topics)  Well we will see what's in store for nap time in the days to come. Wish us luck!