Happy Birthday Avery!

Avery was just as sad about turning one as I was about her getting older.

Once she realized she was going to school she cheered up some! Just ignore the snot bubble under her nose and it is a cute picture!

Saturday we had her party at McDonald's. There were around 15 kids and even more adults. We had such a good turn out and such a good time.

Avery didn't really care about the party stuff. She just wanted to throw down some french fries. Just like her mommy!

We were so excited that Avery's teacher, Sonia, could come and celebrate with us. She calls herself Avery's Costa Rican grandmother. I think Avery believes she really is. She has to tiptoe out of the class to use the restroom and when Avery notices she starts crying for her. So we pray for Sonia's health everyday so Avery will be happy at school!

I am not sure why I let Darin pick what pictures he wanted to be on here. Thanks Dear!

Avery looked so cute in her little onesie with the #1 on it and her big pink tutu!

This is little Lilian that is in Avery's class and also lives right next to us. These girls get so excited when they see each other. It is so cute! They also were are neighbors in Richmond so they have known each other since August. If we could only take Lilian to Mexico with us!

Avery wasn't very sure what to think about everybody singing to her!

But, brother helped her out and blew the candle out for her.

Cooper picked the Dora theme out for her. It was amazing how McDonald's took care of everything.

Cooper had a great time since some of his friends got to come and join in on the fun as well!

They also did face painting. Didn't they do a great job on Emily!

What a cute couple! Superman with Butterfly!

All the kids loved getting all the candy from the pinata!

You would think Cooper would be pretty tough hitting it, but he gets shy and embarrassed and hardly even taps it. If we were at home he would have been going crazy!

Avery loved feeling her and even gave her a kiss. It was so cute! Darin still hasn't learn how to hold a little girl when she has a skirt on!!!!!!!!!

They didn't stop at face painting, or pinata hitting.......they also made balloons for them.

Of course Cooper had to pick the sword!

We had such a great time. It is just so hard to believe our baby girl is already a year old.

We love you Avery Makena, Happy 1st Birthday!

Avery's 1st Birthday

Our little girl is turning one on March 20th and we thought it would be nice for everyone to look back to see how this beautiful blessing from the Lord has grown over the past year! 

 

We appreciate all your prayers for her and Cooper! 

Happy Birthday Avery! We Love You!

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No more buses please.............

Well we finally made it home after a very interesting trip. We left around noon and got to the border around 7:30. After I accidentally slammed Cooper into the toilet from the bus going back and forth and him peeing who knows where. Then I got sick after he used the bathroom and then come to find out Avery also gets motion sickness. Poor thing got sick twice on the way there. But as we were trying to get through the border the power went out. So it was very dark and the kids were worn out. A lady then came out to announce that since the power was out we would have to wait for the bus to come back around 10 pm and that we could sleep there. I thought this could be interesting. So alright Lord, we really need your help. We all (well the five white people) immediately starting praying and about 40 minutes later the power came back on and we were able to make it through. We finally arrived to our hotel around midnight. The kids were so worn out but really did great. We could feel all the prayers going out for them.

We were in the city so there wasn't much to do with the kiddos. We did got to a "natural pool" which is natural because they are pumping the river water into the pool. When I saw the worm going by I just couldn't get the word "parasite" out of my head! So it was pretty interesting. We did get to eat at T.G.I.Friday's twice though. It was so nice to have REAL hamburgers that are thicker than a piece of paper! It was so different to actually bite into it and have some kind of juice coming out of it. My mouth is watering now!

So we find out while we are there that the bus tickets that we have to get back doesn't really have a station here. That on Sunday we would have to wait on the side of the road at 5am and hope that it stops for us. So we ended up buying yet another ticket with another bus line. That was not as nice as the first bus. The first one had a bathroom, tv and AC. This one had none of those. It also only stopped twice, but thankfully we didn't even have to use the empty bottle for Cooper that we had ready, just in case. Well Avery was doing so good on her motion sickness until the last 20 minutes of the ride and she just couldn't hold it in any longer. Darin tried so hard of getting it all cleaned up. He wiped it and then poured baby powder all over the floor where it hit.

We are back home and glad to be back at school. Well everyone but Cooper. He cried not wanting to go back, that he wanted to go to class with Mommy. Being with us for five days 24/7 was pretty hard on Avery and Cooper. That didn't want that part to end. 

But thank you all for your prayers. We really do appreciate them all so much!