Baker 2 Vegas

Chris recently ran a leg in the Baker 2 Vegas race! It is the biggest gathering of Law Enforcement in the world! It was a really fun experience and Chris did awesome! I was a very proud wife!
We were able to go without the kids, thanks mom and dad! We had a great time together, went to our favorite buffet at the Bellagio, and saw a movie! On our way home we stopped at the yummy Mad Greek and Chris got his sweet free drink and 20% discount for being a trucker. Yes folks, he really is a trucker, sometimes!!!!

Ahhh... This free diet coke is so good!

It's the life being a Truckers wife!

Being silly in the car! We were sitting and waiting for chris' leg to start in Pahruamp,NV for a very long time!!!

The Racer

And his Catcher

This is just minutes before Chris started his leg of the race. He was very prepared and ready!!! He ran the 10th leg for his team. His leg was 5.3 miles and he came in exactly on the dot for his projected time! Way to go babe!!!!! He did awesome!

Taking off

Finished!!!!

Awards ceremony. It was at the Hilton and there was something like 10,000 law enforcement officers and there families attending! Mr. T was the inspirational speaker. Funny!!!! Seems like a nice guy and was very thankful and gracious to all the officers. Funny, cause I just watched him in Rocky a few days before!

Avie's Birthday Party

Here's the 1st Birthday Princess!!!! She was so happy, as usual, all day long! She ate yummy food, got passed around, played outside with friends, got spoiled with fabulous gifts, and got to eat LOTS of cake!
We just love our little Avie and so does everyone else! She is not walking on her own yet, but is starting to get a tiny bit braver! She is a show stopper wherever we go! It's crazy sometimes how much we get stopped and how many people stare and make nice comments about her! Modeling agencies might be in our future! Her big brother loves her to pieces and is always making her laugh! She loves to smile talk and sing in her sweet little voice. She can say baby, momma, dadda, beep, ba ba, and I swear she said blankie the other day as she pointed to it! Avie is a major blankie girl and I LOVE it! She also really loves her dollies and I am just so proud!
We are forever grateful she is a part of our family and can't wait for more fun birthdays to come!!!!!
We LOVE you our sweet little Avenlie!

We had such a fun time at Avie's party! Lots of yummy food, treats, company, wonderful presents, and of course the cake!!!! Avie dug in and was a HUGE mess! But when else in life can you smear cake all over yourself and not get in trouble and everyone thinks you are the cutest thing in the world?!!!! She was so "Caked" she had to immediately get in the bath and make an outfit change! What a DIVA PRINCESS!!!!

More fun presents from Grandma Bobbie and Grandpa Ryan! She loves her little doll Grandma!

The CUTEST PINK PIG IN THE WORLD!!!!! She got a Princess Piggy Bank from Auntie Mel

Avie turns 1

Avenlie Mae Ward
February 23, 2009 1 year old

She is Beautiful!

Avenlie Mae Ward

February 23, 2008

We had a little birthday party for Avie tonight with my parents and my sis Hillary! Avie has been the happiest girl all day and had fun with all the attention! Every time we said it was her birthday and happy birthday to her she got the biggest smile on her face!!! She has been our little birthday princess. She got her very first Cabbage Patch doll and LOVES it! I am such a proud mommy! She was freaking out when we took it away to put her in her highchair!

Avie also loved her cake! It took her a minute to get into it, but when she did, well lets just hope she doesn't wake up screaming with a tummy ache tonight.

So yeah... I am super behind in the blogging part of my life! Chalk it up to being really busy, moving back into our house, not having Internet for a couple of weeks, having 2 kids, and being lazy. Excuses, excuses! I know!!! But I am going to try to get back on track and stay on it! Thanks Kim for at least changing my background for me! I really do appreciate it!

Well, I mentioned above we moved. Yep, we are back in our house temporarily until something happens with it. Whatever that will be. We miss being with my parents. They were very easy and enjoyable to live with! We do enjoy being on our own at the same time though.

Chris is doing great in his new job and learning lots about it. He will be participating in a race called Baker to Vegas in March. He will run a 5 mile leg of it with a team. So he is busy training for that! I am proud of him for doing it! He is working and running lots to prepare!

We had the opportunity to go up to Idaho and Utah for New Years and had lots of fun being with family! Chris and Landon are heading up again next week for a fun little Father Son trip. So cute and sweet! Avie and I will miss them, but we will be having some girl fun together!

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So I am WAY behind!!! But our little Landon turned 3 on Jan.6! I told you I was way behind!!!

We love this little/Big guy so much! He is so sweet, smart, funny, excellent big bother, and full of life boy. He still keeps us on our toes and loves to be with his Daddy! Mommy too, but he adores his daddy.

Some of his favorite things to say:

"I'm not perfect."

"Mom, I love you!" (In the sweetest voice, it makes me melt) He also tells that to everyone else, but I'm with him a lot during the day.

"I have a snake on my face." (Yuck! My worst fear is that he would come to love snakes.)

"Tell me a story!"( He can't get enough of our stories that Chris and I will share with him!)

Some of his favorite things:

Fruit snacks and nut bars(peanut butter granola bars!)

Anything sugar!

Driving his jeep( He's good!)

Taking baths(He would take them off and on all day if I let him!)

Watching movies and cartoons

Reading books

Talking about the farm and his cousins

Going to Nana and Poppi's house

Driving in Daddy's work truck and sitting next to him

We LOVE you so much Landon and are so grateful you are part of our family!!! We thank Heavenly Father everyday for you!!!!!