Ann Arbor Fun

Hello! A bit of house news- IF things continue to go as planned on both ends, we have sold our house, closing June 30, and bought a new house closing July 2! Yay! We're having some appraisal issues now with our Ann Arbor house so we're not popping the champagne cork yet, but things are looking up in our personal real estate world. We ventured down to Nashville this past weekend and bought a house in Gallatin - we're so excited! It was built in 2003, has 4 bedrooms, and is right smack in the middle of the 2 hospitals where Dave will be working. We got it from the cutest couple who both went to Vandy- the husband even played football there in 1952 =) It's move in ready and we can't wait to have visitors so start planning trips to see us!

Here are some recent pictures as we soak up our last weeks in Ann Arbor.

This was our last day of Music Together- the music class that Avery LOVES. I highly recommend it! If you're interested in the Ann Arbor class, we go to the Saline Methodist Church, and Angela Schmidt is the BEST!

Today we visited the Matthaei Botanical Gardens with our normal play date pals. It was a beautiful day and we had a blast as usual.

loving the rocks

sprinting and shrieking a few unsuccesful attempts at a smiley portrait

some hide and seek

Boo!

Strolling with Kaitlyn

Cute bridge pic- we are so sad to leave our best friends here. Waaahh.... Here are the other cast of characters:

Grant and Hunter Pearson

Kate Massey

Nadia ChaudharyWe're going to miss you all so much!

Avery Dances, Counts, Relaxes

Blogs are for bragging, right? Here is a video of Avery showing off her dance moves and her new counting skills. It also shows her hilarious relaxing in the bath after the washing is done and her after-bath ribbeting. Enjoy!

Soccer and the zoo

Dave and Avery playing ball in the backyard last weekend. She's got some potential!

Our zoo date on Friday with Susie, Grant, Hunter, Jess, Kaitlyn, Cecilia, & Nadia. We had a super fun day even though 58 school buses of children were there on field trips. =)

Colors

Couple of Videos

Sorry it's been a while- we've been busy! Dave did the Country Music Marathon in Nashville the last weekend in April (he did awesome!)... we left Avery there to go to my parents' house, and Dave and I travelled to Chicago for a few baby-free days while Dave attended a Urology Conference. Avery, Mimi, and G-Da had the time of their lives, and Avery is still asking to go back to Mimi's house. I'm so proud of her for being such a good girl, and I'm proud of me for surviving our first overnight stay away from each other =) It was so good to get out of town and hang out on the Magnificent Mile with Dave. We did lots of shopping and dining out and saw two wonderful Broadway shows- Jersey Boys and Mary Poppins. Now a refreshed Mommy, I drove down to Hickman, had a wonderful time hanging with the family at Owen's 1st birthday party, then Avery and I (& Dora) made the trip back to Ann Arbor in one piece. Things are looking up on the home sale here... no news to report yet, but I'm crossing my fingers! Here are a few videos for your viewing pleasure- Avery and Kaitlyn running and being adorable at our park play date last week, with a glimpse of Grant, Hunter, Nadia, and Kate. Also a hilarious video of Avery singing Rocky Top with her new favorite pal, "Mokey." Of course she won't do it on camera as well as she does off camera. but you can use your imagination. =) She appears to be orange-blooded through and through. Enjoy!