Beach, Wedding, Race

After Halloween, Mom, Avery, and I drove down to Destin for a few days before we had to be in Birmingham for Kristopher Kimball's wedding that weekend. The weather was beautiful so we had lots of fun playing on the beach, shopping, eating out, playing, and even swimming when we found a heated pool.
Avery really loves hanging out in the yard outside the condo and feeding the ducks. Those poor ducks are now chock full of corn, bread, fruit loops, and pecans. Sorry guys!
On our way back from Destin, Mom dropped me off in Birmingham and I met Dave for Kristopher Kimball's wedding to his beautiful bride, Jessica Brush. Kimball was Dave's good friend in med school and was the best man in our wedding. Mom took Avery back up to Nashville to stay at our house so we could have an Avery-free weekend alone. Thanks Mom! Lots of our friends from med school were at the wedding, I can't believe we didn't get a group picture =( It was so much fun to see everyone again. This was the last of our reunion/wedding weekends this fall. We have seen so many friends so that's been great, but we also have had plans every weekend since the middle of August. Whew!

Here we are with the happy couple:
Dave was the best man this weekend and did a great job in my opinion! Here he is toasting Kristopher and Jessica.
This past weekend, Dave ran a half marathon here in Nashville and took Avery along for the ride. They were so cute together, and Avery was a big hit during the race- waving her pom pom, cheering, snacking on candy in her stroller. She was such a good girl, as usual =)
Here they are jogging back to the car together after it was over! Good job yall!

Halloween- Belated!

Avery had a great 3rd (!) Halloween this year! Here she is as Nemo from the Disney movie "Finding Nemo." We went to several Fall Festivals that Sat, jumped in a few jumping castles, and scored some yummy candy with her adorable "just keep swimming" dance in the Nemo suit.

Then we went out for some trick-or-treating, which Avery was a BIG fan of. She got the hang of it really fast and we had a great time touring our whole neighboorhood. She took all the costumes in stride and didn't get scared so I was glad of that. She did see a "scary witch" mannequin at one house that cackled at her, and she keeps talking about it to this day. She points to the house that had it and talks about the scary witch and how then "Mommy had to carry me." Then she always say "But it's not Halloween today!" Ha. Dave's pumpkin creations- Simba and Pumba from the Lion King.

She also REALLY liked handing out candy to other kids once it got dark and we decided to head back home. We had a TON of trick or treaters so I was glad to have an assistant =)
My beauty in her Halloween sweater