Baptism

This weekend, we had sweet Lucy baptized at our church here in Hendersonville, First United Methodist. We were so blessed to have Mom and Dad, Nancy and Jim, and Katie come into town for this joyous occasion. Here are some pics from the church:

Some pics back at the house:

silly girls

grandparents

the christening dress was Katie's when she was a baby, and Avery wore it as well. It's lovely!

lunch at our house after the service

messing around the house

putting stickers on Mimi

more of my girl in her dress:

a few pics from Avery's baptism to compare =)

Mobile- by land and by sea

Avery, Lucy, and I went to the pool yesterday, and low and behold, Avery showed me how she could swim underwater! She swam a lot with Dave over the weekend, but mostly with her life jacket on. Granted, we are in the kids pool in this video so it isn't very deep, but I was impressed. Thought you might like to see.



And here is a video of Lucy rolling over- she's been doing it for a while, rarely, but now she rolls over quite a bit. She's a bit cranky here but you get the picture =)


Yesterday, Dave had a few hours free from work in the morning so we met him at the zoo!

Lucy in our sit-n-stand stroller that I love.

Dave and Avery on the merry-go-round

Avery's favorite- the elephants!

Lucy's favorite- the giraffes! (She loves her toy giraffe, Sophie, so that's why)

A few more randoms of Lucy- I just can't get enough of her =)

4th of July Summary

What a fun, busy weekend! Friday night we went to a friend's cookout:

with the best sandbox in town- I know our club loved that! hee, hee

then came back to our house to watch the Fairvue fireworks

Avery loved the idea of fireworks, but when they were actually going on, she wanted to go in the house =) Not a big fan of the super loud booms. Luckily Lucy was fast asleep and didn't hear a thing.

Saturday we went to Dave's co-worker's house on the lake- I've got a girl that loves Capri Suns

AND water slides!

Saturday night, we went to another friend's house for BBQ with all the kids. 

Avery loved running around with her buddies

Lucy even got to join in the fun

Lucy with her friend Bailey

Sunday- another party with another great group of friends! I told you we were busy!

I can't believe that we moved here a year ago this week. We're so blessed to have found great friends, a house that we love, and a place that feels like home. 

Happy 4th of July!

Happy 4th of July Everyone!

Avery had a parade at school on Thursday- here are some video tidbits. She started a new "school" this summer, going from the First Baptist Church in Hendersonville last year to the First Methodist Church, which is the church we joined a few months ago. She seems to be doing well with the transition, especially since she already knew most of the kids in her class here at our church. Although, she does still talk about her "right school" and how she misses Nathan and Nate =(.






Here are some other holiday pics from the week.

Avery and her new friend, Lucy =)

Avery's class

Lovin' after school

Here are some pictures from before our festivities last night- we went to a 4th of July cookout at a friend's house in our neighborhood, then watched the Fairvue Fireworks from our front yard with several of our friends. Great night!! 

Cousins, Haircut

Last Friday, my cousins Heather and Tami were through town looking at colleges and stopped by to see us! It had been forever since we'd seen them, so it was so nice to catch up. They even did me a big favor by watching the girls Friday night so Dave and I could go to a cocktail party.  Thanks!

Heather and Avery got to be big buddies.

Not much other news from the week- Lucy is getting stonger by the day- sometimes I think she's going to pick up and crawl away.

She still LOVES that sista.

Notice how long her hair is in those pics, now.... tada!

She has bed head here, but her new hair cut is super cute! She was such a big girl at the salon, and we had a fun ice cream treat afterwards. 

Chatting in bed

and telling secrets

and we're done =)

We're so glad the temperatures went down a bit- love being able to go back outside!