First Pigtails

Ok so I'm doing a little catching up right now. I have a lot of cute pics of Ava and I'm a little behind on posting them. I pretty much take pictures of her every day! I can't help it she is so dang beautiful and I want to capture her every move and all of her firsts! These next few posts(the ones below this) are going to be long! And since this is mostly our little family journal, don't mind me just doing a little documenting of my gorgeous baby.


This week we bought Ava a new dress to maybe wear in her one year pictures. So I decided to let her wear it to church this last Sunday. When I put it on I thought pigtails would look so cute. So I hurried and made two bows(church is at 9...yup we were a little late) and put on the doodlebops so she would hold still. She did so good. They were the cutest things ever and I was so proud of myself! Her hair isn't quite long enough but most of it fit in the pigtails! They made her look so much older!:( She looked like such a big girl! These are the best pictures I could get with her walking around!

I made the mistake of saying "outside" and then not opening the door fast enough.

the back view

I need to work on making them a little more even next time!

Me and my cute baby!

She really does love her car seat and she was smiling until I actually took the picture!

Baby dolls, bags, and toothbrushes

These are just a few of Ava's favorite things right now. She loves carrying her baby everywhere. She gives it sweezes and kisses all the time. She also loves brushing her teeth. When I give the toothbrush to her she will hand it back to me and want me to turn it on! Bags are also popular in our house. It's so cute when she sticks her little hand through it and puts it on her arm. I love it! She is already a girly girl!

Just hanging out in the car seat with her baby!

We brush our teeth alot in our house! Daddy is really big on toothbrushes!

Carrying her bags!

This video is my favorite! She has been saying baby quite a few times and I couldn't believe I actually got it on camera!

Shopping Day!

Last week Camille and I went shopping at Town Square. It's a new shopping center here in Vegas. It's a lot like the Gateway. I went to the grand opening a few months ago because I was so excited to go to H&M. It's my new favorite store! It was a lot of fun and the wheather here is pretty great right now! (sorry for all of you freezing in Utah) It's always fun to take Ava shopping, and by fun I mean time consuming! She doesn't like to sit in her stroller for very long but she is pretty good when she gets out. I just follow her everywhere. She pooped all over as well and that took some time cleaning up! Good thing I had just bought her some new clothes! She was actually really good. I'm lucky to have such a sweet baby! We ate lunch at California Pizza Kitchen-yum! And then on our way home we decided to go surprise our husbands at school. They were just doing some studying so we were able to go into the school. It was fun to see what Eric does all day. They showed us the sim-lab where they do all their actual dental stuff. Eric let Ava play with all his tools!

Camille, me, and Ava waiting for our table!

The only thing she would eat was a lemon!?

Daddy showing Ava one of the tools. It's the one that squirts water!

Hanging out in the sim lab. Notice the dummy in the corner. They stick the teeth in that and work on them! Kinda weird!

Ava playing with the teeth!

4 GREAT YEARS

Happy Anniversary love! I can't believe today is our 4 year anniversary! We are getting old!:) It's been the best 4 years and it just keeps getting better! Thanks for being a great husband and taking such good care of your family! I'm so lucky to have you! I look forward to many great years so come! I love your stinking guts!! ** Wow check out those side burns! :) You look hot!

baby dinosaur

Eric just got a new assignment from school. He and Jarom are teaching elementry school kids how to brush their teeth. So last week he brought home this purple dinosaur puppet that has real teeth and a giant toothbrush to go with it. It was so funny when he walked in the door with it Ava ran over and got this huge smile on her face. She thought it was the greatest thing. Eric gave her the toothbrush and let her brush it's teeth. It has a tongue and it even spits water. She wanted to carry it around all day! She is not really afraid of much these days.

Tagged...all about Eric

I was tagged by Camille to do this tag about Eric. So here's some random information about Eric and some about me.

• What is his name? Eric Paul Wilbur
• How long have you been married? Four years on February 12th!
• How long did you date? 1 year(he left on his mission for two) dated for two months and were engaged for 4!
• Who eats more sweets? I do for sure! I'm always trying to talk him into eating treats so I'm not the only one! I don't want to be chubby all by myself!:)
• Who said I love you first? He did.
• Who is taller? He is by about 5 inches.
• Who can sing better? Probably him but neither of us is that great.
• Who is smarter? Eric is by far! He is naturally smart. He catches on to things faster!
• Who does the laundry? I usually do unless he needs something done for the next day.
• Who pays the bills? He does! He is in charge of all that stuff!
• Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? I do
• Who mows the lawn? I don't think we have ever had to mow our lawn but I'm sure he would do it.
• Who cooks dinner? I usually do but he likes to cook so he does every once in awhile.
• Who drives? Eric does! He is kind of a freak about driving. I think he has panic attacks when I drive!
• Who is more stubborn? We both are! But he would say I was more stubborn.
• Who kissed who first? He kissed me of course! :)
• Who asked who out first? He asked me, Septmenber 9, 2000.
• Who proposed? He did!
• Who has more siblings? He does! I'm not even going to try to count them! Most of them are adopted!
• Who wears the pants? I think we both do. It probably depends on the situation.

Thanks for being a great husband Eric! I love you!
I tag Robyn, Angi, Annie, Jody(to help keep you busy when you are bored!:), April, and anyone else that wants to!

Big girl car seat

Last weekend we decided to buy Ava her forward facing car seat! It's a Britax Boulavard and it's super cute. And of course is very safe. It has excellent saftey ratings. I promise I didn't just buy it because it was cute!:) I'm pretty sure she is 20lbs right now and in less than two weeks she will be one!! We were so excited because we thought she would love to sit forward and see everything. We put her in it in the house and she was ok, she mostly just wanted to climb in and out. We went to dinner with some friends that night and decided to give it a try (don't worry it was a short drive, and we turned her back around after). She was so confused and kept tring to slide out. I think she got a little of her mom's claustraphobia! She hated the belt over her. In her other car seat she is already laying back so she was fine. All her toys were falling off her lap and she wasn't too excited about it. I kept looking back at her laughing because it was so weird to actually see her, and she just looked at me like "why do I have to sit like this"? I wish I would have gotten a picture of her face! It made me sad to see her in a big girl car seat! She is getting so big, but she has such a cute personality right now!

She acted like she couldn't move her head! So funny!

Just being my sweet baby girl