Sunday, September 13, 2009

Labor Day

Life has finally resumed its normal routine for us, thankfully. It took quite a while for Ava to adjust to being back home. Our days are full of errands, playing, sleeping, eating and more playing. Although it's still been pretty warm during the day, the nights are cold and drop down to 45 degrees. Fall is definitely here!

Anyway, over Labor Day, Aunt January came up for the long weekend. Although Ava played hard to get, Aunt January was able to win Ava over pretty quickly. We attempted a hike outside of Red Lodge but after practically destroying our car to get there, the hike is now on private property and angry signs posted everywhere told us to basically get the hell off their land. So, we headed down to Powell for the rest of the weekend.

We did have some fun stuff this week. Grandma Ruth came up for an appointment so we got to spend some extra time with her. My cousin, Eric and his wife Bennette had their 3rd baby girl so we went to visit the little peanut. She is very cute! Aunt Cindy made a special trip up to Billings to babysit for me - all she required was a jar of raspberry jam. Finally, we went to our friends housewarming/40th birthday/wedding party. Lots of fun was had. Rory, one of our friends, has a french bull dog named Budda. Ava and Budda became good pals.

Here are pics in no apparent order. By the way, January took most of these pictures and videos. She's sensitive about getting credit. :)

Playing at the park behind our house. The benefit of living near my parents - never ending supply of beef.Ava even had her own sirloin.

Ava was pretty happy to look at the cows.
She practically wiggled out of Aunt January's arms to get closer.
Ava and Grandma Jenna taking a walk on the farm.


Our attempted hike of the Palisades outside of Red Lodge.

Ava in her party girl dress for Mike and Rory's party. I'm afraid the snarl face is back!

More snarl face.
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Ava has also become quite the little beggar. She's worse than the dog.


Chris and Ava dueling with wrapping paper tubes.