No More Months, Avery is 1!

I'm ready, I can be one now!

Our baby is on her way to being a big girl, just like her sister. I can't believe how fast the girls are growing!

Presents for Me! Yay Yay Yay!

I'm not sure about this one, but I think I will love it!

Ohhhh I love this one! A baby that is all mine!

I guess I could eat some cake, but whats all the fuss about? We had cake yesterday.

Man, this being a 1 year old is a lot of work! Nobody told me how exhausting it is to terrorise your sister!

The Life of a 4 Yr. Old

Addie Loved all of her days as a 3 year! On her last day being 3 she enjoyed an afternoon of playing Smurps with Dad and talking about her birthday cake and presents that she was going to get tomorrow! To say the least she was a bit excited to be turning into a 4 year old.

Cheese! As Birthday Girl Addie got to pick our menu for the day. Donalds is always a favorite, and now that they are doing Smurf toys, it was a no brainer!

Is is present time, I want to open my car!

Sorry Avery, your day to be queen is tomorrow, until then please stay away from Addie!

Our Smurftastic Family!

If you can't tell we are all about the Smurf or the Smurps as Addie call them. Addie and Dad went to the Smurp movie and then they came home to more smurps and presents!

"Now can I open my car?" Addie decided a few days ago that she was getting a red car for her birthday. My Mom had already ordered her one, but she didn't know that. I carefully hid it and she never even saw it or the box and she knew it was her car!

Sorry Sister, this is a one seater! No squeezing in like we used to do as kids. Don't even think about the tiny space behind the seat!

All in all I think it was a great start to being a 4 year old!

Recovery

After dragging Addie out of the pool and saying all our good-byes.

We loaded up and headed to airport, just to find out that our flight was delayed 2 hours! If only we had know we could have played in the pool and had a decent nap!

But, finally we made it onto our plane and were headed home to see our Daddy and Lel!

Now that we are finally home it is time to undo all bad habits of vacation. Bed time is real and it is non-negotiable.

Okay maybe we are still working on the nutritional lessons of life, until we get there only 1 snow cone a day!

Since it isn't scorch your skin off hot, we now play outside, together, because sisters love each other. Hey it's better than "No Baby No"!

We have even returned to our mail order shopping!

Most Importantly we have resumed a normal bathing schedule, since the pool doesn't really count as a bath!

Slowly but surely we are returning to our way of life. Some days are good and some are better, but we manage!

Lessons Learned at Inonna's

First and foremost, when it is hot play in the water, and if it is really hot play in 2x as much water.

Secondly, fishing is best done in the swimming pool! Scratch that, all things are more fun in the swimming pool!

Dessert is acceptable before, after and even during meals. Oh and on a side note Avery has officially mastered walking and has moved on to a cute waddle run. If she sees ice cream know that she will be coming to steal it!

Don't forget to water the plants, or else Inonna will get scary!

MoMo taught our Shoe fashionista about heels! It is always important to coordinate your shoes with your outfit, even if your wearing jammies!

Never underestimate the power of Addie. Even now as she is looking at this picture she is telling me how much she loves her kitty, Lucy. She wants to know when the kitty gets to come to her house far far far away.

When you can't keep up with the toddler, cage her. Just kidding, Avery is just rebelling and refusing to take a nap. She could reach the light switch from the crib, and often turned the light back on and played until she could play no more.

Fruit flowers are the absolute best in a heat wave! Happy 6th Anniversary. I guess I won't have to worry about being to tired tonight, since Paul is 1,500 miles away!

Clothes are optional!

lastly, if you can get someone to hold you, your feet don't get burned and they give you toys! The fun comes to you instead of having to chase it down!

What can I say, I believe that education is important. We like to make our vacation educational, saving the most important lessons for Summer. You can never trust the public school systems with the important lessons, like accessorizing, nutrition, and manipulation! Which my girls have figured out, they managed to get all the adults to give them what they wanted when they wanted it, amazing I tell you, amazing!

Up Up and Away we Go

Here we Go! Us girls are headed to Arkansas for our annual summer fun in the pool vacation!

Nothing says exciting like being stranded at a crummy gas station in Siloam Springs in the muggy heat of the South.

Addie has mastered the Damsel in distress routine. With a bat of her eyes and a sweet please, everyone jumps her beck and call! Lewy and Pops both came to her rescue in Siloam Springs, Inonna and MoMo are quick to help a sweet helpless Addie!

Pops has added a new member to the family. We aren't sure on the detail, but we know she is a keeper! As much as Pops tried to give, kitty, aka, small one, skid mark, or Lucy as Addie has named her, I had to say NO! For days Addie would say, "I luv her Mommy, can I have her" then I would have to say "No Addie Mommy is allergic to kitties" and then Addie would go "What" with a blank stare of confusion.

While Addie whined that she wanted a kitty, Avery was busy learning how to make ugly furniture pretty!

Now that we have fried an engine, been rescued by 2 nights in shining armor, had a secret wedding, a sudden divorce (not mine, still happily married) and endured 100+ temperatures we are happy to just relax in the pool!

Happy Hannants of July

This year we celebrated more than just the 4th of July! We were excited to celebrated Jacob's choice to be baptized. And the Hannants flooded Idaho with all their fury.

Dave and Jod rented the pavilion at Eagle Island on July 4th so that we could have an area big enough for all of us! Good thing, cause their are a lot of us>

Double Trouble! Abby and Addie were so excited about the different floaty options. We had to keep reminding them that not all the floaties were ours! They kept borrowing them off of the beach.

Grandma couldn't even resist a good floaty! The girls signed Grandma up to be their personal chauffeur. The Pink Express Shuttle Service.

To wrap up a fun fun day, of sand, water, burgers and cousins we gathered for our own could-a-sac of fire.

Dad tries to teach Addie the joys of Roman Candles. Maybe next year she will like them better next year. She thought that they were a little to smokey and wasn't a huge fan!

Addie much preffered the view from the safety of Kinley, and I can't blame her!

Yeah for Fireworks! We love them, from a safe distance with a great view!

Addie CAN Swim

After 4 weeks of swim lessons Addie is more confident than ever in the pool! She Love LOve Loves Miss Becca!

Addie mastered the back float, and even swims on her back. The hard part is just getting her to stop wiggling and splashing.

The hard part was getting her to swim with her face in the water. But, once we got her a pair of googles and let Becca work her magic. Addie sprouted gills and became a fish!

It is a good thing that Becca likes Addie. She had to recruit her brother, Preston to help keep Addie busy. Addie got too excited and was way too comfortable in the pool, so when it wasn't her turn she was always finding trouble. Throwing rings, kick boards, and exploring the other areas of the pool and even sometimes she would venture to the bottom of the pool! Good thing Becca and Preston have eyes in the back of their heads. Its almost like that had an alarm that would beep anytime Addie was underwater for more than a few seconds.

All of the their efforts paid off. Addie knows what she needs to do and if she isn't being silly she can actually swim. But I'm not quite ready to take my eyes off of her or be more than an arms length away from her. Just in case! I still can't believe how fast my girls are growing! The time is just flying by!