Our New Apartment - The Girls' Bedroom and Bathroom

Here's the girls' room from the hall...

And here's their beds.

I made up some subway art to go above Lexi's bed, I just need to refinish the picture frame.

Here's Lexi's side of the room...

And Avery's side...

(The mirror is making weird shadows on the wall.)

And their closet...

(and me.)

And here is their bathroom...

(The picture frames above the toilet have the girls' artwork in them, eventually I'm going to put pictures of the girls in them. I'm thinking baby bath pictures in black and white.)

I wanted it to be feminine but not little girl-ish.

I love it!

This is the first time we've had two bathrooms.

The girls bathroom is twice the size of the one in our old ABQ apartment.

Our New Apartment - Our Building and Our Deck

We've lived in our new apartment for about five weeks.

I guess it's time I started posting pictures.

Our complex has three "phases" or groups of buildings.

Each phase is gated.

We live in phase three.

Here's the entrance into get into our phase...

Once you walk through the gate you see...

We live on the second floor. That is our deck and our kitchen window.

By best friend Lizi lives on the bottom floor directly above us.

And here is another side of our building.

In the picture above you can see the entrance to Lizi's apartment on the bottom floor

and the entrance to our apartment on the second floor.

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To get to our apartment you can either take the stairs (seen two pictures ago)

or you can take the elevator which is next to mine and Lizi's apartments.

My girls are obsessed with the elevator.

And I have to say that I love it too!

Once you get off the elevator you see the entrance to our apartment.

I know I need a ribbon on my wreath, it's looking kinda bare.

When you walk out of our apartment this is the view you see...

(We have a playground in our phase the one two have pools and one has several duck ponds.)

And here is our glorious deck!!!

We love it.

It's bigger than the living room in our Rexburg apartment.

And it's the reason we moved here.

It wraps around the side of our apartment and is perfect for storage!

So there you have it, a sneak peak of our new place.

I will post more pictures as soon as our house is clean enough to take pictures of.

Remember that time we went to McCall's Pumpkin Patch...

Last week Sean was in Dallas. He flew home on Friday.

We were excited to go pick him up from the Sunport (we don't call it an airport here in ABQ).

We drove directly out to Moriarty to go to McCall's Pumpkin Patch.

It's 45 minutes away but so awesome.

I had the girls in matching clothes (perfect for pictures).

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Just a side note: I get asked if my girls are twins like twice a week, no joke.

Seriously, twins?! They aren't even the same size!

So like I said, we drove nearly an hour to the pumpkin patch and when we got there we saw this...

No one was there!!!

It's only open on Saturday and Sunday!!!

I was proud of us though, we just laughed about it and took a few pictures.

(Mom, look Lexi is wearing the earings that you send her.)

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And here are my attempts to get a cute picture of my girls.

They were just too interested in the hay and the pumpkins...

(Here's the post from our McCall's trip last year.)

Avery's First Oreo

About a week ago I gave Avery her first Oreo.

She loved it.

In this next picture she's signing "more."

Here's the link to the post about Lexi's first Oreo.

Lexi's First "Real" Haircut

Back in February Lexi got her hair cut. But it wasn't a "real" haircut.

A few weeks again she got a "real" haircut.

I love it!

This hairdo totally fits her personality!

Balloon Fiesta 2011

At the beginning of the month we went to the Balloon Fiesta.

Last year we watch from a random field.

This year we went to Balloon Fiesta Park.

Sean and I woke up at 4:30 and we all left the house at 5:15.

We were worried about traffic.

But it turned out that we didn't need to worry at all.

Since Sean audits out at Honeywell (which is next to the park) we got to go down streets that were closed to the public with a special pass.

So it took us 15 minutes to drive to Honeywell and 15 more to walk to the park.

So we got there when it was dark.

But that mean we got to watch the dawn patrol.

Lexi was so excited.

She begged us to let her ride in a balloon and bawled when we said no.

A new world record was set for the most balloons to go up in one hour.

I can't remember the exact number but it was over 350.

It was awesome.

Balloons were literally going up everywhere. All around us.

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Lexi watching a Flounder balloon.

We left around 8:30. The girls were exhausted and we were too.

We could have stayed and seen hundreds of more balloons.

Maybe next year.

Avery Was 17 Months Old

This week Avery will turn 18 months old.

In fact she went to nursery today for the first time (she did great and loved it).

So yeah, as you can tell I'm really behind on blogging.

It's not because I'm pregnant, because I'M NOT PREGNANT!

We moved, the girls both had croup, Sean has been in Dallas and I just didn't feel like blogging!

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Anyway, Avery is adorable!

Avery is communicating a lot more.

She says so many words now.

Whenever Avery wants to go anywhere she grabs her "does" and says "bye?"

And then will bring everyone else their shoes too.

Avery loves coloring and loves stickers.

Every night when we read scriptures every is really great about grabbing scriptures for everyone and sitting down and "reading" with us.

Avery loves books. She especially loves a Beauty and the Beast book we recently bought at the thrift store. She will look at it for 10 minutes straight turning the pages and saying "Belle" and "East" (Beast).

This picture was taken when Avery had croup. To help the girls breath I would take them out in the cold air. In fact, one night I wrapped up Avery and took her out on our deck at 1 am.

Avery insisted on having her own keys and wearing a backpack.

Avery loves, loves, loves Caillou! She loves Dora too.

This girl just really loves TV, a little too much if you ask me.

Her she is mesmerized by Caillou.

Sitting in her baby sing read. She loves this swing and is still small enough,

well lite enough to sit in it.

And here are the girls at the zoo a few weeks ago. I just think Avery looks like a doll.

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Avery loves to put chap stick on, brush her teeth, comb her hair and pick out her own jewelry to wear. She is so girly and so independent. Anything Lexi can do she can to.

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Avery loves, loves, loves the Disney princesses! She says "Rora" for Aurora. "Rella" for Cinderella and "Belle."

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Avery recently learned out to say no. Which she now says all the time. But she is just so darn cute when she says it. She just makes me smile and want to kiss her.

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Avery loves throwing things. She gets in trouble for it pretty much every day now.

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Avery is a great helper. When we say it's time to clean up she happily helps to her toys away in their bins.

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I swear Avery is growing because she is always signing and saying eat.

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Avery is just so much fun and we love her so much!

(For fun here's the link to Lexi's 17 month old post)