Our Valentine's Day

What a sweet heart day it was. We never make a huge deal of Valentine's Day, but Gabe was so sweet to surprise me in many ways. He started with waking up super early to make breakfast for me after I got home from the gym, flowers, brought me lunch at work, thoughtful notes, and he cleaned the house!. What a wonderful husband! We enjoyed a fun Valentine's date to Qdoba as a family. Looks like we have a theme going...we went to Chipotle last year! :)

Avery and I made Daddy a special Valentine ...he loved it!

Gabe surprised me with these beautiful flowers!

My two Valentine's!

We love Fridays!

We love Fridays! We get to hang out with Gabe/Daddy! This weekend is regionals wrestling, so we made the most of our Friday morning!

Gabe and Avery had fun working out together!

Belly Growth

I had originally wanted to take weekly prego photos, but I am behind. I started taking weekly photos at week 22. So here are the latest photos of the baby girl belly growth!

I'm definitely growing a lot faster with this pregnancy. It has me a little nervous about what week 40 will look like!

24 weeks

23 weeks

22 weeks

Madi turns 16!

My little step sister, Madi, turned 16 last week. It's still so hard to believe how fast she has grown up!

It was fun celebrating her sweet 16 with her at Maggiano's in Denver. Hope you had a sweet birthday Mads!

My two cute step sisters...Ash and Madi

Avery and Aunt Diana were buddies for the night!

Denver Aquarium

Last week my sister and her husband Adam were in Denver for a day because Adam had a job interview. They live in Durango, so we don't get to see them as much as we would like. But because they were going to be in Denver, we spent the day up there in order to see them. While Adam was at his interview and Jenny went into her office (she works from afar), my mom and I took Avery and her cousin Coby to the Aquarium. Last minute, Gabe decided to take the morning off to join us! That was so much fun having him go with us! He has wanted to take Avery there for a long time, so I'm glad he could come! Mom, thanks for treating us to such a fun day! Avery absolutely loved running around the Aqaurium and seeing all the big fish! We even saw a mermaid show!

After the Aqaurium we hung out with Jenny and Adam for a little while. They met us where we were having lunch and then I went to my Dad's with them to hang out for a bit. It was great to see them and my cute nephew Coby. He is such a sweet, sweet baby. He didn't fuss at all at the Aqaurium!

Avery got to see her Grandpa for a little bit, which you can tell she was happy about!

Jenny and Coby

Checking out the rays

There was a tiger at the aqaurium! Gabe loved it of course!

Such a sweet Yaya, her grandkids sure love her!

Coby giving Avery kisses

FLY!

One of Avery's favorite things to do with Daddy at lunch time...FLY!!

I caught this cute video of them today! And of course she has to fly her baby once she is done flying with Daddy! We are so thankful he comes home for lunch most days!

We need to work on her hand placement! Poor Baby!

Post-Op

Avery had another post-op appointment last week and unfortunately the news wasn't what we wanted to hear, but we somewhat expected it. Since her surgery we have still seen her eyes wander out, not nearly as much as before, but still discouraging. We found out that we have to proceed with patching and exercises to try to get her brain in synch with what her eyes are doing. I'm thankful that majority of the time, she has great focus. We are still praying and believing for a full miracle on her eyes!

Gabe found a great verse that we are now praying over Avery!

"Let your eyes look straight ahead, fix your gaze directly before you." Proverbs 4:25