Last Saturday we went to see Sesame Street Live at the Everett Events Center. Avery won a local coloring contest through our newspaper and got free tickets! (I'm sure it was because it was the first entry received . . . or maybe she's just exhibiting my dad's art gene). Speaking of my dad's art gene, here's a link to a new potrait he just finished of Avery. www.cusworthfineart.com

I would have posted earlier but my computer has been nonoperational for the past week. I had what apparently is called a BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH (cue maniacal laughter). It started last Saturday, and because we were pretty busy neither Mike or I noticed that our computer was cycling through an endless loop of crashing and rebooting the entire day. Anyway, after a fruitless Sunday morning of trying to fix the problem myself, I realized we'd have to consult an expert. So, anyway, we found a local guy at a great price who was able to finally come this morning and take care of the issue. The computer is working fine. . .for now ;)

To get to more interesting things . . . we went to Moscow over Mother's day to spend time with Monte and Sandy and Darren and meet Darren's sweet and beautiful girlfriend Cari. Here Avery braved the mobs and stole a quick turn on the slide at the farmer's market.


Because we were dropping off Darren and Cari at the Spokane airport on our way home, we took advantage of being in the area to visit Brad and Amy and their two cuties.
We had really amazingly good weather for three days last week, thankfully it was over the weekend so we could enjoy it. We took advantage of the warmth and invited some friends down to our beach area for a BBQ. And the missionaries :)

Avery playing "kill the bad guys" with a friend.

I know some of you may be getting tired of the scatological references in my posts: but since using the toilet is a big deal around here right now, this is where a lot of the day to day drama happens. Anyway, I thought the following story was blog worthy . . .

This morning Avery went to the toilet after getting out of bed. As she flushed she said "tinkle going away . . .Bye tinkle. Come again to Avery's house. I miss you!"

:)

Princess Party!

Avery was invited to a princess party on Saturday. The girls looked so cute, I had to shoot a couple pictures. You'll see below that Avery wasn't always a very happy princess. I think the problem here was that her Ariel shoes wouldn't stay on her feet. Not a trivial issue when you're trying to look your best.

The crazy weather continues . . .Here are pictures from our trip to the Mariner's game on a Thursday night. It was quite chilly and wet. Three days later we went to the tulip festival on a beautiful, warm, sunny day!
This graffiti was on a wall next to where we parked for the baseball game. I thought it was funny that the weather is even getting to street hoodlums :)

Yay! The beautiful tulip festival. We got there early enough to avoid the real crowds - I think most of WA descended on a three square mile area that day because this was one of the only sunny Saturdays we've had. It was worth it.

Avery exploring the daffodil fields with her friends Benjamin and Hannah. We went up to the festival with our friends the Williams.