Thayer family update!

So, here I am again, almost 6 months later. :/ I'm a major slacker hahaha. I'm in a blogging kind of mood today so here it goes.

There have been some huge changes in our lives as of late, probably the biggest one being our decision to move back to St. George! We're excited but at the same time, we're going to miss North Carolina and the people here so much. It will be great to be around family and friends again, and great for Ava to have cousins her age to play with. :) We're trying to switch back into moving mode, this will be the third time moving in less than a year!

Anywho, Dakota is working at First Aid Auto as a detailer, and can I just say he is perfect? He is such an awesome husband and father. I am so grateful to have him by my side forever, he just makes me so happy and Ava loves him to pieces. Sometimes I wish I could freeze time with him holding me in his arms on the couch watching Pawn Stars and Ava playing with her toys on the floor. :) Okay I'm done ranting about my amazing man. <3

Ava! Where to start? I can't believe how much she has grown and developed in the past month! She can now kind of army crawl (she looks like the grudge in baby form), she claps and dances when she hears music, she shakes her head no >:(, and she says "dada!" all day long! She had a doctor's appointment yesterday and she is 25 inches long and 13 pounds even. She is behind the curve for weight but we are not worried because she is developing just as she should everywhere else. She is now 9 1/2 months old ( :( my little baby is not so little anymore!) but has just barely started wearing 6 month clothing on top and she still wears newborn bottoms and shoes. She is still so tiny! And she gets more and more beautiful everyday, if that's possible. I could go on all day about her haha.


I promise I will try to blog more!!

All five kids!

Alright. I've been slacking. These past few weeks have been so crazy! Randi and Bart went to Arizona last week and are in Florida right now and we've been watching the kids. It get's kind of chaotic around here! I am so grateful that Ava is a good baby because it would actually be hard if she wasn't so sweet. (: I love these kids and they are super helpful so we enjoy watching them. New Years was good, all the kids except Bartel fell asleep so only three of us actually celebrated the New Year haha. As far as the soda thing goes, Dakota and I haven't had any soda! Randi, we're not so sure about. We've all been drinking more water and trying to eat healthier. Dakota has been working so hard and I'm so proud of him! My favorite part of the day is when I can hear him walk upstairs and I wait for him to open the door. He always has the biggest smile on his face. I love it when our little family is all together. (: Ava has been sleeping through the night more often and she has started cooing. She smiles so much, and has the most beautiful smile I have ever seen. She is also starting to outgrow most of her newborn stuff so we gotta ship the rest of her clothes out pronto! She seems to grow up more and more everyday! Dakota and I couldn't be more happy with where we are right now, and Ava just makes everything a million times better. I'll try to blog more often I promise!

Fully Rested. (:

So, Ava slept through the entire night! I feel like I have so much energy! (Hence the title "fully rested".) I have an amazing husband who has been working hard all day today. I love him so much and I am so proud to be his wife. (: Anyway, we kind of switched it up this year by eating Christmas dinner the day after Christmas, and I liked it that way! Randi set the table all cute with sparkly candles and cute decorations. Christmas day is so chaotic it's kind of nice just to get to relax and not prepare a huge dinner. The missionaries came over for dinner and we watched Joy to the World. I'm really glad we did because I feel like I didn't keep in mind the true meaning of Christmas this year. Also, I'm starting to make a list of things I want to change and accomplish with the New Year. It goes something kind of like this:
1. No soda for at least three months.
2. Ship my scriptures out and read them once a day. Yes, ship my scriptures out, I know, I'm a terrible person. : /
3. Start and maintain an excersise routine.
4. Eat as healthy as possible.
5. Go to bed earlier, wake up earlier. It's true, the early bird usually does get the worm.
6. Make lists everyday of things I need to get done. I feel like a million bucks when I can check something off. (:
7. Enjoy the little things I take for granted.
8. Relax, I don't need to stress about everything all the time.
9. Get my license.
10. Graduate.

Pretty good, out of order, but a good start. I'm so excited for the New Year. 2010 was so crazy. Being pregnant, getting married, hospital trips, having Ava, more hospital trips, and moving across the country! It will be nice to slow down for a while and just enjoy my family and the people I'm around. P.S. Ava will be three months old on January 4th! Crazy!

First Christmas! 2010

2010 has been full of firsts for us. Since we moved to North Carolina at the beginning of the month, a lot has changed. We're living with Dakota's sister (Randi) and her family of five: Bart (Randi's husband) and the kids, Bartel, Chloe (a.k.a. Coco), Annie, and Oliver. Also, we had our first Christmas together as a family today! The trees are sprinkled with snow, the family is enjoying their presents and the stress of the holidays is finally toned down.  Coco and Annie are playing with their American Girl dolls, Dakota, Bart, and Bartel are playing Axis & Allies (kinda like Risk but based on World War 2), Randi is M.I.A., and Oliver can't get enough of Ava who is asleep in her new bouncer, that I was SO excited for. Randi and I decided to try a new recipe everyday to mix in some new family favorites, I'm super stoked! Oh and by the way, I made those cinnamon rolls from scratch! P-r-e-t-t-y dang proud of those. I am so grateful for this family and my own, this Christmas has been the best one yet! I think that between now and the New Year is the perfect time to reflect on this past year, make goals and find direction in our lives and I will definitely take advantage of that opportunity. Maybe I should give up soda, we'll see how I feel when 2011 rolls around. :) Merry Christmas!