Mani/Pedi & Family Dinner

The day before Summer's wedding I painted Aubrey's fingernails and toenails for the first time - since she was a flower girl. Aubrey loved it. She was so intrigued by the whole process. I showed her how to blow on her nails and she would blow on one hand while I was painting the other. I told her that Daddy was going to think it was so pretty. So, throughout the day she would look at her nails and say DaDa. I think she was excited to show her Dad. When we saw family that night, she showed off her nails to everybody.

That night Summer & Steve had both families over for a picnic so the families could get to know each other. Here are the pics from the night.

As you can see, Aubrey is still checking out her fingernails!

Summer's Bridal Shower

Last Wednesday Mom and the sisters threw Summer a bridal shower. I thought it turned out really nice. Summer had a great turn out. Thanks everyone that came! Summer I hope that you had a great time!

Summer and her Mom's

The sisters

Mom and her girls - we are only missing Karen. Karen we wish you could have been here!

Summer and Aunt Patty

Summer with 2 of her former roomates Ashley & Alex. Her other roomate Kristy was also there but left before I remembered to bring out my camera!

Esther and cousin Tiffany

Katie and cousin Mindy

Cindy and cousin Shannon and Brody

The 3 pics above are of some of Summer's cute friends.

Wedding Week

My sister Summer got married yesterday! It was a beautiful day. I have tons of pics to go through before I post though. So hopefully soon I'll have pics from the bridal shower and wedding. My parents have been here all week in preparation for the wedding so we have had lots of family time. I went through my photos and realized that I hadn't taken many all week (that is very unHeather like.) Anyway, here are a few that I took.

Monday morning Aubrey and I went to visit Grandma & Grandpa bright and early. Aubrey sat real good with them so I could play a game of ping pong with Esther.

She also, played pretty good with everybody there as well. Above is her having fun with Uncle Bryan.

Aunt Katie has this really fun Valentines bear that sings a song. She got it out for Aubrey and she just loved it. Above you can see her loving on the bear. Too cute!

Aunt Esther & Katie dressed her up as a cowgirl!

I love Aubrey in this jean dress - it really brings out her blue eyes!

A week in the life of Aubrey

So Aubrey has now given up crawling pretty much entirely. She toddles all over the house. It is so cute. I love that she can wander off and find things to do on her own. So far, she hasn't gotten into trouble. I wonder how long that will last! She almost always is carrying around one of her stuffed animals. It is exactly what I imagined a little toddler girl doing.

I am a little worried about the upcoming cold weather. Aubrey loves being outside and gets real cranky if she is cooped up inside all day. I am going to have to think up some fun little outings we can do in the winter. Any ideas anyone?

So Aubrey's favorite thing to do outside now is to pick the cherry tomatoes. The minute we go outside she heads straight for them. I was even able to prepare dinner and watch her through the kitchen window as she occupied herself with this task this evening. It was cute seeing her out there by herself. Not the least bit concerned that mommy wasn't with her. Maybe we are making progress in the separation anxiety department.

The last couple of months Aubrey has been climbing into a planter in the backyard and using it as a sandbox. She is too funny. She likes to pick out all of the rocks and hand them to me. She even says rock now (raw is how she pronounces it). We decided that next spring we will make her a sandbox. I wish we would have thought of it this year!

So, I bought Aubrey some cheap little necklaces last week. They are by far the best $2 purchase I have ever made! She will play with them for hours. She puts them on and takes them off and sorts them and carries them around the house. After she puts them on she will either find me and pose for me so I will tell her how pretty she looks, or she will go to the full length mirror and admire herself. She just cracks me up!

Aubrey has also been really working on talking this week. She tries to copy what we say. She even tried to say Taquito the other day. She said Taq followed by jibberish. It was so cute. Now she calls them either Taq Taq Taq or Taq um Taq um. Her other favorite words are of course MaMa & DaDa, ball, bye bye, walk, water, rock, bed & duck. She even put two words together a couple times this week. She said, "Bye DaDa." Real sweet.

Aubrey was sick last week and so would wake up in the night. We would go to her because we would have to check on her fever. So, after she was feeling better, we had to stop going in. So, one night she woke up and started calling for me. I sware she said MaMa for like five minutes. Then it was quite for a minute. All of a sudden she started saying DaDa. She must have thought, if mom won't come in, maybe dad will. We started cracking up, even though it was like 1 am.

Everytime we go in the garage Aubrey hopes we are going for a walk. She will walk straight for her stroller climb into it and start saying, "wa wa wa" (that's how she says walk). Once again, I don't know what we are going to do when it's too cold to take walks. I guess we'll have to stroll around the mall or something!

I can't believe what a little girl she is becoming. She has her own personality. It is so fun watching her blossom and grow right before our eyes. It is truly a miracle!

Walking . . . FINALLY

After 15 1/2 months, Aubrey is finally walking more than crawling!! She decided to take after her mommy who didn't walk until she was almost 17 months. So compared to me, Aubrey is a fast walker! This video was taken last week when she was just starting to take off. I love her little waddle. So darn cute!

Wilkerson Family Renunion

We had a family reunion with my mom's side on Saturday. It was at a park in Orem across from the rec. center. We had a fun day. Aubrey especially had fun. We did most of her favorite things. We spent most of the day outside (she wishes she could live outside!). She got to play at a park and go down really big slides by herself. She also got to go swimming and pet a few puppies. One little 6 week puppy jumped up and licked her lips. She looked at it kind of shocked. So I told her that it gave her kisses. She then leaned over to give it another kiss. It was really cute! Jeff and I got to play racquetball too, which is my favorite sport and we haven't been to play in a few years. It was really fun. By the end of the day Aubrey was so pooped that she fell asleep on the swings. And then slept in Grandma's arms through dinner. All in all it was a great day. Thanks mom for planning a fun reunion!