Avery's 3rd Birthday Party

Here is the Birthday Cowgirl snacking on a cupcakes before the guests arive. It is hard to say cheese with a full mouth! The theme of the party was ponies, and we were in the Pony Corral at the Deanna Rose Farmstead. We love that place!









Cousin Libby and Avery get so excited to see eachother, this is such a cute picture of the two of them. I think they look like sisters.






















Keeping with our pony theme, my friend Jennifer Bentch make these AWESOME mini cupcakes, I can't believe how cute they turned out!







The Torline Family (Chris, Shelley, Olivia and Jaxton)came out to help us celebrate, they look great, as usual!

















Colton, our nephew was all smiles when he arrived.

Holy Cow!

Avery and I took a roadtrip up to Osborn, Missouri with some friends (Thanks Anice!) to visit Shatto Milk Company. It is a working Dairy farm that supplies local grocery stores with the best milk in the world. : ) We had a TON of fun, it is well worth the drive if you are living in the KC area.

The large cow that Avery is petting is Patches. Avery also got to milk Patches, with a little help. We bottle fed the calves water and brushed them so that they would look good for the later tours...

A few family pics in no specific order.

Avery doing her favorite thing... SWING!!!

Mom and Avery at Louisberg Cider Mill contemplating a pony ride. Avery brought her own money.

Dad standing next to Avery while she rides Lucky at the Louisberg Cider Mill.

Mom and Dad in Minnesota. We were headed up for Bria's wedding and took a detour along the North Shore Drive. It was raining and there was a terrible infestation of silk worms. We managed to smile for the pic. We then headed to Gunflint Lodge where they were quite surprised we had made the trek into nowhere without reservations! It worked out.

Avery likes cupcakes:

Mom and Aves at the Danna Rose Petting Zoo for Avery's 2nd BDay.



Dad and Avery in a fort in Breckenride, CO.

Mom and Dad really do love each other... maybe it's the liquor.
Mom atop Celty in her show outfit.

Mom and Dad on their way to an island excursion off the coast of California.

Mom, Avery, Shaggy, Shorty, and Dad at the "farm".

Avery in leaves.

Shaggy and Shorty dress the part for XMas.

The Singing Sumo Squad at Ron and Heather's house for XMas.

Meet Our WHOLE family

I though that if we are going to do this blog thing, we might as well get everyone on here... so let's do this! I am having trouble finding pictures of the cats and horse, but it's a start.

Here goes...

Hi!

These are my girls. Pretty cute, huh?

Updates coming.
-chris