Averie's 1st Birthday

Here are some highlights of the party we had for Averie on Sunday. She enjoyed a lot of cake (though we had to help her chop off pieces.....she is too neat to dig in herself.)

Averie's first surgery

On Tuesday, January 8th, Averie went into surgery to have a cyst removed on her right brow that she has had since birth. Normally, it would be a in and out surgery with only local anasthesia, but because she is little and cannot hold still, she had to be completely knocked out.

She was happy as a lark the morning of, and because we had scheduled the surgery for 7:30, and she normally wakes at 8:00, she was not too hungry. (A middle of the night feeding also helped.) She made all the nurses smile playing peek a boo with her gown and waving at everyone.

The surgery lasted an hour, and she came out great. Her eye is swollen, and her stitches are covered by steri-strips, but other than that, she looks normal! She was of course a little more groggy than normal coming out, but now, a day later, she is just as normal as can be.

Below are some pictures of her after the surgery at our house. We hope to post some additional pictures from the hospital that are on our phones later.

Christmas 2007

Well, Christmas was a blast here in the Potter family, with a long week's vacation to both Durango and Fruita! Doug unfortunately had a cold the entire time, but he managed to hang in there.Averie loved the festivities, the toys, and the pumpkin pie. All the gals did some last minute shopping, as well as some after Christmas sale shopping in Fruita.

Overall, we all felt so blessed to be able to spend so much time with family and for all the neato gifts.

For the New Year, we hung out with Jon and Jessica Clemence and Aaron and Holly Willis, playing board games and chatting it up. Hey, and we even made it past midnight!

And just for some good ol' pickin' on the little sis, here is another cute pic......

The last month, in review, via mainly photos:

First, some pictures from Thanksgiving at Doug's parents house in Fruita









And here are some more recent ones of Averie (almost 10 months old)





Hope everyone is having a great Christmas so far!

Welcome

Welcome to the Potter's new blog! Life with a little one exponentially increases the number of updates that seem important enough to share (though most are probably only captivating to us) and so we decided to create this nifty space where we can just put it all out there.

So, I cannot promise how often this thing will get updated, but stay tuned.....