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Ava had a great time celebrating her birthday yesterday! She reminded us all week that she was "twwwwwo" Ava's birthday started off with a party at church. We are really blessed to have such an awesome group of ladies at our church who love our babies so much!A family portrait before churchI got a kiss from the birthday girl!Ava and Daddy making a funny face!Ava and her church buddies excited for cupcakes!

After church we rushed home so Ava could get some kind of nap in before the big party. She was so excited! Ava's Jojo cake!Ava doing what she loves best..."siiiide!"

Here's some of Ava's buddies who came to help her celebrate...

Ava's favorite person in the world came to her party and helped her slide down the big slide..."Matt-Matt"! Everytime she would get to the top of the slide she would call him over to hold her hand...Ava blowing out her birthday candle...she needed a little help from mommy...

Ava especially enjoyed the Cheetos...I'm sure she did the Cheeto dance a few times! :)

Then it was on to presents! I had to show off the Disney World gift card that my cousin and fellow Disney buddy, Abbie, gave Ava. They are going to Disney the week after us and knew it would be well spent...

David and I gave Ava a charm bracelet. She didn't care too much about it yesterday but one day I'm sure she will love it!

Happy 2nd Birthday, Sweet Ava!

Okay I know my blogs have gotten a little deep lately but I have to share one more thing... We had a minor disaster at the party yesterday. Somehow while trying to record the party our video camera erased the video of our Christmas this year. David didn't even want to tell me about it because he knew I would be really upset...and I was! But when we got home and started unpacking all of Ava's gifts I started thinking. David knew a girl in highschool who lost her 3 month old baby to SIDS last summer. She started a blog and I read it almost daily. Just before Christmas this year her house got broken into and her computer among other things was stolen. She appeared on her local news pleading for whoever took her computer to return it because she had so many pictures of her little Ayden on it. She didn't care about the jewelry or money that he had taken she just wanted her memories back. As I thought about it I realized how blessed I really am. I may not have the memory of this Christmas on video anymore but I have a happy, healthy 2 year old who I get to make more memories with. Talk about a new perspective, uh?