Happy Birthday, Nana J!

This past weekend we celebrated Nana J's birthday! She is an absolute blessing to us so we really wanted to make her feel special on her birthday. Shannon took Ava and Luke to have their picture made together for a gift for Joan. (How in the world Shannon did that by herself I will never know...Thank you, Shannon!) The picture turned out so cute and was a great surprise gift! We took Joan out to dinner on Saturday night and then came back to our house for cake and ice cream!

Ava and Luke are best buddies!

Nana got a little help with her candles!

Happy Birthday, Nana J! We love you!!

Halloween 2010

Whew...October flew by!! I cannot believe Halloween has come and gone! Ava had a blast all weekend dressing up, eating candy, and then eating more candy! Here we are yesterday before heading out on a candy hunt...First stop...Nana and Pops' house...

Then we headed over to Nana and Papa's house and got to see baby Luke dressed in his adorable monkey costume...

We then headed to a fall festival with Ava's friends Mattox and Caleb. Sorry I left my camera in the car but we had a great time on a hay ride, playing games, and eating even more candy! When we got home David took Ava to a few houses around the neighborhood and when they returned her bucket was overflowing!! Here is our pumpkin on our porch...thank you Uncle Dennis and Gigi and Grandman for "helping" Ava make this wonderful Pinocchio pumpkin...

We hope you all had a fun Halloween!!

Halloween Parade

Yesterday Ava had her Halloween parade and party at her preschool. She has been walking around singing her Halloween songs for weeks so we were so excited to see her and her friends sing them in the little parade. Here she is all dressed up as Snow White ready for school...

The kids did an awesome job!

Too Funny Not To Share...

Fun Fall Day

This past weekend we went on our annual Pumpkin Patch trip. It was a beautiful day and we had a great time on the hayride and picking out a pumpkin...

Ava was so glad her Nana came along for the fun...

Ava sat perfectly still and got a "ghost host" painted on her face. She was proud to show it off...

Ava posing with our Halloween flag...

Happy Birthday, David!

On Wednesday David celebrated his 28th birthday! Ava and I took him out to dinner on Wednesday and then we came home for CAKE!

Happy Birthday to the best husband and daddy we could ever ask for! We love you, Dave! :)

Disney 9/10

Wow I got really behind on my blog! We had so many pictures from Disney that sitting down to post them all seemed so overwhelming. Anyway, here they are finally! We had a wonderful time! We booked this trip last September when we were in Disney and got a really good deal. We were able to stay at The Wilderness Lodge and have free dining (We have always wanted to stay at the Wilderness Lodge and it did not dissappoint. It was beautiful!!) At the last minute we decided to drive down a day early and we stayed at a Holiday Inn in Downtown Disney for two nights. From our 14th floor balcony (yikes, it was high) we could see all of Downtown Disney and we had a great view of the Magic Kingdom fireworks. That was a great way to start our trip and I think that will be our new tradition! When we finally had our first day in the park Ava was in heaven!! She loved everything and every character she met!! She immediately ran up to every character, gave them a big hug and a kiss on the nose, then after posing for a picture reached up to give them one more kiss!! Another first on this trip was Ava was tall enough to ride Goofy's Barnstormer which is a kiddie roller coaster. She was very excited about it! Somehow in all my trips to Disney I had never riden this ride so I didn't really know what to expect. I have no idea why they call that a kiddie ride...it is almost as rough as Space Mountain. Ava smiled the whole time, tightly gripping on to David, but when we got off she said, "I not do that again!" :) On Thursday night we went to Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween party which has become another tradition for us. Ava dressed up like Snow White and had so much fun trick or treating and seeing all the special characters they have out for the party. She even got her picture made with the 7 drawfs! Leading up to this trip when we asked Ava who she wanted to see at Disney World she would say "the wiiiiitch" meaning the witch from Snow White. A few days before we left I found out that she would be out at the party but I was very hesistant to have Ava see her. I thought she was just talking a "big talk." David spotted her first and decided to point her out to Ava from a distance and of course she wanted to go see her. I thought she would cry or at least run away...nope! She told her "Be nice...I not going to eat that apple" and then gave her a big kiss on the nose! This is a trip we will never forget!!