We're BAAACK!!

So it has been 3 months since I have updated the blog...sorry! For some reason my account started asking me for a password and I tried everything I could think of and nothing worked! Well today I was actually patient enough to sit and try to recover my password and it worked! After a month or two went by of not blogging I thought "well I guess I'm done with that" but then I remembered how I had not done a scrapbook or any kind of book for that matter for Ava and this blog was all of our special memories...so I decided to try to catch up!

Dance Observation Day!

This morning was Ava's dance observation day. She did awesome and was soooo cute dancing with all her friends!

BIRTHDAY!

Monday at 5:35pm my sweet baby turned 3!! I can't even begin to tell you how much love and joy Ava has brought into our lives these past 3 years and we spent the entire day celebrating her special day! We woke up early, ate breakfast, and headed to Chuck E Cheese! David discovered very quickly that he was an expert at the games and won Ava 146 tickets with one game! We played until we ran out of tokens and then Ava racked up on prizes with her many tickets (thanks to Daddy!) Then we went out for a special birthday lunch at Olive Garden and then came home for a much needed nap. Ava went to dance and when she got home we watched the home movie from the day she was born. I have always loved watching home movies and have passed this love on to Ava. Then that night we invited our entire families over for cupcakes! We packed our tiny house full of people and while it was a bit crowded (about 25 people total!) we are soooo blessed to have so many people who love our little girl! Here are some pictures from our fun day!

Birthday Party #1

Ava turns 3 tomorrow!!?? I can't believe it! We had her "friend party" yesterday morning at the Imagination Station and it was so much fun! She requested an Ursula party (the big scary octupus lady from The Little Mermaid) so we compromised with a Little Mermaid party and put Ursula on the cake. All of Ava's little buddies were there...Mattox, Baylee, Logan, Lily, Maggie, Olivia, David, Judah, Baby Luke...she kept asking if Jay and Caroline were coming but I told her we would celebrate with them in Disney World next month :)

A very talented lady at our church made Ava's Ursula cake. It was yummy!

Very excited for the party to start!

Ava with her Gigi and Grandman!

Ava, Lily, and Maggie checking out the snaaaaakes!!

Mattox playing on the slide.

Sweet baby Luke!

Judah playing in the tree.

Little David didn't mind the Little Mermaid blowers...as long as he had his Buzz toy!

Singning Happy birthday...Ava sang right along with her friends and didn't need any help blowing out her candles...

Fun with bubbles!!

Ava and her friends in a big mouth.

Ava's real birthday is tomorrow and David is off so we will continue celebrating!!

Funny Girl!

It has been the craziest winter weather wise I can ever remember! Ice was the forecast for today so last night we went to Target to get birthday supplies for Ava's school party (scheduled for tomorrow.) We bought plates, napkins, Cheetos and juice boxes and then this morning we called the bakery to order cupcakes. All the supplies were in the pantry and I had given Ava strict orders not to open the Cheetos until party time. Ava was really excited and then while she was napping I found out that school is cancelled for tomorrow because of the ice!!! :( She is out of school next week so I cancelled the cupcake order and prepared myself for her to be very upset when I told her. She climbed into my lap when she woke up from nap and I said, "Ava, I'm so sorry but you are not having school tomorrow so we will have to have your party there another time. Ok?" She looked up at me and said, "Can I eat those Cheetos then?" I love that little girl! She makes life so fun!

Merry Christmas 2010

Christmas has come and gone and today we are snowed in with at least 10 inches of snow...so I actually found time to blog and I'm not gonna be a month late! :) We had a wonderful Christmas and Santa even remembered to bring Ava's gun which she has been asking for for months! Our Christmas festivies began the week before Christmas celebrating with my Nana and Pop's and family. My aunt gave Ava a wolfpack teddy bear which she is in love with and my other aunt gave her a Barbie doll which she is also in love with! I love having all of my family together...really missed my sister and the Bolin's though!

Christmas Eve was spent with David's family and Ava had a great time playing with Luke on his first Christmas...

When we were leaving Ava gave out hugs to everyone!

Ava and I had made 3 attempts at making cute Christmas cookies to leave for Santa and none of them had been successful. So we ended up leaving the best cookies in the world...white chocolate covered Oreos!!!

David slept with Ava that night to ensure that she would not come strolling through the living room and into our room at 3am which she does almost every night. He finally called me a 7am to say they were awake and Ava was ready! She ran into the living room and saw her bicycle first and said, "where's my gun??" I'm not even sure she knew what a gun looked like but we showed her that Santa remembered her gun and she was soooo excited!

On Christmas morning we headed to my parent's house for a yummy breakfast and then it was off to my grandparent's house for lunch. Ava loves being with all of her cousins over there and they had a great time together!


After my grandparent's house we went back to my parents house for even more presents...


MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Funny Ava Quote of the Day

Today we had a treat and met David for a yummy lunch. As soon as we got in the car to go home Ava said, "I have to go pee pee." (In case I didn't mention, we are officially 100% potty trained when we are awake. HALLELUJAH!!) My response, "Can you try to hold it? We are almost home. Try to keep it in, ok?" Ava to her self, "I can hold it in. Are you listening pee pee, stay in!" I love that little girl!