Valentine's Day

Last week, Ava and I had some friends over for a little Valentine's Day party. We had lunch and yummy cupcakes and then went outside to play. Everyone wore pink or red. Here are a few pictures of the day.

The "Gang"
From left to right:Riley (10mo.), Cate (13mo.), Sophie (16mo.), Maddox (12mo), Ava(13mo.) and Madison(4mo.) - this picture was a little hard to take, as you can tell. It only lasted a few minutes and this is the only picture I was able to get.

Ava was more than thrilled to be sitting by Madison. She wanted to get her hands all over her!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Valentine's day.
Ava sends hugs and kisses!!

More fun with the cousins

Here are a few more pictures of a our time with my sister and her family...

The girls with their matching vest. (Thanks, mama and papa!!)

Movie night

Our neighbors have a trampoline, so they offered to let us use it for a little while to let our girls release some stored up energy. They loved it!! (Notice that we are ALL looking at the camera - that doesn't happen very often!)


Ava loved wearing Emma's hat. She would get so tickled everytime she had it on. But when we took it away, it was definitely the end of the world to her!

Matching cousins

Annie and Brock packing up their car. It was great visiting with them and we look forward to seeing you all soon! We miss you already!!

Park and Pig-tails

Off to the park we go...

This was Ava's first time swinging on a swing. She loved it! Although, we didn't realize how cold it was outside until we were out there for about five minutes. Then we decided that was long enough.

Elsie - almost 2 years old
Emma - 3 1/2 years old

Aunt Annie tickling Ava.

My sister and her family are here visiting this week. They had to make a trip to Chattanooga for two days, so Jonathan and I watched their girls for them. Since I was in charge of getting them dressed, I decided to dress them alike, and do all three girls hair in pigtails, including Ava!! Ava's hair is getting longer and definitely out of control. I'm not sure what to do with it these days. But I did manage to put them in pigtails, and I have to say, it was adorable. The above picture is my attempt to get all three girls picture taken. I was by myself trying to accomplish this, so maybe that helps explain the picture a little better.

Emma loves helping Ava!

My favorite picture of Ava...until next week of course. Hopefully I'll get around to posting more pictures of the cousins once they leave. Have a great weekend!!

Slumber Party

Last week, Ava's friend, Sophie (16months), came over to stay the night. We thought it would be cute to give them a bath together. It was cute until Ava kept splashing and get water everywhere, including Sophie's face. (They did mention how much they missed their friend, Cate. Maybe she'll get to join them next time. )

I love this one. I'm pretty sure neither one of them has had to share a bath tub before, so they looked a little confused at each other.

All ready for bed. Just relaxing together before bedtime.