The big 30!

On January 12, this sexy man turned 30! I love him so MUCH! Russell is most incredible husband and father. We are so LUCKY to have him! On his real birthday he worked and then had scouts. He is the leader over the wolves (8 and 9 yr old boys). SO I decided to stop by and surprise him and his pack with balloons and cupcakes! Of course the boys loved them and we all sang Happy Birthday!
We actually decided to celebrate his birthday 2 days later and we went to the Jazz/Cleveland game. It was SO much fun. It was Ava's first Jazz game and she loved it! She would clap and raise her arms when the crowd would cheer. It was so cute.

Ava was in such a great mood the whole time. And the stadium was packed full of people. Cleveland is the #1 ranked team right now. And the game ended with the JAZZ winning by 1 point. We got a 3 point shot right at the buzzer for the win! Wow so great!

I love the pic of her smiling. You can see her bottom 2 teeth.

Birthday boy and Ava and their matching blue eyes:)

Christmas

Christmas was so awesome for our little family! Having Ava just makes every holiday even more magical. She loved her gifts. We had lots to open all of us. Russell was so good to me as he is every year!



I gave her a little photo album. She really loves to point to us in the pictures.Here we are at my parents house on Christmas Eve.

Here is our TREE! Every year I say it's my favorite. And this year was no exception! We really had such a perfect full tree. I took this a few days after Christmas so there aren't any gifts under it. I usually am so good about taking one one Christmas morning but I was just so excited this year I forgot. Ava was really good about the tree. She never pulled on it or really tried to knock any of the decorations off. I was pretty impressed. I had so many people tell me horror stories about babies pulling down trees. But she was great. So we will continue to get a real tree :)`

One of her gifts was a highchair! I can't believe we went so long without one. We just used the bumbo with the tray you can get with it. Wow that thing was so annoying. It is amazing to have the highchair finally. And she absolutely loves it!

Riding her new car on Christmas morning ;)

Aww I just love her!

The car turned into a walker. Man she was so into that. She pushed that thing everywhere, banging it into the sides of everything..

One of her favorite gifts was her Ni Hao Kai-lan doll. She loves that tv show more than any other. Its on Nickjr and its so cute. She would kiss and hug the doll and if you push on the dolls tummy she says a few phrases and sings a song. Ava was pretty excited about that!