Friday!

Yay its the weekend! We have had a busy busy week! Lots of playing and shopping and everything else. Little Miss Ava is ALL over the place talking more and more everyday. I just love her to pieces! Here is a sweet little pic I snapped of her her the other day.

This pic is to show her cute little vintage dress. I am obsessed with it! My mama made it 30 or so years ago for my oldest sister when they lived in Thailand. Its out of thai silk. So cute!

Big Girl Bed

Last night we decided that Ava was old enough to be in a big girl bed so we changed her crib into a day bed since we have a convertible crib already. Ava was over the moon excited about it! She loves to put her dollys in bed next to her and play in bed. I can't believe how fast my baby girl is growing up. I love her so so much! Look at my cute chubby girl ALL smiles and cheesing it for the camera!

Motocross

Since my hubby is obsessed with dirt biking we decided to hit up Motocross when it came to SLC this year. We took Miss Ava and she did amazingly well. It was fun to watch the races!

Family sunglasses pic. haha

The races.

Me and tinkerbell.

So I have no idea what on earth she is doing here. haha So funny though. I had to take a pic. Kinda looks like she is saluting or singing the national anthem. aha love her!!

Sand Dunes

Well we headed out to the White Wash sand dunes last weekend with some friends and a bunch of other new friends we met. Our trip last year around this time was the trip when Ava got hurt and we ended up in the ER. So this trip I was extra careful. But now that Ava is much older I don't have to worry as much about her in certain ways and other ways more so. If that makes any since.

The 3 hour drive there we keep entertained by watching, Tangled. Ava requests that movie at LEAST once a day. We all have it memorized now. Even Lucky loves the movie apparently. He kept jumping up in front of the screen (blocking her view so I would push him down.) Funny dog.

Just arriving and getting settled.

All Ava wanted to do was take her doggie on a walk around camp. He got a haircut the night before and Ava was even more in love with her little dog with his new shorter look.

Ava had a lot of fun playing with all the kids in our group. But most of all she was bff's with my friend's daughter Kambree. Kam kept calling Ava her "little sister". It was so cute how she would take care of her. I felt lucky to have such an attentive babysitter the whole time :)

The first night Ava woke up around 1am pulling on the fridge, hungry for a late night snack. So here she is enjoying her yogurt. I though she just looked so adorable in her piggy tails sticking straight out like Shrek. haha.

I love the way she eats. I think is so cute! She does so great too. Isn't even messy at all (thus the no bib here).

One of the families brought sleds to pull the kids in the sand. Well Ava was OBSESSED to say the least with this thing. She loved being pulled or loved pulling it herself with her stuffed animal in it. I gotta get her one for future trips.

My cute little miss.

As I said before, best friends.. Ava would do anything Kam asked her too.

Oh did I mention the weather was PERFECT the whole time. SO warm, we all walked away with great tans!

Russ brought his big remote control truck. All the kids loved it and so did the adults. Great entertainment for sure.

The last day just hanging out.

Most every family there had dogs. Ava has no fear no matter how big the dog is. (which of course worries me a bit) but luckily all the dogs there were nice and Ava was in heaven making friends with all of them.

Look what a cool place we camped it. I love this place!

One of the moms handed out Popsicles to all the kids. Ava was so happy and content. I don't usually buy them, and of course they are super messy. But she was wearing black so I let her have at it. Here she is all smiles relaxing in her chair enjoying her treat on a warm day :)

Getting on loaded up and ready to head home. We were just waiting for Russ go finish up. Until next time...

MOAB

Last weekend we went on a camping trip to Moab with my in-laws. The first camping trip of the year is always fun and this was no exception. Moab is so beautiful! Here is Ava and Cali playing when we first got to camp. Later that day we went for a hike to a waterfall. The hike was pretty interesting, walking through streams, climbing over slippery rocks and all.

It was about that time when Miss Ava needed a nap so she was a bit out of it some of the time.

Ava with her cousin, Beckham.

Like I said going through the streams. The water was pretty cold but your feel kinda go numb after a minute then its not so bad. haha. It was so gorgeous there! I love all the red rocks.

My cute little fam :)

Finally got to the waterfall. It was a bit too cold to swim in it. So we just played around for a while. Ava loved picking up and throwing lots of the small rocks.

She was brave but insisted on holding my hands at all times for moral support :)

Back at camp.

Me and my little baby.

The camp ground was pretty cool. They had a nice pool, hot tub, this huge chess set and checkers board to play.

They also had a putting green. Ava LOVED that.

Here is another hike we took. Look how cool this place is. Russ was joking around and put his head on the track and told us he heard a train 2 miles out. He was joking of course. We didn't even know if this was a track that had any train traffic. Well just a few minutes later we hear a train coming. My husband is psychic I guess. hah

I have never seen a train that close other than from inside my car waiting for one to pass in town. But this was a totally different experience. Ava was pretty impressed too!

Taking a break on our hike.

The next day we took a drive to slick rock.

Our camp spot.

Ava had lots of opportunity to ride her 4-wheeler all over during this trip so of course she was in heaven ;)

All in all we had a great trip. It was awesome to spend time with Russell's family and just relax and have fun. It is making me even more anxious and excited for summertime to finally get here. We have been have some crazy snowstorms this last week and I am so ready for it to be warm. Can't wait to take more camping trips really soon :)

It's about that time..

...to start potty training Ava.

We have a little potty for her and every day before bath time, while she is already naked I have her sit down on it and tell her to "go potty". She thinks it is so fun to sit on it like a big girl. But she never actually goes potty in it. I was just trying to introduce her to it so she knows it's hers and get comfortable with the concept.

Last night before her bath as usual I had her sit on it while I went to go grab her jammies for after her bath. While I was out she slammed the door shut, for privacy of course, and when I got back she was still sitting down with a worried look on her face. I asked her if she was all done and she stood up and pointed in her potty. I was pleasantly surprised to see she had gone pee pee in her potty. I mean not to be overly detailed but it was a full blatter amount in there. Which means she was holding it in until she got on her potty. Ava gave me a worried look like she wasn't sure if she did something naughty. Of course I was so proud of her and clapped and praised her for being such a big girl to go pee pee in the potty. This was her very first time. I didn't even realize she really understood the concept before last night but obviously she does and is ready to be done with diapers. I didn't realize until now what a pivotal time this is. She is no longer a baby, she is growing up. Sad but happy at the same time. So now I need to buckle down and jump full force into full on potty training my little Miss Ava. Wish me luck!
Any of you mommys out there have any advice for me? Suggestions?

8 Years

8 years ago today I married my best friend. I was so lucky to meet him and finally become his wife. Russell truely is an amazing person and we have so much fun together. We have traveled to different places, taken a million pictures and made amazing memories along the way. I wouldn't want to imagine my life any other way. I am so happy to call him my own. I love you Russy!




Russell surprized me with a dozen long stemmed red roses last night. Awww... he is so romantic :)

Aquarium

Saturday afternoon was a cold rainy day so what better to do then spend the afternoon at the aquarium. We had lots of fun! Ava loved all the fish...except for the Jellyfish, those freaked her out. Lately her favorite movie is Finding Nemo so I thought a trip to the aquarium would be in order.

She loved the big froggie.

And was so interested in all the fish.

She would point and tell us all about what she saw. It was funny.

Watching the penguins was probably my favorite part and the huge turtle was pretty amazing too. Ava found this stuffed penguin that she didn't want to part with.

These next bunch of pics were actually taken Friday afternoon playing in the backyard. It was overcast but pretty nice outside. Ava LOVES playing outside more that anything.

She found this little Junebug that she was so facinated by. She wouldn't touch it but would get really close. And would talk to and try and bring the toy cars over to it to play with (not realizing it would probably mush it) haha but I reminded her to be careful with the little bug.

One of A's favorite things to do is color or play with playdough. Here she is making her monkey face. She knows alot of animal sounds. Her favorites are monkey, horse, cat, and dog.