Ava's School Easter Party

Happy Easter! Easter is by far one of my holidays...and yes I still dye and hunt for eggs every year (even up to the year before Ava was born! you are never to old for it!) This year is a exciting but sad Easter for me. This is the first Easter...really holiday that we won't be with our families. But the first year that Ava is really getting into it...the hunt, the eggs and the Easter story (the best you can understand at this age).

Today was Ava's first hunt of the year. Her teachers were nice and let her come even though it wasn't her school day. She had sooo much fun! Get ready for picture over load.



I'm watching out for this boy (Tegan). He had his eye out for her all day and she is always talking about him. (I always thought Tegan was a girl! haha)

Lined up and waiting!

Look at her go

Timothy got too excited about hunting and left his basket behind and went for the eggs!

No egg left behind...this girl is a natural!

Look at all those eggs!!!

haha this kid made me laugh... Dressed in his boots and hat with his HUGE mickey mouse basket....it was bigger than him!

Showing off her eggs

Here and her friends checking out all the candy.

Her whole class

Although we aren't going to be with family this year, we are blessed to be able to be with some of our closest friends and start some of our own family traditions!

Jacob Michael Ayres

Jacob Michael Ayres is here!!!

Well he has been here for almost 2 months, but since my computer would not turn on since a week after my last post he is just now making his way to the blog! I always get a little jealous so people who dont have c-sections because they get to have a cool exciting birth story to tell. But since I had to have a c-section with Ava, I had to with him too. In fact I laughed during my section because everyone kept telling me how good I was doing...even the NP popped over the curtin and said "I'm going to start pushing FOR you...you are doing great". I hope I was doing great all i did was lay there! haha. I have been very blessed to have 2 very easy delieveries, even if I did have to have c-sections.

Feb 14 2012, 39 weeks pregnant, born at 7:59 weighing 8 lb 6 oz 19 1/2 inches.

We really debeted over if we should take Ava Kate up there for the delievery or just send her to school and have her come up afterwards. I mean really she would never know the difference right. The night before we finally made our minds up to have her there...I'm so glad that we did. She loved seeing him in the window, and she was the very first person to come back and see him before any other family came back. It was really special to just have family time.

First family picture. (it's black and white b/c some how it go put on this weird setting and all of pictures turned green...luckily we fixed it before too many pictures were taken).

Haha I LOVE this aweful picture of Ava Kate! I told you she liked looking at in the window!

We really wanted to make Ava feel special. "Jacob" got her a new stuffed elephant, and he gave it to her as soon as she met him. Then while in recovery she got to sit in bed with me and hold him and even feed him his very first bottle. She was so excited and loved every minute of it.

Thank you everyone who has prayed for our growing family. We are so blessed to have all of y'all in our lives.

Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving from Bailey, Addy, and Ava Kate!!!

Man I don't see how people get good pictures of group of kids. I will take any advice people are willing to offer!

Happy Birthday!

Homecoming weekend we went ahead and celebrated Ava's 2nd birthday! I can't believe it has taken me this long to even blog about it! Make it even worse these are the only pictures I took with my camera and I really need to steal pictures from my parents camera!!! We had a pretty low key birthday party this year. I didn't even have a theme or invites! It was pretty much just family, college friends and Ava's friend Timothy from school.

Even with a small party she got spoiled. She got a ton of dress up clothes since she is always wearing dress up clothes at school and loved it on vaction...but the little booger won't wear any of them!!! (remember her halloween party). Anyways Happy really late birthday baby girl!!!

Timothy and AvaJanaye sporting one of Ava's outfits!

Timothy, Kinslee and AVA

The only outfit Ava will wear!

ACU homecoming

It's so fun being able to take Ava to carnivals and festivals. This year we took her to the ACU carnival. Of course we met up with Kinslee. How sweet is it when kids want to hold hands!Ava getting her face painted...

Feeding the goat...They had a pretty good petting zoo! Lots of different types and all very friendly animals.

Fishing...

Look at the awesome fish Ava caught!!! She was in LOVE with this fish for several days.

You can't go to a carnival without eating yummy carnival food.

I don't know why, but I am such a sucker for ACU homecoming. Maybe it's because my college roommates still come in town every year. But every year we go to the ACU parade. This year my parents joined us. I just haven't gotten pictures off of their camera yet.

The GATA float...this year they had a large pledge class!!! Yay for GATA's come back!

GATA flames!

We take this same picture every year! We just keep adding kids to the picture!

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Catching up...

So as you can tell I have been gone for a while...it makes me sad to be so far behind. I'm determined to get caught up before Jacob comes. Oh who is Jacob you ask...yes that is a sweet baby boy that is coming in a month and a half who hasn't even been talked about on the blog!!! How crazy is that! Well here are some random pictures all the way back from July 4th!!!

July 4th we had a pot luck with a bunch of friends. 2 of our friends are dorm directors at ACU so we had the whole dorm to ourselves. We are so blessed to have such good friends who love Ava so much.

Ava and Stacy playing ping pong!

Here is super dad playing ping pong! And yes he played this way the whole time and they still won both games!

This summer we went to Jump Around Place (I think it's called that). Sadly it closed like a week later. Ava and Kinslee LOVED it!!!

Over the summer Grammy and Pops came out to play. Ava thought that she needed to drive daddy and Pops around in her bus slide and made this sit like this for a while.We also had a feed the ducks date with Kinslee...These "ducks" were CRAZY brave!!!

See they would just walk right up to us!

Or just flat out eat our of our laps!!! (keep in mind I'm terrified of birds!!!)

Ava's school Halloween party was on a day that she doesn't go, so they let us come just for the party. Most of the kids wore their Halloween costumes...but no Ava wanted NOTHING to do with it! She was going to be Cinderella...I did manage to get her to wear beads!Her BFF space Timothy!

Waiting in line to go trick or treating at the church office.

Ava and Batman

After trick or treating they "raked leaves"

She was brave and went into the "bat cave"

Daddy took Ava to the pumpkin patch. I'm so proud of him for taking pictures for me since I had to work!

Ava rolling the pumpkins

Daddy and Ava on a hay ride! (by the way its day 4 without the paci!!!)

More pumpkin rollingMore catching up to come! Keep coming back!