Memorial Day 2011

Fun and games with Daddy

sweet smiles and laughing with Brodie

serious talks and swimming with mommy

cute and prissy in a pink tutu

serious concentration and splashing with water animals

giggles and squeals on the trampoline

All of these were the experiences of our Ava on Memorial Day weekend 2011.

Hope everyone else had a safe and HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY!

God Bless our Troops!!!

4th of July Weekend

was tons-o-fun!  Friday Robyn, Michael, Cameron and Ethan came down to visit.  Robyn and Michael watched Ava while Cameron and I went to see Eclipse (best movie so far in the Twilight Saga) and Tim cut the grass while Ethan followed every move he made.  Ethan LOVES his Uncle Tim!  I wish that I had have thought to get the camera out and snap some pictures, but it all went by too fast.

 Saturday we packed up and headed over to Mr. Billy's house for some delicious BBQ and a good time around the pool.

 Ava went on her first swim and enjoyed it (at least I think she did anyway).

She was pooped from all of the excitement of the pool ;)

    

Brodie insisted on holding her in his lap as always.

    

Hanging out with Daddy is ALWAYS one of her faves!

    

Sunday (while Timmy was cutting grass) Ava and I made an appearance at her Auntie Sue and Uncle James' house.  

She loves Auntie Sue:)

     

Getting so big!

     

Monday we relaxed at the house.  While relaxing Ava found a new favorite thing to do...play in her ExerSaucer!

     

She still H-A-T-E-S being on her stomach, but I still make her try it on a daily basis.  She is getting really good at holding her head up while in that position, but she doesn't like it because she can't see everything that is going on around her:)  She is such an inquisitive baby, and she MUST see what is going on at all times!

  

XOXO

Dinners, Cousins and Poolside FUN

What a weekend?!  

It started with dinner Friday night with the wonderful Rumer family.  I always love my time with Meghan and William, and I was so glad that Tim and Sam finally got to join in on our fun time:)  In retrospect I cannot believe that neither me nor Meghan thought about taking pictures...I MUST remember the next time William and Ava are together that they have to have a picture together!  William was too cute crawling all over the place (it was my first time getting to see him crawl), and then we got to witness him enjoying his berry cobbler (making a complete mess). Oh what we have to look forward to lol.  And of course the food and visiting with Sam and Meghan was SUPER too;)  Since we didn't take any pictures here is a picture of the Rumers (stole it from Meghan's Facebook).  Aren't they a gorgeous fam?!

New Baby Recognition at St. Paul this past Sunday

Saturday Ava and I packed up and headed to T-Town.  She was such a good baby and slept the whole way there.  Of course everyone was SOOOO excited to see her, especially Ethan.

He loves his "Aba".  

No one but Robyn has seen Ava since Ethan's birthday party at the beginning of May so they were all  amazed at how much she has grown and changed.  We just sat around the house and walked through Momma and Papa's garden.  It was a very relaxing day (other than the driving there and back home).

Sunday we went poolside at Sissy's house.  Ava had eaten right before we got there, and she slept in her travel swing (under an umbrella of course) for the first two hours.  Poor Brodie had been waiting for two whole weeks to see his "best baby", and it just killed him to see her laying in that swing and he couldn't touch her.  He kept taking his little chair and sitting beside her so that he would know the second that she woke up.  Of course she woke up hungry so he insisted on helping feed her...

Such a good little Mann

Blayd even joined in on the Ava festivities yesterday.  He normally just runs by saying "Baby", but yesterday he took a few seconds to stop and "pet" her as Brodie likes to say (because all babies like to be "pet" lol).  We L-O-V-E our time at Casa de Mann and our Nason-Paul-Dixon-Gaines-Mann family!  

After our fun day at the pool we went home for some much needed rest...

She fell asleep while sitting up bless her little heart

XOXO

Just because they are too darn cute...

Brodie fell in love the first time he saw her.  Aren't they just too cute?!  Brodie specifically asked that Sissy get the camera out and take pictures:)  And he also made sure to set up the next play date before we left the house.  Thankfully for him it is getting warm out and being by the pool at Casa de Mann will be commonplace for us.