Last of March

Im trying to get a little better about blogging... hopefully now that I have gotten back into the swing of things I will be better!  Ava started walking the week her dad left! Now she is practically running a marathon!

  Today our playdate got cancelled so I decided to meet another mom friend at the mall for the first day o the easter bunny! Grayson (Stacy's baby) smiled and loved it... and  Ava did a little better than with santa no crying but she held a fat lip the entire time!

  We have found a couple of moms groups here in San antonio that are great! So far we have gone to the children's museum, park, this indoor play place dynamoze and to someone's house! Hopefully Ava can meet more kids her age to play and learn with!

Visiting down memory lane. Savannah, Georgia

    Since my husband has been home I have been a little slack as far as the internet goes and blogging! I tend to try and stay away from the phone and internet when he is home because that is ALL i do for 3 months at a time when he is not is rely on the computer and phone soely for communication. 

    He leaves in less than a week man the time flies! Since he has been home we have gone to dinner for valentines day which was amazing and then went to Savannah, Ga. We have also gone to an amazing new brazillian steakhouse with some great friends! Every day we have taken ava to the park and zoo! We have just enjoyed some quality time as Ava is much more adventurous because she is getting older! To top it all off Ava now has a big girl car seat!!! 

   

Its finally here!!!

  For Christmas I asked for a new camera that wasn't out yet and there was a VERY long waiting list! I have felt like I did when i was waiting for Ava to arrive waiting for this amazing new camera! Finally yesterday the doorbell rang and BAM it is in my hands.. after taking it out of the box and not even reading a thing i decided to take little Ava outside and take some pics just to try it out before reading instructions. Here are a few of the pics! I cannot wait till i actually know how to do everything on it for the photoshoots to come!

Christmas... a little late

   Well I have been super busy.. with the baby and other things! However here is finally a few christmas pictures. We have always done Christmas on christmas eve, so this year we kept the tradition up and did it all at my moms.. we decided to change it up a little with some mexican food and margaritas instead of the traditional!  

  On Christmas day we had a turkey but decided to make it just a small casual thing. Ava was pretty much exhausted after all the present opening and box and paper playing and then she discovered her toys and well.. took very long naps for a bout 3-4 days! 

Ava's Birthday

 Ava turned one year old on Dec 18th, we had a small family party. It started out a little scary because neither grill that we had planned on using worked!! Thanks to my brother and sisters boyfriend we had hotdogs, and hamburgers, soda, wine ,beer, and water! Wow I didnt expect so many toys or people to come!! We are blessed to have so many friends and family that care about us! Elmo was the theme of the party and well lets just say Ava made out with WAY too many elmo toys!! At this point I have learned to block out that squeeling noise of a red monsters voice! Thank you all who came and contributed to such a fun day!!

Christmas card pictures

    We decided to take some special pictures of Ava for our Christmas card this year since Ray isn's home and we couldn't do a family one! I saw some pics of a little girl in a tutu and thought it was a great idea!! We headed to a location i had seen off the highway, my friend Silvia offered to be my assistant in getting Ava's attention because these days she is learning to ignore her name!! It was a little chilly out so we did them as quick as possible and I wanted to share a few of them eventhough you will be recieving a christmas card very soon if my address labels would get here already!!! Im hoping not to address them by hand.. if i end up having to do that I think I will be wishing Ava was learning to write so she could help!!

Thanksgiving was full of turkey, stuffing, cranberries, potatoes, and messy Ava!! Ava had a wonderful first Thanksgiving we had it at my Moms house (Granna). It was the first time we didn't have it at my Oma's house. Unfortunately Ray was very much missed, Next year he should be home for the Holidays!!! Here are a few pictures to share with everyone what we did. Now we are on to Holiday shopping and Christmas decorating my favorite!!