7 Years and Counting!

Happy Anniversary John! Here are some of my favorites from the past year!

Getting new family pictures.

 4th of July in Idaho

 Playing Build a Burger

All of the hiking we did

 Relaxing in Vegas for our anniversary

Hanging out with you two crazies every day! (Totally corny)

Ava is 2!!!!

HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?!? When did my sweet little baby become a toddler?! I am so grateful to have such a saucy, funny little bear running around! I can't believe how much she has grown and I LOVE LOVE LOVE seeing her personality shine! She keeps us busy and on our toes! Here are some things about our Flava!

LOVES

Water and swimming

Fruit

Playing with cousins

Talking

Letters and sounds

Counting

Reading

iPads/any electronic device

Bubbles

Nursery (Seriously, she hates sacrament. The whole time she is yelling for nursery and then when sacrament is done, she runs for the nursery without even looking back at us.)

Popsicles

Looking at clothes

Playing with her new kitchen (see whole thing here)

Dancing

Singing

Listening to music

Coloring

Running in circles...for reals....lots and lots of circles.

Gymnastics and Stretching

Wearing other people's shoes

Hiking/Exploring

Finding Nemo

 Swinging and playing at the park

 Grandparents

DISLIKES

Changing her diaper

Flies or Bugs (She is terrified)

Getting clean

John's music (but honestly, who does?)

 Leaving my awesome presence (again, who does? Just kidding, she's too independent to care)

AVAisms
She likes to put things in time-out (yikes). When we were driving in the car, she was playing with her toy princesses. I turned on some music and said "Ava, make your princesses dance!" She proceeded (very cutely) to make the princesses dance. Suddenly, she stopped and yelled "No Belle! Time out!" and put Belle in her cup holder. Apparently Belle's dirty dancing was considered highly inappropriate.

"Oh my goodness!"
"This a way."
"I sorry."
"Thanks, Cheese (please), and Welcome"
"Night! Love you! Good Day! Tommo (see you tomorrow)!"


She is like a little puppet and she repeats everything!  She says so many funny things all the time!

STATS
Weight: 25.4 lbs (25%)
Height: 34 in. (50%)


Ava is so active and is constantly running, jumping, dancing, bouncing, etc. We love her and we are so excited to watch her (and her head of beautiful, long, flowing hair) continue to grow.

DIY Kitchen

Here is Ava's DIY kitchen in (almost) all its glory! We have put a ton of time into this and it still has a few things here and there to do and some definite touch-ups that need to be done, but we LOVE how it turned out! I might play with it more than Ava does.

Before

 We got this old dresser for FREE!

After

Ahhhh! It's so the best!

 Complete with chalkboard menu sign!

 We are still working on the inside of the fridge.

 Oh my gosh, what could make this more awesome......

 OH WAIT! A WORKING LIGHT!

 I made that pot holder because I am awesome!

If I had any desire to sew life-size curtains, I might...but I don't. Luckily, these are mini!

 Oh ho! Another thing I made! A cutesy apron to match!

 The baskets hold her play food sets, which we are always adding to.

Overall, we were so excited how it turned out. We are even more excited that we stayed married while making this! Turns out, John isn't too excited to do these projects...OH WELL! :)