My Princess is 2

Ava turned 2!

We had a fun little birthday party at our house and as usual she got spoiled.
There were so many things to open, and some of the kids were getting a little restless. Lets just say that next year....... we will try to keep things more reasonable.

The wait is OVER

After almost a month of waiting we finally got to find out what we are having!

BOY!

I am so excited. It will be a big change from a little princess (Ava) with all her pink and sparkly everything. I can't wait to see what this little one will have in store for me!

Blue or Pink?

We had our 20 wk ultrasound last week and everything was great. The baby measures great. There is one thing that we are missing..... we don't know what we are having! We decided that we would have the picture of the "parts" put in an envelope and wrapped up for Christmas. I am having a really hard time not peeking! Any idea's as to what we are having??

the last days of sunshine

it looks to me like the beautiful fall days are coming to an end. ava has not had any new pictures in a while so i thought today would be a great day. and it was.....

Halloween Party

we had our little halloween party last weekend and i think it turned out good. everyone did really good with their food idea's, which is my favorite part about this get together. believe it or not we did not really get many pictures! guess we were to busy chasing little one's around the house and helping kids with the games. cade did get a few of the food so i wanted to share.

Cade's B-day Surprise

this year for cade's birthday i wanted to do something that i normally would never do.... so i planned a vacation. i decided that a cruise would be fun. we have been to couple places in mexico and really like to go there so i booked the mexican riviera cruise. we headed down to cabo san lucas and then to ensenada. we did some snorkeling at santa maria bay in cabo and it was beautiful. the water so pretty. i have never seen such turquoise water. the trip really was great if you don't think of all the motion/morning sickness. i threw up a handful of times, but still managed to pull myself out of bed and have fun. happy birthday cade!

another month has gone [bye]

so once gain another month has passed by and i have not posted one thing! we did a lot of fun things this summer, but most recently we decided to spend a day at cowabunga bay (water park). cade's sisters and their kids came along and we had a great time swimming, going down slides, and floating the lazy river. for those who have not been, you should go. it was really fun. since summer is almost over we decided we needed to go to the zoo with all the kids. once again we packed up and headed to salt lake. the weather was great and the kids did really well considering we were there for 4 hours. we still have one more camping trip planned and maybe some boating. i am sad to see that summer is coming to an end, but that means there will be less things to do in the yard and garden and lots more time to spend together!!!!

so {BIG}

ava got a little pink potty last week. as soon as it was set up she went pee! she was so excited. since then she goes a couple of times a day. i think i will just let her get more interested in it before we really start training her. she is still kind of little. since she thinks she is so big we decided to convert her crib to the toddler bed [ without the rails] and so far she has done great. she has not got out of her bed yet. i can't believe how much she has grown up lately.