Live Nativity

This past weekend we went to the Live Nativity that they do every year at the Provo Tabernacle. It was really neat to take Ava this year now that she is getting old enough to kinda understand. Ava loved the baby Jesus and kept asking where he was. After it was over she was all sad that he was gone and she wanted to see him one more time. So we told her that he was this baby that someone was holding at the door on our way out. Luckily it worked.

Then outside they had sheep, Goats and even a Camel. The camel was so neat it was just laying on the grass with no fence around it and a bunch a people all around him petting him. He didn't ever care about all the things that were going on around him.

He put his head in Ava's belly twice. She was a little nervous about it. When we were walking away my dad asked her what happened and she just had a stunned look on her face.

Ava May is 3!

I can't even Believe my Little Ava is 3! It is so crazy. It has been the fastest and best 3 years of my life! She really is one of my Best Friends and I love every minute I'm with her. She always puts a smile on my face and everything she says makes me laugh! I love her so much and I keep telling her she will be my baby girl forever! However, she keeps reminding me that she wont be the baby anymore, once the New baby comes. I think I will just have 2 Babies at that point!

To celebrate her Birthday we had a Princess Party! Right now Princesses, Spinning Dresses and Finding a Prince are the only things she talks about. So we had to have a Princess Party. We invited all her little friends to come and dress up. We did make-up, did some little crafts and had a Dance party. Lets just say it was very chaotic, but Ava loved every minute of it.

I love Jacks Prince Costume! It was Actually Seth's Mardi Gra outfit when we were on the Float with Harry Connick Jr. So cute!

Ryan is "Prince Charming" and I'm "Cinderella". Ryan asked Ava to dance when he came up in his costume and Ava was in her Belle costume. Ava told him "I'm not your princess, silly, your princess is Cinderella." Then she yelled "Where's Beast". You have to dance with the right prince, Duh.

So this is a terrible Picture of Ava... but I had to post it so everyone could see Rachel and Braden (Rachel's boyfriend) in their Costumes!

Ava and all the PARTY goers!

Braden and Rachel got Ava a life sized "Sleeping Beauty" doll. I have walked in the room and thought it was Ava more than once, kind of creepy to be honest.

This Minnie Mouse costume is one of my favorites. The gloves and the shoes are so cute.
As you can see most of her presents were dress-ups. So most likely if you see us around town you will see Ava in one of her Many Costumes . . . we can't go anywhere without them.

It was like Halloween all over again.

Thanks everyone who let me Barrow all those amazing Costumes! And I can't say thank you enough for everyone who came, Ava loved every second of the party and is already asking when the next princess party is. So Thank You, Thank You!

JackSon HoLe- ThanKsGiving

This Thanksgiving we went up to Jackson Hole with Ryan's family (we missed- Amy, Eric, Olivia, London and William). We had so much Fun relaxing, Playing games, eating good food, Celebrating Rachel's Birthday, seeing good Movies (Twilight and 4 Christmases) getting in the Hot Tub (well not me of Course, I don't want to cook my unborn child), Shopping and being with everyone.

Hope you had a Great Birthday Shole!
Do you like the Birthday Hats... Ava picked them out!

Thanks Mimi and Papa for a Great Trip!

My NEW LiCenCe PlaTe!

So this is the Licence Plate they sent me... couldn't they have given me anything better!
Ava didn't understand why I was taking a picture of our car so she just jumped in the picture. (it does make the picture better though!)

It'a a BOY!!

So we went today to our ultrasound and found out we are having a BOY! I was so surprised I really thought we were having a girl. And apparently so did Ava cause when the Nurse told us Ava had a complete melt down. She was Crying and yelling "NO! I want a Girl Baby!" She cried for a good 5 minutes while we were doing the ultrasound and even ran to the door screaming "NO I want a Girl!" she was almost out the door! Ryan had to Grab her, the only way Ryan got her to stop crying was by telling her that the boy baby could be her Prince. And that we would buy him a Prince costume. Then she was ok with it. So everything looked good with the baby and I am actually measuring farther along, only by like a week but still. They were worried about one of his Kidneys it had a little too much Fluid in one. So they want to keep an eye on it. And do some more ultrasounds and if it gets worse they want me to go to a high risk OB. I don't know too much more, It kinda worries me... you know just the unknown. But we are So excited for the Baby to "Pop out" as Ava says and just know that he is Healthy.

JumPing in the LeaVes!

If you have ever been to my Parents house or have even drove by you know that my parents get a lot of leaves! Pretty much all the yard front and back is covered with trees. So when fall comes there are A LOT of leaves to pick up. Well before it got really cold, and before it snowed we all went over to help... and have a little fun
jumping in the leaves.

(crazy eyes)

Fragrances Half Price!

Tis the season for finding your holiday gifts, and why not save a little cash in the process? If anyone is interested, (even if you come across this blog and I don't know you) my Friends mom sells fragrance for a living and can get most fragrances for half of the retail price. Men's and Women's Burberry, Escada, Dolce and Gabana, Bulgari, Kenzo, Hanae Mori, Pink Sugar and much more. (Yes they are the real thing) If anyone is interested, you need to send in your requests to Deniece at deniece@comcast.net, by no later than November 24th, so she can ensure holiday delivery!

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(the top 2 pictures are actually from our ward Halloween party and not on Halloween day but I think they are SO cute)

(Ava and Jodi)

(one of Nate's friends that came trick-or-treating with us, Ava and Nate)

So this Halloween (as you can see) Ava was Ariel. She loved her costume SO much, especially the Wig! She kept telling me she wants to have Long hair like Ariel... how sad! This Halloween we were watching Nate (he was a Gangster for Halloween) while my family went to St. George for the weekend to watch Seth play Football. In the afternoon we went to Nate's school for there Halloween Parade. Then once Ryan got home from work we all went to Brickoven for dinner (side note... Halloween Night 5 years ago was the first night me and Ryan hung out. We were both working at Brickoven and had to work Halloween night) then off to Trick-or-Treat. It was so nice this year having good weather. I remember the night that Ryan and I hung out there was so much snow on our cars. Boooo. We were out for SO long. Ava would not be done until her bucket was filled all the way to the top, she kept telling us. Finally we went to my Grandpa's house and no one goes down the street he lives on. So he had a lot of extra candy that we used to fill Ava's bucket with. I don't know how she did it cause she was not feeling good at all. She had, well still has this nasty cough (she calls it coughings). But we Loved Halloween, and Ava asks every-night if we can go trick-or-treating again. This morning when she woke up the first thing she asked Ryan was why Halloween couldn't be every day. Wouldn't that be nice?