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We had a Fun and Crazy Easter...
We had so much to do and not enough time! We go to church at 12:30 and we had to Teach our Marriage and Family Class. After Church we hurried over to my Grandma Rhineers house for Dinner and the Easter Egg Hunt. Then at 6 we went to Sullivan's for my mom's side of the family. They we were eating too so if we wanted we could of had 2 dinners. But with all the Food and Candy we had eaten we decided to just have one Dinner. Even though we missed Ryan's side of family (Cause they are in California for there spring break) it was nice that we didn't have to try and go to 3 families! `

Ava's Easter Dress! I Love it... So cute!
She even had way cute blue Shoes (That used to be Olivia's) But Ava made me take them off right before the Picture. So we will have to play dress up again so you can see the whole outfit!

Easter Egg Hunt with Rhinner's
(Dad's Side)
Ava loves going to my Grandma's house cause there is always so many little kids around her age to play with.

Easter Party at Sullivan's
(Mom's Side)
We had a Easter Egg hunt but on that side of the family there is only 3 kids under the age of 6 so we decided to make some of the older kids do it too! So we wrote Numbers on the eggs for the older kids and they could only pick up the eggs with the number they were assigned.
Oh yeah did i mention that before all of this even started Ava was telling me she was tired so lets just say that she was not that Pleasant and everything made her cry and the day ended with her throwing a temper tantrum and us throwing her in Bed!
But we LOVE Easter!

Ava using her New Jump Rope!
Wow... She's GOOD!

StOry TiMe (ToDDler TiMe) @ The LiBrary

Every Wednesday we go to Toddler Time at the Library, it is a day that Ava looks forward to all Week. Each week they talk about a different Letter this week was the letter Y. And with Easter this week they talked about Easter stuff and read a bunny book. Ava gets SO into it she Loves all the Songs they Sing and at the end they give you a Coloring Page. So if anyone wants to Join us We go Every Wednesday to the 11:10 session. (but you have to be there early to get a spot cause it gets really crowded) This week Lori, Matthew and baby Milo came too!

Nursery Easter P-A-R-T-Y!

This past Saturday we went to
Ava's Nursery Easter Party!
She was SO excited about it. We Colored Bags for their Easter Egg Hunt, Played Musical Chairs with Colors, Had an Easter Egg Hunt ( inside the Church cause it was SNOWING ) And we had some GOOD Sugar Cookies! We love Nursery Parties!

Reading Makes Me SO Tired

( I love the book she is reading too! )

Don't CuT your eYe's

Ava likes to watch me do my make up right now but when I Curl my Eyelashes she gets this really Nervous look on her face and says "Mommy Don't Cut Your EYES!" Thanks Ava for looking out for me.

What's cOOkin gOOd lOOkin?

Thanks MiMi for the APRON!

CadBuRy MiNi eGGs

The BEST EASTER CANDY Ever!!
Ever since they pulled out the Easter candy at the Grocery Store my Cadbury Mini Eggs have been calling my name. I have tried so hard to ignore them because I have a tendency of eating the whole bag in a matter of days (or day) But today when I was at the Store they were YELLING my name saying "Jamie Buy Me... Eat me." So I did and they are almost gone.

NiCe BUM... Where you from?

Well Ava has been going Potty all by herself. She pulls down her underwear (or pull-ups) goes in the bathroom and sits on her little potty. When she is done she pulls up her underwear and off she goes. But on this particular day she didn't quite pull it all the way up, and it took more then 10 minutes to realize her little bum was showing.
Cute Bum Though!

Snot BuBBle!

So this past week Ava has been sick with the Flu. She has had a Fever, a bad Cough and a Nasty Runny Nose... Which has led to this Wonderful Sight ENJOY!

Our TRIP to AZ and Vegas!!

This past week we went on a family VACATION! Just Me, Ryan and Ava. We went to Arizona to visit Ryan's Sister Amy and her family (Eric, Olivia and London) for a few days. Then we went to Las Vegas to PARTY . . . just kidding! It all started on Wednesday (Feb 20th) We hit the road about 3:30 in the afternoon and decided to drive straight threw to Arizona. We thought we would get there about 2 in the morning.... but with all the Snow, Fog, Deer, Rain and Ice we didn't get there until 4 am. Once we got to AZ our vacation began. We spent the first day outside in the Sun. We went on walks, played at the playground, jumped on the tramp and played with Ava's new Dora Soccer ball. It was so nice to be outside in the warm weather and then seeing Green Grass just put a smile on my face. The next day was kinda rainy so we used that day as our shopping day. We found a lot of goods that day! Probably too many, as Ryan says our depit card took a Beating. But it was way fun.

Saturday we went to the Phoenix Zoo, the Zoo was fun and very big. I guess we did all the normal Zoo stuff but there were some neat things we got to do and see. There were so many cool exhibits, like you could ride the camels, there was a tiger that was climbed a tree (note to self, when running from Tiger do not climb a tree to get away), they had a petting zoo and we rented peddle boats and went around the big pond (Ava threw a temper tantrum when we had to get off the boat she would not take off her life vest, very embarrassing). We just loved how big and wide open everything was. It was such a fun day.

We loved the HOT TUB! It was so nice getting in our swimming suits again! Ava is so funny about her "BATHING SUIT" she calls it her bathing suit because of Dora. Before we left on our trip she wanted to sleep in it, she would cuddle with it like it was her Blanket. But when its time to take her bathing suit off lets just say "all hell brakes loose!" If we let her she would wear it all day everyday.

Sunday we left for Las Vegas We stayed at the Rio. The reason we went to Vegas was cause Ryan had a conference, so me and Ava decided to go with him and make a vacation out of it. During the Day while Ryan was doing his work stuff me and Ava would hang out in our room, go on walks around our hotel and take naps.

On Monday night we went to the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace. We walked around... went Shopping... went to FAO Schwarz... and ate at Cheesecake Factory. We walked everywhere that night our feet and legs hurt so bad!

We love the Water Show at Bellagio. Ava was so into it. Well, she was really into everything in Vegas all the big Hotels, all the lights and every time we went through the casino she would say "ME PLAY... ME DO IT" it was pretty funny. She was so confused why something like that was NOT for kids!

Tuesday Night we got tickets to Blue Man Group through Ryan's work, so me and Ryan went while Ava went over to my uncles Craig's house to play with him and his kids Jake and Lexi. We had no idea what blue man group was all about, the only thing we have every seen was them banging drums with paint so we were nervous. But it was really fun and entertaining. I don't even know how to explain it or describe anything about the show! It was just a lot of weird random things.

Wednesday Morning before we Checked out Ryan took Ava swimming. She was dying to go the whole time we were there but I wouldn't take her. The Pool was heated but it was only in the 60's so when you get out of the Pool you FREEZE! So I left the Swimming for Ryan.

We had such a Hard time coming home. We had so much fun with all the warm weather and being away from the snow it was AMAZING!

We miss you ARIZONA and LAS VEGAS!

Fun Videos from Our Trip...