Thanksgiving • 2oo9

Thanksgiving
was once again a great week.
We spent most of the week with Ryan's family. But we started out down in Utah County doing a few Thanksgiving activities.

Ava had her Thanksgiving Feast at her School,
and we went to Nate's Thanksgiving Program.

Up in Salt Lake we Celebrated London's 3rd Birthday and Rachel's 20th Birthday.
(no Pictures, Rachel still hasn't sent me any! : )

Even Gavin got a piece of Cake.

Saw New Moon!
(Go Team Edward! Ryan is Team Jacob, only because he has a man crush on his Body)

Gavin and Spencer having a staring contest... Gavin wins every time!

The Girls performing for us
(with a creepy guy in the back ground)

Eric took the Girls to the Zoo.
Crazy picture of the Girls but cute of the Baby Elephant!

The Cute Babies!
You would think that they were the same age... but they're not, Gavin is 2 months older than Savvy and they weigh the same!

We had a Very Happy Thanksgiving!
And extremely Thankful for all the great Family and Friends we have!

Disney On Ice

Last week we went to

Disney On Ice • Princess Classics
It was so fun being with Ava and watching how excited she was to see the Princesses.
Oh yeah, and did I mention that I won the tickets! Yes me, I won them on My 99.5! We actually bought two tickets for me and Ava to go on Friday, then a few days before we got a phone call saying that we won four tickets to the Saturday night show. So we sold the 2 tickets, and invited Ryan and my cousin Emily to come with us!
The show was actually really good. But the souvenirs were really lame and way expensive. And I was freezing the whole time! It was so cold, I know they must keep the temp down so the ice doesn't melt but come on can we please have it above 60 degrees.

The cute 7 Dwarfs

Ava would get so nervous when the witches/villains would come out.

Aladdin and the Genie

The three fairy godmothers in Sleeping Beauty

Goofy, Minni and Mickey

The Mouse Friends from Cinderella.

Cinderella going to the Royal Ball

All the Princesses and their Princes at the end of show in there "wedding bride dresses"
Ava's favorite part!

Emily and Ava
We knew Emily would appreciate the show... cause she loves Disney!
Thanks for coming with us!

Our little family
without Gavin... Ava said he wasn't invited cause he is too naughty.
I agree!

The Snow Cone that Ava was insisting on getting right before we left! So lame—who sales Snow Cones in the middle of winter.
And Yes, she spilled it... all over our car.

It was a Very Fun Night!
Thanks Mimi, Papa and Jen for watching Gavin.
And thanks My 99.5 for the Tickets!

My Kids • And Balloons

Don't know what it is, but my kids are obsessed with balloons. Ava found some Balloons that I had left over from some party we had. She has been trying to figure out how to blow them up. We love watching her try, the faces she makes are Hilarious. Every once in awhile she'd get it but then she can't hold her breath, so she ends up sucking the air back in.

She wanted to see if Gavin could do it... I think Not. Thanks a lot guys—this game blows.
Pun intended.

Halloween • 2009

HALLOWEEN
We Love Halloween. Ava Loves to Dress up (Me too, but unless I have an excuse to—like a party—it's not worth the time or money) and most of all Ava Loves wearing
Real Princess Wigs. And adding one more kid to the Dressing up Fun, was even better.

So ever sense I was pregnant with Gavin and we found we were having a boy, the only way we could make Ava happy about the fact that she would have a little brother and not a sister was that Gavin would be her Prince. So when Halloween came around Ava kept asking us when we were going to get Gavin's Prince Costume. So we looked, didn't find anything so the next best thing that we came up with was....

Ava will be •••• Belle
and
Gavin will be •••• The Beast

We thought it was a great idea, until we showed Ava what he would be wearing, and she did not approve, she said "that is not the Beast, that is a Lion", after much persuasion we convinced her that he was a real Beast.

(Ava in Costume, heading to her Preschool Halloween Party)

The cutest Beauty and the Beast I've ever seen!

Halloween Parade @ Jack's and Nate's School.

My cute Skeleton on Halloween Morning.
We had my family over for Breakfast.
We had Orange Waffles, Orange Juice, Fruit, and German Pancakes. Very Yummy!

So we started out Trick-or-Treating at the Mall.
Very Nice, it was warm and we got a lot of Candy Fast.

And Yes, we did bring a Bucket for Gavin...
We might as well get double the candy!

And we got to visit Spencer at P.F Changs
(Picture by Ava)

Trick-or-Treating at Nordstrom.
They were the only ones that really got into it, a whole lot of scrooges at the mall
—sorry wrong holiday.

The boys in their Costumes... ready for Candy!

Trick-or-Treating with the Cousins.

Gavin was a Trooper, He slept the whole time in his Stroller. He was so warm and was actually Sweating! Being in the Beast costume that has 10 pounds of padding and in his little Uggs... He was toasty!

Before Ava got Cold, she said...
"I hate Halloween, I suck at this game... My legs are Breaking"
Her Wig started to itch her, so we took it off and got her to wear Ryan's Beanie, but she insisted she still wear her Crown.

Driving home from a long
Halloween Day.

(Ava is already planning what her and Gavin will be next year)

Pumpkin Carving • 2009

We Love Carving Pumpkins •

We Love the Pictures!

Hate the Mess!