Tutu's by BOO

My very talented friend from church Brigette, is starting a business of making onsie tutus with matching hair bows for infant girls. They are soooo adorable!! And Ava was lucky enough to get one from her! So I had to take some pictures to show off how cute they are! Sorry about my legs in the back ground, but to get the full effect she needed to stand up. A big thank you to Brigette!!

Don't you just love those chunky legs!

(As you can see I've been playing catch-up with my blogs, I think this is my fourth one today!)

We had visitors!

Last week our doorbell rang and when I opened the door there was this cute little boy just sitting there on my door step all by himself! After a double take I immediately knew it was Ava's future husband Teigen! Teigen is my best friend Ashley's son. (Ashley moved to New Mexico after she got married so I don't get to see her very often...her son is five weeks older then Ava.) Ashley of course was just hiding around the corner from our door step. I was so excited to see her and meet Teigen for the first time! She came to town for her brothers wedding open house, which I was told that she couldn't come for. But she surprised me! It was so fun to hangout with her for a few days and watch Ava and Teigen interact with each other. We of course have already arranged their marriage. I only got a couple of pictures because my camera battery died, but I at least got a few. And of course we totally forgot to take a picture of Ash and I together because we were too busy taking pics of the babies.

Look who's sitting up!

At just under five months she started sitting up! She loves to just sit on a blanket and play with her toys. She'll still topple over every once in a while, but it's getting to be less and less. She is such a big girl!



Usually when she bends in half like this she'll chew on her toes, but this time she chose her book.

Labor Day Weekend

For Labor Day weekend our friends the Hood's invited us up to their cabin on Lake Almanor. So we went up with Steven's parents and a couple of his siblings for the weekend. It was sooo fun! We went there last year and loved it, so we were very excited they invited us up again! They have a cabin in the Country Club right on the Lake, it's so pretty up there! And the weather was perfect! I wish I had taken pictures of the inside of the cabin, they have the coolest cabin, and it sleeps like 15 people or something, it's great! We enjoyed a great weekend with everyone and probably came home a few pounds heavier from all the great food we ate. But it was well worth it!

There is a little park in the Country Club, so we took Ava on the swings. This was her first time and she loved it!!


Here she fell asleep on uncle Thomas' lap in the chair hammock.
Of course we played tons of games!!
Took a little ride on the golf cart around the Country Club checking out all the cabins wishing we could buy one up there.
A picture of the shoreline. This was in the evening when it was getting pretty cold out, so all the beaches were deserted.

They have a shooting rage close by, so I shot a 9mm hand gun! It was pretty cool, but I really need to work on my aim!
Here is Steven shooting, he is much better then me :)
On Saturday it was hot enough to go to the beach and ride the jet skis. Here is Ava and her Aunt Emma playing on the beach


Steven and I were getting ready to go out on the jet ski so we took a picture of the three of us on it. And no we didn't take Ava out!! :)

We can't wait to go again next year!! Thanks to the Hood's for a great weekend!!