Monday, August 30, 2010

NYC & Chiefs pre-season home opener!

The CUTEST Chief EVER!!
Nana, Aunt Steph, Aunt Dani, and Sam took Ava to Build-A-Bear on Saturday. She built a golfer bear! (Papa and daddy were busy building her new swingset!!)


The New York Stock Exchange. What an AMAZING experience!!!!!!
So my second favorite part of the trip was walking across the Brooklyn bridge to get to....Grimaldi's. BY FAR, the BEST pizza EVER. A true NYC experience and SO worth the hour-long wait in line.

Hanging out at Rockefeller Center with my Magnolia Bakery cupcake




Saturday, August 14, 2010

Friday the 13th and other fun happenings!

Hello blog readers. Hope everyone is doing well. Things have been busy around our household. I have been busy doing a few DIY projects around the house. I can check off guest bath, lower patio, and fireplace.. and now this week I have started a kitchen renovation, putting together Ava's new swingset/playset thing, then Ava's bathroom (hopefully) and then maybe done?!?
As for Ava, she talks and talks and talks. Most of the time, you can only pick out a few words per sentence, but they are starting to come together. Potty training is still going really well and she loves wearing her easy-ups. After several months of telling people she's two, we finally heard her tell nana last night that she's one. Just in time for her to be two :) She is doing really well with counting and while she knows her eyes, ears, mouth, nose etc.. but she would much rather show you where yours are.

Finally, as for me.. I recently accepted a promotion to senior associate! HOORAY! I guess I also celebrated a birthday on Friday the 13th. Below are a few pics of birthday weekend.



Ava didn't want to take a birthday picture with me, so this was the best we could do :)


Ava admiring my handy work :) I forgot to take a "before" picture but it used to be gray ceramic tile, now it's a travertine/glass mosaic tile with a travertine border and tile on the base. Much better :)


Saturday, July 31, 2010

A very special birthday!

Today we went to McPherson to celebrate my great grandma Opal's 95th birthday. She is in great health and spirits and enjoyed watching all of the kids play. She is truly a remarkable woman and we love her very much! Happy birthday grandma!

grandma with her FOUR great-great grandchildren!
Breck, Blain, Ava, and Donovan
later we ventured out to my aunt and uncle's farm for a BBQ. Ava got to ride her first horse, and we got to meet Cookie. Cookie is a 12 year old, 3 foot tall miniature horse. Isn't she adorable? Ava loves animals, so she had a blast playing with their dogs, cats, and the horses!

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Lately...

It's been awhile, sorry! We've been busy enjoying the summer and working on the house. Here are a few random pictures of our summer thus far!

enjoying some pool time at nana & papa's
@ B:2
doing some finger painting!






Sunday, June 13, 2010

Home Sweet Home

Here are the rest of the pictures from our trip to Mexico. I still have to get our underwater camera developed and I'll post those later if there are any good ones. It's good to be home!









Thursday, June 10, 2010

Hola de Punta Mita (la tercera parte)

Buenas noches! Here are a few more trip pictures. I'll post the rest upon our return to Kansas City. Hope you all had a great week.. we sure did :)