Ava is Six!

Our baby girl turned 6 last Friday!  

She is at such a fun age.  She is so fun, animated and passionate.  Her favorite things to do right now are reading, writing short stories, poems and songs, and playing school with her dolls.  

She's such a little person now, making to-do lists, keeping a journal, texting.....She's grown up so much the last year.

Ava had a fun filled birthday week.  We took her to see Phantom of the Opera at the At&t Performing Arts Center's Winspear Opera House on the 7th.

She loved every minute of it.  As did we.  It's been 7 years since Jeff and I had seen it and this new production was incredible.  Ava sporadically breaks out into opera song now, pretending to be Christine :-) 

The next day she wanted cinnamon rolls, Chuck E Cheese and the mall.  It was a fun day celebrating our girl.

Daddy was quite the ticket catcher in the blaster...

I can't believe she will start first grade in a week! I'm not ready for summer to end but I have no choice :-(

Vacation pictures coming soon!!

Ava's 6th Birthday Party

On Saturday we celebrated our almost 6 year old at the beach pool with 35 sweet friends and family members!  It was her biggest party and she declared it the best birthday EVER.  She had friends from church, school and dance it was a blast watching her run around with all of them.  She has grown up so much this past year.  It was a joy to share her birthday with so many that love her!

She woke up ready to party!

This was the first year I made her cupcakes.  I found a blue velvet mix that Ava declared 'Frozen' blue and since that was the theme I made 43, iced them all and placed on top our Frozen toppers.

Ava knew where she wanted each of them to go and she enjoyed decorating :-)

Hard to believe this sweet girl made me a Mommy 6 years ago! 

Here are pics of birthday fun......

Rainy Days

We've had several cool rainy days this summer and while it boots us out of the pool, the kids have loved playing in it.  I took some pics of them outside a couple of weeks ago.  Ava loves to wear her rain boots and Keegan loves his rain coat so they enjoyed a morning of puddle jumping. I enjoyed watching them and doing a little puddle jumping myself :-)