School's Out for Summer!

As Ava would say, "Woohoo!" Yesterday was my last day of school. I am so glad to be done for a little while and have some extra time on my hands. This summer will be drastically different from last summer because Ava has changed so much. I can't believe how fast a year can go by. This summer Ava will be turning 2 and I just can't believe it.

So here are some pictures of Ava and JonThomas from Memorial Day. We did our Memorial Day cookout (blasted rain!) and instead of getting to hang around outside, we were forced to stay inside because of the weather. But, Jonathan and Stacy have a cool karaoke type game called Singstar where you compete with other people or teams to sing as on key as possible. It was great fun and Ava enjoyed the microphones!

Anyway, I am hoping to have extra time to do pictures with Ava and get things posted in a more timely fashion. I am really making an effort to set aside time for scrapbooking as well. If anyone has any summertime family suggestions (things to do, make, etc...), I would love to hear them!

Making elephant sounds in this pic

Flashback Friday

This week's Flashback Friday goes along with a scrapbook page I just finished. It was about Ava's two first teeth. These pictures were taken in Feb. of 07 when Ava was 6 months old. Of course she has a mouth full of teeth now, but I loved her little toothless smiles just as much as I love her tooth filled smiles now.

If anyone has any flashback suggestions that you would like to see, let me know!

More Ava videos

These first three videos are of Ava singing the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse song. The last video is of Ava on her first carousel ride at the Nashville Zoo (sorry it's not very clear).

Video of Ava dancing

Just another video of Ava dancing to "Rolling Down the River."

Video of Ava naming her body parts

Here is a video from last month of Ava naming her body parts. I am trying to catch up on some cute little home movies, so check back for more tomorrow.

May visit to KY

I know it has been a while, but on the 10th of May, Bradley, Ava, and I went up to KY to visit and see my Mom and grandma's for Mother's Day. I had planned on getting there early, but if you know us at the Rogers' house, you know we are never on time for anything. So we made it to Princeton at around lunch time. We went to eat at Pagliai's (which has the most fantastic ranch dressing ever!) and Bradley was amazed that people actually pay money for potato chips and ranch dressing. But that dressing is so worth it! Oh my goodness, it is good!

After lunch we did a little bit of shopping downtown and stopped to do a little photo shoot. There was a neat little scrapbook store downtown and we got some goodies there. We also did a little clothes shopping later in the day after visiting both my grandmothers. Ava had a wonderful time at Nanny's because she got to do something she loves, throw rocks. Ava is obsessed with rocks. We find them all over the house and we are constantly getting on to her for throwing them around in the yard. So Ava was in her element getting to throw rocks in the creek. For me, the creek beside Nanny and Poppy's house has long been a symbol of my childhood and to this day, it holds such beauty for me. I was so glad that this summer, Ava was big enough to get to start enjoying it.

So, here are some of my favorite photos from this particular visit.

Squiggles grave is the one with the little girl on it.
If Ava didn't have a diaper on, she would definitely be showing a plumber's butt.

Ava says cheese when the flas is going off.