Road trip to see friends

Last Tuesday Amy and I loaded up the girls and took a road trip to Houston to see The Burkharts. We wanted to be with Jenny and Bekah to help them celebrate Bekah's 1st birthday party. Ava and I have never traveled anywhere without Mikey but having Amy and Brinley as traveling buddies helped ease my concerns completely. Brinley is an expert traveler but Ava hasn't traveled during waking hours in a long time. She surprisingly did very well on the trip there and did ok on the way back home too. I had to sit in the back seat and entertain the girls (well mostly Ava) the second half of the way home and we even had to make a pit stop at a random trucker's gas station outside of Dallas so that we could feed the girls (trust me, we were out of options and desperate!). That is a post in itself but let's just say the girls were the hit of the Carl's Jr. (that was attatched to the trucker stop) and they were flirting it up with everyone in sight as they sat in their matching travel highchairs we brought with us. We looked so out of place but laughed almost the entire time at the obsurdity of the entire situation! Anyways, back to our trip. The 2 days that we were in Houston were some of the most fun I have had in awhile. I am so grateful for such great friends like Amy and Jenny and the fact that we have girls so close in age has made us even closer. We enjoyed feeding the girls, bathing them, and taking walks to the park. I love those times when it is just Ava and I but they are way more fun when you have other mommies and babies to share them with. Jenny planned an adorable puppy themed party for Bekah's party and I am glad Amy and I were there to help her pull it all together. The party was a huge success and I am so glad we made the trip for it. :)

Here are some pictures from the trip

This is Bekah's crab walk. She is getting closer to walking... (love this bootie shot!)

It wouldn't be a trip to The Burkharts if we didn't have a crib picture with the girls. I mean, how cute are they, seriously?

3 little angels

Going on a walk to the park!

Swinging

Ava loved playing in the dirt. She would pick it up and then let it drop out of her fingers or she would throw it up so it landed on her hat. Good thing I dressed her in white that day. ;)

Best Buds layin in the clovers (mine doesn't look too happy)

Now she's happy. "I want to play in the sticks not lay in the boring grass!")

You bet she loved playing in Bekah's sandbox. I might need to invest in one of those.

Silly face

Rub a dub dub three babies in the tub

(nice placement of the foam letter by Bekah and Ava dont you think?)

Zack's mom, Nora, built this amazing doghouse out of cardboard for the kids to play in at the party. Amy made these adorable dog ears for the kids to wear for picture taking.

My little puppy loved the doghouse so much she thought she might take a little snooze. (this is her new thing. She will be playing and then suddenly stop and lay down on the floor)

Bekah enjoying her birthday cupcake!! This was actually her second party, first being with her family around Easter time, so she had already discovered the greatness of chocolate frosting and she dove right in this time.

Ava's second cake tasting

I asked Ava where Charlie, Bekah's dog, was and she looked out the back door and flipped her hands up like "I don't know". This is another new thing she does when she can't find something. Cuteness!

Mommy and her little puppy

Best friends

Easter 2010

We had a very low key Easter this year. We got Ava dressed in her pretty Easter dress, given to her by Gigi, went to church, and then Ava went on her very first easter egg hunt with Macy. Last Easter she was just a wee little thing so we have been looking forward to watching her carry around her easter basket and look for eggs for the first time. She looked adorable and we took a ton of pictures. These are some of our favorites. Hope everyone had a Happy Easter!

Macy's eggs had dog treats in them

I had to hand Ava her eggs at first

Ava's eggs had snacks in them

Love this one

and this one

Macy looking for bunnies

ok, i love this one too (pretty much all pictures of these two together)

Ava saw this little worm on the sidewalk

She dropped her flower and picked up the worm. Gross!

After the egg hunt we went over to my aunt Kassandra's house where some of the family
was gathered

We dyed easter eggs and had an egg decorating contest

Aunt Konnie's egg (my personal favorite)

Mikey's Dallas Cowboy egg and my sparkly egg

Cheering on the dads

This morning Vaune and I, along with Ava and Luke, headed to downtown Dallas to cheer on Mikey and Ryan as they crossed the finish line in the bike race they were participating in. Cycling has become a new hobby of Mikey's and it turns out Ryan enjoys it as well. Mikey is riding in the MS15o from Houston to Austin in a couple of weeks so this was a good warm up to it. We waited awhile for the guys to finish, slowpokes ;), but Ava and Luke did great.

It was great to see the guys after the race but the best moment of all happened when we were driving there. We had Ava and Luke's carseat right next to each other in the backseat and at one point when I turned around to check on them this is what I saw...

I'm telling you, they really love each other. Vaune and I will save this one for the slideshow at thier rehearsal dinner. ;)

"Hey, I think I see them coming"

Vaune and Luke

Mr. Cyclist in his gear

Pointing again

The Family