My Birthday

I celebrated my 28th birthday last Friday with a day of pampering and dinner with family. I started the day with breakfast with Ava and then off to my facial at Douglas J (that was so amazing and relaxing), then I had a highlight and haircut. I was suppose to have a pedicure and manicure that afternoon, but my manicurist (who is also my friend and neighbor) had to cancel because her Uncle went missing on Wednesday and they unfortentley found him dead Thursday afternoon of an apparent suicide, so to say she really wasn't up for working. No big deal though, Life happens. I went out to dinner with my family to Coral Gables in East Lansing. The food and spirits were great. Thanks to everyone for all my presents. They are wonderful.

My birthday cake!!!

On Saturday Feb. 9th, we met up with some friends at BW3's. Actually my friend Amanda and I share the same birthday and since we had dinner with family on our actual birthday we decided to meet for lunch the next day at our favorite establishment!!!

Cherry Wheat!!!! Our favorite!!!

One happy family!!!!

Super Bowl 42

This was Kyle and Ava during the Super Bowl on Sunday. As you can see by her shirt "Shhhh I'm watching the game with Dad", they were enjoying some daddy/daughter time.

Some more pictures....

Here are some more pictures of Ava....

Pouting.............

Sitting pretty.......

Standing up with help from the kick and crawl (and eating it)

Supergirl!!!!!!!!!!

6 months old

Ava turned 6 months old on Monday. She is growing and learning so much everyday.She is sitting up by herself, rolling all over the place and standing up next to things. Everything is going in her mouth, so teething is around the corner. She is making tons of noises and eating great. She loves all her veggies and we will start her on fruits this weekend. We will be going to the doctor's next Wednesday for her 6 month check up. Make sure to check back later next week for her growth update.

Here are some recent pictures of Ava from the last month or so.....

Being cute in daddy's hat

Seeeeefood.......
Not so sure about those Green beans

Jumpin' in my Jumparoo

Pink Nun......

Out with the old....in with the New.....

This past weekend we updated our kitchen. We used our Christmas money to buy a new dishwasher (thank heaven) and were just going to replace the one piece of counter top and get a new sink. But as we started pricing things out, it wouldn't cost that much more to replace all of the counter tops, so we picked out a neutral color.

Old counter tops

New counter tops
New dishwasher, sink and facet
The dishwasher
As you can see we are missing a piece of our floor. There is never a home improvement project without interesting issues. After the boys (Kyle, Steve and Shaun) got the dishwasher hooked up, they installed the end panel which was 3" wider than pictured, but when they went to install the counter top, it was 3" too short. The guy at Menards forgot to put in the computer the extra 3" for the overhang. So, the boys had to cut down the end panel and redo the electric (the outlet box was too deep). It looks fine and will work, but we just now have to figure out a way to fix the floor. The other issue is/was is that we are still waiting on our sink. It was suppose to be in by the 12th and we are still waiting. When we called, it was suppose to be here any day. Well as of the 14th, we were still waiting. So, Kyle called again (my first 3 attempts failed) and finally talked to the department manager, who call the factory. Come to find out, they are out of stock and won't be in til the end of the month ( I really don't want to wait til then to have my kitchen done), so the guy was super nice and gave us the display and some money off. He said he would call us when our actual sink came in and we could switch them. As for the counter top they gave us a nice big refund of $25..............whoo hoo, that helps out soooo much. But all in all, our kitchen is done and we have a working dishwasher, sink and nice new counter tops!!!!!

Playing in the Snow

I took Ava outside on Wednesday to play in the snow. We didn't stay out long because her face started to get cold, but I did get a few pictures.

Snow Angel

What is this white stuff??