My Little Artist

This morning I woke up to Ava saying to me "Mommy. I need to wash my hands." I'm thinking "Why in the world do you need to wash your hands. You just woke up." So I tell her to give me a minute. Well she goes into the bathroom and brings me the cottonelle wipes I keep in there. Ok. So I wipe her hands off and she climbs in bed with me and plays with her puzzles.

When I finally really wake up I see her arm…

Yep. What a creative little girl. I guess I won't be leaving markers in her room anymore!

I also find it all over her legs. The right one worse than the left.

But that face and crazy hair is still so dang cute. Mommy couldn't help but laugh a little. And fortunately she didn't color on anything else. Just herself and the coloring pages the markers were meant for!

So later this afternoon we decided to finally do our pumpkins. We did do pumpkins at Grandma Kathy's last week while Marissa and the kids were here. But we need pumpkins at our house too!

She was really excited to do pumpkins again. She actually stuck her hand inside the pumpkin to scoop out some seeds. 

It took me a couple of hours to do both of our pumpkins. I think Ava got kind of bored after a while. Though she did enjoy playing with all the cool little tools. I love her face. She didn't want to smile. Can you tell? Pretty sure that is a classic Ava face.

Finally a smile. It took more effort than I would have liked to get it!!!

Ava's pumpkin and Mommy's pumpkin. 

Yes that is a mustache.

Our House

 I'm a little slow getting these pictures up! 

A couple of weeks ago we were able to meet out at our site and start working on stuff for our house!! Yay! We met with our contractor, Jamon, and went over a bunch of stuff. Mostly about what is going to happen. We split into groups and part of us made signs for our house (so people will know where to bring supplies and such) and the others started on the electrical panels with dad. I'm glad he gets to do this with us!

I opted for the sign making. Besides my handwriting is better than Ryan's!!!

Part of our sign making group!

Here I am! We are also in the same group as Garrett's sister, Adrienne, (on the left) and her husband Justin. We are SO glad we're in the same group!!!

P.S. I took some of these pictures from Adrienne's blog! Thanks Adrienne for taking such great pictures!

Are we excited? I think so!

I think this is just about everyone. We also made these boards for our electrical panels to hang on. I even used a drill! I was so proud of myself!! I prefer to leave that stuff up to Ryan, but I'm not going to be able to get away with that here!

Here is our finished sign! And our cute little Ava of course!

We also learned that night that they would start digging holes for foundations that same week. They started with three holes to prevent water damage and fun stuff like that. We just happened to be on the side of the street that they started on.

Here is our hole!!

And here it is again. We are so excited to be able to be in this program! We can't wait to really get started and build ourselves a house! 

Happy Birthday Ava!!!

On Wednesday we celebrated Ava's 3rd birthday!

I can't believe my baby is three years old.

I wanted this video to be last but this is what I got so I guess I'll take it! It is cute no matter where it is on my blog!

After Ava went to bed on Tuesday, Ryan and I hung up some streamers and balloons for her. I put a balloon by her door so she would see it when she woke up. When she came out I heard "A balloon! Thank you mommy!" So sweet!

Some of the balloons! She had fun with them all day!

Princess streamers

She loved the streamers! We had them up for two days!

We had to wait for Ryan to come home from work before we did presents. We took her to Cafe Rio for dinner then did presents before Ryan had to do scouts!

Princess Popstar Barbie. She sings songs.

(And that book you can see. Perfect church book!)

And one of her favorite presents. Merida and Angus from Brave. She now sleeps with Angus and she would sleep with Merida too if we'd let her!!!

After scouts we had cake. As you can see I'm not very good at decorating cakes. Or making awesome cakes.

Mommy and Ava.

We can't believe your three! We love you baby girl!!!