One little, two little, three little pumpkins....

Getting into the Halloween spirit we HAD to decorate baby pumpkins! We've had the house decorated since early September so now we can add to the festive feel a bit more. After dinner we grabbed our paints, stickers, googly eyes, glue, cotton balls, feathers, markers and more and set to decorate! With all the pumpkins I was a little excited too but...I got one. Yes, ONE and Miss A claimed the rest. Darn! Guess I'll let the 3 year old have her fun ;-)

Just getting started

This one is hilarious. I asked who the next pumpkin was for, she said "Uncle Andy" and then I had to "not look" until she was done. When I turned around I saw this. A bunch of googly eyes and nothing else. She said "That's it mama, that's what he likes. Googly Eyes." Who knew? Happy Halloween Bro!

Isn't my steady hand amazing in these iPhone pics? My sweet Paiger's will be so proud. She can take these as examples in her super cool photography class and show them what a true "candid" shot is supposed to look like. *I should show up to that class with my iPhone camera ready to roll!

Ok, I digress....

The finished Products! Cole's (the black one) is supposed to be a transformer, his favorite! Lili's is the cotton ball/ghost head on the right. Bammy's is covered w/stickers, Carter's is on the top right with more cotton balls, daddy's is next to Carter's on the left, then mine for Ava and then Ava's for me on far left.

Checkin' out her masterpieces

This is her pose she's showing me "from school" she had her class pics last week. "See mama, this is what I do with my hands and see my feet? Like this. Then I smiled like this."

Then Ava's shot of me. Probably best this was fuzzy my friends.

Happy Halloween!!!

Thank you

Ava's great Nana K gave her a gorgeous necklace recently. I thought we needed to write her a sweet thank you note and boy was Miss A excited! She ran to her coloring book and started to color her a Strawberry (we're loving Strawberry Shortcake right now) then I suggested we write a note....I was F.L.O.O.R.E.D. at her little writing skills. Yes, I know she's my one and only, so I have nothing to compare to, but I still am so proud at three little years what she can write so well. You go girl! Mama is beaming over here!

Thank you Nana! Original will be mailed soon :)

*Ava's writing is the Red and mine in the blue. I love the "hearts" she's working really hard on these, it's her favorite and learning her K's.
Yes, pics are sooo fuzzy since I only have an iPhone for a camera so....this is whatcha get for now!

Beautiful Ava

{Random} pictures too cute not to add, they're all from the last month or so. I (like all of us) have been super busy and blogging has had to take a back seat for a while...BUT I want to make sure you all can see some fun pics of my sweet pea. Enjoy! *Yes, I have tons more from our adventures to post, so be patient I promise I'll get more up soon.

xo,
Mommy & Ava Hope

Painting her Hello Kitty "piggy" bank

HA! Silly girl!

These pics are from an AH-MAZING nursery right by our house. Seriously, the coolest place in the heart of downtown. You wouldn't realize how big it is from the street, then you pull in the parking lot and it's like a completely different world. This elephant is nowhere to be seen from the street!

*My sis and mom both said this didn't even look like Miss A in the photo above. Think she just had a funny look on her face maybe???

There's a huge pond Ava loves to feed the goldfish

This wind chime is the biggest I have EVER seen. It hangs from a huge oak tree in the middle of the nursery. It is INSANE.

There's a great coffee house and organic cafe (of course) at the nursery as well with amazing wraps, sandwiches, treats and more. We stopped for a little snack before cruisin' around...

This is from a Beer Garten by our house on one of our "after-dinner" walks. She was mesmerized listening to the band.

Our favorite treat...Amy's Ice Cream!

Fuzzy but so precious. *I may have posted this pic before. If so...that's OK. Too cute not to duplicate! Love this outfit she picked out. How is my baby so big?!