Celebrate

Let's Party!  Within a 3 week period of time, we celebrated Owen's 3rd Birthday, Mother's Day and Ava's 1st Birthday.  All great reasons to celebrate - and we made the most of each occasion!  

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Happy 3rd Birthday, Owen!

Owen loves dinosaurs - so of course we celebrated with a prehistoric theme!  His birthday was on Monday and we hosted a party with family on Sunday.

We had lots of fun with several silly dinosaur-related games 

Owen could hardly wait to dive into the cake

Feeling a little bashful as everyone sings "Happy Birthday" 

A huge slice of cake - requiring two forks, apparently!

Family spoiled Owen with lots of dinosaur gifts, books, and his first bike!

Monday's are swim lessons and we all enjoyed cheering on the birthday-boy. 

Home from swim lessons to find that Kaity (our nanny) made Owen a yummy lunch - with lots of special loving touches! 

For his birthday dinner we took Owen for his first Chuck E Cheese experience. He (and Ava!) had a blast!

We love you, Owen!  You are such a delight, and we are so excited to see all the ways you continue to learn and grow during this next year!

Happy Mother's Day!

The weather was beautiful - and we spent as much time outside as possible!   Here we are preparing for a family bike-ride using our new bike trailer.

Lots of love - Owen giving hugs, Ava blowing kisses. Nothing can make a mama's heart happier!

Brian and Owen surprised me with a beautiful garden on our deck as my Mother's Day gift.  We can't wait to enjoy our homegrown strawberries, blueberries, tomatoes and herbs!  

Happy 1st Birthday, Ava!

A little photo-shoot with our birthday girl 

(Thank you, Esther, for the super-cute tutu!)

Ready to party!

Family was so generous with gifts for our little girl - and she did great opening the presents, with lots of help from big brother!  What fun to have so many "girly" toys in our house now.  She got some dolls, a push-stroller, and lots of cute clothes and accessories!

Singing "Happy Birthday"

Cake!

Happy Birthday our sweet Ava!  You bring us such joy and we love you to pieces!