Disneyland!!!

My Mom and Dad recently decided that they wanted to take all the grandkids old enough to enjoy it to Disneyland. So.....Me, Rhett, Ava, my Mom, my Dad, Brayden, Shaelynn, and Rylee all packed up and headed on down. The weather was perfect! We had such a great time and it was so nice to get away! Thanks for the trip mom & dad!!!! Here's pics of our adventures.....

Dad wearing Rylee's "Bride" mickey ears......nice Dad....

All the girls say the teacups was their favorite ride......of course

Evidently day 1 of Disneyland was a little much for Ava

Day 2

Evidently day 2 was even harder on her. BAHAHA....she had a blast though.

On Saturday we took the kids to the beach. It was a little chilly for swimming suits, but we all still had a great time! This was the all girl's first time to the beach.

Easter 2011

I can't believe Easter has come and gone already! This year is FLYING by! I also can't believe that Easter was almost at the end of April and it was still freezing outside! Seems to me Easter Day should always be a bright sunny warm spring day. I mean, doesn't it kind of make sense? One would think that the resurrection of Christ ought to be a sunny occassion. Just a thought.

Here's pics from our Easter festivities.....

Ragean being a part of the action.

Shaelynn & Rylee being good little girls trying to smile for the camera, Ava completely ignoring my requests to look at the camera, and Brayden making the typical face a 12 year-old boy would make when doing an egg hunt with a bunch of little kids. :)

Just in case you didn't know....

Just in case any of you didn't know....We are excited to announce that we will be adding our 2nd baby to the family! Due October 28th! Hopefully he/she (he, if you ask Rhett) doesn't decide to come on Halloween, we already have a kid born on a holiday. I am currently 10 weeks and sadly, my pants are already getting tight :(....gotta say, I don't recall showing this early with Ava. Guess that's what you get with the second. Happy to report that I haven't been sick at all! THANK HEAVEN! Justbeen tired..... like every other pregnant woman on the planet.

Our Little Artist

Oh Ava......I put Ava down for her nap today, just like every other day. Today, however, she was surprisingly quiet right away. That should've triggered my attention immediately, but I have a cold and wasn't feeling well so I had laid down on the couch. When she got done "napping" she came out of her room all sorts of happy and excited to be done with her "nap". A few minutes later I went to her room to get something and this is what I saw.....

yeah...that'd be play lipstick (thanks Aunt Corinne) all over her walls and bed. I must say, she is a smart one....she was very stealth-like while drawig her masterpiece and when lectured on how we don't draw on the walls or our bed she says....."I'm sorry Mommy, I'm a big girl. I won't do it again". How can one get mad at that? We made her clean it up (luckily it came off with a wet washcloth) and told her if she EVER did it again, I would throw away ALL her pretties. This made her basically have a complete meltdown. Perhaps it will leave an impression and she won't do it again. We'll see.

This would be my 3 year-old who insisted in riding in the infant seat on the shopping cart. Go figure.

Land of the Princesses

As of late just about EVERYTHING Ava does has something to do with princesses, dressing up, fingernail polish, and everything girl. She is the biggest girly girl ever, which is quite a strange thing to me. For any of you who knew me when I was younger, I was just about as Tom Boy as they get. I have no idea where she gets her girlyness from. Although, I must say, it is quite humerous. Since she is so girly, naturally her 3rd birthday party HAD to be a princess party.

She had such a blast with all her friends! They were all dressed up as princesses and did all girly things. Here's some pics.....

Playing in her room waiting for everyon to show up

One of my BFF's Tiff doing face painting for us.

BFF Heidi doing painting nails

Of course there were presents

she got more stuff then she knows what to do with

Naturally, there had to be a princess castle cake....yes...that's homemade

Thank you so much to everyone who came to Ava's party and made it such a special day for her. She still talks about her party every day!

Herriman recently opened a new rec center. We got memberships with the intentions of working out....HA.....so far we've really only used it to take Ava swimming. Although, Rhett did go play basketball one day with his work buddies. Surely we'll get around to the actual purpose of the memberships right?

Ava and Dad just hanging out

Ava singing.....she's saying "give me attention!"......right....as if she doesn't get enough attention.

Longest month ever....

Wow.....seems like January is never going to end. Well....I can't blame it solely on January....December is partially to blame too. That's when it all started after all. Poor lil' Ava got a cold around Christmas. You know the typical runny nose, sore throat, blah blah blah. Well after two weeks I took her into the Dr. He decided to put her on antibiotics because "it should be gone by now" according to him. That's when the cough started....more of a hack than a cough. So 1 week later, the hack is worse...sounded nasty. Ava is of course DYING (as was I) at this point because we basically haven't left the house. So, I take her into the Dr. again...this time...yup...pneumonia. Poor thing. He changed up her meds and I can officially now say (basically a month later) all is finally back to normal. If you consider the Walker household to ever be "normal" that is. Hopefully she doesn't get that freaky transient synovitis again...gooo.....don't even want to think about that crap. Anyway....we had a great Christmas. Ava was spoiled beyond belief. Here's some pics of happenings lately.

Sitting on Santa's Lap at the family Christmas Party
Sitting in the rocking chair Aunt "Corinnie" made for her
Corrine, Brayden, Jake....and....Rhett's foot ;)

Ava INSISTED on wearing the pajamas that Santa gave her to the family Christmas brunch.

Last week Herriman opened their new firestation and had an openhouse. We took Ava to go see the fire trucks. She LOVED it!

Rylee with Superman at the Winter Palooza

Ava after getting her face painted at the Winter Palooza