Floating with Daddy

Chris and Ava enjoyed a "float" during the nice weather. It was her first trip on the canoe and she LOVED it!

Ava's big #6

The official celebration of Ava's 6th began early Friday morning as we prepared for school. Ava put on her cutest outfit and posed for photos with Griffin. During snack time at school, Mom brought Krispy Kreme doughnuts for everyone to share. After school we joined Claire, Grammy & Hendon at the Summit for lunch at California Pizza Kitchen. Grammy then treated Ava & Hendon to "treats" at Pottery Barn Kids.

The birthday party began at 6:00 when 20 of our closest friends joined us for making appliqued purses with iron-ons, eating pizza, watching Hannah Montana episodes, destroying the play room, beading necklaces, consuming cupcakes, applying tattoos and disassembling a pinata hereby taking whatever sanity Mom had with them out of the door at 8:00 p.m. WHEW- what a night! Ava had FUN though and isn't that what really matters???

The calm Saturday celebration (her actual bday: March 7) was a low-key affair with Clay, Melanie, Abe & Poppa coming in from Roanoke to meet us for lunch at Jim & Nick's followed by a trip to the Galleria to Build-A-Bear. Ava built a precious girl rabbit that she named Hannah (imagine that??) and dressed in a pink halter top dress with Hello Kitty panties carrying a sequined purse with a cell phone and white sunglasses singing Hannah Montana "Best of Both Worlds". Poppa was not amused with all the frills but he can never say no to Ava! She had a terrific birthday and it was another day for the record books in the Albright household- our baby is really growing up!

More Snow Photos...

Snow Day!

Here is Ava having fun in the snow with Maddie, our neighbor. She and Maddie had a blast with making snowballs and running around in the snow. Griffin was not too sure about it and didn't want to be put down. It reminded me of his first experience with sand; he didn't like it either!