Swim Suit Beauty

I am in love, love, love with this picture (and Ava too)!

Accessories

At the spry age of 2, Ava has learned the importance of accessorizing with any outfit.

Fourth of July Part 2

Let the fireworks begin!

Intermission

These grubby kids needed a good hog washin' before the fire works.

Fourth of July Part 1

It was my intent to photograph the kids together while Eliot was here. Of course, nothing goes as planned. Here is what we ended up with.



















Say Fireworks!














This pretty much sums it all up!














And this one too!



















Almost smiling.













"Eliot, daddy is sick of blowing bubbles!"














SAND! YEAH!














Aunt Courtney is smoking a fire cracker.













Justin taking a pic of the missing shrub?

Chuck E. Cheese

We made a trip to see Chucky while my brother was home. Riley nearly lost his marbles he was so excited. Ava was afraid of Chucky and Eliot, well, he liked the pizza.













Contrary to popular belief, this pizza is fabulous.














This lemonade is good too.














Ski Ball is awesome!!!!!














Ava and Matt fought over the water gun game!



















The blue screen was more entertaining for Justin than Eliot. Justin later water skiied on the blue screen!














Eliot and Riley loved the monster truck. Scaredy Pants was afraid.

Sticky Dora

My family was in from St. Louis for 10 days. Hooray! But now they have gone home:( Anyway, while they were here we hung out and the children played, fought, played, argued, hugged, kissed, and fought some more. Ava and Eliot had some sharing issues, but I guess that comes witht he nature of toddlerhood. In these photos, Ava had just received a Dora wall-walker (you know those things with sticky legs and arms) from great-grandma. Daddy decided to through it on Na's ceiling, which in turn stuck like glue. Na still doesn't know about this. We needed a very tall ladder to get it down.









Dora is stuck on the ceiling!









It doesn't appear that Dora is budging!









She has been rescued via an extremely tall ladder.

Airport Festival

The Jimmy Stewart Airport hosted an Airport Festival with planes dating from WWII a couple of weekends ago. Since Ava is obssessed with planes, Matt and I thought it would be a good idea to take her. Our assumptions were confirmed. A good time was had by all, minus the sunburn part. Aunt Cici and Riley came along too.