out of the mouths of babes.......

So, as Ava is aging and she is progressing through her terrible two's I often find myself complaining about how her behavior is; or how much work the 2's are.....but I have to stop myself and smell the roses. I want to share some of MY most recent favorite quotes from my Ava Sloan........ I will bwe adding more of these as they occur.....usually daily!

#1

mommy- hi sweetie how was your nap?

ava- I need stay in my crib mommy....

mommy- why sweetheart?

ava- I in time out

mommy- what? why ?

ava- I ate porky (the family dog)

mommy- you "ate" porky.......but honey he's right here.

ava- yes mommy I ate him...he's yummy in my tummy!

#2

momma...... where did my birthday go?" (oh honey I wish I knew :)

#3

I wuv yoo

#4

momma- good morning sweetie

ava- hi momma!

ava- I need to go to me-ma's house (grandma)

mommy- well honey we have lots to do today so maybe another day

ava- no, I need to go now.

mommy- well honey, how are you going to get there

ava- Catie (grandma's dog) will come and get me

mommy- ok sweetie.

Summer Vacation and more stuff.......

Hello summer!!!
We hope everyone is having a great summer so far. We recently took a vacation to Lake of the Ozarks and we had a blast! Here are a few pics from the trip. Also, I added some pics of my wonderful husband building a bar on our deck. He does such great work....always good to have a handy man around! Everyone says hello and enjoy the great summer weather! Love ya'll!

girls will be girls.......

I finally painted A's room! It's a beautiful purplypinkish color :)

old room color.....not too "little girlish" huh......

J built a new bar around the edge of our deck....looks great and I will post a finished picture very soon!

This is the view from our back porch....love it!

my 29th birthday....oh lord yes I am 29.....one year away from 30 ahhhhhh!

J drinking a Pepsi and practicing his WWE moves on his 11 year old! Sometimes I think he's the 11 year old! ha

Ms. M on vacation trying on glasses....cute

grandma and ms A planitng flowers for mommy and makeing homeade icecream! YAY

A and J playing mini golf on vacation...yes, I won this game!

inside Bridal Cave in the Ozarks on Vacation last week

Ms. M got to bring her best friend on vacation with us, it was a blast.

on our way to the Ozarks we ran into a HUGE storm so we had to stop and wait it out at a restaurant......the girls always find some kind of game to play......

Hope everyone enjoyed looking at our wonderful summer so far....... Have a great 4th of July and we will post some awesome pics after our great 4th of July bas at our new house!!!!

Well....were off and running into summer! The girls, Jason and I are having a blast setting up our new house and playing in our new yard. We just got the pool set up ...pictures will come soon , and we have been cooking and cleaning up a storm. Tonight the girls were cooking homeade pizza and Ava loves to do anything her big sissy is doing. Mira is letting her help her decorate the toppings....they are so cute together.

Here is my new hair cut and color. I really like it but it seems very blonde at first.....I'm convinced blonde's have more fun, so I'm checking out my theory this summer :)

We went to a friends 2nd birthday party at the Gage Park carousel last weekend. Mira loved it of course...Ava on the other hand....she was super duper scared to ride alone! Who doesn't love a good ol' carousel ride? This was so much fun!

Girls just wanna have fun......Ava LOVES to play in mommy's makeup,shoes and jewelry! She is totally a girly girl.

cutest 10 piggies I've ever seen.....mommy paitned them purple with pink and green polka dots....yes Ava picked out all the colors! So cute :)

to my dearest Ava ~~

Dear sweet baby Ava~
We know you just had a birthday and we want you to know that we love you more than you will ever know. We want to list a few things that make your mommy and daddy so proud each and every day!
1. you always have a smile on your face.
2. you have the cutest little laugh possible.
3. you love to explore and make up words and sing.
4. at the age of 2 you know almost all of your manners, well....at least the P's and Q's
5. you love to mimic mommy.
6. you know your whole name : Ava Sloan Taliaferro. but it sounds like Ava --swoan --tawl-uh- ferr- ohhh
7. you give the best kisses and hugs any parent could ask for.
8. you love to go to bed and take naps.
9. you have a glimmer in your eye that has the energy and spark of a truly blessed life in it.
10. you are the life of the party at our house!

Ava, you are only 2 and We know we will have lots of years to tell you this, but we love you so very much and couldn't ask for anything sweeter. We hope your terrible two's are subtle, but we know they won't be because you definitely have plenty of attitude for 3 toddlers ( and you take after your mother). We hope your next year is wonderful and you continue to learn and explore and grow into even more of a beautiful little spirit.

love,
mommy and daddy

May 2009

Well well well..... finally, the summer has arrived at our house! We are all moved in and things are starting to take an order around the house. I have finally started cooking again and school was out for teachers last wednesday...it's already been a week! WOW!! Time flies when your having fun right?

Ava has turned two and boy oh boy have the terrible two's started. I am pretty sure we don't go a single day with out some sort of a melt down. It's usually because she will live and die for fruit snacks....and we have to cut her off at some point!!! She usually wants something to play with while I am driving and so of course that causes a meltdown as well. I am sort of sad that she is two already, but that definently gets us thinking about another one.... geeesh children are so expensive!!!

Mira is finishing up her last week of school this week in Tulsa, then she moves up to Topeka for the summer!!! YAY

Ava's birthday was fun and so many friends and family showed up !!! It was a blast. We had the party at our new house and everyone fit pretty well into the new space!

These photos are from Ava's 2nd birthday party. Enjoy them and have a great rest of the week!

Moved!

Well..... we have finally moved into our new home! I will post pictures soon, we are still living out of boxes, no fun! But we ABSOLUTLY love our new home! It feels so nice to have 2 floors that we can roam around on instead of just 1 floor. Life is good. I am out of school in 7 days and I have lots of fun things planned for the girls and myself this summer! Mira is out of school in 2 weeks and then moves to Topeka for the summer, I always look foward to her being her with us in the summer.
Our upcoming summer plans consist of unpacking the house, taking a couple of summer vacations, visiting family doing outdoor arts and crafts, playing in the park, swimming lessons,and enjoying the summer schedule! I have had my teaching contract renewed for another year and that means I will be teaching either elementary special eduaction again or get into a regualr 1st grade or Kindergarten classroom!!! YAY.
Mira is ready to start another year at her summer camp and I have no idea what Ava is ready for expect for driving me crazy.....in a good way :)
I hope everyone is ready for this nice weather, ready or not here is comes! It always amazes me how we can go from 40's to 90's in like 2 weeks, hardly no spring...... oh well, were ready!
Enjoy these warm nights and beautiful days while the flowers are in georgeous bloom! I will post pictures of the new house very soon.....oh and Ava is already turning 2 in a couple of weeks so I will get some current photos of the girls posted too! I know I know I am kind of slacking off..... :)
Love you all and Happy Spring to everyone!!!!
Love ,
Amber, Jason, Mira and Ava

HOPPY EASTER!

Happy Easter 2009! Time is just flying by, here are a few pictures from Easter weekend. Yet another cold, windy, and rainy Kansas Easter Day! Maybe next year the girls won't freeze in their Easter dresses....probably not though :) We hope everyone had a blessed Easter .

Well I have decided to list all the countdowns that we have going on in our family right now...
1) Schools out for summer in 5 weeks
2) We move to our new home in 3 weeks
3) Baby Ava turns 2 years old in 6 weeks
4) I turn 29 in 9 weeks

Well, we have lots going on and I'll keep updating the blog as we move along through April. Hopefully I will have pictures of the new house after this week. We will get to go over to our new house for the inspections and I will be taking lots of pictures :)
Just remember... April showers bring beautiful May flowers!