NEMO!!!

Ava hasn't mastered saying 'fish' yet but we sure saw A LOT of 'Nemo's' today at the Aquarium! I can't believe we hadn't done that before- Ava loved it so much. Can't say fish but can say 'Shark' and wasn't scared at all! That's my girl... I definitely had a healthy intrigue with sharks as a kid ( I was the Jaws obsessed kid with the shark tooth necklace:-) Hmmmm, I wonder if I still have that thing?) But back to Ava- I truly haven't seen her so still in many many months. She loved the stingrays and fish and sharks, but mostly the sea turtles!

Afterwards we picked a shady bench at the Botanical Gardens, ate peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with salt and pepper potato chips inside (seriously try it- it's like a whole new level of Yum on a PB&J!) and people watched. It was a great way to spend our Sunday morning!

Stingray time!

She seriously sat like this for half an hour.

"Ava, look at the green eel, it looks like a plant, huh?"

"Momeee (Ava's latest name for me) enough pictures..."

This one's for you Uncle Mitch!!!

This is how much...

Ava loves her new shoes!
(and the fact that she can put them on all by herself!)

A Pagosa Springs 4th of July!

We had such a wonderful 4th of July weekend in Pagosa Springs with the Sorenson and Prochnow families! It's been such a long time since we've all been up to the cabin together and I have to say, it was so much more fun than I ever remember it being before! A lot of this has to do with the fact that our little ones (not so little anymore) are at such fun ages! I think we'd all agree that Brody and Ava are enough entertainment for the whole weekend! They both have such cute and interesting perspectives on everything, I think all of us adults just enjoy watching them explore the world and get a good chuckle about what they have to say about it! We had beautiful weather which made for a jam packed weekend. We enjoyed a (very) little bit of working out, 9 holes of golf, swimming, a 4th of July parade, a visit to the hot springs, a quick beer and live music date for Kurt and I at the Pagosa Brewery Beer Gardens, a visit to the emergency room with Aunt Jess (just to get Ava Girl's stitch removed- it went smoothly and healed beautifully!), some sparklers and poppers, a LOT of delicious food and a few great naps and long awaited conversations! It was a fun though kind of exhausting weekend! For some reason the mornings are a lot earlier and the days go by a lot more quickly up there... Oh well! It was well worth it in my book ;-)