Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Ava turns 9!!!

What is Ava like at 9 years old (going on 15)?

She's the perfect mix of girly and tomboy!
She's very smart...............HONOR ROLL! And curious.
She's very helpful, friendly and kind.
She's outgoing, talkative, social, popular, LOUD, funny, extroverted, and has LOTS of energy!
She's a morning person!
She loves her friends, family and church.
She likes to read, but doesn't LOVE it like I do (one day!!!)
She's tough!
She's VERY athletic...........She's the next Mia Hamm (and wants to be)
She loves getting mani/pedi's and shopping, but also beating the boys in sports, war, tag, etc.
 

It's hard to imagine it's been 9 WHOLE YEARS! Seems like just yesterday I was as big as a house!  Seems like just yesterday my mom and I walked the hills of La Jolla, CA.............. ALL DAY LONG hoping to force her out.  She didn't want to make an appearance, so the next night we ate spicy Mexican food (Robertos....YUMMMM)  That did the trick!  She still likes spicy food! The whole pregnancy I was addicted to Del Scorcho Hot Sauce from Del Taco and would eat it on EVERYTHING!  I would have "hot sauce anxiety" if I had less than 10 packets in the house.  I sent Jason out at weird hours to buy something just to get another handful of hot sauce.  They once tried to hand him 3 and he replied with "You don't understand, my wife is pregnant and she NEEDS this hot sauce" LOL  Seems like just yesterday. 

Ava has been to a few parties at The Lollipop Shop since moving to Beaufort, so naturally she wanted hers there too!  It's a VERY cute little candy store downtown that is also similar to a "Build-a-Bear"  The girls arrived and got to pick out a stuffed animal of their choice and stuff it FULL with candy!  They got to take home the stuffing and a special heart to make a wish on, so when the candy was gone, you stuffed the animal and closed him up! Afterwards they decorated cookies and then got to eat them while washing it down with an old fashion mini coke in a bottle!  Then we opened presents and headed over to waterfront park!  The weather couldn't have been more perfect and Ava and her adorable little friends had a BLAST!  It was such a fun, easy and low maintenance party for me too, so it worked out for everyone. 

Ava asked for her present to be horse back riding!  We weren't able to go until after the new year, but when we finally did, we had a blast.  It was just the two of us!  There's a cute little ranch on St. Helena's Island called Camelot Farms and we got to ride for an hour.  I always loved horseback riding too, so we both had the best day ever!

Happy 9th Birthday Birthday Ava!!!  We love you!!!
 Lainey, Milixa, Ava and Bailey
Ava and Katelyn
Cherish, Ava and Chloe
 Cherish and Ava
Ava and Katie
Ava and Lainey
Ava and Milixa
 Slushy Face!
 Ava with Brianna and Chloe's brother, Stephen.............he's too cute!
 Brianna, Ava and Katie
 Ava and Cherish
 Ava and Katelyn
 Kelly Ann, Ava and Lainey
 Ava and Lainey
 Ava and Milixa
 Cake Face!
 Monkey see...........monkey do!!
 Auntie Toni's hand made bottles FILLED with candy!
The horse shirt she picked to wear for her special day!
Ava and her horse, Jake
She was a natural rider!

2 comments:

Goodnight moon said...

Ava is seriously an amazing little girl! She is so adorable, respectful, beautiful, smart, loving and very caring little girl. You and J have both done an amazing job raising her! It looks like she had an awesome birthday! Did you make her those bottle with the #9's on them? and that super cute box to go with it? Good job! And her hair cut looks super cute....love that she went riding too!

Do you want me to send you some Del Taco sauce?

Jill said...

So fun reading about her birthday and seeing the pictures after you had told me all about it and since I've seen the lollypop shop! I was surprised at first to see her long hair! Grace would love to go horseback riding sometime. So fun!