Category Archives: Ava

#TBT 5.29.14

For the Memorial Weekend we went up to the mountains.  One of the things we did was hike around Monarch Lake.  The last time we did this was in 2005.  The girls were 4 and 3.  We only made it 1/3 of the way around the lake and had to turn around.  This weekend the…
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Choices

We make them a million times a day.  Big.  Small.  Inconsequential.  Paramount to our lives and the direction they will turn.  We want to make the right ones.  But how do we know?  It's easy to know if I should take out the trash.  But which job should I take?  Well that's a little more…
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Back from Disney

For Fall Break we headed to sunny California and Disney.  I'm so glad we went.  I'm so glad it is over.  I think I'm on vacation sensory overload.  Five days in Disney and then one day in Sea World.  I'm just plain worn out.  The good kind. There are so many good photos.  Here are…
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A Good Photo

I don't get "good" photos of Ava anymore.  I mean ones where she's not making faces or acting weird.  She just never lets me. Well I got one today.  It was probably because I wasn't "trying" and she was just hanging with me and Laney. I don't remember being this stunning when I was 10.…
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May Madness

May was madness for me. One of the things I forgot to blog about was that Ava was in the school play this year.  They performed Beauty and the Beast.  Ava was one of the town's people.  I'm glad she got the part.  But practices and performances were kind of a nightmare. ;D    …
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A Little off the Top

Ava and I have been fighting over her hair.  I want her to brush it and take care of it.  She wants nothing to do with either.  One of her biggest complaints...her hair is so thick and snarly.  So when she brushes it, it HURTS!  So after lots of going back and forth I took…
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