Birthday Party

I tried to keep the birthday party simple this year but that just really doesn't seem to work for us. There was just so much cute stuff and so many people that we have to have at Ava's birthday so we had a house full. Good news is that it was a beautiful day and now we have a house where we can fit everyone. Ava had a blast and got so many cute toys. Mostly Princess stuff but that is her favorite!!

Uncle Eric and Aunt Bekah

Tower that went with the cake

Aunt Adrienne made the Rapunzal cake and it was awesome!!

Geech and Ava

Ava and Uncle Tim

Ava and Uncle Mike

Ava and Ping

Ava and Nana

Happy 3rd Birthday

We celebrated Ava's 3rd birthday at her favorite place Son of a Greek. Can you tell how excited she was to eat pizza?!?!? She was so excited about it being her birthday.

Inside of new house

We still have some things to do but for the most part the house is done. Chris is still working on his man cave so I didn't take pictures of that, but they will come soon. I am very happy with the way everything has turned out. We have so much room and don't have clutter sitting around which makes me and my OCD husband very happy.

Living room: mirror still needs to be hung

New couch: the blanket is where Barley sleeps

New chair

Kitchen: new table

Ava Lea's Princess room

Princess Bed

My bonus room: Aka Barbie Room, scrapbooking room, exercise room

Barbies on display

Master Bath

Master Bedroom

Ava's bathroom

Guest bedroom: Chris calls it the Chris room ( he put pictures of himself in there)

Ava's playroom

Dining room: The sofa wouldn't fit in my bonus room so it is in the dining room until we decide where it goes.

Snow 2011

Here are some pictures of the snow in our new house. More pictures to follow soon of the new house!!!

Santa Claus came to town!!

We were not sure which list Ava would be on this year. The terrible twos hit us pretty hard, but it looks like she made the nice list after all.

Christmas Eve 2010

In Sansbury Tradition we spend Christmas Eve at MeMe and Ping's joined by all our great friends which we are so very thankful for. It is truly one of the highlights of the season for us. Our friends are very important in our lives and we love spending holidays with them all.

We started by making cookies for Santa

It got pretty messy with an almost 3 year old

Finally Ava got to open her presents

Ava got some really cool stuff this year: a princess castle and tunnel from Uncle Mike, Uncle Eric and Bekah and a really pretty dress and singing doll from Uncle Tim

Eric and Bekah

Mike

House Update

We are FINALLY moving. We close December 30th. So I guess we will ring in the New Year moving. However since we have been wanting to move for 4 years we will move on New Years and be glad to start the new year in our new house!!!

Just being cute

Chris took these pictures the other day and I thought they were really sweet. Also just wanted to say that we are officially potty trained. It only took 18 months but I can finally say out loud that she is potty trained. It has been 4 weeks with NO accidents!!! I was beginning to think it may never happen. Merry Christmas to us for not having to buy diapers!!!

Santa

Ava was actually very excited about seeing Santa this year. Ava has an elf named Nocchio that comes to watch her everyday and reports back to Santa every night. Since Nocchio made his appearance on the shelf last week Ava has been very interested in the jolly old guy. She has been talking about going to see him all week but I really thought she would change her mind and not want to talk. But I told her that she had to see Santa or he might not come, so she gave it a go. I didn't get her best smiles but she did pretty good. As usual Geech and Mommy made their annual trip to see Santa.