More pictures from the weekend

I had some more pictures that I didn't put in the other posts so I thought I would just add them by themselves.

Ava in her new car. Memal found it at a garage sale.

If we could make it go a little faster Ava would love it. Ava & Poppy

Pucker up horsey!

Jack-O-Lantern

On Sunday, Daddy and Ava carved their pumpkin. Ava had a good time eating the seeds. Memal also came up to visit on Sunday and brought Ava her Halloween costume - Minnie Mouse. She made it again this year and did an amazing job. Ava is absolutely adorable in it. I will be posting lots of pictures I'm sure.

Fall Follies

We had an eventful Saturday with the annual Oblong Fall Follies. During the day, Jeff, Ava, Marty (Poppy), Saundra (Nana), and I went uptown to check out the vendors booths and of course eat some good food. After that we went down to the high school to watch some of the Spooktacular Band Competition that OHS hosts. In the evening Ava and I went to watch the famous parade. It is the longest nightime parade in Illinois. Long is correct - 2 1/2 hours. It went by fast though and it actually wasn't that cold - granted we had on many layers. Jeff helped line up the parade at the park so he didn't get to watch with us.

Daycare

Daycare is wonderful about emailing pictures of the kids. Today they sent me some new pics that I thought I should put up. Thanks for the pictures Tina!

Ava is learning all her body parts and she is really stuck on elbow.
She is practicing with Landon and Jamie.

It looks like a milk mustache but its even better - it's icing. Yum Yum!

Bloggers I need help

Okay - I have looked and looked and can't find how in the world everyone else has the blogs that they are following displayed on their page. I have it in my dashboard but I want it as part of my layout. Since Martha started a blog I thought I would just let her figure it out but I am getting impatient. Hopefully someone can help. Later on I will start worrying about all the other fancy stuff like music.

Here is an attempt at video!

This video is nothing to exciting. It is more an experiment to see if I can upload small video clips. This is the most recent footage I have uploaded to the computer. This took forever for me to load so video clips will only come when I have lots of time. It is quick and easy for you to watch. It only takes a second to load.

Ava's Best Friend

Last Sunday we went to Todd & Lindsey's for supper. Ava got to spend the evening with her best friend Lanee. They had not seen each other for quite some time. They had fun playing together. Lanee is 3 months older than Ava. Lindsey is going to have another baby in March so our next kids will be the same age also. How fun!

By this point in the evening both girls decided they needed their pacifiers. This is actually not a posed picture. They put their chairs together by themselves.

This is as good as we could get. They were kissing and hugging but of course with slow cameras you can't ever get that.
In the afternoon, Daddy & Ava watched the Bears game. As you can see neither one of them saw much of it. Ava does like football (not necessarily the Bears though). Daddy would say the best football games are played on Saturdays (Go Irish!)