4th of July

This year I was determined to find something festive to do for the 4th 

(babies have a way of making me care about holidays)

We spent the day at the park looking patriotic 

I got a little camera happy, but I just love these pics of her.

That evening we went out to the Coppell city 4th of July celebration at Andrew Brown Park.

Jeff came up with his own outfit and was very proud of it :)

There was this train that went around all the baseball fields. I think Ava was a little apprehensive about it- but they sure looked cute together going around!

We found a giant American flag to take a picture in front of. 

USA! USA! USA! 

ha, it really was a nice celebration though-

 Coppell did a great job putting everything on

And then it was time to wait for the fireworks! They shot the fireworks over the water and we all just laid out on the grass while they played patriotic music. It was such a fun summer night!

Not So Recent Outings

Alright, so I really just haven't felt like blogging lately, but things are backing up and the stress from having things not documented is motivating me to get these posts out there. 

Seriously, these two outings happened forever ago. Now a days we never really go anywhere due to Jeff's internship out in Mesquite- internship requires the car, which leave me and the babe stranded :/ I'm not loving this part of our time in Texas when it's a bajillion degrees out and no car to go anywhere so me and Ava are basically just staring at each other all day every day in this apartment of ours. Fingers crossed we can make it through a few more months of this. Anyways.... 

This is from when we went to the little aquarium- It's the perfect size for a toddler like Ava.

^she came up with this pose all by herself and held it for like ten minutes. werk. ^

The part where you could touch the sea creatures was a little bit of a disaster and alternated between Ava splashing water out everywhere and then trying to just straight up drink it.

This was from the day we went out to a bouncy trampoline place for a friend's birthday.

Ava actually loved it and did pretty well running around.

About halfway through she got tired. 

To be fair, jumping is hard work.

Wouldn't touch the cupcake, but loved the cookie :)

 The end.