Final Florida Pictures

Laughing with Grandma..

You should see the girl dance. Isn't it amazing how innate that is?

Spent LOTS of time playing with Grandpa-and lots of time crying when Mom took her away from him!

Random: This is a baby picture of Mark. Maybe if you don't know Ava well it's not so obvious, but-this is her face with different eye color. Amazing to me how much they look alike!

Where are the Easter pictures??

Excellent question. Perhaps because I had 11 nieces and nephews that I felt like were my own children before my own child came along, had witnessed child birth, first steps, first words, my own poor child is at a great disadvantage. Not only have we yet to print a photo of her, (that's right, not one), but there is maybe 8 minutes of video of her life...and I sure hope blogspot doesn't evaporate or I won't remember a lot of other things! Anyway, we had a lovely, undocumented Easter. First Easter. Poor baby. Just think of this next baby! Yikes! When Ava was 3 weeks old I went to change her diaper at Tommy Bahama where there was no changing table, so as I had her on the tile floor a Mom walked in and said "obviously this is not your first baby." Uhh, yeah. It is. So-despite me not caring about germs, watching her eat things off the floor, letting the random people in the security line hold her for me and all the other horrible things I do-here are a few pictures of how cute she has turned out anyway. :)

Nothing like a good Eggo and string cheese for breakfast at the bar. She liked her fun high up seat!

Ok, these are some of the aforementioned babies before I had babies! They each dressed in a different decade for Grandparents Day, from left to right-40's, 50's, 60's. How cute are they?!!

Ava might not exist if it weren't for sweet Beth and Justin...Mark and I "met" at their wedding 5 years ago. We are excited to meet Keller, the newest Johnson making his debut in June. Soo thankful God has given them this baby! (I almost said us, I might claim him) It's a super treat to have Joel and Jill, Beth and Justin all in the same city! Can't wait for more of all of them!

This isn't super cute of Ava, but thought it looked like a paparazzi shot. :)

Fun in the sun, and in the house

Claire trying to talk Ava down from the ledge :)

You can try all you want Mom...no smiles

Until I am under the table. That's fun.

MISCHIEF! That's like, the-"I see a piece of something small and minute that somebody was stupid enough not to pick up and now I will eat it" face.

Let the Blogging Begin!

My sweet brother and two oldest nieces came in to pick us up from the airport. 6 extra hands were very welcome after our trip!

With 5 girls around, there was constant entertainment! I barely held Ava all week!

Maia and Ava posing for a picture. :)

I love this picture, you can barely see it-but my parents good old Regency Van is on it's way down the street for the first time. This is all five girls and Ava excitedly waiting for Grandma and Grandpa's arrival!!

Hola, Orlando...

Just wanted to let you know we are at my brother/sister-in-law/5 nieces house in Orlando for the week. No way to put pictures up here..so to the feisty-- :)-- I promise to add many upon our return home. Love! Heidi

Yikes...

It turns out if you don't post often enough people get a little feisty. I guess they get sick of looking at the same two pictures day after day. So here's four new ones. No promises on how long they will be here. :)

Chocolate chip cookies are of the utmost importance in our family. Now that Ava is off baby food completely (hallelujah) we felt it necessary to introduce her to the most important food group. (No, we didn't give her the chocolate. I may not be mom of the year and she's had lots of eggs, but chocolate I'll wait on.)

Uncle Cousin Jeff having lunch with us.

In a toy stupor. I just can't get over how much I think she looks like Mark.

What you can't see is me envisioning myself as a single pregnant mother with an infant because my husband died falling thru the ice. Why not canoe in the winter though, right? Especially with cousins around to play with. (see those big cracks?? that's water, not ground!! he made it though. he always does.)

While we're still cool...

Dad is home 3 days out of 16 so we are glad they got some good play time in.