Dreaming of beaches, mai tai's and sun!

At about this time every year, Mike and I are counting the days down to our yearly vacation. We always go on vacation around memorial day weekend and our favorite vacation spot is Maui. Before we had Ava, we used to tell people that we have kids and their names are baby Cancun, baby cabo, and baby Maui. We took vacations instead of having kids. Now that we have made the decision to have kids, we are putting vacations on hold, but as of late, I have been dreaming of our days at the pool, drinking and enjoying doing nothing. Well, this year again, there will be no vacations (in the true sense of vacation- Maui), so we had to make due in our backyard this weekend.....This is the pool that we bought for Ava from last year that I posted about a week ago. So, while she napped on Saturday afternoon, Mike and I made ourselves a drink, put on some Hawaiian music and put our feet in the pool and took the infamous vacation picture- laying down with feet looking into the water....

I know...ghetto, but it will have to do!!!! It was a nice hour and a half on Saturday afternoon...

On Sunday, we drove out to Sun City for my great Aunt Dorothy's 97th birthday... Ava was having a blast in the backseat. She kept putting bunny behind her head and laughing...

We had a nice time and while my great aunt Dorothy can't say a whole lot,she sure did smile at Ava. I think she enjoyed seeing her play. Ava took her usual time to warm up to everyone, but once she knew all was ok, she was hamming it up and playing. I took her out back to play with the rocks and sticks! We took the opportunity to get a family picture and this was the best one we could find. It is hard to get Ava to sit still and to get a good, not cheesy, smile from both Mike and I....