Anniversary's, Birthday's and Vacations oh my!

The month of May is a busy one for my family. There are many birthday's and anniversary's, including mine. On Tuesday, Mike and I celebrated our 8 year anniversary. It seems like a lifetime ago that we got married. It has been an amazing 8 years.
On Wednesday, we celebrated my 32nd birthday. I made my favorite dinner, which is tomato,basil cream pasta with garlic bread. For dessert, I made my favorite confetti cake with confetti frosting. I have been having that for as long as I can remember. I made a mini one, since it was the 3 of us (3 1/2 of us!) Here is my cake....

On Wednesday, I started my vacation, which is 12 days long! ahhhhhhh. It is much needed. We are going to meet up with Mike's sisters on Saturday morning for breakfast and then going to our friends house in the afternoon for a pool party.It should be a good time. We will see how Ava does in the "big" pool. She has never been in and if our baby pool in the back yard is any indication, she will hate it, but we are going to try.

On Sunday, we are heading up to Prescott for a couple of days to escape the heat. We are going to take one night and go out to dinner without Ava. That will be nice. I can't remember the last time we did that. It might of been last year at this very same time. Then we come back and on Thursday we have our first ultrasound. I am super excited to hear the baby's heartbeat and see it. That ALWAYS gives me a piece of mind. I will post pictures when we get back from the doctors appointment.

I am 7 weeks today and well, the morning sickness is starting to set in. I was hoping and praying that it wouldn't. I read that sometimes it can come on between 6 to 8 weeks, but some can feel it as early as 4 weeks. I was the later with Ava and this one seems to have just come on this week. I have to admit, it isn't as bad as with Ava and it is mostly in the morning until after lunch, but each day is different. I am SUPER tired though. I could fall asleep at any moment. I am glad that help will officially start on Saturday with Ava because some days, I make her bring me the toys and the books. Speaking of books, that is all she wants to do these days is read books. I read the same books sometimes 3 times in a row. I have decided that since she is still too little to know any better that it is ok to make up words and skip pages. Sometimes, I just close my eyes, make up some words or recite word for word what the book actually says because I have read it so many times and turn pages!

Below is a picture that most describes how I feel...

BUTT CRACK!!! Ava was doing that all on her own and I was laughing so hard, I almost missed the shot.

Here are some pictures we took the past 2 days. How can your resist those big eyes and lips..

here is a bath shot. We don't have many of these, but I put her hair in a mohawk and she was laughing because we were laughing. That is her laughing face..