Photo Day

We needed to get our family pictures redone since Ava was not in our last set. The day was full of chaos but the photographer caught us all smiling several times. The kids look great, Ish looks good, and I look bad. But it's not a picture of me, it's of the family, so I don't care...really, I don't care...I might care a little bit! :) Oh well! Aidan was Mr. photogenic and he totally loved the photographer. Whenever she would pose him for a shot he had this goo-goo ga-ga look on his face, Ava dug her too, maybe it was all the toys and tricks she has to get them to smile, cause they were ready to stay with her!

Cherry Blossom Festival in DC

Last time we lived here in Virgina we went to the Cheery Blossom Festival in Washington DC, which in also a Japanese festival since in is a spin off of the Japanese Cherry Blossom Festival. We knew we were on our way to Japan so it was really cool to go a check out what we were in store for. This year when we went back to the festival here we once again had a ball, but it was from a completely different perspective having just come back from Japan, instead of looking at all the cool stuff with wonder and excitement of something we didn't know much about, we felt cozy and at home. It made us really miss Japan!
The blossoms where awesome, it was really crowded since it is such a well know festival, but it was kinda' cool to see all the different people and their reactions to the things they might not know much about...kinda' like us the first time!
Here's some pics of the day, we started at a coffee house by our house...Aidan loves it when we do that, it means hot chocolate and muffins!

group jumping

We do our jumping in a big pile...that way the small ones don't end up across the yard!

My Avon Walk for Breast Cancer personal page:

http://walk.avonfoundation.org/site/TR?pg=personal&fr_id=1430&px=3899422

Avon Walk for my birthday!

This May I'm going to be apart of the Avon Breast Cancer walk in Washington DC! Witch means that besides walking 39 miles in two days I have pledged to raise at least $1,800 for the cause...so I need some help from all of you guys! :) I'm hoping that between me, my family and friends we can bring in at least that much.
The walk is on 3rd and 4th of May, so I'm using my Birthday to raise funds for this. Instead of cards or gifts this year, all I want is to raise as much money for the fight against Breast Cancer that we can!
As a bit of incentive, most of you all know how I feel about wearing pink...this is going to be a very pink day! I'll make sure you all will have a good time seeing me (happily) wearing pink! The more money, the more pink! If we raise $5,000 I'll be totally pink, face and all, anything for the cause! :)
This is the link to my Avon walk personal page:
http://walk.avonfoundation.org/site/TR?pg=personal&fr_id=1430&px=3899422

Aidan's Birthday!!

We woke Aidan up early on his Birthday to do the Birthday thing before Ish went to work. He was still half asleep, but totally into the icecream on his waffles, presents and singing! The next day we had a Transformer Themed Birthday Party for him at Chucky E Cheese's...he had a blast! It was hectic for the parents, but the kids loved it! By the time we put the kids into the car and pulling out of Chucky E Cheese's they were OUT! Good weekend!

Ava laughing

Aidan can make Ava laugh like no one else! Sorry the lighting is so bad, our house has bad lighting for video at night.

Aidan's and Ava's Art

my little artists!