Week 16 {May 29th- June 4th}

{Monday: May 30th}

Had such a great time at Keith and Destiny's wedding tonight, Avery got to stand with this former chick-fil-a crew member (who is now a police officer).

{Tuesday: May 31st}

One of Elijah's first swim practices...he's starting to catch on!

He is excited to be a "Bellair Barracuda" and is trying his best so we couldn't be more proud.

{Thursday: June 2nd}

Dress rehearsal for Ava's first dance recital, here she is with the little stud-muffin of the dance class, Donovan.

She is SO ready for this!

I love watching her on stage...she knows all the moves and sings the song as she is dancing, so precious.

{Friday: June 3rd}

When Ava was a new baby my friend from church, Analisa, had her mom make a quilt for Ava, it has her name and birthday on it and is really special. I gave it to Ava tonight and she treasures it. She asked me to read the embroidery to her at least 5 times, and was excited to recognize her name after I showed her.

{Saturday: June 4th}

Ava getting ready for her BIG NIGHT!

Grandma is here and brought some goodies!

Proud big brother ready to get to watch his little sis.

She got to sit with us during the first half of the show and she was totally in to watching the 'older kids' and teenagers dance...she wants to dance like them one day.

Time to go backstage...one last touch-up and she's off!

ALL DONE! Daddy couldn't wait to go get his girl!

Congrats from baby sister...Lily was bobbing her head and clapping during the show, it was great!

Elijah knew this was a special night for Ava and he was really sweet with her.

We even got to go to Yogurtology because of Ava, she was getting lots of attention in her cute outfit from everyone and she was soaking it up.

Avery and I were SO tired but the night wasn't over yet...we realized the kids hadn't eaten dinner yet and Ava knew she was entitled to the 'you are special today' plate (she's been waiting for it ever since Elijah got it on the last day of school) so we couldn't deny her the honor!



Elijah came out with a game of 'hangman' to entertain us while we all had dinner...it took us a bit but we figured it out, it says "Fablous Job Ava"...so darn sweet!