Princess Ava's 5th Birthday

Me and the boys went to Illinois Easter weekend to celebrate little Miss Ava's birthday.  Melissa was hoping to have her new house done by then, but it was not complete enough to have the party there.  So we went to Plan B and had it at one of the party rooms at the hotel that they finished renovating up the street from their neighborhood and it worked out great!  Less set up and way less clean up and since her in-laws owned it, it was free!

I of course had to come bearing gifts for both my girls!

I made them some cute ruffled, tiered summer dresses with hair bows to match and they both loved them!  I found a link online with great directions and it was my first time sewing clothes, so I think I did a pretty good job! :)

Me and my Sadie girl with her dress

Ava had to put hers on right away as she was opening some other gifts she got as well

Time to party!!!  She wanted a Disney princess party and that's what she got!

Princess kissing her frog? :)  She wore her Rapunzel dress to the party

Ava, her BFF Audrey and Brady really wanting some cake!

Entrance to party and some decorations.
Pink, purple and white balloons, flowers, tissue balls and candy

Sadie enjoying her snacks

Princess Ava with her Mom and Dad

Collin is enjoying the ice in the drink buckets

Even the boys had fun playing in the Princess castles!

The girls and their Kendra

The party was so fun, but we did have a little bit of a drama after the party.

We took the kids over to the new house to see it because it was mostly done.  The main floor was completely finished and the only furniture that was set up was the bed frame in the master, a couch and a couple end tables in the living room.  The kids had a blast running around in the house.  There's just something about an empty house that is so much fun. 

They were not being overly wound up, but Ava ended up tripping and falling onto the only piece of furniture around-the bed frame.  She knocked out one of her front teeth and knocked the other one crooked.  Poor thing!!!  She kept saying "Put it back!  Put it back!"  After several hours of bleeding, crying, calling around trying to find a dentist to see her and finally convincing her it was OK she was doing much better.  Their dentist got her in at 8am on Easter morning and said that there was no permanent damage and that the other one would just fall out in a year anyway so it would be fine.

The kids are getting into their Easter goodies from the Easter bunny and Grandma.
You can see how Ava is holding her mouth kind of funny.

Collin getting into his Easter stuff

Love this picture!

So that's how Easter started out.  Our plans of an Easter brunch kind of went out the window and we ended up not doing much on Easter.  I went to the Gray's to stay over night and then head home the next morning and my Mom and Dad went to spend Easter with my Grandma.  What an eventful weekend!!