Happy 4th Birthday, Ava!!

Our sweet little Ava turned 4 on May 2nd.  We all love our Ava girl.  She is Lily's best friend and Lily is hers.  If you are ever feeling down on yourself, express those feelings around Ava and she will reassure you that you are loved and are a fabulous person.  Ava loves to laugh, tickle, snuggle and craft.  Ava is a very polite and sweet little girl, except for when she occasionally forgets her manners.  (As we all do!) She is a fun loving burst of sunshine with the highest sing songy voice I have ever heard.  She still loves milk and probably always will.  We love our Ava and we couldn't imagine life without her.

Here is the adorable little birthday girl. 

We went to a little boys birthday party a week before Ava's birthday and it was so much fun, so I felt inspired and decided to invite everyone we knew here in Kal to a birthday party for Ava and hope that some people showed up. And it worked.  We had a good group of friends show up and we all had so much fun and Ava got very spoiled by all her new friends. 

Here is Ava's Pony cake, as requested.  We did our best!

 Here is Ava with the cake, once again in her favorite outfit!

 Here is how old she is, 4!!

 We (or I really shouldn't take any of the credit, Cory like 80 of them, and I did like 10, if that!) stuffed all these balloons with candy and party poppers and other goodies and then we let the kids pop them to get their goodies.  It's kind of a spin on the piñata.  I was trying to save money, I thought this would be less expensive than a piñata, not sure if I was right, but it was fun anyway! Here are some boys trying to decide which balloon to pop first. 

 Ava could hardly wait to rip open her presents as most 4 year olds go.  She seriously got so spoiled. 

 Here is a Dora castle from her dearest friend, Annabelle. 

 Here is everyone singing happy birthday to Ava!  I forgot that here after you sing happy birthday you're supposed to say "Hip hip"  then everyone else says "Hooray"  I'll have to remember for Lily's birthday. Ava was quite disappointed that I forgot!

 Opening more presents. 

 Eating her cake! :)

 Here are Lily and Ava playing with one of Ava's cool new pressies (everyone calls presents pressies here) after the party excitement was over.

 Look at how well they got Cinderella ready for the ball! 

 Ava got to go to lunch with Dad after the party to Macca's (that is what they call McDonalds here) and then she also got to choose what we had for dinner that night.  Ava chose crabby patties, which happen to be hamburgers.  So after a delicious dinner of crabby patties, Ava had even more pressies to open! 

 The first one was a craft box full of crafting loot from Aunty Sara and Grandma and Grandpa Rappleye.  The girls really enjoyed it!  Thank you Grandma and Grandpa!  And Sara too. 

 The next one was a long sought after umbrella of her own!  Which Will has already successfully mangled, but Ava still loves it! 

 Now on to the huge present!  It was a dolls house!

 Here is Dad assembling the giant dolls house. 

 And here is the finished product! The girls have lots of fun playing in it!  And so does Will!  I catch him in there doing his thing while both the girls are at school!  Haha! 

All in all, it was a great 4th birthday!  We sure love our Ava girl and are so happy that we have been blessed with 4 wonderful years with her and look forward to many more!  She is such a peacemaker in our home and we love the spirit that she brings! 

Happy birthday, Ava!