MORE QUILT SQUARES FOR AVA'S QUILT!!

QUILT SQUARE # 89

This ladybug fabric was sent by Connor and Cameron, my friend Betty Annes sons. They wrote: Scooby Doo, where are you? Good thing Mommy found you ,Ava!!! Lets go, go, go!!

QUILT SQUARE # 88

This pretty lilly of the valley fabric was sent by Rita, a friend from work. Lily of the Valley is the flower for May, Ava's birth month. The meaning is:" sweetness, you complete my life and return to happiness" Rita wrote: "Ava, this is what you bring to your mother's life!!" "Ava I wish you a lifetime of happy adventures!! Love Rita"

QUILT SQUARE # 87

This beautiful quilted "Asian Girl" and fabric was sent by Carlene, a friend from work...a talented sewer and quilter! Her wish for Ava:" Good Luck Ava, and remember if life gives you scraps...make quilts!"

QUILT SQUARE # 86

This ladybug fabric square was sent by Betty Anne, a friend from work. Her wish is the "The Red Thread Legend" verse.

QUILT SQUARE # 85

This square was sent by Kersten Andrews, her mother Betty Anne works with me at the hospital. Kerstens wish for Ava: "Looking forward to meeting you. Maybe we can play together some time."

HAMMING IT UP FOR THE CAMERA!

DECISIONS, DECISIONS....WHICH ONE SHOULD I WHERE FOR HALLOWEEN????

RANDOM PICS FROM OUR MONTH AT THE COTTAGE!

Ava sporting her "brown eyed girl" t-shirt the day we left for the cottage!


Catching a few ZZZZ's while Mama is packing the car!



Paris Hilton move over!

Getting an all around Tan!

OK, it's not so bad on land....now lets try it in the water!




All this sun and water sure tuckers me out!

I don't know why I bother with bumper pads, this is how they end up each day after I sew the ties back on!





Look Mama...I can't finally climb onto the couch myself!

You talkin to me?

There's just too much work around here!

Hello!






Jessie it's time for your bottle!

Who needs a pony when you have Jessie!







Several of the beautiful sunsets we get every night at the cottage!











Gifts for Ava from my Aunt Alanna's sister Sonja and her girls Angie and Amy. Thank you so much! Ava just loves her Love Bug pillow!









Don't you wish you had a love bug pillow like me!!!

MEETING NEW FRIENDS!

Well, this past Wednesday Ava and I had the pleasure and honour of being invited to Senja's(Search and Destroy) place to meet her and her beautiful girls, Jazz and Meg for a playdate.
I found Senja's blog about a week before I traveled to China and have been a keen follower ever since...secretly hoping for an invite to meet her and her girls!
We had a great afternoon, beating the scorching heat with some pool time, followed by some bubble action! We then moved inside, had some snacks, the kids played and we chatted about our adoption experiences and life with kids in general.
Senja's girls are strikingly beautiful with such "soulful" eyes! Hoping and looking forward to another gettogether...maybe at my place this time.
I second Senja's suggestion re a blogger convention up her in north country!







Jazz and Meg checking out the bubble maker.


Ava joins in on the "Bubble Action"!



Jazz




Meg





Ava, so excited she has girls to play with!






Reno even gets in on the "Bubble Action"!







My attempt at getting three toddlers to hold hands, stand beside each other and all look at the camera!....in my dreams eh!








The "Not Red Couch" Picture!









Scrapbook Photo Album that Senja made for us! Beautiful, and thank you.