A Sweet Beginning

What a fun Christmas season!

We went to Tony's parents for a Christmas Eve Party last night and then changed into our matching pajamas right away.  Ava read the entire Twas' the Night Before Christmas to us this year and said her goodbyes to Hart.  She was super excited to get one more chance at the party to tell Santa what she wanted and he delivered Christmas morning!  What a wonderful December!

Matt came to school on Friday to help with our snow day again this year!  After school we went straight out to the woods for Sherman Family Christmas Camping.  We definitely appreciated the warmer weather (last year we were freezing) but we ended up having a stressful end to the trip because of rain.  It's a lot of work for such little time and I appreciate Matt setting everything up so Ava can have family camping memories like he does :)

This was Ava's first successful year sitting and chatting with Santa by herself!  She was very interested in meeting him after her dance performance at Coconut Point and he had just arrived at his house from being in the parade so we got in line.  He spent so much time talking with her about what she wanted for Christmas and her Thanksgiving trip to Indiana to see her Grandma.  

Ava's Christmas dance recital was this weekend and we are so proud!  She was in 4 dances and did amazing with her quick changes.  As soon as we got home from the recital she was dancing more in the living room.  We looked back at old pictures tonight of when she was too scared to even go on stage - I knew this day would come :)

Our computer broke last month and we thankfully were able to get a new one that came in last night! We enjoyed a family dinner date and school spirit night at the Everblades game recently and had so much fun.  We had Thanksgiving dinner with Ava at school and then were off to Indiana the next morning.  We stayed overnight in TN and made great time to get there the next afternoon.  While in IN we got to see Lucy swim and Ava surprised her by visiting her kindergarten classroom and reading a story to them.  On the way back we stopped in TN to visit with Rylee's family.  I love that Ava got to spend time with her cousins this Thanksgiving :)