4th of July weekend

We stayed at a hotel on the beach for 3 nights and this was the view from our room! (Thanks again Mom and Bdad!)

One of our favorite activities was people watching on the boardwalk. We also had an amazing view of the fireworks from our room. 

Ava always wanted to make sure she was sitting on Bdad's lap that weekend

Coloring at dinner

sitting in the birthday boy's lap

Chris and Zach got us this atrocious ceramic dog as a joke- too funny!

We had a lot of gear to go to the beach 

Our camp for the day

Ava's favorite thing still- bubbles 

trying to do it on her own 

gorgeous day!

This was the farthest she would get in the water

One of my new favorite pictures!

My Bdad!

I was happy to satisfy my cravings :) 

So dang cute!

Don't they look exactly alike here?

Dancing at dinner with Mom and Aunt Jeannie

Ava was quite the entertainment 

We got our own private gazebo for dinner for Bdad's birthday. It was delicious.

He was born on the 4th of July!

Ava helping him unwrap his presents

Ava can say "Cake" now but it sounds like she has 3 retainers in her mouth

She loved it

This was the Eel in our hotel lobby and he was terrifying. 

One of the highlights of the weekend- renting a family bike for the bike trail! 

Greg did most of the peddling :) 

Ava was our navigator

checking out the boardwalk artwork

The Navy Exhibit on the boardwalk 

Ava was showing Bdad the exhibits she was interested in 

Very cool exhibit 

Raining- No problem when there is an indoor pool

Ava had a blast with Gigi and Bdad

One of the highlights of our summer- Thanks again for the great family vacation Bdad, Mom, and Aunt Jeannie!