4th of July

Every year in July we visit my family in Cincinnati.  This year my family planned a special Welcome Anya celebration since many of them couldn't attend my her baby shower.  It was great having family meet her for the first time. 

The car ride down she did great!  We left at 6am and she slept until we were 15 minutes away from my grandma's house!  Once we arrived at her house she held Anya and Anya's eyes got real wide and then she began to cry (doing the little bottom lip curl thing that she does so well).  Grandma says that she always makes baby's cry- I think Anya was just overwhelmed from all of the excitement with family! 

Aunt Terri holding Anya in her favorite position.  She couldn't believe how much she favors Josh!

Visiting in Grandma's family room.  Avery wanted me to hold her too!

Meagan loved cuddling with Anya!  She said it's hard toremember Avery at that age.

Avery, Meagan, and Anya- Avery will make a great big sis one day! 



Avery loved giving Anya her paci.  She thought Anya was a baby doll as it was her first time meeting a real baby!

That night we went over to Aunt Terri's house and the guys shot off fireworks.  Let's just say they like fire that are MAJOR pyros!

Holding Avery~ I can't believe how big she is getting!

Real men play with fire

Katie and Tommy

Our 5th Anniversary photo!  July 3, 2011

 The 4th of July we went went over to my cousin Marie's house for the party. Here are some photos of us before going to the party:

Anya sitting on Great Grandma's lap...about to cry!  Can you tell she spits up a lot???

Filling up before meeting the rest of the family!

Asleep in Tommy's arms

Modeling her cute sandals:-)

I love Grandma!

4 generations

Julie and Luke meeting Anya

Luke is one now and is walking!

Luke liked Anya!

Ready to leave for the party! 

Origionally we were going to leave the next day on the 5th, but we decided to stay an extra day- the joys of being a teacher!!!


We went to the zoo with my cousins, dad, and sister and Tommy! We had a great time. Anya slept most of the time in the stroller but we did manage to capture a picture of her first zoo trip.

Anya's first trip to the zoo!  She was busy snoozing the whole time.  Can't wait to go again next year!

 Back at Grandma's house, we made sure to take lots of pictures!  I am so lucky that Grandma met Anya!! 

Anya with her Great Grandma!



Sitting on Grandma's front porch



Kisses from Auntie Kates and Mommy:-)

Overall, it was a wonderful trip.  Anya did great and got lots of love from our family.  Thank you to my amazing husband for allowing us to spend more time with family than we planned.