Well I celebrated my 28th birthday last month...yikes! The good news is that Jas got home the night before, which was of course the best present I could have asked for:)

We went to "la mie" for breakfast....the best little french bakery ever! Then Jas bought me a new cell phone! This was quite a selfless act on his part because I had gotten a phone last spring and lost it, so this phone was actually supposed to be his upgrade....Well I loved it, but unfortunately I've since ruined that one too....sent it through the wash. Ahhh!!! I think my days of owning a cell phone have come to an end. Anyway that's a whole different story that I do not want to get in to! So back to birthday talk. We went to dinner and walked around downtown Des Moines.....It was a lovely day. It was even lovelier just being together as a family:)

Ava practicing being silly....

The forced family picture....I'm always making Jas do this...poor guy:)

Just us

We went to Spaghetti Works for dinner....A place I do NOT recommend! haha we randomly picked it, and really regretted it! It was tasted like really pricey microwaved food. I thought it was really funny but Jas felt terrible about it and made sure we ate at a nice place the next night...I didn't care though. I was just so happy to be together:) Have I mentioned that I am happy to have Jas home???

Here is Ava waiting to be tickled...isn't she so cute!

And here she is post tickle...