Crafting with Ellie

My sister did a cute mommy and me craft day at her church.

The theme was " Very Hungry Caterpillar"

Everything turned out so cute and Ellie had a great time painting and making crafts.

All the kids ( except Ellie) with their cute hats



Ellie preferred to stand alone..away from the group for her picture



Wild Animal

A wild little animal names Ellie-Bellie got ahold of our first zucchini for the year.

I dont think that it will be happening again because there was a trail of chewed up and spit out zucchini bites from the garden to the back door :)

Introducing...

Annie Morgan Jones

We had our 4 D ultrasound yesterday and finally got to see her sweet little face.

We did not think she was going to let us see her whole face at one time because for the first 15 minutes she had one arm and both of feet in front of her face...She made us work for it :)

I think something about her looks like Ellie but she looks different to me too. Her face is much fuller than Ellie's 4D picture and their nose looks different too But I think she is just so sweet looking. Her cheeks are already so big... I cannot wait to kiss on them.

What a great way to celebrate our 8 years together!!!

8

On this day 8 years ago I walked down the aisle and married my best friend.

I think back to all the memories we have together and it makes my heart happy... so happy to have shared them all with my one true love!

I love you .

Dancing Fun

Last week we went to the Summer Reading Program at the libary for a dancing party...which is right up Miss Ellie's ally. She is always wanting to dance and everybody around her to join in.

She even got her picture made with the band :)

And we got icecream after the dance party to add to the fun!

Happy (Belated) Fathers Day!!!

I know Father's Day was over a week ago but these pictures were just too sweet not to share.

I wanted a few pictures of Matt and Ellie on Fathers Day and Ellie was being extra sweet to her Daddy for the day

Ellie is so very luck to have such a kind, loving, gentle, patient, understanding, loving Daddy.

We love you so much

Happy 4th Birthday River!

A few weeks ago we went over to my mom's house to celebrate River 4th Birthday!

I just cannot believe this little boy is 4 years old!

You can see his birthday from last year.... here

Ellie even did a few tricks for the party!!!

Happy 4th Birthday to one of the most energetic, silly, sweetest little boys I know!

We love you Riv!

Sweet Friends

Painted by You

We had fun last week going to Painted by You and painting a few pieces of pottery.

Ellie loves to paint so I knew she would love it but I was kind of nervous about how is would turn out. We have still not picked them up to see the final results. We did a plate with her hand on it and I thought it had turned out pretty good but Ellie decided it needed a little more and went at it with her hands again...I tried to touch it up but we will see :)

Summer Reading

On Friday we went to the Summer Reading Program at the library.

I have never made many trips to the library with Ellie because the first time I ever brought her she was almost 1 and she went CRAZY pulling all the books off the shelf and people kept looking at us...so we have steered clear. But I figured we would give it another try and it was a little better this time( hopefully it will just keep getting better and better!)

The program was a magic show with a person there that juggled.

It lasted for about 45 minutes and she did really great sitting staying in one spot.

Her favorite part was when the music came on and she could stand up and dance!!

Ready or not...

I have been tossing around the idea of potty training around in my head the last few months.

I was thinking about doing the 3 day potty training that I have heard many people talk about but after 1/2 a day of that I quickly decided that was not for us.

I had kind of though we would wait a little longer until Ellie was super interested in it...in hopes that it would be easier. But the beginning of this week she has started taking her diaper off and climbing on the big on the big potty ( without a potty seat on in) ALL- BY- HERSELF and going potty! 

So we bought some Dora pull ups...

And we have been using the potty...like all the potties... Even the ones in Target and T.J. Maxx. I never realized how nasty they really.

She gets so proud of herself when she does it....

She says..." i did it!! "

Summer Favorites

One of my favorite things about Summertime is the food.

I guess that it one positive thing about being pregnant in the Summer is that I can eat whatever I want... which I usually do...but not feel guilty about it!

Ellie and I made a cobbler last night and it was so good with vanilla ice cream on top!

Matt asked me if I wanted to save the rest of it and I was thinking " Umm..Yes. I am going to eat it for breakfast too :)"

Here it is before we cooked it.

I was so ready to eat it I forgot to take a picture after it came out of the oven.

Here is Ellie with her " cheese" showing off our cobbler before we put it in the oven.

 

Another one of my favorites it tomato toast.

It is so easy and good!

Ellie sees it and says " No me eat"
And that is just fine with me...that mean I don't have to share :)

Dress Up

We went over to visit Anna- Claire and Jenna the other night.

While the boys worked outside on a "project" we played dress up!

We go so tickled at the girls in their wigs...they just looked so silly!

Noah's Birthday Party

We had fun on Saturday celebrating Noah's 9th birthday.

I cannot believe he is already 9!!!

It seems like yesterday we were waiting for the call that he was here.

They had a swimming pool and a slip and slide and Ellie loved both of them.

She didn't fully understand the concept of the slip and slide at first but after watching the other kids a few times she got the hang of it.

Happy Birthday Noah ( or as Ellie would say " Wowah")

We love you !

Gadsden Get Together

On Tuesday night we went up to Gadsden to visit with some of my friends from nursing school.

We were so happy to get to see them and catch up.

Ellie had a great time too. She loves going anywhere where she gets lots of attention :)

Ellie and Lauren ( my friend Jamie's little girl)

Ellie loved rolling around on the carpet

Ellie and Betsy