First Haircut

I had a hair appointment last week and Ellie came along with me and had her very first haircut!

It was really just a trim because she had one part that was growing longer and faster than all the rest.

Everybody kept asking me if I was sad about having it cut trimmed and I was just a little but I knew she was still be the same little, sweet Ellie.

She did great. She climbed right up in the chair and sat there all by herself...like such a big girl.

That made me a little sad.

Here she was before...

She was so still and concentrated

And this is her after picture.

It looks so cute!

She was pretty pleased with herself too!

Splash Pad Fun...Finally

Since the very beginning of the summer I have been planning and wanting to take Ellie to the splash pad in Springville. We even made a trip out there only to find out it wasnt open that day. Anyways... we finally went and she loved it!

She had a great time running, laughing and splashing with her cousins!

Cooking Like Crazy

The past two weeks me and Ellie have been cooking like cRaZy.

I have been wanting to cook alot of different things to freeze to have when Annie gets here and now our freezer is ready for Annie too :)

One day my Mom and I made spaghetti. It turned out really really good!

Another day Me, Ellie, Cindy and Emily canned tomatoes, pasta sauce, vegetable soup and made stuffed pasta shells to freeze. I think we had a total of 38 cans and stuffed about 90 shells. I havent tested any of that food yet but I am sure it is all great!

And on our last day Ellie and I put up about 10 different meals. We made chicken spaghetti, chicken marsala, italian pie, and chicken quesadillas. I hope that they are as good as they smelled!

Chattanooga

Saturday we went up to spend the day in Chattanooga.

We had been wanting to something fun and special with Ellie before Annie came and we had a great day. Ellie was great and loved seeing all

the fish and playing with the water.

When we came into the city we showed her the water and the big mountain and she went "HHHAAA" she seemed very impressed with it :)

We ate lunch at Taco Mamacita.

It was different than just Mexican but it was really good.

Matt and I both got tacos and Ellie ate corn salad and chips and a chewy :)

After that we headed over to the aquarium.

We went to the Ocean Journey first.





After the first building we took a break.

We decided to let Ellie wade and splash in the water.

She had a great time....



then it ended up being a swim instead of a wade...



and it ended like this :)

We did not bring a towel or anything to dry off with but lucky for us it was 95 degrees outside so it did not take long to drip dry.



We headed over to Ben and Jerry's to get some ice cream so Matt and I could cool off... since we couldn't strip down like miss Ellie.

Then we headed back to the aquarium for the River Journey..

 

After the aquarium we were exhausted.

Ellie fell asleep in about 2 minutes after we put her in her car seat...

We were planning on going to the top of the mountain but we also wanted Ellie to get a nap.

We drove up the mountain and it didn't take long so we thought we would sit in the car for a few minutes and let Ellie get a nap in. Well Matt and I both fell asleep while we were waiting for Ellie to sleep and woke up about 30 minutes! ha!

It was raining when we woke up so we didn't get out of the car...we just drove back down the mountain :)

We decided to head back home

We stopped to eat in Gadsden at Top O The River.

I know...eating fish after seeing all those fish...but the food was great

and we just told Ellie it was chicken.

Baseball Fun

We had fun with our small group going to Ellie's first baseball game.

Ellie had a great time eating popcorn, drinking coke, running up and down the stairs and playing with her friends!

Smile!

Sometimes I look at pictures of this sweet girl and they just make my heart smile :)

This is one of them!

Fun Saturday

We had a fun, busy Saturday...

We started off by celebrating Karlee's second birthday!

I told Ellie she could not have a cupcake until she smiled so I could take her picture...

These are the two I got...

I wonder where she got this silly little smile from?!?

As you can see in this picture her pink bow does not patch her red dress...and there is a story with that. Karlee's house has an upstairs and the kids were up there playing. I thought it had gotton kind of quiet up there so I went up to check on them. Well when I got up there it was empty but both of the bathrooms were closed. I thought ...oh great. I waited to see who was in there...three kids walked out of one side and I asked where Ellie was. They told me she was in the other bathroom by herself because she had to go to the bathroom. Well I walked in and she was sliding off the potty with her pull up halfway down with poop in it and on her. Maybe that's why we don't have or need an upstairs :)

The kids had fun on the bouncy house



After we left Karlee's house we went over to Mawmaw and Pawpaw's house to go swimming with Ellie's cousin Clay.

Ellie has been such a great swimmer this summer.

Here she is jumping in the pool... 

 Clay trying to decide if he wants to get back in the pool...

Ellie swimming with her Daddy!