Ellie meet Santa!

When we went to Homestead Hollow...

Santa was there!

Ellie sat in his lap and did so good!

Hopefully she will do good the next

she meets him!

I think she really likes him!

I am hoping that Uncle Seth will dress up

this year in the Santa suit and let us take

some Santa pics....

What do you think Uncle Seth?

Homestead Hollow

This past Saturday we went to Homestead Hollow.

We have always loved going there and I was really

excited about taking Miss Ellie Reese this year.

I knew that it was suppose to be cool that day

but I didn't know that it was suppose to feel

like the North Pole! It was freezing!

I guess because it was down in a valley it never really

warmed up. When I got in my car to leave at 3pm

my car said it was 49 degrees out...burr!

Poor Ellie... I don't think she has ever felt that cold before!

I brought a big blanket to put on her when she was in the

stroller. So I think for the most part she stayed warm.

It was fun for the most part. My favorite part is the food

and it was delicious as usual. Its funny because we pay to get in...

don't usually buy anything...then pay to eat..oh well!

We like it like that!

Here is Ellie and her cousin Jenna

Anna-Claire at the petting zoo

Jenna being good, sitting in the wagon.

She stayed in the wagon the whole time!

Ellie needs to take some being good lessons

from her!

This was the cute baby goats at the petting zoo!

It was only 6 weeks old...

I thought they were just too cute!

I wanted to take Ellie in but she was sleeping.

7 Months Old

I cannot believe that our sweet baby Ellie turned 7 months on Saturday...

Thats right...7 months!

She is growing so unbelievably fast it makes my heart hurt.

I want her to stay this age forever ( minus the waking up 3 to 5 times a night)

She is such a sweet little angel and we are so in love with her.

*Here are some things we don't want to forget about you at 7 months*

~ The way you have started to crawl. You look so little and cute when you scoot around!

~ The way you have started to babble. It is so sweet and I could just sit and listen to your sweet voice ALL-DAY-LONG. Your favorite things to say are da-da ( not fair!) and blah-blah.

~Your sweet B-I-G smiles! They just melt my heart!

~ The way you have started to dance when you hear music... I just love it!

~ How you sing to yourself when you get sleepy.

~ How much you love Jack.

~ How funny you are in your walker.

~ The way you have started holding out your arms to go to people. It is really sweet!

Our sweet baby girl, we love you SO much!

Sassy

This shirt says it all...

This is one sassy girl and I believe that she knows it too!

And she is off...

That is right!

Our sweet baby girl is crawling!

She had been trying it for the last few weeks

but now she has got the hang of it and

is crawling everywhere!

It is so cute!

She started really doing it the other day when I was at work.

Matt had the broom out and he said she just kept crawling

after it...

Here she is in action...

Swinger

This girl L-O-V-E-S to swing!

Since the start of her time she has loved it!

When she was little bitty we would put her in her swing and she would

stay there and sleep for HOURS at a time.

I dreaded the day when she didn't love her swing anymore.

She still likes it but she would rather be outside swinging in the big swing.

Here are some sweet pictures of our sweet baby girl swinging

This was at her Nanny-Mommy's house over the weekend

At the park

At the park..again

In her baby swing

At about 3 months

At about 6 weeks swinging in the hammock at the beach with her daddy.

Halloween Fun

Saturday night we went over to my Mom's house to trick or treat with little Miss Ellie.

We actually didn't end up going out with her ( because Matt and I both agreed that everybody knew who would REALLY be eating her candy)but we did dress her up and take some pictures while we were at Momma's

We thought she looked so cute in her costume!

Momma's dog Charley did not think looked too cute though.

As soon as I put her down on the floor in her costume her started barking at her!

It was so funny!

Then last night on the "real" Halloween, my Momma, Sister and nephew came over to do our

tradition of carving pumpkins. We also decorated pumpkin cookies too!

Here one of the cookies that we decorated.

They turned out cute, but they were not very good to eat :(

Here are our pumpkins that we carved!

Ellie-Bellie slept through the entire carving part.

I cannot believe that she skipped out on her 1st pumpkin carving tradition!

She did wake up just in time for some pictures though

Here she is with her cousin Noah and the pumpkins.

Here is Miss Ellie holding the pumpkin that her cousin Noah brought for her ( how sweet!)

I had already bought her one but Jack ate it...