Friday, December 18, 2009

We made gingerbread houses with some friends tonight and it turned into a competition! So I need people to vote on their favorite one...and you better pick ours (but I can't tell you which one it is until after the voting)!


House #1


House #2

House #3

House #4

House #5

Random Pictures

Here are a few more pictures that my mom took and sent to me from their visit. I was so excited that my mom got ella smiling in one of them. When she says cheese she normally closes her eyes and squeezes her face together. Then when you tell her to open her eyes she losses the smile!




Pumpkin Patch

We went to the pumpkin patch with my parents as well. It was so cold that day that I can't really say that we enjoyed it all the much! Ella seemed ready to leave the whole time...but she did pick out a pumpkin and come home and painted it with her daddy...lost those pictures!



Ella's Birthday

We had a few friends over and celebrated while my parents were still in town. Ella had so much fun and loved all her toys. She was most excited about the princess castle kitchen (great garage sale find!). We had cake and she was so excited to blow out the candles. She had me put a candle in her piece of cake so we could light it and blow it out a few times. She probably would have kept having me light it but the last time after she blew it out she touched the top of the candle and it was still hot so that fun game ended! The next couple of weeks after her birthday she kept on wanting to have her friends over for pizza and cake so we could do it all over again. By the time Ben had his birthday in November she had finally decided it was in fact his birthday and not hers anymore. Let me add one other Ella story to this one. A few weeks after Hallowleen Ella finished her candy and looked at me with her Halloween bag and asked to go to the neighbors houses again to trick or treat. I had to help her understand that we can only do that once a year. So instead she went trick or treating to our pantry! I love how little kids think!




William's baby blessing

Will was blessed when my parents were out here in October. We took a lot of pictures and put them on the computer and erased them on the camera. Both Ben and I thought about saving the pictures on our thumb drive and didn't do it on time. We shut down the computer not knowing it would never turn on again! The blessing pictures and Ella's birthday pictures were all gone in a flash. We paid someone and thought we had the pictures back and then when we checked they were not there. The guy is still trying to see if he can get them off the old computer but we will see. At least we have some pictures...thanks mom!


Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Magic House

We went to the Magic House out here a couple of weeks ago. I had seen a comercial and it is free once a month so we went to check it out. It was so amazing. We were there for a few hours and didn't even get to see everything. Ella loved it. When we were in the play grocery store she had so much fun filling up her cart and when it was time to be done she kept taking it all with her while looking at me saying, "Ella's." She didn't want to leave it so I had to take her to a new area while she cried but was quickly distracted by another activity. They have a mock up of the oval office and she sat at the desk on the phone for a while. She was so cute sitting there on the phone being the president! She also loved the water table and could have stayed there all day. It will be even more fun for her in another year and we will have to get a family membership there.







Monday, December 14, 2009

More pictures

Ella loves to help her brother. She likes to include him when she plays. So one day when I was cleaning I looked over and she had piled toys on him in the swing. What a sweet sister she is!



Sunday, December 13, 2009

Finally more pictures!

So we have been bad about getting more pictures up...partly because we have had computer problems and lost pictures from Will's baby blessing and Ella's birthday. Luckily my parents were here and took some pictures. I still have to get those off my email and then we can post some of those. But here are some pictures from Halloween and a few others. I love the one with Will's hand on his forehead where he must be relaxing from a hard days work!