what a great day!

We had such a good day today!! Ellie was very obedient and just so sweet today! (Which was nice because she's been pouty and pushing buttons lately.) Anyway, as I was rocking Ava to sleep tonight, Ellie decided to have a birthday party for her bears with cake (play-doh), candles, drinks, and their "present" was a play house (which is what my parents built the girls for Christmas!) Cute and creative!

The weather was beautiful today!!! We HAD to go outside for a few minutes after Mother's Morning Out and before Ava's nap, so I brought my camera and snapped some pretty cute shots of my girls!!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this one of Ava!

It's been hard to get a good picture of Ellie lately. She's either acting silly or doing her fake smile or her hair is crazy...but this is one of my favorites of her EVER! Her hair was super cute today - she wears it like this a lot. Messy buns, is what we call them - dog ears with her hair only pulled half through. It was super curly today, too, which made it even better.

Ava has just switched to calling us Mommy and Daddy, rather than Mama and Dada - it's so cute!

Ellie cracks me up with how grown up she sometimes acts. Our babysitter came last night for us to go to life group and Ellie said, "So, Christine. What did you do this weekend?" Then she said, "My mommy BABYSITTERED Adaline." It was so hard not to laugh!!!!!

This is a little late, but HAPPY BIRTHDAY LANDY!!! My cousin turned 26 on Saturday and I was able to hang out with her some that night and we had a blast! I wish I could spend more time with her. Maybe when she finishes nursing school, we can live even closer together. Anyway, we love you, Landy!

random pics

jumping at Pump It Up!
We had such a good time! Ellie got to go to a birthday party for a little girl she's in dance class with. Ava got to go too and she was such a little daredevil! She loved the big slides - she actually helped Ellie not be so timid.

my pretty girls - even in their play clothes, I think they're the cutest ever!
I guess my mom took this one while I was at work Monday.

on their way to school (Mother's Morning Out) - how did they get so big so fast?!?

this was Ava's expression the whole time at the party - she loved it!!

Ice, Ice, Baby!

I could post hundreds of pictures from the ice storm, but here is a link to some of my favorites. We lost power for a few days, so my dad came and got the girls and me, since they have a generator, gas heat, and a gas stove. We ended up getting to spend some time with my cousin's kids, who we don't see very often, and with my brother's kids. My nieces actually came back to our house after we got power back and spend the weekend, which they don't get to do very often, either. We actually had a good time and were safe, so it wasn't bad at all. My parents just got power back last week, though, so they had a harder time than us. The ice was pretty when the sun hit it, but I'm over it and done with ice for a LONG time!!

Here's the link:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=79226&id=504816953&l=b9305