Ellie Turns 3!

Ellie turned 3 in June and had such a fun, happy day! She is growing up so fast and keeps us entertained and very busy! She loves princesses, babies, puzzles, her blanket and paci, spaghetti, swimming, barbies, playing with the older kids, books, Calliou, and Frozen.

Traditional birthday strings

If only I could make everyone so happy with a few balloons and a princess crown!

More dress-up clothes for our little dress-up queen!

 

It's so fun having a summer birthday when your brother and sisters can be home with you all day!

A fun swim party at Grandma's pool with cousins and friends. She loved having "her friends" there!

Lots of cake pictures but I love all her faces and how happy she is!

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you....

My baby is three!! How did that happen! You are such a beautiful, funny, smart, strong willed, stubborn, imaginative, dramatic and wonderful little girl and we love you so much. You make us laugh everyday and always sound older than you are, slow down on this growing up stuff please!

 

She is way into dressing up as a princess many times a day. Always changing her clothes and accessorizing. She has a purse and a baby everywhere she goes and likes to wear her princess dresses as regular clothes when she can get away with it. If not she wears a regular dress or a skirt every day, there is no talking her into pants or shorts unless we are away from home and that is all I have packed! Girly girl!

More cupcakes pictures! Three year olds love getting sang to so we did it a lot of times on her big day!

Happy birthday sweet girl!! You are such a fun bright joy to us and we are so happy to have you in our family Ellie girl! We hope you loved your special day!

Goodbye First Grade, Hello Second!

The end of first grade brought mixed emotions around our house. This picture is in the morning before the last day of school, Rachel forgot about that for a minute and I got a smile and then she remembered she wouldn't be seeing most of her friends all summer and got her grumpy face on!

First grade graduates!!  

After school was the same story, Livy was happy and Rachel was a little sad. She just didn't know how fun her summer was gonna be! I'm happy she loved going to school though and check out Livy's boots with that outfit, oh man, I have kind of given up on fighting them about what they want to wear, is it too young for that? I waited too long to do this post to remember much about this last week of school so the only things I remembered was that I was really ready and excited for summer to be here and school to be done, I felt kind of sad that it wasn't my day on the carpool to pick them up and be happy with them in the car right away and I remember thinking that this year went way too quick. 

Some pictures from the last few weeks of first grade. This was field day and one of Rachel's newly acquired talents, hola hooping! She looked so adorable focusing on it and so happy after she did it.

Me and my girls!

I don't remember what this is called but they loved it!

Career day, the girls had to dress up as their future career choice. Livy was a zoo keeper and Rachel was a Vet. Livy had her bird "Tweety" rubber banded to her hand and Rachel had a dog in her cage. They are animal obsessed and I love it. 

Treats at the end of school for being awesome! Good bye first grade and thanks for the great time!

Babies, Babies, Babies!!

I am way late on this post and the sweet beautiful babies keep coming so I want to get them all up here! First we have Beckham, Julie and Lane's little guy! Cute as can be and Rachel couldn't get enough of him this summer in New York! He is almost a year now and cute as can be, I get to go see him soon and I'm so excited!

Beckham 

February 17, 2014

Esther August 10, 2014
Erin is the bravest pregnant person I know!! We got to see her in New York two weeks before her due date and then she flew back to CA, with a one and three year old!! Luckily no baby was born on the flight and we are so happy to have beautiful little Esther in the family. I am so sad I haven't gotten to meet her yet but I'm hoping soon.



Michael September 29, 2014
We were so lucky to have this little cutie born here in Texas! Cass and Chris moved here from Utah with a 2 and 3 year old only a few weeks before he was born, talk about another brave pregnant person! He is just adorable and we are so happy to live closer to them now and get to see them more often.



There are a few more babies on the way and it makes me teary everytime I find out someone is pregnant. I don't kmow why, its not my baby but it just makes me so happy! So many sweet babies to love!

Our Favorite New Texans!

Guess who moved to Texas!!! We are so thrilled to have Cassie and Chris live just a few hours away from us! Living near each other is something Cass and I have been dreaming about for many years! I'm so glad they are here and just in time for their baby #3!

They got here Labor day weekend and we drove up just for a day to see them and welcome them to the Lone Star State!

So glad she is here!

Olivia                                      Colt                                   Rachel

They have some awesome slides at their neighborhood pool, the kids went up and down the whole time!

Ellie and Colbie were best friends right away! These two have so much fun together!