Chuck E Cheese: Part Two

Ella had a busy birthday this year. On her actual birthday I took her, Kirstin, Elliot and my Mom to Chuck E Cheese. She had a great time and loved putting tokens in the machine. This is a great activity for kids, they both had fun:)

All the tickets she got

Ski Ball- really funny with two year olds. The balls always ended up in each others lanes, and never in the holes. Cute girls

She loved this ride..... can you tell:)


The "Roller Coaster" ride

What she got with her tickets

Ella's Birthday: Part One

I always said that I was never going to have a Halloween themed party for Ella, and here it is, only her second party. I feel like they should get a little more use out of them, and all the kids were so dang cute. We had some family and friends over to my in laws house to celebrate the big 2. We had chili, soup, cornbread, sugar cookie decorating, and a pinata. It was great. Thanks to everyone for coming and all the fun new presents.

Ainsley, Ella, Jake and Adam. The four cousins

Ella and Ainsley sportin the party hats before the party

Claire and Theo (the most adorable monster)

Dave, Dawn, Lynzee and Zacc

If you look closely at Ella's cookie you can see she had just dumped a whole thing of sprinkles right on her cookie

Decorating sugar cookies

Thanks to Adam and Jake for the Barbie


The pinata- it was fun but a little sad for Ella. She had been playing with Elmo all week. Pushing him around the house in her doll stroller and she was a little distraught when we were beating him with a stick:) Now she says, " Hit Elmo, whoosh, candy out."


The two cuties after the party:)

Happy Birthday Ella

Yesterday my baby turned two. I have no idea where the last two years have gone. Happy Birthday Ella Bella. We love you!

Pictures of her party coming soon.

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The night we got to Cali we walked around Downtown Disney

Ella's first ride...... Pirates. Not even scared!

We tried to get everyone in the picture.... didn't work so well.

She was thrilled to see Pooh Bear.

With Grammy and Gramps in the Haunted Mansion.... again she had no fear.

Trying on some Minnie ears and enjoying Pineapple from the Tikki room

She saw the carousel and it was over. She just kept saying, " horse, horse."

Tea cups

The happiest moment in Ella's little life

Blurry, but to cute not to post

All dressed up and ready to Trick or Treat


Ella and Madison- we ran into my aunt,uncle and cousins

Stewart and I with our ears

Everyone thought Ella was the wicked witch from The Wizard of Oz with her feet hanging out- she had enough and fell asleep


Last week we were able to go to Disneyland with my family. It was sooo much fun and Ella did awesome. She wasn't scared of the rides and LOVED all the characters. Especially Minnie and Mickey Mouse. Seeing them made her whole trip. When she saw Minnie it was the cutest thing I have ever seen. She couldn't get enough of her. She told Minnie all about her piggies and how her Mommy put them in. She was so sad when we had to leave, she just kept looking back at her smiling. She was happy when we saw Mickey too, but not as much as Minnie. We also went to California Adventure that might where they set up a Halloween thing and you go around and get candy. We all dressed up and had a great time. I made Stewart wear Mickey Mouse ears too:) It was seriously so fun. We were able to go on the rides over there and just had a great time. I love Disneyland:) The last day we went to Balboa Pier and rode the Ferris wheel and the carousel and walked around the beach...... great trip. Thank you so much Mom and Trent for everything.

4 years and our room is finally decorated!

So Stewart has been working on launching his company Loxii wall graphics and the site is almost up. It is so awesome and as soon as it is launched I will put it up so you all can check it out. They have designers from San Fran, Buenos Aires, and NYC designing graphics for the site. A few nights ago I told him I wanted to finish our room so he designed this graphic and we put it up yesterday! I love it! Let me know what you think :)