Ashlyn and Kyle

My lil' sister Ashlyn and her fiancee Kyle. My fabulous sister in law, Anna took their engagement pictures and they turned out so cute. They are getting married in May. They are very excited to say the least. Here are a few:





On another note, Ella went to school with her Daddy last week. She of course had to bring her backpack because Stewart had his. Just like when she goes out with me she has to bring her purse. It's pretty cute.

Note to self: Don't count the money in Ella's piggy bank ever again. It results with lots of crying when it is time to put the money back. We just counted the quarters and dollars and she has over $51 dollars. Not counting dimes, nickels and penny's. Stewart told her she had to put her money back or else it would get stolen. Now she always say to me, " my money not get stolen mommy:)"

President's Day Weekend

We had a fun weekend 0ver President's Day. Ashlyn, Kyle, Callie and A.J came down for family pictures so we hung out at my mom's house a lot. Ella loved having everyone around and getting extra attention that she so desperately needs:) Ella loves Ash and Kyle and she has been asking me about them daily since they left.

Friday Ella and I tagged along while these two little lovebirds ran errands for their upcoming wedding. Ella had fun..... especially at the cake place. She was being so crazy!

She would get anyone she could to take her upstairs to jump on the bed:)


Hanging out at the Tule Springs Park. Ella was looking at Ashlyn and Kyle taking their engagements instead of looking at the camera...... big suprise. Then when we get her to look at the camera she says "cheese" and just stares at the camera. My mom told Ella if she smiled for the family pictures she would take her to target and get her a toy. Well she got a toy, but i'm not sure she smiled. She is not a fan of pictures as seen above. Out of all the toys she had to pick from she picked out a little three dollar camera. It is pretty cute. She was so excited. She took pictures all around target hasn't stopped yet.



After pictures we headed to my mom's for some pizza and to play Wii. It was a lot of fun!

Ella coaxed AJ to hang out with her and jump on the bed. I think she even got James up there at some point. Ella is hard to say no to.

Ella loves to play too:)

I'm a big girl now!

We moved Ella to her big girl bed..... with a lot of hesitation on my part. She LOVES her bed, and I can't believe it took me so long to agree to it. I thought she would keep getting out when we tried to put her to bed but she hasn't. She has been so excited. The first day when we were putting it together she was in the room and was holding her stuffed Winnie the Pooh, she held him up and said, " Look pooh bear, look at Ella's new big girl bed!" Seriously cute. And the next morning when I went to get her out of bed (she has now figured out she can get out when she wakes up) she said to me, " Love my bed Momma." Stewart and I also love putting her to bed because we can sit with her on her bed and read to her, much easier on the back then sitting on the floor.

On another note we signed Ella up for a little tap and ballet class with her friend Elliot. My mom and I went to look for tap and ballet shoes Monday, and lets just say she has hardly taken them off. Even for nap time she like to wear them. I have yet to take pictures, you will have to just wait until her class starts. She also love her leotard. We will see how she does, I mean how well can a two year old do with listening and what not. I try and tell her to just tap her toe, but then she says, " no like this," and just goes crazy on the floor with her arms in the air. It is hilarious.

Other than that we have done nothing fun. Just same old stuff. We are having some winter weather.... and by winter weather I mean 50 degrees.But it has been really windy.So the park has been limited. We have been sticking to indoor activities like story time:)



Apparently she likes to stand like this. Two different day with two similar pictures:)

BOWLING

FRIDAY night we went bowling. It was the end of a very long, long week. Stewart had a BIG PROJECT at school and was gone till two am most of the week. I am so over school and I'm not even in school. I can only IMAGINE how he feels. So we were all pretty grumpy by Friday night. Ella missed her Daddy big time so we just wanted to hang out and spend time as a family. We had a great time bowling, and I kicked Stewart's butt:) Ella was only interested for a little bit and was playing and dancing next to us most the time. It was pretty empty so that was nice. Ella also decided she wanted to be the photographer that night so I'm sure you can tell what pictures she took:) We had a BLAST!!!! Ella was being so crazy. We decided to go to a movie after and took our chances bringing Ella. She was so good..... just give her a little popcorn and candy and she will sit and watch for a long time. She let out this huge FART right in the middle of the movie and Stewart and I died laughing. We had a really fun night:)