Life

Life has been great lately.  Have I mentioned recently how much I'm loving this weather?  I do love it.

So what have we been doing?

Raking leaves... it's Fall here.

Playing with fireworks... this is from New Year's Eve.  Ellie was so funny... she just stood far away plugging her ears because she really didn't like all the noise.  Then, after they were done, she'd run to me or Garrett and try to talk to us, and we would talk back to her but she refused to take her fingers out of her ears.  So she just kept saying, "Parn Mom?  Mom, parn?" (parn = pardon).  She couldn't figure out why she couldn't hear us!

Kids eating fondue later that night.

At our favorite park, the "Spin Park".  This round thing spins around and the girls love riding it.

Rob & Haley stopped by for about an hour a few Sundays ago.  They just happened to be driving across the panhandle and came an hour out of their way to drop in... it was SO FUN and we're so glad they came. Clearly, the girls were happy too.

Garrett and a bunch of friends playing volleyball on MLK day (he had the day off).  Ellie playing with cookies.

Playing outside.

Abby loves taking pictures of her dolls.  This is a little Alice in Wonderland doll that Garrett's grandma gave to her for Christmas this year.  It's so cute - it's all cloth, and she came with three different costumes: the Alice in Wonderland outfit, the Queen of Hearts costume (with tights and a black wig, not shown), and a full-on rabbit costume, complete with bunny ears and everything.  Lots of fun.

The park with friends.

I can't believe I have a kid old enough to do tricks that give me heart attacks.  I used to go crazy on these bars (spinning around over and over and over again).  Now all I can think of is her falling and breaking her neck!  Stresses me out. :)

We play a few games of Candy Land every night after dinner.  Some of us are working on becoming better losers..... this picture was taken a few weeks ago.  She's gotten a lot better since then, thankfully.

Ready for Church.... I made them lose the hats though, much to their dismay.

Shopping.

More Candy Land... this time we roped our friends into playing with us.

Sam's Club... man, I hate those carts!  But they keep the kids happy, so what can you do.

81 degrees!

Riding in the car.. that's her doll, "Lilly"

Going.... going........ gone.

We were so busy this past week, I had to run a lot of errands in the afternoon so Ellie missed out on some naps.  She tried to make up for it, though.

I'll post more pictures of Abby's birthday soon.  Hope you all are having a wonderful weekend!!