Friday, January 16, 2009

Daddy's 30th Birthday Party ....

Happy 30th Birthday Daddy ! We love you !!

Ellie and Laura playing with the balloons ... Laura's baby is due in May ... we can't wait to meet little Miss Natalie ...
It's 5:00 somewhere ....

Boots and Banty having a margarita ...

Sadie sure liked hanging out with Owen ...
Aunt KK and Ellie playing under the table ... watch out Aunt KK ... she'll teach you how to take every body's shoes off ....
A little Wii competition going on ....
Jeff and Chris are two of Todd's really good friends ... they go a long way back ... They both (along with Jeff's wife Laura) made the trip to San Antonio to spend the weekend with Todd ... we loved having you guys here ! Thank you so much for coming !!

Ellie with her Nena and Banty ... now all we need is her Nana Honey ...
Ellie wasn't quite ready to say goodbye yet ... she put on her tap shoes and grabbed her Minnie Mouse purse and was ready to go to Clifton to feed the horses ...

Boots and Banty Came To Visit For Daddy's Birthday

Mommy and Banty made some brownies for the party ... and Ellie really liked licking the spoon ... when we were done of course ...


During dinner Ellie went under the table and took off everybody shoes ... I'm not sure where that came from ?? She had never done that before ...

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Getting Ready For Daddy's Birthday ...

I didn't do much blogging last week ... Ellie had a really nasty virus ... She had to go to the doctor 3 times in one week ... she had 102.8 fever, nausea and vomiting ... they even had to do chest x-rays to rule out pneumonia ... she had Mommy and Daddy worried about her ... she just wanted to lay in Mommy's lap and "rocky" ... so we did ...
But things are all better now ... she is back to herself ... Todd and I knew she was better when she started running from place to place ... this child doesn't like to walk anywhere ...
I have been letting Ellie sign/color her signature on every body's bday cards ...
O ... and don't ya just love the upside down shades .. too cool ...
woo hoo ... this one is a music card ... gotta stop and dance ... :)

She LOVES to help me bake ... here she is helping me make daddy's homemade banana pudding for his birthday party ...
and to be honest ... Mommy enjoys her help just as much as she enjoys helping ! Fun times ...

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Not Again ...

Ahhh ... loving on her baby ... doesn't she look so sweet and innocent ... O but wait ... that is desitin all over her face.... again ... and this time her babies face too ...

If you look closely you can tell she is hiding in a very small space behind a chair ...

Christmas In Belton (part 2)

Our next Christmas stop was back in Belton ... We went back to have Christmas with Nena, PawPaw, Grandma, Kristy, Chris and Owen ... Here are a few pictures from our fun trip ...

Daddy with his girl ...

Look out ... she's ready to help clean now ...

Todd and Nena with their chocolate milk shirts ...

Owen in his monster feet ...

Nena and PawPaw with their blanket ... now they can wrap up with their grand babies too ...

Ellie with her baby and baby bed that she got from Nena and PawPaw

These two look like trouble ...

riding around in Grandma's chair ...

Who needs gifts when you have really big boxes ???

Friday, January 2, 2009

Christmas At Boots and Banty's

On Friday we had our Christmas with Boots and Banty ... we had a wonderful day spending time together ... the kids always have so much fun playing ... and the adults do too ... :) ... It went by way to fast ...
Ellie getting into her stocking ...This was our gift from Boots and Banty ... talk about something we will treasure forever ... the beach is one of Ellie's favorite places to be and I love it ... I don't know how Boots found the time to get this done... but what a special gift ! I wish I could have gotten a better picture of it, but if I use the flash it causes a glare ...

We had a blanket made for Boots and Banty ... now they can wrap up with their grand babies every night ...

Months ago I saw an idea for memory bears ... so with the help of Aunt Courtney and Banty ... the kids got a teddy bear made out of one of Grammy's jackets ... thank you Banty for giving up the jacket and thank you Aunt Courtney for making such a sweet and special gift for the kids !! Also ... thank you to the Kennedy family for the bear pattern !

Emmy with her, Tate and Lyla's Grammy bear
Boots and Banty got Ellie an easel ... maybe this will help keep her from coloring the walls in our house :) ... probably not... but hey ... I can at least hope
All the kids loved Tate's tent ... Boots was in there reading books with them ...
Playing ring around the rosie with Uncle B, Tate and Emmy
Ellie LOVES playing with her Uncle B ... She ask about her "B" all the time ...
Look what Santa brought Aunt Courtney ...
Ellie really liked talking (in Meow words) and playing with the kitty's ...

Big Family Christmas Party In Belton

After having Santa with Ellie Christmas morning we headed out to Belton for a Christmas party with the extended family ... It was good to see everybody ... Here are a few pictures of the kids opening the gifts ...

Ellie was laying on her big stuffed car and feeding her baby that Grandma Summers gave her ...

Ellie and Owen opening presents ...

Ellie and Zachary opening gifts ...