Thursday, November 24, 2011

A Thanksgiving song by Ella

Hope everyone had a great turkey day! I am now at work (which let me say is a terrible place to be right after eating a thanksgiving day feast) but we had a wonderful lunch and it was so nice to have everyone together for a good meal :)




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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Tiny Team

we had a busy weekend back in the beginning of October. Saturday morning Cade had a football game followed by 2 baseball games Saturday afternoon. Sunday he had 2 more games and Ella performed with her gymnastics Tiny Team downtown at Riverfest. It was a great weekend!

Ella waiting with her team before their performance


A little stretching




















Her "bridge"


Some cartwheels


Handstands


More handstands


Front rolls


Back walkovers








All finished! She did so good :)


Pink socks and stripes on their helmets for breast cancer awareness


Then it was time for some Tide baseball





A little pre game pep talk






Jax and Dean and their special handshake to get the game started








Ella...posing...as usual





Lyla snoozing


They won 1st place in the tournament!














Tripp got her some flowers after her performance downtown (she was SO excited because after we saw the play "Annie" downtown a couple months ago, she saw the girls get flowers and she said she really hoped one day when she performed on a stage that she would get some flowers too)



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Happy 4th Birthday sweet Bella Ella!!!

I can NOT believe she is four...FOUR!!! It's so much older than three :( She is growing up to be such an amazing little lady!!!

She is a little over 38 inches tall and weighs about 36 pounds. She wear size 4T and a size 9 (sometimes 10) shoe.

She LOVES anything GIRL :) pink and purple, shoes, makeup, princess anything, unicorns, dress-up, purses, jewelry, baby dolls and barbies. She loves clothes and changes her outfit a minimum of 3-5 times a day (her pj's even more than that!). She loves to sing and dance and is constantly making up songs while she is playing by herself (jaxon came and told me the other day he was pretty sure Ella could be a famous singer someday if she wanted to, because she has a pretty voice and all her songs she makes up make sense :) She loves gymnastics and is doing an amazing job in her Tiny Team. She loves stuffed animals, polly pockets, playing in her kitchen, anything "artsy" or as she refers to it as "projects", and imaginary play. And last but certainly not least, Cade, Jaxon and Lyla. She is such a great big and little sister. I love to watch her play crazy and rough with the boys and sweet and gentle with Lyla (and often vice versa!).

She is sweet and obedient and loves to be a "big helper". She can be quite dramatic at times, but what female isn't ;) She is doing so well in preschool, she goes three days a week now and LOVES it. She asks me every Tuesday and Thursday why can't she go every day like Cade and Jaxon. Her teachers adore her and she is a good friend and a really good student, always following the rules and being a good example to everyone. She is not as shy as I thought she would be, and that makes me happy.

We feel so blessed that our Bella Ella was placed in this family to brighten our lives every single day. We LOVE you!!!!!!


This is her latest "pose" when I bring out the camera...I think she is a bird (this is on her actual birthday 11-11-11)




Opening her present from Tripp and I





A new charm for her new charm bracelet that Woo and Gramps got her


Her "park" party





Pink...


And purple cupcakes (that she helped me make and frost)


The gift bags


Her presents


Her cupcake plates





The hot chocolate from PCJ that helped to keep the adults warm and toasty :)


Henry


The next several are her friends that came to her party, you guys won't know most of them but I think it will be neat for Ella to look back in 10 years and see who came to her party when she was four!

Carson and Lyla


Meredith


Addie


Henry



Isla


Lyla


Abby


Carson


Ava


Emmalyn


Kylah


Ella and Meredith


Ella and Henry


Lyla and Grandaddy having some snacks


To be continued....

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