Jenna, our sweet friend from down the street made Ellie a beautiful early-birthday cake and brought her a fun gift! Jenna even piped "Happy Birthday, Ellie" on it!
Jenny & Julia sent Ellie an awesome birthday gift straight from Nashville! Here, Ellie's reading Julia's beautiful card.
They sent Ellie this ROCKIN' Taylor Swift tee & matching journal book. Ellie said Taylor a journal exactly like it where she writes all her songs. 
our first tomato!
tomato flowers
teeny green one
basil
garlic passed along from Mamaw & Papaw's garden
Whatcha think, Daddy? 
Not so sure. . .
Weeeeeee!!! This is fun!
Swing-Set Sisters!
Abby giggles when Ellie pushes the swing!
What's on Daddy's head?
Ellie baked & decorated this Easy Bake Oven cake all by herself. She shared it with us after supper one evening and it was dee-licious!!!
Ellie & Abby attended VBS (or V-B-Yes! as Pastor Pat likes to call it!) this week at our church. Both girls had a great time! Here's Ellie in her cute VBS tee shirt, designed to look like a North Face tee -- it was an outdoorsy theme this year.
Filing in for the closing ceremonies!
Ellie, Papa & Granna
Ellie & Ms. Robin, the music director. Music was Ellie's favorite part of each day.
Abby enjoyed VBS in the nursery with Ms. Dorothy & Ms. Tammy and several little friends.
