Thursday, June 18, 2009

Early Birthday surprises from J, J & J!!

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.


hhhheeeerrreeee kitty, kitty. . .




Bathing Baby!


Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Sister Smiles. . .


Abby Camille, 8 months old






Fancy Nancy Party

Saturday, Ellie attended our neighbor Lucy's Fancy Nancy birthday party. Ellie wore her official Fancy Nancy costume. It was quite a soiree complete with tea sandwiches, feather boas, and a very special guest -- Fancy Nancy herself! Abby got to tag along, too, and came home with a very fancy bracelet. Here are the girls before the party. . .





Saturday, June 6, 2009

Our garden. . .

our first tomato!
tomato flowers

teeny green one


basil


garlic passed along from Mamaw & Papaw's garden

Pretty soon we'll be making bruschetta & mozzarella/tomato/basil sandwiches! Perfect summer foods!!!

Crazy Hair Girl!







Swinging in the sunshine

The girls woke up extra early to enjoy the pretty morning and try out Abby's new swing! Whatcha think, Daddy?
Not so sure. . .

Weeeeeee!!! This is fun!


Swing-Set Sisters!

Abby giggles when Ellie pushes the swing!

A favorite game!


What's on my head?

This has always been a favorite game in our house!







What's on Daddy's head?





Friday, June 5, 2009

Future Food Network Star


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!!!

daddy's girls




Close-ups. . .









V-B-Yes!

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.