Monday, April 25, 2011

Easter Weekend

Afternoon with the Fayas at Hightopps.
Silly tree on my lunchtime walk.
Ellie and Kiley at Port Discovery.
Silly girls playing silly games.
Ellie the artist.
Dying eggs with the cousins.
Fancy Easter sandwiches.
Tallying up all of the goods from the egg hunt. Looks like everyone won!
Mmmm... Candy!
Ell and Andrew.
Easter morning.
Looks like the Easter bunny thought Ell was a pretty special girl!
Showing off her chocolate bunny.
(3weeks later and he still hasn't been eaten)
Showing off her Easter finest.
Ellie and I just before church.
The egg hunt after church... The Easter bunny got super tricky and even hid some eggs on Papoo's car.
That is one happy girl!
She is a good egg hunter.
So silly!
Bubble time in her new princess nightgown.
Starting seeds for this year's garden.

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Mid-April Fun

So many things to do in April but we have had a very wet spring! Last weekend we ventured over to Ms. Cathy and Joelle's house to dye Easter eggs. It was some messy fun!
Lots of messy fun!

Ellie Story: The other night Ell was getting ready for her bath and when she got off the toilet (with not a stitch of clothing on) she stuck the end of a long piece of toilet paper in her hiney and wagged her bum and said, "Look Mama, I've got a tail. hahahaha!!"
What am I going to do with her?!

Saturday we had terrible rain and storms! Ms. Cathy, Joelle, Ell, and I met for lunch at Chick-fil-A and then headed to the movies. We tried to see HOP but I think everyone in the state of MD had the same idea that we had... Go to the movies! Anyway, HOP was sold out and instead (and lucky for us) Rio 3D had just come out AND there were tickets still available.
Rio was awesome! I really don't know who liked the movie more the adults or the kids!

Ellie Story: The other day she came home from school and was telling me about her day and how she and her buddy, Ethan, were sitting down and decided to try on each other's shoes. Then she tells me that she smelled Ethan's feet because "he wanted me to".
All I can hope is that this game of "You Can Smell Mine If I Can Smell Yours" is not the pre-courser to "I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours"... Yikes!

Sunday was not only my first mud run but my first 5k. Yikes! Here is our group before the race. If you don't know, a mud run is exactly what it sounds like it is... mud and running. However, it also has obsticals like trenches, hills, jumps, and walls. It was a blast!
The first set of pits... don't even try to stay clean!
Taking a bit of a breather.
And yay! I did it! I didn't run the whole thing but I made good time and I completed the entire course. Not to pat myself on the back or anything but I am pretty darn proud of myself! When Ell saw the pictures she said one thing... Mommy, you are gross! You need a shower!

Today's Ellie-ism: You need to shake your booty at least one time every day!

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Circus Time

Thanks to Andrew and Erica's PawPaw, Ell and I were able to join Lisa and Erica at the circus on Friday night and what a show it was!
We got there early so we were able to go down onto the floor and see some of the performers and the elephants.
Ell and I at the circus.
Ellie and Erica
Showing off their cotton candy hats.
Ell and her $12 cotton candy... that was the best cotton candy EVER!
See, even Erica thinks so!!
There it is... "The Greatest Show on Earth".
The aerial performers

The tigers
the side show acts
The strongest man... He was holding 1/2 ton, wow!!
the tight rope walkers
Motorcycles in the sphere... there were 7 bikes inside!
The superhero clowns in a car.
The trapeze artists
The catapulting pirates...
This one is on stilts!

The Barnum Bouncers
And the grand finale.