A morning with Daddy!

Here is what Daddy and Ella did on a morning while letting Mommy sleep in!  She wanted all her bows in her hair; so Daddy put them in!  Note: Daddy's amazing photography skills and the homemade paper rose he made in Ella's hand! 

Love them both so much!  Oh the beautiful simple gifts in life!  This is one of them for sure.  Thank you Lord, you are so good to me! 

Our Fifth Wedding Anniversary outings...

We are so romantic.  Okay so maybe we aren't, but we do have fun!  For our fifth anniversary, the sun was shining, and we love to get outside on the beautiful days.  so, as a family, we headed out to a local park called Gibsons Pond with our canoe for a family outing.  It was Ella's first canoe ride, and it was a total success!  Here are a few pics from the day:

Swinging before our canoe ride and feeding the ducks some goldfish!

Very Friendly ducks!

Ella was scared at first but quickly calmed down and started to enjoy the "boat" as she called it!

Out on the open water!  Ella learned about some new animals and their sounds, ie: geese 'honk honk" & roosters "cock-a-doodle-doodle-do".  pronounced by Ella as doodle-do! 

Getting very adventourous on the swings!

We ended the day by going to see the Kings Speech finally!  This was our third attempt, and we finnally made it!  Also, we went out to dinner. Our dear friend Miss Linda Barnhill kept Ella for us for the evening! 

All dressed up for dinner, 13 weeks preggo....not the best picture of me, but it is the only one we have! 

Ella's 1st Haircut!

Ella's first haircut....a much harder day and experience for mom than it was for Ella.  I have been putting off her first haircut for months because I new it was another step away from baby days and into toddlerhood.  Honestly, if my friend Cindy had not called me to schedule her first haircut....Ella would still have her baby hair (some called it a Baby Mullet). So alas, we set out on Monday, March 7th to CIU for the big event!

The before: Ella was scared.  Notice the tears in the eyes.  So, Mom had to get her hair cut,too! 

Still not too sure...