Our Florida Trip

Ella wouldn't let me take a picture of her on the plane

but she did let me take one of her baby that

she buckled in. At one point in traveling I thought they

were going to kick us off the plane or out of the airport.

We had a 3 hour layover for a total traveling day of 8 hours. Ella was a very tired two year old she didn't sleep on the plane at all but when we finally got to Florida she crashed as soon as I put her in the stroller.

Ella loved doing a puzzle with Great Grandma & Grandpa.

Ella playing some minature golf

Ella was all excited to go swimming. She wanted to
carry her boat and started running and fell down and scraped her knee. Then she didn't want to swim anymore.

Ella didn't really like the beach that much she wouldn't

get very close to the water and she didn't like the

sand in her sandals. I did put her feet in the water and

she didn't like that at all. I guess she won't be a beach babe.

Ella also didn't like taking pictures with mommy on the beach.

Grandpa giving Ella some seashell that he had found.

Ella enjoyed the beach by sitting in her chair and

watching the seagulls. We then grilled hamburgers at the

beach and Ella had fun chasing the birds away from our food.

Ella loved Grandpa's cart and he even let her drive sometimes.

Ella's looking at the little oranges on Grandpa's tree.

Ella & Great Grandpa off of Sharky's pier.
Which they have a restaurant that we ate lunch

at right on the beach. Ella has that look on her face

because right where she is looking is a full bucket of big dead fish. It made us both just about lose our appetites.

This is the baby shark Ella caught right off the pier.
We really were just walking by and a guy started
reeling this baby shark up. Ella really enjoyed seeing the fish up close.

The second time we went to the beach Ella enjoyed

it more because I put tennis shoes on her but she still

didn't get very close to the water.

Ella & Mommy at the beach

Ella & Great Grandpa reading some magazine's.

We survived the trip and had some fun but it is always good to be home.

Few Cold Weekend Pictures

A little cuddle time with mommy

Nana pushing Ella around on her cousins big bike

I am little bit behind these pictures were from last weekend. As you can see it was the snowy cold weekend. I wanted to update the blog one last time before we leave on vacation. Which I am sure when we get back we will have a ton of pictures to blog.

Ella Jamming

Ella and I are going to Florida in a week. The last time we went on a plane with her she didn't do great and that was about a year ago. I wanted to see if she would wear headphones so everyone in the plane didn't have to listen to her movie. So we put the headphones on and plugged in the Ipod and she loved it and started dancing. She didn't want to take them off. So I am glad she likes the headphones hopefully she will keep them on and be quiet on the plane trip. I hope everyone on the plane realizes that she is two and to have a little patience.

Happy Easter

Ella, Trevin, Brendon, Meryn & Caleb right

before they started looking for Easter Eggs

Ella looking for Easter Eggs

Meryn finding some Easter eggs

Easter Bunny Greg

All the kids happy with finding all their eggs

Ella playing throw the eggs in your

Easter basket with Grampa

On the way home Ella put her babies (to the left)

to sleep and she was reading them a book

Easter this year was really cold. When we got home from church John and Caleb hid the Easter Eggs in the basement because it was too cold outside. They had eggs that were easy to find for Ella and Meryn and the more difficult for the boys to find. Ella seemed to understand better this year that she needs to go find the eggs and then put them in her basket. She also understood that there was candy in each egg. She didn't really know what candy was last year. On the way home Ella decieded her babies were getting tired so she layed them down on her pillow covered them with a blanket, prayed with them, read them a book, sang them a song and then blew them kisses. She is such a sweet little girl.

Princess Ella & Princess Meryn

Ella loved playing dress-up with her cousin Meryn (not the doll). Although they did sometimes want what the other girl was wearing. Meryn and Ella truly are little girly-girls. They loved putting on the dresses, shoes, and jewelry. They even didn't mind modeling for us and the camera. Then we went in to show Great Grandma & Grandpa Tucker the two little princesses. Ella really enjoyed playing with Meryn.

Weekend In Hutch

Ella & Meryn Coloring at the table

Ella & Meryn reading books

Ella & Brittany playing the piano

Ella & Meryn playing the piano

Ella loving on Gramma before bedtime

Caleb teaching Ella how to play Game boy

We went to Hutchinson for the weekend and had a lot of fun. It was too cold to go outside but Ella had her cousins to keep her busy. It didn't take Ella long to warm up to everybody. She had fun putting on a singing show with Meryn and Gramma for all of us. I think her and Meryn both loved the attention. Ella really loved playing with Gramma & Grampa's piano. When it came to time to go to bed she loved telling everybody nite-nite and giving out hugs and kisses. She really just loved all the attention she was getting from everybody.

Spring Fling Carnival

Going down the slide on the obstacle course

Leading us to the next activity

Planting and digging up flowers.

Making Easter Bunnies out of play-doh


Ella's Artwork

The Parent's as Teacher program had what they called "Spring Fling" Carnival. It is for I think up to age 3 or 4. They had at least 15 tables and activities set up for the kids to do. When we first got there Ella didn't want to do anything so we thought we would be leaving fairly soon but then she started doing some of the activities. Soon she didn't even care if we were close she just would walk off to the next activity. Some of her favorites were digging and planting flowers, play doh, catching the duckie (which she would catch them and then give them hugs and kisses and then put them back in the water), the obstacle course (which she really loved the slide) and she even planted a real flower. We wanted her to try some of the art activities which she loves to draw but they were so messy and took to much time. We did get her to paint and everytime she would get even the littlest bit of paint on her hand she would stop painting and have us wash her hands. The handprint artwork was supposed to be made into a butterfly but Ella didn't like having her hand covered with ink so we just got the one. She is a true girly-girl that's for sure. The bunny I wanted her to make because it was cute but she lost interest in making that about as soon as she had begun. She ended up having a really good time and didn't want to leave.