Thank You, Paulette and Jerry!

We received 2 great gifts in the mail yesterday and are very grateful to Paulette and Jerry for sending them. They had a quilt made for the baby and a personalized apron for Ella. Both the quilt and the apron look awesome and are great because they are such unique gifts.

Thank you for always thinking of us, Paulette and Jerry! We love you!

the baby's quilt

(We love the black and white with turquoise!--Neutral for a boy or girl, but not the traditional sage green or yellow)


Ella's apron


the model posing with her friends, Scruffy (Math's old dog) and Pinkie


Ella mixing the eggs for brownies


stirring the dry ingredients for Granddad's birthday carrot cake


taking advantage of the fact that I was distracted on the phone with Paulette
("making designs with flour on the counter!")


my punishment for being distracted :)

This and That....

We have been busy around here making meals for new moms, babysitting for friends and neighbors, and prepping our Christmas cards, but here are a few random pictures from the past week:

all of the friends sitting on pillows and waiting for school to start
Ella likes playing school, especially since she has been in preschool.

silly smile and crazy headband
She found this headband in her bin and thought it "made [her] look so beautiful." She made Rob put it on when he got home from work, too. (I thought I would be nice and not post his picture--Christmas is right around the corner!)


mid-air jump
Ella loves arranging sofa cushions on the floor with blankets and jumping around on them like a maze. Her pants had been dirty from playing and since it was close to bath time, she just kept them off to jump.


maneuvering through the pillow maze


thumbs up all around


another silly face with Debbie Dog


practicing
Ella and I babysat our neighbor's 6 week old and she LOVED it! She wanted to do everything to help the baby, including feeding and holding her....AND demonstrating how to "do a really loud burb" after the baby drank her bottle.


warm-up in the circle
We went to the Little Gym for a free preview class with our MOMS Club this morning.

hanging from the high bar without help


swinging on the low bar


blurry, but cute as she is jumping

doing the spider walk behind a friend