Silly Shots

"Marathon Man"-Tadd ran in the Little Rock Marathon on Sunday. He and Uncle Josh ran the half Marathon, only 13.1 miles:) I cannot imagine! Ella loved playing with his "medal" and wore it half the day. She made her Daddy put it back on for a pic.



Ella wore sponge rollers for the first time to bed, she is such a little prissy thing posing for the mirror and camera. It was too cute! Sophie had to take part in the fun too-briefly!


Another funny thing from the weekend was a Sunday School thing called "You've been Flushed" A toilet appears in your yard and gets to stay for two days and you take pictures to be put on our Sunday School Departments Blog, and then pass it on to others in our class. It was so funny to see how many people got out of their vehicles to look at a decorated toilet in your front yard and the signs on it. Tadd thought it would be funny to take their picture reading a paper sitting on it:)

Splish Splash

We spent most of the weekend with family for my Birthday, Sophie's Birthday and a cousin's Birthday. The Motel we stayed in had an inside pool that the girls had a great time swimming in! We had a really good time with family!

Tadd and the girls! Sophie, Ella, Taylor, and Christian-He really needs a boy around when he's sooooo outnumbered with my family!

Ella loves to swim, she asked several times if we could go live at the Beach and swim everyday-ha!


Sophie's clapping for baby Brilee who watched the rest of the girls swim from a room up above!

Baby's Baby

Sophie LOVES her babies! She is such the little Mommy! She rocks them, changes them, puts them night night, kisses them, feeds them.... She has a new baby and diaper bag with all the baby essentials from her Birthday and she loves them! Some of these pictures capture her excitement and love of babies! I just love this little face and how cute it is as she Mommies her baby! (Then she goes and hits her sister-ha) Afterall, she can't be cute and sweet all the time now that she is 2!!









Mommy's baby!! I will always call her my baby! Ella calls herself my Big girl Baby and Sophie my Little girl baby! They will ALWAYS be my babies!!

Sophie Sue turns TWO!!

Sophie Sue is now TWO! We had a little party at the house on Tuesday for her Birthday with some family and a few friends! Here are some sweet pictures from all the fun!


Sophie and Ella in there cute matching dresses that Gram made!

Family shot

Party table

Gram made a good cupcake cake and cookies and cupcakes-yum!!

Kids table with little party favors

We decided to blow up a bouncy house IN our living room. Only a little furniture rearranging required that provided some entertainment for the kids!

Coach had fun at the party too!!

The big kids eating, I think the little kids were all jumping!

Sophie was so cute blowing out her candles and did so good!

Starting Softball

Ella had her first softball practice tonight. We all met inside and the 12 girls had some drills and the parents met to discuss schedules and uniforms. It was pretty cute and funny to see them all in their first little practice together. This will be a very beginning and young team, (as none of the girls have ever played before). Tadd and Scott are the Coaches and they did great with all of these first time little players! I can't wait for the first game to see all the girls play in their uniforms together! Ella was so excited about the practice and did pretty good for her first time.

Tadd with ALL of the girls!

A few pics of practice with Sophie trying to join in, of course!

Swinging practice, just look at that good stance-ha!

Our little Ballplayer-ha!

Sophie practicing her skills too:) My sweet baby girl will be 2 tomorrow!! Can't believe it, I will try post some pictures from her small party we are having tomorrow soon!

Valentines Preschool Party

Ella had her Valentines Preschool Party on Wednesday at Leah's Gymnastics. They all had a great time playing and having snacks at her party. Sophie and I joined her for some of the fun!

The three Amigos. Ella, Brooks, and Sophie, minus Pax.

More friends playing

Action shot of Ella playing! (Sophie is escaping in the background!)

Sophie sliding, she loves to run from me and I could barely get her to leave, without a major meltdown, she was having so much fun. We will have to start her in Gymnastics soon. Ella took at her age and Mom would come and watch her in the "Mom and Me" class. They all thought she looked SO much like Ella, I think so too!

Her shirt says: "My Heart Belongs to Daddy!" (It sure does)

Snow Storm #2

We woke up on Monday morning to a second Big snow storm!! The snow was so pretty and heavy at times. Tadd stayed home from work and spent the day at home with ALL the girls:) We had a fun, relaxing day! There was lots more snow than last week and we all tried to play outside in it, but didn't last too long!!

This was how much snow piled up on the back porch, BEFORE it stopped snowing!

ALOT more than last week!

Ella posing and trying to catch the BIG snowflakes in her mouth! Aunt Julie and the girls brought us some snow ice cream to eat later!!

Making snow balls!


Sophie thinking, "Do you really expect me to go out there in that!!"

"I don't think so!"


Sophie barely let me put her down when we attempted to play in the snow! I don't really blame her since it was close to her knees:) Ella lasted only for a short time. To say I have girls girls is an understatement-we headed inside soon after our little photoshoot for some Hot Chocolate and Marshmallows by the fire, followed by some movies!!

Our lousy attempt at building a Snowman-ha!

My friend Lindsey, at www.personalpizazz.blogspot.com made me this Winter sign for our front door this year with cute snowflakes! I didn't know how MUCH snow we would actually be getting this year at the time!!