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Archive for the 'Ella' Category
24
Dec
10
Merry Christmas!
24
Dec
10
Christmas baking
My mom invited us over for Christmas baking on Wednesday. It was so sweet to watch the girls bake with their grandma!
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It reminded me of another time grandma Christmas baked with Rilyn. Way back in Christmas of 2006. Look how cute-same aprons and everything!
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| December 2006 |
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| December 2010 |
23
Dec
10
more holiday happenings
Before we went to Fort Worth early this week, we stopped in Grand Prairie to visit my sister and spend some time with her while James went to the Dallas Cowboys game. My sister treated the girls to a beauty mask and make-up tips. I was busy keeping Asher occupied when the girls came out of Jessica’s room saying, “use toner then moisturize!” 🙂
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| No, I did not ask permission from Jessica to post these pictures! |
After their make-up session (gold eyeshadow to pop Ella’s blue eyes and Rilyn picked out glitter pink and blue eyeshadow!), we decorated a gingerbread house. I bought a pre-built one this year and that was the way to go! The girls made Jessica do the windows and the doors with frosting while they did the roof and all the candy decor. Our house wouldn’t win any award, but it was fun!
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| frosting the roof! |
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| The windows had issues.
(Can you see Rilyn’s glitter eye makeup?) |
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| finished! |
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| time to eat the roof! |
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| Gingerbread house destroyed and eaten…5 seconds after they finished decorating it! |
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| James and me in downtown Fort Worth |
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| Ella elf |
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| Rilyn elf |
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| Uncle Ben and Ella |
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| Ella, Asher, and Rilyn |
16
Dec
10
ella’s nativity
Don’t you love gifts made for you by your kids at school? You never know what you are going to get! This year Ella brought home this handmade nativity. It’s sweet, in a “psychotic Mary and jagged tooth Joseph kinda way.” It looks like her teacher saw her “beautiful parents” and decided to draw baby Jesus’ face before it turned into the Addams family. But, I love it and I’ll look forward to putting it on display every Christmas (until Ella begs me not to put it up anymore!)
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| Ella’s Christmas gift to us |
14
Dec
10
fort worth botanical gardens
We took a quick long, (quick as in 1 day, long as in loooong drive with a 2 year old) trip to the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens today to take our family portraits with a photographer from Minnesota, (who is also a blogger with 20,000+ followers(!) and the link I gave you takes you to a sneak peek at one of the pictures from today), who was in town just to shoot portraits. When I get those shots, I will definitely post, but for now, here are a couple pictures I snapped after our session was done.
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| lots of fall foliage! |
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| my Ella |
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| my Rilyn |
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| James took this one obviously! |
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| can you spot Ella?!? |
13
Dec
10
drawers full of personality
Rilyn and Ella share a long desk. One side of the desk is Rilyn’s drawers and the other side-Ella’s. I wonder if you can guess which drawers are Rilyn’s and which are Ella’s. 😉 (Hint: the answer can be seen on one of the papers in the drawers.)
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12
Dec
10
ice skating
Last night we had my church volunteer Christmas party. (I teach in Ella’s Sunday school class). We got to bring the girls ice skating and they had a blast! James and I had very tired arms afterward though, because we had to hold them up the whole time to keep them semi-balanced!
Here is an example:
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| Rilyn and James |
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| Ella and James |
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| Rilyn getting brave! |
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| Ella, Julie, Rilyn |
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| Ella getting brave as she skates to James. |
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| We had so much fun! |
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Both girls have asked numerous times today when they can go back ice skating. Rilyn said she is a ‘pro’ now and Ella is very proud of herself because she skated 3 feet to James. 😉 Ella did tell me at the end that her feet were bleeding and when I took off her skates she had a nasty blister!
07
Dec
10
where’s the line to see Jesus?
I wish that sweet line in my post title was said by one of my children at the mall when seeing the line for Santa, but nope! I stole it from a somewhat cheesy song (but the message is good!). I’ve explained before that we don’t celebrate Santa at our house. I found a great blog post from Noel Piper, (John Piper’s wife) about why they don’t do Santa either, and she writes way better than me, so check it out!
Even though we don’t believe in Santa at our house, I don’t try to hide Santa from them! After all, fairy tales are fun to read and imagine! So, off we went to take our annual Santa picture. My two girls were prepped NOT to say “You aren’t real” or anything of that nature around other kids in line. When it was their turn to take a picture, they stood right next to Santa, said not a word, smiled and then they walked away. The guy next in line asked me, “Don’t your kids want to tell Santa what they want for Christmas?” I just smiled. I guess my kids had better things to do then talk to some guy they don’t know about something he doesn’t care about! (I didn’t say that of course!)
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| No crying this year! But Asher looks a little confused… |
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| I think I like this guy! |
the paquettes 