Happy 4th Birthday Ella

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Happy 4th Birthday Ella, nothing better than a double choc. donut to start the day!

                                                  Ella's puppy cake pops for school!

                       This little lady is 4, it says on her shirt..She's playing with all her balloons.

The girls playing at Magic Mountain, a playground/arcade fun area. Ella's wish for her birthday!

                                                                    Ella in the balls!

                                      Eva climbed up into the tubes and found a space ship!

                          The girls riding motorcycle...we did an awful job...daddy's much better.

                       Ella wearing daddy's hat while he hit some baseballs in the batting cage.

Ella and daddy at dinner time...Uno Chicago's.

Ella and Eva got these balls for Ella's birthday, they love them but not only for bouncing on, They hit each other...so far play style but I can see it turning bad.

We went to the zoo on Sunday with some friends for her birthday. It was beautiful and we had a great time.

                                                       The girls looking at the rhino!

                               Ella petting a snake. Ewwww! She actually wasn't scared at all!

                                                              All the girls at the zoo!

                                                   Ella and Eva following the sting ray.

                                                                       Carasoul time!

                                            Ella's friends Bella and Abby met us at the zoo.

                                          All the little girls sitting on the bench...except Eva.

                            Eva tried to join the girls but it tipped over so she was left stranded!

                                                                Ella was getting tired!

                      Another cake made for Ella! Puppy head with puppy paw cupcakes!

                                                                      Ella and Abby!

                                            Happy Birthday to Ella, Happy Birthday to you!

Present time!

We can't believe Ella is 4 already! Well she is happy to be 4 and celebrating a birthday, although she did tell me "mom I don't feel 4". Too cute! We had a fun week preparing, planning, and celebrating her birthday. You think we would be all caked out but we are still enjoying it even now. Last week we did go to the library because it was the last week of storytime of storytime until June. Another major event happened last week when the girls were playing outside, I was getting ready upstairs in my bathroom and they decided it was a great idea to bring a dead mole into the house and show me. I was a little frightened and told the girls to never play with dead animals. Ella quickly replied, "Can we play with live animals." Silly girl! Ella's birthday week was great, full of puppies, friends, cake, and presents. What more could a 4yr. old want?

Potty Trained

Eva is officially potty-trained!

 The girls had a sleepover with daddy on Friday night, they unsuccessfully fell asleep.

 Daddy with Belle. He likes her more than he says.

Ella has been in heaven this week, a puppy just her size has been visiting.

Well not that much happened last week well at least we didn't capture much. We went to visit with our friends that live an hour away. We don't get to see them much and spent Monday with them. Tuesday we went to the library for storytime..Eva sure enjoys that now. Ella is used to actitivies like that at school so isn't always enthused about going. She is still thoughourly enjoying school though. She has made lots of friends there, even boyfriends she tells me. :o) Daddy can work from home 2 days a week now so its nice to see him a bit more. He usually get Ella off the bus those days so he likes that. I worked my normal shifts this week and the weekend was spent playing with the puppy, walking the puppy, following the puppy around. I am so excited to get rid of her today. She is wonderful but the girls wont leave her alone. I feel bad for her, as badly as Ella wants one I now realize its too early. Eva has uncontrollable hands and isnt always nice to her and Ella cant yet pick up poop, so until then a dog is gonna have to wait. :o) We had a birthday party on Saturday and spent Sunday shopping for presents for Ella's 4th bithday on the 26th. We hadn't yet got her anything because at her age she wants everything well she does tell us she wants a puppy, a real puppy. But, since that isn't gonna happen we had to come up with other presents. Hopefully she likes them. We will post pics of her party and celebrations next week. I hope everyone has a wonderful week.

Potty Training!

We borrowed a battery from the neighbor to make sure that was the problem wrong with our broken car and it was...The girls had fun and Ella sure needs lessons. She's gonna kill someone!

Mrs fix- its

Slam dunk

Movie Day!

Well the Easter bunny brought Eva tangled panties so that meant she had to start peeing in the potty and boy does she loves those panties. We are on our way to successful potty training although with it being so nice outside she goes out and doesn't want to come back in for anything so accidents happen. We will soon get there but I'm so proud of her thus far! Acutally the other morning she was screaming for me to get out of bed and when I finally came downstair she said she peed and I got a little nervous but she showed me the pee in the potty so she had gone all by herself. Big girl! We had a great week last week, had a few playdates and went to the bounce house one day. We kept busy thats for sure! On saturday we had a lazy day bc I had worked both thur. and Friday nights and the girls had developed a cold overnight so were kind of feeling down. So it became a movie/popcorn night which was fun for us and the girls! Sunday we went over to a friends house to help her prepare for her baby in June. The girls played with Sammy and then we had a BBQ so we had a good day. Hope everyone enjoyed the weekend!

Easter

The girls reading a story on the ipad

Testing out the baby carrier before sending it home with G'ma and G'pa for Auntie Alana and Uncle Jon.

Puppy Tower!

Out looking for Easter eggs

Grandma and Grandpa teaching the girls how to jump rope

Reading another story

Counting up their findings

Group photo!

Playing 'Ring around the Rosie'

At church

At the Reds game

Posing as Gapper with the other Reds mascots

Another Gapper!

Playing at the playground in the stadium

Running the bases at the new little baseball field in Great American Ballpark

Ella coming into second base

Playing outside the stadium in the park with live music, etc

The spider getting Ella

At the zoo

Giraffe up close

My seat for the ride since we had a full car

The cake pops I made for the weekend- they turned out great

At the Mom's club egg hunt last week

Chasing down a grounder

At the baseball field playing with Daddy

A walk on the trails in the park

Well its been awhile since I posted...sorry! I worked so much last week and with family coming I had a lot of baking, cleaning, and shopping to do. Well G&G Lindahl arrived Friday evening and left this morning at 6am. It was so great to have them but certainly wasn't long enough. We had lots of fun, we went to Cinncinati on Saturday and went to the zoo and the Reds first night game. It was a beautiful day so we all had lots of fun. The girls were really well behaved all day and grandmas ipad kept them intertained at the baseball game. We did leave early, after the 6th inning so we could get home before midnight. We woke up early for church and had a relaxing Easter Sunday. We were able to skype with Grandma and Grandpa Vondal and Auntie Alana and Uncle Jon and Great Grandma and Great Grandpa and Auntie Becky and Uncle David. So we were happy to share the day with all of them. Monday we got Ella's hair cut which she was a little scared because when we walked into Cookie Cutter (hair salon) 2 little boys were screaming so she had a little melt down. We did some bribing and she made it through the haircut. Then Mary and I went shopping while Eva napped and Ella hung out with Grandpa. We grilled out last night, then relaxed and said our goodbyes to Grandma and Grandpa before bed. It was a fun weekend, but went by too fast. Hope everyone else had a wonderful Easter weekend as well!