It's Fall Y'All!!!

We missed last fall while overseas so we decided to really take this one in getting in a hayride and movie under the stars, drinking lots of hot chocolate, pumpkin carving and hanging out with our favorite black cat - Bella!!! Happy Fall Y'All!! :)

She Doesn't Just Love Princesses - Her New Hero is Bethany Hamilton!

Don't get me wrong...Ella LOVES princesses and Barbies but she has a new hero and I'm glad.

We went to the movies and watched Soul Surfer and Ella loved it.  It is the story of Bethany Hamilton, a young surfer that had her arm taken by a shark and the inspiring story of her life before and after that event! Bethany is an amazing surfer, even with one arm, but is even more inspiring b/c she didn't give up and even got back in the water like 8 weeks after that scary event. I don't know that I would ever go back in water!

Ella made a book about her and calls one of her Barbies Bethany and decided that the slip-n-slide was the closest thing to surfing so she put her gear on and went "surfing".  She wasn't quite a natural but she tried. I don't blame her for not really wanting to throw her body to the ground...I didn't want to! So Danielle and I decided to push her - literally - down the slip-n-slide! We had fun and that's all that matters! :)

Other Birthday Fun!

Some good family fun!! We had such a great time!! Of course we had to do a funny face pic...and a regular pic..although Ella had to put in her crazy eyes!! :) Also a pic of her earlier in the week trying soda for the 1st time! Yes, we decided early on that she couldn't have soda. She was cool with it for a very long time and about the time we decided that she was old enough SHE told us that she needed to wait till she was a BIG girl (meaning 5) so we went with it. She tried a Jones root beer and her eyes lit up and she said "Yum!"...tried another taste and then handed it back and said "that is a delicious sometimes snack"....We won the child lottery!!! :)

fun times!!

We've had lots of fun! We are a silly bunch! Mommy had some fun visitors to my classroom...Clifford & Curious George! Of course Ella thought I was a rockstar!

Then...on to Valentine's Day! Ella had a party at her preschool and we made a valentine box. She wanted to do it and as you can see...she did a great job. Then Ella & Daddy had a fun time with her Valentine from him. It had gummy eyes & lips. She ate the lips and they had to have some fun with the gummy eyes before they ate them. My crazy family!!

Mommy is not the only one keeping busy with the Wii fit. Ella enjoys it and says she has to get her "exercise time" in each day...right after me. When the "trainer" on the fit says "make sure you exercise dailly"...Ella says..."see...I told you!"

Too bad the fun couldn't last as Ella is sick now & I am blogging instead of being at school. Ella was throwing up last night. She is starting to do better so hopefully she will go back to school tomorrow!!