The Many Faces of Ellis

I thought I would just share with you some funny pictures I took of Ellis the other day. She loves lolly pops and somehow we ended up with a bunch of little dum dums, so we will give one to her every once in a while if she is good. She gets SOOO happy whenever she gets one and starts to get a little crazy; the following pictures show what ususally ensues:

And yes, that is food on her face. She is so silly and fun now - I am really enjoying watching her grow up.

Great Wolf Lodge!

Last weekend we took the opportunity to go down to Grand Mound, WA and go to the Great Wolf Lodge with Maria, Sefa, Joe and Feki. All of us shared a room and it ended up being lots of fun for everyone except for me (I was sick the entire time). Ellis love the water park and would scream when we would try and take her out of the park area. Loni and Sefa were just like little kids in a candy store: they went on all of the slides they could. Loni did manage to drag me onto one slide and it was tons of fun. It was a great little get away and one we will definitely do again in the future so we can all enjoy it (ie: ME, enjoy it!). Thanks Marie and Sefa for going with us!

Princess Fairy Ballerina Ellis

For Christmas my mom gave both Loni and I each a $30 gift card to H&M. We went there the other day and didn't really find anything that we liked, but noticed they had a alot of girly accessories in the girls section, so we loaded up and this was the final outcome:

Vampire Academy Series

So I started reading the Vampire Academy series a couple of weeks ago and just finished the third book, Shadow Kiss, and I have to say I loved the books. They are very much targeted towards teen agers, but I thought they were a good read and I actually got really involved with the story line and was very upset about what happened at the end of Shadow Kiss. So, if anyone needs a good read, get the Vampire Academy Series by Richelle Mead (book 1: Vampire Acadmeny, book 2: Frostbite, book 3: Shadow Kiss).

Merry Christmas!

I just wanted to wish everyone Merry Christmas. I hope you all had a great day and remember the reason for the season! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Snow, Snow and...more Snow

For the past week it has been snowing like crazy here in the PNW. At first it was cool, but it SUX now. We do NOT live in Montana - so snow should stay in the mountains. Anyway, here are some pics from the snow. Boo. It is still snowing right now.

Notice the smiles - this was the first night it started snowing. Then, last Thursday, the snow really kicked in and there ended up being about 8" over at Gary and Lanaes. We got stranded, Loni spent all day trying to get the car up from the bottom of the hill, went through two chains, and finally ended up getting a tow truck on Friday, whose chains also broke trying to get the car out. The snow sucks.