Prints

I've made a goal for myself to actually have prints made of my photos and to display them all over my home. It's ridiculous how few photographs I have on my walls and how many I have on my hard drive that I absolutely love. So, I'm going to start at one end of my house and work my way through. First up...the laundry room. I love the look of unframed prints, leaning against the wall. I had this image of Anna put on a standout mount to make it a little more substantial. Love it! Probably need to update my shelf now considering it looks slightly (ok, a lot) outdated. ;-)

A couple of pictures...

Ella is so particular with her toys...she likes to have them just right. She gets that honest from both me and Keith!

Since the leaves are falling off the trees in our front yard, some light is finally coming into Anna's nursery. Love it!

Anna is 5 months!

No, unfortunately time has not stopped around here. Anna did turn 5 months I just forgot to blog her new monthly picture. :-) She has had an extremely busy month! She started rolling over both ways, grabbing and playing with toys, grabbing her feet and putting them in her mouth, and just generally being cute! She loves her exersaucer and jumperoo and she enjoys time in her bumbo too. Not too big of a fan of the swing or bouncey seat anymore but does occasionally take a snooze in the swing if she doesn't need a good long nap in her crib. Anna sleeps about 12 hours at night occasionally waking for her paci. She's a sweet little girl, but boy does she have a temper and if she's mad about something she will let you know! I wonder where she gets that from?? ahem, Keith! ;-) She's still a breastfed baby and we're looking forward to starting solids at the end of this month. She's just a little thing, I think in the 10-25th percentile and is wearing size 2 diapers and 3-6m clothes. She is such a joy and we are just so in love with her!

Halloween with Aunt Kelli = FUN!

My dear friend and Ella's godmother Kelli came into town on Friday for a quick weekend visit...my goodness we had a great time! Ella enjoyed her time with her so much and was oh so sad when we had to leave her at the airport. Kelli - thank you so much for coming! Can't wait to see you again soon! :-)

Kelli is one of the sweetest girls I know and is so beautiful too!



Saturday night we got the kids all dressed up and headed to Frazer's Fall Festival which was great this year! My mom and dad had a big hand in getting it all organized and set up so thank you mom and dad!





Ella with Buzz Lightyear (Grey)

Playing some games...

A little later we headed into Wesley Hall for a puppet show. To say Ella loved it would be a HUGE understatement. She stood up in her chair and sang every single word and did all the hand motions to all the songs they sang. It was precious! The lighting was horrible for this picture, but I just couldn't pass up this sweet moment of Ella standing in her chair singing doing hand motions.

Getting ready for the costume parade...of course I didn't get any good pictures of them on stage...



Ella and her school buddy Carsyn...

Trunk-or-Treat

We headed out to Slapout on Wednesday for a Trunk or Treat with Keith's mom and dad. Ella was so very excited to put on her "Shepard Princess" costume (as she called it) and get some candy. They had all kinds of games and a hayride...we had a great time!
Anna-bear hung in there even though it was getting to be a little past her bedtime

Random Tidbits

Whoever created toddler game apps for the iphone is a genius! It's provided Ella with hours of entertainment and she is learning so much!

My children are officially ragamuffins...proven by Ella's crazy hair, Anna's missing sock, and Anna's drool covered outfit...

Love this image of my girls...love the bond they already have...

This is a statuette of Ella in a princess dress...Lori told me about these and I ordered one for Ella's room. They are so stinkin' cute! Like a little paper doll!


We took a trip to Virginia when Ella was 5 months old and didn't bring an exersaucer or anything so we bought the cheapest walker that Walmart had...both of the girls have loved it!




We don't get much fall color down here in Alabama, but I am loving the fake fall flowers on my front door this season :-)

Pumpkin Carving

I love to do all the fun Holiday traditions like egg dying, pumpkin carving, etc. So this year Ella got to participate a little bit in the pumpkin carving. We chose to carve a bat...it turned out to be pretty cool!



Ella is loving her Halloween candy - lollipops especially...oh and isn't the leftover dinner on her face nice? ;-)