Weekend with the girls... Ella Ella Ella!!!

Well, this weekend Carla, Laura, Cassy and Ella all came over for some girl time, and we had a blast... Carla had to leave Sat. morning, but Cassy, Ella, Laura, Ellie and I headed out for the zoo, despite the momentary rain (that missed us barely) and had a great time! Ellie was sad to see Ella go though, she kept asking for her after she left!!! It was hard for her to understand Ella had to go home eventually... It was cute though!

Here we are on the way in... Sadly it looks like a smudge got on the lense :( * It started raining right after we got there...

The girls had a good time sitting on their own animal chairs! They're getting to be big girls!!!

Here we are at the zoo a year before!!!
Ellie didn't want much to do with me in this picture but Cassy and Ella look so cute I had to share!
Here we are on our way out! The girls had a great time!!!

This last pic is the night before we went to the zoo the year before... It's crazy to see how much these girls grew in one year!!!

Airplane/Itsy Bitsy...

Matt and Ellie have a great time playing airplane, so we thought we'd share!

Ellie doesn't always like to be on camera, so we tried to catch her without her knowing... I didn't realize how zoomed out it was, but you still get the picture! She's learning!!! :) We also sing the ABC song a lot, but really you can only hear a letter or two from Ellie, but we have fun! :)

Swimming!

This last weekend was a bit of a crazy one... We had a great time on Friday when Ellie's Aunt Mandi came down with her girls for lunch, but when we tried going swimming we managed to get some suncreen in Ellie's Eye and had to go through some hard times and a trip to the Urgent Care place and we're fine, her eye was just a little irritated... I felt so badly... So Matt and I took her to State Fair and she had a great time in her wagon, but sadly I forgot my camera... But I didn't forget it on Sunday afternoon when we went swimming again!!! Here's Ellie with the 'Cooper Girls' and another of her with her new favorite thing riding on the raft! (And then sometimes purposely sliding off as her version of jumping in!)

Elephants...

We are all elephants!!! We have proof!!! Okay, well, we had fun trying to be!!!

Bubble Baths...

We've been really enjoying our bubble baths lately... We even like to give ourselves Bubble beards!!! We also like to try to lie on our tummy and kick our legs up!

Fun at the Quarry

We had a great time visiting our friends at Lannon Quarry! It was great to see Mark, Lindsey, Lexi, MaryAnn, Ned & Sophia!

Videos

Dancing, and riding a moster truck... These are just too cute! Ellie pulled me off the couch for a dance party last week (and we had a few of them, let me tell you!) and then we had a blast at our cousin's (Riley's) 4th birthday party! Thanks for the ride!!!

Dancing below... (Mind you, we had been dancing/spinning for a while by this point in time, so Ellie gets a little dizzy after a while, but as you'll see she gets right back at it going again!)



Monster truck ride below... What a birthday gift!!! Ellie had a great time simming in their pool, playing with their toys, eating popsicles and of course, her favorite... Riding a monster truck! (She didn't want to me to unbuckler her, much less get out!)