1st Tea Party

Ella's Aunt Becky gave Ella her 1st tea set for her birthday (we opened it a little early because Ella wanted to open presents when Mommy was opening presents). Ella loved it!!! She knew what to do right away and included Miller in her first Tea Party. It was sooo cute!

Miller

Because Miller rarely gets a picture on his own and blogs about him usually always include Ella, here is one dedicated to just Miller. These are Easter redo pictures. His pictures from Easter did not turn out so good with Ella grabbing at him. But these pictures are sooo cute! They capture his sweet little personality!

Making Progress

Definite progress is being made on the basement! So far we are still on schedule to be finished May 1!

New ceiling in staircase (sideways)

Playroom looking into bedroom

New french door

Murray in his study

Easter Week

What a week we had! We started the week out in Knoxville staying at Granna's. Granddaddy spent every night with us and one entire day. Ella had a blast! Unfortunately I lost almost half of my pictures from the week, so there are no pictures with Granddaddy.


Granna and Miller

Ella making muffins with just a little help from Granna


We came home on Thursday and Parker and Jacqueline arrived that night. Ella loved playing with her cousin! She woke up from her nap saying "See Parker!"
Ella and Parker playing on the slide.

Parker, Miller and Ella

My sister, Aunt Suzanne, and her grandmother came in town Saturday with lots of goodies for Parker, Ella and Miller. I got so many great pictures of Suzanne with Miller, Ella and Parker and they are gone:( But we had a great time enjoying the beautiful weather on Saturday.

Easter was very special for us this year! It was Cahaba Park's first Easter service! I think it is a service that Murray and I will always remember. Easter morning when Murray and I got Ella up, we asked her where Jesus lives. Ella said "In my heart. Jesus is risen!" It just melted our hearts!

Easter pictures




We had Easter lunch at our house and an Easter Egg Hunt even though it was FREEZING. The cold did not seem to phase the kids. All the adults were very thankful for Parker who found the eggs very quickly and sped up the hunt.

Ella playing with Ann Tatum.

The kids table (this is what really made us feel like our parents, especially when we all gathered around and sang the prayer). Grace, Parker, Knox and Ella.

Knox "on the hunt"

Ella

Grace was most interested in the candy inside the eggs.

Parker teaching Ella how the pros hunt eggs.

Grace and Ella

Miller getting his final goodbye loving from Aunt Jacqueline

New Tooth

Yesterday was a big day for us. Ella had her tooth smoothed out!

Before:


After:

Not quite as sharp, but definitely still noticable.

At the denist the parents do not go back with the kids. Ms Ruthie Toothie told me that Ella did great during her entire check up. She said that the entire time Ella was having her teeth cleaned Ella was just telling story after story. It was only when they pulled out the grinder that tears were shed.

Here is a random picture. Ella loves looking in the mirror and talking to herself. Yesterday I caught a picture of Ella talking to herself. So cute!

12 Weeks, 12 Hours

Miller is 12 weeks old today!!! It is hard to believe it has gone that fast. And to celebrate his 12 week birthday, Miller slept 12 hours last night!!! Wahoo!!! Since he is 17 pounds!! we knew that he was ready and the last few nights he has barely been eating at 10:30. Last night I was so exhausted from all of our festivities (more to come on that later) that I thought it would be a great night to try. Way to go little Miller. This is a big day!

Basement Renovations

When we moved into our house two years ago, a huge bonus/selling point was the huge unfinished basement. Not really knowing what all it entailed we thought how easy it would be to finish the basement down the road. It did not take long with Ella to realize how nice it would be to have the basement finished to have a place for her to play. Then when Miller arrived and we lost our guest room we quickly saw the necessity of having an extra bedroom downstairs! So, we are finishing our basement!!!! However, after talking with several builders, Murray realized it was going to be a little more involved than we thought. He had originally thought that he would do it with the help of his dad, my dad and some friends. But now that construction has started, we are soooo thankful that Murray is not doing the work. It would have taken years! We are just thrilled and cannot wait to have the extra space. These pictures are actually after the first day that the work was started. Construction began mid Feb and is supposed to be finished May 1! Stay tuned for progress pictures.