ABC's

Today while sitting at the table for breakfast I started saying the ABC's. I would say one letter and then Bryce would repeat it. We went through the whole alphabet and he said every letter right after me! It was very cute! Mommy & Daddy have to be extra careful now because he is really in to repeating everything we say! He has also been really into counting things lately. Though he does like to start at 4 (or in Bryce's words 'bore).

Mommy's New Wheels!

Mother's Day weekend we went to IL, to pick up this mini van! Never thought I would have one of these, but man do I LOVE it!!!! Bryce loves the DVD player with headphones and the doors opening and closing on their own. He grins every time! It will be great to have for our road trip down to Gulf Shores in a month.

Ella's Photo Op

Here is Ella Marie in her adorable outfit that Aunt Kelly brought back from Palm Springs. Bryce was at daycare today, so the girls had some fun! These are only a few of many great pictures!

Ella 2 months

Miss Ella is 2 months old now! Wow, time continues to fly by! She has been giggling and smiling for a while already, and is a very happy little girl. I was able to capture a few good smiles.

Garage Sale

We had a garage sale last weekend, April 16th and 17th. The Solis', Carnahan's, and Baker's all joined in. It was a very crazy Saturday afternoon! Here is a picture of the kids at the picnic table enjoying some food after the big day. Our total out of all the families was over $1500. All of the hard work certainly paid off.

Miss Ella Marie

Look at our little Ella being the typical difficult baby she is...not! We are very blessed with a wonderful great little baby! She is a great sleeper! She is very precious just snoozing away in her little tent outside while I get ready for the garage sale. She LOVES being outside and on her belly!

Like what we used as shade!

Easter

Here are the kids in their Easter outfits. I didn't get any pictures of them in their full outfits on Easter, so when we went to church this week I was sure to get some snap shots!

Easter Eggs

We colored Easter Eggs tonight! This was Bryce's first time to do this! He really enjoyed seeing the different things that appeared on them from the 'magic' crayon. His favorites were the shark and the Colts eggs!

I gave him all the empty cups in one pile and then when i turned around 2 minutes later he had them all lined up in a row! It was very cute!

He even colored some of his own eggs with the magic crayon.

He did really well with the dye cups, but we only used lemon juice and water and not vinegar.

We are finished! Check out all the beautiful eggs we made!

Easter Egg Hunt

Our neighborhood had an Easter Egg hunt today! Bryce picked up on it pretty quick and had lots of fun! He was very serious when trying to open them and see what was in side. He was more excited about opening the eggs than finding more.

Soccer

Bryce at soccer! His favorite thing is to play red light green light and slide down the parachute. He listens surprising well to Coach Carlos too!

(It's not the greatest shot, but can't pass up the great face!)

Bryce does a great job at running forward, but we are working on running backwards.

Ella: 1 month

It's hard to believe a month has gone by already!

She is 83% for height, 50% for weight, and only 19% for head size!

(She has a tiny little head!:-))

Bryce and his Backpack

Bryce sporting his new backpack that he loves. He packs it all up to go to Daycare in the morning! (He is going to daycare just a couple days a week while Mommy & Ella get adjusted! :-)

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Mommy had fun dressing up Ella in her new bows and hats! :-)

Bryce Holding Ella

Shortly after we came home big brother Bryce was very excited and interested in holding his baby sister. He did really well! He loves giving kisses to her and is adjusting very well.

Paints

Aunt Kelly and Uncle Brett came to visit and meet Ella!

Look what they bought for Bryce! He had a lot of fun playing with Uncle Brett and making a mess with his new paints!

Family of Four

The Four of us together for the 1st Time!

Ella Marie ready to go home.

The Big Bro hanging out in the hospital bed.

All Bundled Up!!

Brother and Sister Together!

Children's Museum

Today we went to the Children's Museum to have some fun! It is our last weekend as a family of 3! This was a great way to spend some quality, special time with Bryce before he becomes a big brother!

Bryce loves the wheel barrels and shovels.

Bryce insisted on taking the lawn mower through the tunnel...and he did!!

Snow Fall

We have received a lot of snow this month! Here are just a few good shots we took outside.

Bryce loves shoveling, but more importantly loves ordering Daddy

when and where he needs to shovel more.

Bryce going for a sled ride rather than the wagon.

Bryce right behind Terry helping him shovel all the snow!

It was a beautiful snow fall! This is our view from our house.

Bryce having fun!

Room Changes

Since Thanksgiving we have been busy changing around a few rooms in the house. Terry, with help from his Dad, transformed the 'traditional' living room into an enclosed office. We also put together a new room for Bryce, and made some changes to the nursery for Ella.

Office-Entry Way

Dining Room entrance to Office

Ella's Room #1

Ella's Room #2

Bryce's Room #1

Bryce's Room #2

Baking Christmas Cookies

It took him a while to discover that the stuff he was working with actually taste really good!

Here is Bryce helping Mommy bake some Christmas cookies! He really got into it and tried to mimic everything that Mommy did! I think his favorite part was putting on the sprinkles. When Bryce would shack the sprinkles, and boy did he love doing that, he would get frosting on the top of the container. When this first happened Terry would wipe it off a few times. Well, Bryce soon picked up on this and didn't at all like it when frosting was on the top of the container. It had to be cleaned before he would continue shaking!