15 Months

Ellie is 15 months old! She is growing so fast! Each day she seems to be more like a little girl than a baby. Makes this momma a little sad. But I also love to see her learn and do new things. She is talking so much and trying really hard to keep up with big brother.

Love this little face.

Making her Paw-Paw proud!

Ellie's sign for "more". We see and hear this about 100 times a day! Girlfriend loves her some snacks. :)

We love you Ellie!

A-Hunting We Will Go!

This morning was our annual church preschool Easter egg hunt! It was a beautiful morning for hunting eggs, eating candy and jumping on a bouncehouse! A special thanks to Barbara (our Austin grandma!) for helping so mommy could take pictures!

Ellie looks so big here walking like a pro and carrying her "bag". But she still has her baby cheeks that I want to kiss all day!

Hudson's loot. I'm pretty sure he ate like 10 Tootsie Rolls.

He got the hang of it this year. And he was FAST. Hudson and Ellison with the Easter Bunny. Somebody was not interested. More Easter fun to come!

Spring is Here!!

Yay for sunshine and warmer days!!

This smile. Hilarious.

Ellie got in on the watering too...herself!

One last pat, pat, pat!

We are looking forward to many more sunny days to play outside! Thank you Lord for a new season!

Birthday Continued!

Hudson has it good. Spring Break birthday means two parties for him pretty much every year! He chose Lightning McQueen for party #2! He is slightly obsessed with the movie Cars. :) And again, I chose a low-key, just your average cake and pinata party. With 7 1/2 kids running around, less is better. But there is still chaos, so I did not get great pictures. Thanks family! Hudson had so much fun!

The birthday boy!

And even though this was a pull-string pinata, we still let everybody take a whack! Please excuse Hudson's sagging shorts.

The gang. After party. Soooo done.

Maddie, Hudson, Walker, Livi, Ellie, Jackson, Grace

Birthday Friends!

Baker, Jack, Hudson, Kate and Ellie

Hudson and Kate

Lyndsey, Steven and Jack
Why can't Hudson smile like this? I love it.

Stephanie and Baker

Thanks to our sweet friends for joining our train party!

Happy Birthday Hudson!!

Hudson doesn't turn 3 until Friday, but we celebrated early with our Austin friends today. We headed downtown to Zilker Park to take a ride on the Zilker Zephyr! So. Much. Fun. The kids loved it!

The Zilker Zephyr!

All Aboard!!

(No worries, Ellie did not ride alone!)

This was Hudson's face as we sang Happy Birthday. I'm not sure that he realized the party was for him until right at this point. Ha! And yes, we were really fancy with a blanket on the ground and cookies on paper napkins. But the train cookies were yum-my!

Yay! Veggie Tales Jonah ship! This was the only thing he asked for, I think he liked it!

I've been a little skimpy on blogs lately and that is mostly because we have been going through some terrible two's/three's with Hudson. It's been a rough month here at our house. We are thankful that God's mercies are new every morning! And we are leaning on Him to guide us on how to parent our little man! It sounds like we'll be on our knees through the next year too, we've been told that three is the new two! Super! More to come on our big three year old!!

Just For You Mimi!

Happy Birthday! We love you!