Eli's 4th...2 months later.

I am finally going to post some pics from Eli's 4th birthday party. Let me tell you a little about her party. She wanted to have her party at Fundaygo because she wanted to sit in the "crown" chair to open her presents. Well, as many of you know, there are a lot of children that are her age and we do not like to leave anyone out. With that being said, we usually end up inviting atleast 30+ children to her parties. After researching and realizing that to have that kind of party of Fundaygo it was going to cost us about $500. So we decided to build our own crown chair and have a party in the backyard! She had a great day and I wish that I had not been so slack and gotten these pics up sooner. Needless to say, Eli had a great day with her friends. She is already talking about what she wants to do for her 5th birthday party. Hopefully it will be a girly theme so we can cut down on inviting the entire town of Hartsville. Just kidding... we love our "boy" friends!

She's going to the chapel and she's going to get married...

Okay, while I have wedding stuff on the brain I just had to post these pics! Jonathon's mom keeps Elizabeth Grace every Tuesday and one afternoon when I went to pick her up they had been playing with Grandmama's wedding dress!

I thought that Eli looked so beautiful...especially with peanut butter and jelly on her face! I love these pictures!

Back to Blogging

I haven't updated our blog in so long. For one, I don't have a good camera to take pictures. Maybe I'll get a new one for Mother's day. Yeah right!!
We have been somewhat busy for the past couple of months.
Eli was in a wedding (see the next post), and she turned 4 on March 10! We cannot believe that 4 years has gone by since God blessed us with our precious princess!
My mother-in-law so graciously is letting me get pics from her camera so that I can catch up with my blog.
I'll try to post some from her birthday soon!

I wanted to post this cute pic of Eli in her Grandmama's reading glasses. I think she looks a lot like my niece Sydney is this picture.

Emma's Wedding

Last month, (Feb.21) Elizabeth Grace was asked to be the flower girl in Jonathon's cousin Emma's wedding. It was such a beautiful wedding and as you can see from the pictures the bride was just breath-taking!

We were very proud of our sweet little girl who fullfilled the duties of flower girl wonderfully!

She carried one long stemmed rose that Emma took from her at the end of the ceremony to give to her new mother-in-law. During the ceremony, Eli decided to pretend that the rose was her fairy wand and pointed it all around the church. At one point she put it between her legs and (try to get a visual here) thrust her hips to and fro and tossing the rose all around. Jonathon and I tried to control our laughter! I was so worried that Emma was going to end up handing her mother-in-law a stem instead of a rose!

It was such a fabulous time to spend with our family and we are so happy for Brandon and Emma!

My Funny Girl

This morning we were having some friends over to play. I went into her room because she had already pulled out almost every toy from her cabinets and I just wanted to put some of it away before our guests arrived.
She came in and asked me what I was doing. I said, "I am trying to clean up your room before your friends get here." She said, "Why, Mom? We're just going to tear it up."

A few minutes later, she was in my bedroom watching TV. I told her to turn the TV off and come out of my room because I wanted to shut the door. She again asks me why (that's a popular question around here lately). I told her that I had not made up my bed and I really didn't want everyone to see my messy room.
So our friends arrive and the first thing out of Eli's mouth is this, "Don't go in my mom's room because she didn't make up her bed."

Ah, the joys of having a chatty baby girl!

Playing in the Snow

Making a snow angel(above)
Our miniature snowman

Our snow-covered house

We were so happy to wake up to a snowy day! It was so much fun playing in the snow. Whenever we went out the snow was coming down pretty hard. Eli said,"Mommy, I've never seen snow before!"

She made a snowangel and her grandmama came over and made a teeny tiny snowman.

I'll have to admit I wasn't very thrilled with the idea of snow b/c of having to miss school and make up a day,but seeing Elizabeth Grace experience the snow was well worth it!

I am so blessed to be a mother and witness a child's awe of discovering new things.

Photoshoot with Meredith

My friend Meredith took Elizabeth Grace's pictures the other day and I HAD to post some of them on my blog. They are gorgeous and I am so proud of Meredith's talent. She has become such a great photographer and I just know she is going to be very successful! I only snagged a few from her blog...if you want to check out a few of the others go to http://www.mlhphotojournal.blogspot.com/.