Just a little Weekend Project!

A big thank you to my talented hubby and my family for helping us put this up for our Ella Boo!

Cheese Face!

Some of my favorites of April!

Little Miss Cheese face!

This is the best picture I could get of Ella and her pal Luci at my school's Art Show  

I never posted a picture of the little kitchen that Mark and I made for Ella for her Birthday. She loves making "Dinner" for us in her kitchen!

Overall Twins!

Coast Camping

A couple of weeks ago we went camping with our friends over at the coast. When we booked this trip back in February, we assumed the entire weekend would most likely be spent hanging out in our motorhomes because the weather would be rainy and windy. Well, luckily we were absolutely wrong. We couldn't of asked for better weather! It was beautiful and warm, especially out of the wind!

Ella was checking out the beautiful view from our campsite

Spring is here!

Just down from our campsite was the North Jetty

Good Morning Campers!

Ella pushing Claire around in her stroller! 

She LOVES her Claire!

Ella got some good bike riding time while,

Mommy and Daddy got some good sunshine time in! It felt so good to soak up the sun after this rainy spring.

My All-American Beauty!

After nap time we cruised down to the beach. Elle wasn't so sure about the water.

It was chilly!

Ella- 2 years

Ella- 4 months

Little Baby Anderson

Today we got to see this sweet face! 

We are so excited to meet this little baby in 15 short weeks! 

We also got to finally find out if Ella is going to have a baby sister or brother!

 It was a long 3 and half week wait since our first ultrasound.

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Yep, it's another girl! We couldn't be happier! 

I'm so excited that Ella is going to have a sister!

25 Weeks

Easter 2012

Easter Weekend started on Saturday with a stop at the A.G. Gilbert Children's Museum in Salem. We have free passes to it, so we thought we should check it out.

Daddy and Ella all excited to go!

She liked milkin' the cow!

They have this huge play structure that Ella had fun exploring.

We had a great time soaking up this much needed sunshine!

Next we headed up to Portland to celebrate Tucker's first birthday!

On Easter morning Mark's Aunt and Uncle always host a large brunch, egg hunt and games.

Ella was really into the egg hunt this year. She even helped Tucker find some eggs.

After the egg hunt and brunch, it was time for the adults to have their fun. Both Mark and I teams were winners. I do have to mention that my game was much
more difficult then his:)

 

Mark had to balance two balls on a tray

and I had to use a water bottle to spray a balloon into a basket without it dropping and it was windy.

Before we left, we got all the cousins together for a group picture.

Look at this little busy bee! 

Happy Easter Everyone!

Daycare Buddies!

 Ella loves her Baby Claire! These two are going to be best camping buddies!

A Few Spring Break Hightlights

Spring Break has come and almost gone. I'm down to the finally hours:( It always goes way too fast! We just stuck around town this year. We had a couple of playdates with our friends, and mostly worked/played around the house. I'm super excited to have gotten my kitchen painted. My goal is to tile the backsplash,
 so painting is one step closer to getting that done. 

Here's the before-

And the afters-

It's light gray, that looks a touch blue in some light.

Here is my painting partner, she loves it!

 On Friday, Cousin Roger and Marge came over for dinner. They are out visiting from Minnesota. Roger and Ella had a great time feeding their babies.

Saturday Night, Ella's "Friends" Libby and Peytie came over while their Mommy went to a play. Ella was in heaven! It was so much fun to watch her interact with the girls. We love the Groshong Girls!