It's a birthday wrap.

Last  month we had our last birthday of the year. Brady turned 31! Kids had a blast this year planning his "party". They helped decorate, make his cake, and Ella even made a game for it! Below is my favorite picture. We would sing and Carter would blow the candles out right before we would finish the song. He did it three times. We had to re-light and according to Ella, re-sing. It was hilarious (although Ella was a little more than irritated!). :) 

 Pin the tail on the pig was her game! 

Birthday's were so much fun this year. The kids were so into celebrating. Until next year...

Halloween...

It happened. Sort of. We were once again moving. We like to move that time of year for some reason. We did the trunk or treat and trick or treating. We never actually made it to the carving of pumpkins. Oh well. There's always next year. Look at my cute little kids all dressed up though. :)

Super Sleuth Ella!

This year Ella has been very into detective books. One of her favorites was Nancy Clancy (it's the new Fancy Nancy chapter book series). We decided to throw her a fancy mystery party! Here were her invites!

She had to have her very own fancy magnifying glass!

We had fun disguises for all of them as they arrived. 

Her Fancy cake!

This is where they met to talk about the clues!

The detectives!

They had to decode a message in the beginning. This told them the mystery they needed to solve. They were to solve the case of the missing marble (just like in the book!). Then they found their first clue!

Each clue had to be decoded in a different way!

And they solved the case!

She was SO happy one of her best friends that moved could come back for the party! They got silly with the mustaches. :)

And I love this picture of her friend Jagger. :)

Time for presents for the birthday girl!

And of course some cake!

The party was sure fun! :)

Ella's five!

Back in the end of September Ella finally turned five! It seemed like she waited all year. It is hard having an end of the year birthday! Here's my cute girl on her birthday!

Started the morning out with, you guessed it, presents!

She got her American Girl doll! She named it Julie. Who knows why. She got various other things from people as well which were not pictured for some reason. All except this from her Great Grandparents....

Who wouldn't want a nice place to read?

Auntie Cass, you always send the best gifts! Ladybugs and all. She adores it as you can tell!

Happy birthday my big girl!

My star student!

Ella was given the student of the month award for the first month of school! Since she is the youngest kid in the school, I think that is pretty neat! She is such a hard worker and loves school. I am so proud of my little girl! Congrats baby girl!

They were told they could stick around after the assembly to take pictures. I took this one and she said to me, "Mom, can I go to class now?" Guess that's why she got student of the month maybe. ;)

 Ella and Mrs. Viskov. She is loving her teacher and so am I!

 

 You will have to excuse my blurry picture. Someone had my memory card for my nice camera. (won't name and names. :)

Way to go Ella! Keep up the good work!

First Day of Kindergarten!

Well today is my baby girls first day of Kindergarten! She was up around 6am (which most of you know is quite early for her). She was so excited. After we got in to the room she was a little apprehensive at first, but not two minutes later she said, "okay, could you guys leave now?" and motioned for the door. She was ready! As you can see from the photos she is more than excited for her first day! Hopefully she will have a great time. Pick her up in a couple of hours and will be anxiously awaiting to hear how her first day went!

My little Kindergartner!