Thanks Tom!

Tom bought Ella and I flowers for no reason other than he loves us both

Summertime in the Neighborhood

We are blessed to have really really great neighbors. Two of them are moving so the neighbor behind us had a cookout tonight. Eight families from our neighborhood came. We had a great time and Ella had a blast playing with Paige, Declan, Lauren, and Kaitlyn. She actually ended up so tired (about 30 min past her bedtime) that she kept falling down! She tried to keep playing and playing, with a smile on her face the whole time, as she kept tumbling over. Finally at 830 we decided we should probably head in for bath and bed.

I made berry cobbler. Its actually quite simple and I always get tons of compliments.

Ingredients needed:

Bottom layer is frozen berries, sugar, and flour...


Top layer is flour, sugar, baking powder, milk, and butter mixed together..

Spread top layer over berries...

And bake one hour....






Had to play cornhole with daddy...


Ella and Paige...

All the kids...


Bubbles....







Loved discovering she could swing on her belly...




Declan and Ella...

Such a good little mommy....

After Ella wrapped kitty in a blankie, sat down and rocked him, and laid him down for a nap, she then read him a book...

A girl and her dog

Summer, Summer, Summertime means...

that Ella and I went to Parky's farm today and had the absolute best time. She LOVED it. The two lambs and two baby calves are not pictured but she had to look at them over and over and over again. She didn't even seem to mind that the temp was scalding!

She loved riding the pony and did a great job sitting on the pony! This pony's name was Rosie...


Very interested in the roosters...

And surprisingly the roosters even let her pet them...


She enjoyed hanging out with the goats and watching the baby goats nurse..




Then there was this guy...

And this guy...(she actually ran away from the alpacas)

She had to ride Rosie a second time...




She loved the inside, two story play area...


Then it was time to head over to Parky's Ark spray park for some lunch and to cool down...
















We both had a blast this am/afternoon. Ella was exhausted when we got home for nap!

Edit: So Ive decided to try to make the pictures a little bigger in the blog so that you can see them better. But by doing that, it makes the quality of them look a little worse. If you click on each picture individually though it takes it back to the quality it originally was. Trying to decide bigger picture vs better quality? hmmmm