visit from Nana!!!

Nana came to visit Griffin! We had the best time!!! She LOVES taking care of her griffin and mommy loves it too! ....and g loves all of the treats and surprises she always brings for him!!! Love you Nana!!!!

Here they were having a "picnic"!!

showerin' the babies!!!

we have a little group of girls that get together to "play" about once a week...and we bring the kids along too...so nice to have some girl time! so we thought it would be so fun to throw a little surprise shower for liz and krista!...still not convinced they were completely surprised...but we still had a great time!

all of the girls are amazing, and gave the new babies the cutest handmade goodies!!!...here is g helping me make mine!
here is what g and i made for little parker...he is gonna be such a stud
and for miss violet....still waiting to find out her name, but violet will do for now!...maybe it will stick! aren't these shoes A-DOR-ABLE!!! and she now has a cute little outfit/tutu skirt and hairbow to match
is this not the cutest cake?! and yummy too!

life and times of Griffin James!

we have a crazy almost-2 yr old! he is just hilarious!!

loves him some chocolate doughnuts!

brushin' some teeth...so funny this night!
LOVES his "little people"!!! you can see...he has about a million of them...his fav is "nana" you will laugh once you see this lady! The other day mommy wasn't feelin' so hot, so he brought everyone of them over to give me kisses....didn't make me feel better, but it put a smile on my face!
walked outside to see g helping daddy wash his car! melted my heart!
and i liked this shot for obvious reasons!
when daddy puts him to bed, g takes his football....q likes this more than the monkey mommy gives him!
we were running late for a playdate on this morning...and as I came to put g in the car...this is what I found..a boy COVERED in lipstick! never thought it would come off.....and we did go with a little purple still in his hair
helped mommy make brownies!

22 months!

a few days late.....well, lets say fashionably late!!!

doesn't he just keep gettin' cuter and cuter!!!

• still loves his elmo!!! but not barney has been added to the list...which he loves..but drives his mommy a little crazy! and we both love dinosaur train!!!
• big time into choo choos...loves playing with his bud eli's train table and "talkin" trains with eli, brooks, conrad and grey!
• his speech is picking up very rapidly!
• loves dancing..he even has moves, the rolls it out, fist pumps, raises the roof, walks it out and shakes his booty! hilarious
• loves playing with his "best friend"/cousin Kolton...which includes wrestling
• loves catching frogs....ahhhh
• favorite songs are happy birthday song...and itsy bitsy spider...so cute to watch him do the motions!!!
• just thinks rylee is pretty cool...love hearing him say "Ryee"
• hops and jumps everywhere!! and tells you when he does
• such a little fish, this dude can jump into the pool and swim like nobody's business!!
• says thank you! which is the cutest thing ever!
• he is our little helper! Helps us with anything we are doing!!! He especially likes helping daddy carry the water hose!
• loves to race and play red light/green light
• he is quite the blondie! His hair is really bleach blonde on top from spending so much time in the boat this summer and swimming!

starting to plan is 2nd birthday party this week! ahhhhh! save the date: Oct 8th (i think....lol)

Ellis family trip: a little cliff jumping

yikes!! sounds as scary as it looks!!!

my daredevil! I had a nice view from the boat!
Rylee was the first one off!!! ...and I think she went 4 more times!!! my kinda girl!!!

about to jump!

the two cuties in big boy undies...seriously are they not the cutest 2 little men!
tired kiddos!

Ellis family trip: a little cavern tour

Took a little trip to War Eagle Caverns. It was pretty neat!

Griffin sure had some energy...he kept hop, hop, hopping all through the cavern! Sure kept us on our toes!


The cavern is where Kolton saw all of the bats.... and Bryn almost jumped out of her skin when she thought one had skimmed her...nope, only Ryan teasing!

Ellis family trip: a little swimming

a few more pics from the trip! we had such a great spot on the lake...the kiddos would just swim and jump into the water!!

how cute are they
game of the trip!!! imaginary baseball...you would have thought this was an award winning game

tubing!!! this was as much tubing as g would do...sitting in the tube...maybe next year bud!

paddleboat with aunt bryn! good thing they were able to (finally) make it out of the boat dock...you had us worried there for a minute...ha!