Happy 4th of July!!

This year was a bit non-traditional for us for the 4th of July. Usually, I love all of the festivities and we try to pack in as much as possible. This year, my sister and her family were supposed to be here, but plans fell through at the last minute and we decided to just be really low key. We enjoyed just being together around the house and swimming in our neighbor's pool. Fun, simple family time--we've not had nearly enough of that in the past six months, so it was nice to just enjoy one another.

Elly wouldn't give up the headband for anything, so I decided to just let it go--this is the phase she's in and knowing her...will always be in. She LOVES her accessories--matching or not!

Logan Love

The morning after Logan's hernia surgery, he was laying on the couch with Landon and Elly just needed to keep hugging him. Love these kids!

Deal...

Okay, I don't normally do this, but I couldn't resist this one. Inspired by Lisa, I had to share the deal I got between CVS and Walgreens three Sunday's ago. I won't bore you with all of the details since all of these sales are off now, but I just want to give you proof of why clipping coupons and looking at sales papers pays off. I got paid 45 cents for all of these items. Yes, you read that right...but here's how--I clipped coupons and used some CVS and Walgreens bucks and got the following items for 3.55 out of my pocket. In turn I earned $4.00 in Extra Care Bucks at CVS to use on my next visit. If you don't shop CVS, you should. It took me a LONG time to get on the bandwagon there, but I've been on it with Walgreens forever. It truly does pay off--you get so many items for so little with just a little bit of work (I think it took me an hour to clip and go through the paper that day--and the value of the items below is worth over $50--and YES, we use all of these items with the exception of the men's bodywash, but I got paid $3.00 to buy it, so I did.)

Spring pictures

Here are our spring pictures. Logan was working on perfecting this awful fake grin, so the shots of him by himself are not so great. He has since given it up and we're getting good shots of him again...thankfully he was genuinely smiling for the "group" pictures!

Swinging

All 3 of the kids LOVE swinging outside. They would stay out there forever if we would let them!

For some reason these pictures of Landon don't look anything like him, but this was his first time in the outside swing a few weeks ago.

Landon Pictures

Here are a few updated Landon pictures:

Elly-isms

I need to write down some of our favorite Elly terms before I forget them:

1. "I love boo" for I love you
2. "Yandon" crying
3. "Settle down Yandon"
4. "Binky Ball" for bouncy ball
5. "Muk" for any drink, including Milk
6. "I huping" for I helping
7. "Gamby" for Gammie
8. "Grambuh" for Gramma
9. "Cee Cee" for Tennessee


She loves her brothers and makes sure to see both of them first thing in the morning and say hello. She loves socks, shoes, hats & gloves and tries to put any and all of them on that she can. She loves puzzles, books, baby dolls, bracelets, necklaces, phones, balls, musical instruments, cars and most of all being outside. She is as independent as they come and she loves helping anyone and everyone. She is as opinionated as they come too...and needs to feel like whatever she does is her idea. She is FULL of life and SOOOO much fun!