It's Official

 It's official we have made the move to Spokane!!!  We sold our house in Bothell in one day.  The movers came a month later to pack up our house ( it took almost 3 days) and made we drove ourselves to Spokane.  We currently can't find a house so we are temporarily living with my parents.  They have been so generous with their time and giving up their sleep to allow us to stay with them.  We can't complain one ounce, my mom does our laundry and cooks for us.  While my dad is the one who usually cleans up after our girl's messes.  We are so blessed to have them help us with a smooth transition to our new beginning.

Pumpkin Patch 2013

Bus and more

 Since Ella can't go to school right across the street from our development due to the over crowding of children in our community.  All the half day kindergarteners have to be bused or talken by their parents to another school about 3.5miles away.  At first we weren't too happy about this but I love her teacher and so far things are good.  Part of going to this other school is that Ella has the opportunity to take the bus.  It works out that she can take the bus on Tues. and Thurs.  Which is fun because I can walk her to and from school.  When it's cold and winter is here I might not think it's so fun.  These pictures are from her first bus day.  Since then she has met a little girl who she loves to ride with now.

 Here is Bridgette helping me take care of our neighbors little baby boy Will.

 Bridgie is such a great helper these days.

 Rock Star girls!

 They love to rock out!

 My baby LOVE!  Molly is getting bigger by the day.  She adores Ella.  She babbles a ton now.  She tries to sing and dance with the girls.  She is pretty good eater.  Teething has been very painful for her.  She is just missing one more set and then she will have all 20!

She is such a big kid, who has an awesome personality. This week, she is recovering from an ear infection.  She is also really into learning all her body part.  If you ask her where something is, she will point to that part.  We are enjoying this age so much.

Bridgie's First day of Preschool

 Sweet Bridgette had her first day of school just a couple of days after Ella.  She goes 3 days/ week for 2.5 hrs.  She seems to be really enjoying it.  My favorite part is when I pick her up after school she loves to talk to me about how her day went.  Ella is just the opposite.  She likes a little time to herself  before opening up.  For those who don't know, Bridgie is a HUGE talker.  She talks non- stop from the second she wakes up to when I walk out the door from kissing her goodnight.

 Bridgette loves Merida from the Disney movie Brave

 Bridgette's teacher, Mrs. Verver.

Rare sightings of Molly

 Lately I feel like I just have been blogging about the older girls.  But we can't forget about adorable Molly.

 Molly is just a hoot!  If you are having a bad, just hang out with this kid.  She is so funny and stinkin cute.
 Molly loves to clap her hands, she loves to shake her booty to music, is good at shaking her head NO or Yes, she can say, mama, book, go, up, Ella and milk.  She loves it when we play peek a boo with her belly button and she thinks its hilarious if you tell her her feet stink.  If you say Pee- u she will grab her nose and scrunch it up.  She is a great walker, and loves to color with crayons with the girls.  She also enjoys cuddling up with book.  She takes a sippy cup of milk, no bottles which is great but still doesn't sleep through the night.

 The girls making cookies and using our alphabet cookie cutters to spell their names in cookies.  Bridgette of course had to make some football shaped cookies too.  She is a huge Seahawk fan.  Just like her daddy.

Ella's First Day of Kindergarten

 Ella's First Day of Kindergarten was this morning.  She did great.  No tears from her, just me.  Above and below is the pencil vase I made for Ella's teacher.  It turned out pretty good.

 Ella picked out her outfit for the first day of school.  She is one happy camper.

 Ella giving her teacher the vase of flowers.  She was was so proud of it.

 Ella and her new teacher!

 Only a few tears.  Bridgette was very concerned that Ella wasn't coming back.  She cried and cried last night about it.

Ella and her class.  She gets to sit next to a boy she went to school with last year.  It was nice to see a familiar face.

2013 Fair

 Our neighbors gave us free tickets to the fair this year.  Jake and I had good memories of going to the fair from when we were little so we were excited to take the girls.  Before we could leave, the one requirement Jake had was that we all had to wear tennis shoes.  He told Ella that they wouldn't let her in the gate if she didn't.  Needless to say we all had proper walking shoes on.
The girls had a ton of fun looking at all the different animals.  We watched some cow judging too.  The rides were a big hit too.

 Ella scoped out a cat to ride on for her turn on the carousel.

 Then Ella decided she wanted to try out these balls that you play in while floating on the the water.  I couldn't believe she was all about it.  At first she was nervous because they had to blow up the balls with a huge air pump while they were inside.  But after she figured out that it wasn't going to hurt her she was all game.  Bridgette on the other hand was to scared so she got out and Ella just got to use her extra time.

 Me and Bridge rode the tea cups while Ella spent a lot of time in her ball on the water.

 Then the two rode the tea cups together.

And lastly they drove race cars.  After all the rides we ate our way through the fair.  Of course stopping for an elephant ear.  Which Ella told us that she didn't eat elephant ears, but after she saw what it was, she was all over it.  Yes, Molly did have fun too.  She was so worn out from the day she slept through the night.