Quotes from Ellie

Her reaction to hearing my Elton John station on Pandora:

"UGH, Elton John is disgusting!"

As I'm dragging bringing her into the bathroom to get ready on a school morning:

Me: "You really need to get moving, Ellie. Livi's already had her breakfast."

Ellie: "How is Livi up so early?"

Me: "I don't know. I guess she's just a morning person."

Ellie: "I want to be a morning person, but I just can't!"


Apparently, she's five going on fifteen these days!

A (Not Long Enough) Long Weekend with the Hefrons

Our friends are awesome and made the looooong drive down from Ohio to Alabama for Labor Day weekend and we were all giddy to be together again. I have ZERO pictures of Lauranell and I, but got lots of pictures of the kids. They were all so happy to be together, too!

Coloring shenanigans:

Costco shenanigans:

Biking/scootering shenanigans:

These girls get along so well it makes my heart so happy.

In fact, they get along so well that they were up extremely late giggling and talking together every night. Brian even caught them up in the middle of one night wandering the house.

After such a fun weekend, it was time for the Hefrons to pack up and head home. 

Good-byes are always hard.