What a fun day!! January 29, 2011

Ellie-Kate with her new doll stroller-- thanks, Great-Grandma!!


Ellie-Kate and Emmy take one last slide.

Emmy helps Chloe and Charlie.

more party pics :) 1/29/11

Ellie-Kate and "her" Elena :)


Charley and Ellie-Kate

Chloe and Ellie-Kate

Ellie-Kate

Olivia

More party pics-- 1/29/11

Ellie-Kate, Charley, Lila, Max, and Olivia


Ellie-Kate enjoys her cake.

Ellie-Kate's friends sing "Happy Birthday" before we cut the cake.

What a pretty princess castle cake!

Ellie-Kate poses in front of her cake.

More party pics-- 1/29/11

Yup, Ellie-Kate is THREE!


Ellie-Kate, Charley, Chloe, and Lila

Amazing castle cake, courtesy of the Walmart cake designers!

Ryley and Max

Chloe and Lila

Ellie-Kate's 3 year old birthday party at Burger King-- 1/29/11

Ellie-Kate and Charley get ready to eat their kid's meals.


Ellie-Kate gets ready to go down the slide on her tummy :)

Lila and Ellie-Kate plan their next move on the playground :)

Chelsea, Emmy, and Patricia helped to set up for the party.

Chelsea, Emmy, and Patricia at Burger King. We "boxed out" to get this prime spot b/c the restaurant refused to reserve a spot for us. We're so glad that we arrived 45 minutes early-- FOUR parties showed up at the same time slot!!

Go Ellie-Kate!! January 27, 2011

Ellie-Kate and Chelsea play around after supper.

Happy Three Year Old Birthday, Ellie-Kate!!

Eating her Minnie Mouse birthday cake-- yup, chocolate is GREAT!


Ellie-Kate and Chelsea

Singing happy birthday to Ellie-Kate before blowing out candles :)

Ellie-Kate and Chelsea

Yummy and fun birthday cake!

More birthday fun-- January 26, 2011

Ellie-Kate smiles beside her new car. All of her big sisters agreed that she could have this big gift, even though Britti, Chelsea, and Emmy never got their own Barbie jeep (or Princess convertible).


Ellie-Kate and Chelsea play with the blow toys on her birthday minute-- 8:08 p.m. (We came up with the birthday minute because Ellie-Kate's favorite number has long been eight, and, apparently, eight is a lucky number in Chinese.)


Ellie-Kate stands in front of her big present :)

Opening presents!!

Birthday memories... January 25-26, 2011

Roger and Ellie-Kate toast a great birthday at Bob Evans on January 26, 2011.


Ellie-Kate with Miss Cara and her new preschool friends after eating cupcakes to celebrate her birthday! January 26, 2011

Ellie-Kate smiles after opening her new Princess Aurora doll on her birthday morning :)

Ellie-Kate loves her new baby crib!! Thanks, Grandma B. :)

More three year old birthday pics-- January 26, 2011

Happy 3rd Birthday, Ellie-Kate!! January 26, 2011

Ellie-Kate poses for her three year old birthday pictures at Walmart!

Disney on Ice-- 1/22/11

Ellie-Kate smiles at California Pizza Kitchen after the show!


Roger and Ellie-Kate outside of the arena.

Chelsea, Emmy, Ellie-Kate, and Roger at Disney on Ice!

Emmy by the hat display at Nationwide Arena.

*We had a great family day today!! Emmy had a basketball game this morning. She scored two baskets; actually, her whole team had a low scoring day-- the final score was 16 to 6! However, she had lots of steals and played pretty good defense so, overall, good game. We left from the game for Columbus, stopping in Lancaster for lunch at Olive Garden. The girls napped as we drove on up to Columbus, and we had a great time at the show. Ellie-Kate wore her Cinderella dress and tiara, and we watched Jasmine, Aurora, Snow White, Mulan, Ariel, and Cinderella (and their respective princes) skate to beautiful Disney music-- much fun! After the show, we stopped at Easton so that Chelsea could pick up a few things at Forever 21, and the rest of us had supper at California Pizza Kitchen. We just got home, and our tired girls are in bed. Fun day!!