11.17.2008

Miscellaneous Pictures

These are truly random pictures! They were all taken with mine or Greg's phone, and I finally got them onto my computer!
I think this was the last picture of me pregnant. I think it was Thursday night, August 21st and she was born on the 26th!

Ellie and Grammie - The first day home from the hospital.

Ellie was a tiny bit jaundice, so Grammie took her outside into the sun. She totally relaxed and went limp - she loved it!

on the boppy

I was trying to type a paper and Elyse was really fussy! So I put her in the sling so that I could keep writing. It wasn't very comfortable, but it worked!

hangin' out in the bumbo chair

aunt mellie and ellie =)

spit bubbles!

This is my favorite picture of Ellie! She was almost 4 weeks old

Aunt Anna and Ellie in Sunday School

HALLOWEEN!

Finally!

Here are our Halloween pictures.
Josh and some of his friends wanted to go Trick-or-Treating, so we thought we'd join them.
Afterward, they all came to our house and played poker with their candy.
The Group: (from left to right)
Charis (with the camera) "hippie midwife"
Lydia - "tree hugger"
Andrew - I have no idea what he was supposed to be - but it was funny!
Mark - "rock climer"
Josh - "Partly cloudy with a chance of rain..."
Joshua O. - once again, no idea
They had a few others join them later, but I don't have pictures.

Ellie and I went as a butterfly.

Ellie is the body of the butterfly and I wore the wings.

Lydia took a few more pictures, but I don't have them yet.

Greg went as a mountain-man....I think
We didn't stay very long, though, because we decided we were MUCH too old for Trick-or-Treating! Instead, we went to walmart to get some candy to pass out back at the house. The only candy left on the shelves was Hannah Montana candy-bracelets!
I think we only had 3 Trick-or-Treaters though. I guess we got back too late.
Oh Well. We'll know better next time.
Pumpkins!
On the morning of the 31st, we went to Farmer's Market hoping to find good deals on pumpkins. We took a few pictures there, too.
Our Family's First Halloween =)
Papa and Lauren Elyse
I'm not sure why Ben had pink hair...but I kind of like it!

Caitlyn!

Caitlyn came over and stayed with us on October 25/26. She's so good with the baby!

She loves to talk to Ellie and give her the paci when she fusses.
She came to snuggle with Ellie in the morning and then she tucked her baby doll in next to her:
So cute!
I asked her later what her baby doll's name was and she said:
"I think it's Ellie. Ellie Bolin Bond 2. I don't know. I didn't name her."
She is so funny!
Ellie smelled kinda sour so I decided we needed to give her a bath after she woke.
Caitlyn wanted to take a bath with her, so....
I filled up Ellie's little bath tub, then I filled up the tub around it so Caitlyn had some water!

Growing!

Look how much she's grown! And these are at least a month old!

We're going to take pictures of Ellie in this big onesie (until she grows out of it!) to see how much she is growing.

This one was taken when she was about 6 days old.
She's so little and scrawny!
I wanted to take the second one when she was one month old, but I forgot.
I think this is closer to 6 or 7 weeks old. It was around October 10th, I think.
Look how much she gained! So much fatter!
I wanted to get one every month, but now here it is November 17th and I still haven't taken another!
I guess they'll just have to be random.
I'm going to try to get one around 3 months...which is almost here!
She'll be 3 months old on the day before Thanksgiving!

11.05.2008

Better late than never...

This is a month late...oh well

On October 7th, we went to the Dallas Arboretum and the Texas State Fair with Grammie, Great-Grandpa and his new bride Marianne.

The Arboretum













We wanted a picture of Elyse snuggled with the pumpkins and gourds.



It took a few tries, but I finally got a good one!





I wanted a picture of Ellie with the "Ellie-phant" ears...










Grammie even let Ellie climb a tree!


















Ellie loves the warmth of the sun






The State Fair of Texas!



Ellie loved staring at this massive fan!





Notice the people walking by...that should give you an idea of how BIG this pig is!




There were Egyptian Sand sculptures in honor of the King Tut exhibit that is at the DMA
(the last one is a hippo - I don't know why it came out so dark)

11.04.2008

random Ellie pictures

I don't remember when these were taken but it was sometime in October.

Bath time!

This is one of Ellie's favorite positions^^

Ellie sitting in her bumbo chair. She loves to sit up!

funny faces!

so bald!

bath time with Grammie

This was Elyse's first bath in the kitchen sink =)

bath time with Mommy

asleep in the carseat at Grammie's house.

Wednesdays are hard on us

Uncle Josh. Look at the tiny tennis shoes!

all snuggled in the little bouncy chair on Halloween.