Wedding--#2

Emily and I had to wait for the Hale shuttle after the wedding, so I took a few pictures just for giggles.

The wedding--part 1

I'm too lazy to change the order on these...

Emily clearly wasn't concerned with Amberlee & Joey--she looked wherever she wanted. Mostly at Aunt Cindy's/Amberlee's bouquet.

Once she was out of petals, it was a sprint to go stand by Aunt Cindy.

Aunt Cindy was the Maid of Honor.

I put Emily's hair in hot rollers, then the wonderful girl who did Amberlee's hair helped out with Emily, and made it look gorgeous.

(This bottom one was post-hot rollers, pre-curling iron.)

Airplane

Technically she's on the bed

So I should be happy, right?
The top picture is from her nap, and the bottom was at bedtime.

New Bubbles

Ellen and her letters

Proof of the nerdery.

Kid pile

Cute Little Mellen

I'm afraid we have another genius on our hands. She can recognized the letters A, E, L, O, R, and Y. Probably more. She can also pick out (and say, of course) the color yellow. Nerd.

Jacket? Why? It's Just Snow...

Over the 3-day weekend we went to Milton-Freewater (my camera stayed in the car for no good reason), and then Ontario. Ontario still had snow, and Emily was in heaven...

PLUS, Curtis had given Emily some bubbles.
Bubbles + Snow = Best Day Ever (for Em)

Ellen had some opinions about something. I can't remember what.

How to tell if you put your 3-year-old's pants on your 1-year-old...

Poor Ellers...

My second ever dutch oven meal

Here's the recipe.

(Can you tell I'm excited about my new dutch oven?)

Pink Panther + Sunday Afternoon =

Carrot Cutter

Another odd sleeping location

A REAL big girl bed

The Reeds gave us their old bunk bed, and we brought it back with us from California. We got a mattress for the bottom bunk, and Emily is thrilled with her new bed (the top bunk is clearly bonus storage).

Em picked out some cute bedding at Ikea. She's hiding under it--you just can't see. Ellen approved it, too.

Passed out with all of her ducks in the new bed.

During assembly--Emily was testing out her new bedding.

Snow! (Yes, these are from 12/29)

Tiny little snowball...

Honestly, I don't really think Ellen really cared about the snow at all. She was just thrilled to be outside (ask Cindy--she drug her all over SoCal when we were there).

One of Emily's all-time favorite activities is throwing snowballs.