Elaina Loves to Eat

Or maybe it is "Elaina loves to eat at her grandma's house?" Eating must be dangerous because she decided she needed to wear her sister's bike helmet while she was eating yesterday. Too cute. The girls spend the night at my mom's Sunday so Rick and I could go to a friends wedding. They love to spend the night. They get baths (they would both live in the bath tub if I let them) and yummy breakfasts and they love to play with all of the cool toys that Grandma Marcia has.

We finally have pictures of Elaina enjoying her birthday muffin. I gave it to her in a whole piece but she figured out how to make it bite size quickly. This girl loves to eat and easily eats at least twice as much as her sister in a day. Must be going through a growth spurt or something.

Awesome News

Rick got the job! Yay, we are so excited. He has a long commute, 2 hours each way, but right now it is really worth it to us. We are hoping if things work out that maybe we can move up north in a year or two. We really want to be in the Puyallup area anyway, so this helps us reach that goal. Thanks to everyone for their prayers, words of encouragement, help with babysitting, or overall moral support during this fun period of our lives. Now if you live in the area just give me a week or so and I might be calling on you. I have a lot of catching up to do! No more Walmart!

Birthday Fun

We had Elaina's birthday party at my Mom and Dad's house on Saturday. We had hamburgers for dinner that my Dad cooked on the grill and had some cheesecake and ice cream for the adults and blueberry muffins for the birthday girl. Rick's camera died right before we got pictures of Elaina eating her muffin so my mom took those pictures so I guess those will be coming soon.

I am not really sure who was more excited about the presents, Keira or Elaina. As you can see from the first picture, it is a hard life when it is someone else's birthday and everyone keeps yelling at you for taking things away from her that look too fun. Elaina got this really cool, noisy sesame street toy from Grandma Inman and Keira and Elaina have been fighting over it ever since. Elaina also got some little kid crayons and Keira got one out of the package and snuck it to her during breakfast yesterday. Elaina had eaten part of it and drawn all over her high chair tray before we knew what had happened. Keira is such a good sister to make sure that Elaina gets to play with all of her new toys! Good thing crayon is easy to get off of most hard surfaces... I have lots of practice.

Overall it was a fun day and we are so excited to see what comes next in our little Elaina's life. As you can see, walking is next on her agenda.

Happy Birthday Elaina!

My baby girl is one year old today. I can't even believe it. Her short little life has been so busy and full of chaos for her parents that sometimes I don't think I have enjoyed it enough. She wasn't suppose to get big! She is the happiest, sweetest baby (except the naughty biting!) and we love having her in our family.

Happy Birthday Elaina!

Light at the End of the Tunnel

We got some great news today. Rick has been hired as a full time contractor for a company that he came in second place for a job position for a month or so ago. He will be doing that for a couple weeks to see if they do well together and then they will be most likely hiring him full time. He will be working at a marketing design firm in Seattle as a web developer. It will be quite the commute but he was willing to drive much further than that for a job! I am not going to quit Walmart until he is hired full time so it is going to be a long couple of weeks. Thanks to my mom for volunteering to babysit so much in the next couple of weeks. I need to get sleep some time! We are really excited and please pray that they hire him perm sooner than later.

Cute Girls at Grandma's Party

We went to my Grandma Williams' birthday party on Saturday and had lots of fun hanging out with the family. Keira was best friends with my cousin's daughter Audrey the whole time we were there. They don't see each other much and are only 9 months apart which always seems like a big age gap until Saturday. They were chitchatting with each other and playing all of the same games. They loved blowing bubbles and sat in the dirt and played with those for quite awhile.

I am sure my mom will love me for posting this but it is such a cute picture. Those girls love their Grandma Marcia!
Crawling on the concrete is a lot more fun than you would think. She crawled around everywhere and even tried practicing walking. I decided to put a stop to that since I didn't want her to crack her head open. Such a cutie!

There were other people at the party but they just aren't as cute as these girls. They would probably all agree with that too. Those three were quite the entertainment of the party and they knew it.

4th of July Fun

We went over to my parent's house for the 4th of July yesterday. I actually didn't mind being up because I have Saturday and Sunday night off this week. Yay. I have to work 7 days in a row next week but it is totally worth it. Anyway, it was a really nice day so Keira played outside a lot with her bike and a big bouncy ball that my dad got for her. She loves to play outside. Elaina hammed it up for the Great Grandparents that were over and everyone had way too much to eat. Then we all went home and promptly went to sleep and missed all the fireworks. Maybe Rick caught some for the rest of us. What a fun day.