Good kids...long day

Sometimes I bite off more than I can chew. Yesterday was one of those days and today was another. I decided it would be a good idea to venture to Portrait Innovations by myself with the kids AND an outfit change. After two hours...here are the results!

Fun Fun Fun

We just got back from visiting all of the family in Minnesota. The kids had such a great time with their cousins. There are A LOT of kids. We have EIGHT children FIVE and younger. Here are some of the highlights of the trip.
Lucy & Jimmy in the stroller at Mall of America.
Here are Abbey & Eleanor with BLUE of Blue's Clues...Lucy was a little scarred.

Here are Sean, Evan & Eleanor on the Wonder Pets ride. She loved all of the rides and was so excited that she was big enough, but Lucy wasn't!

Here is Eleanor with SpongeBob.

What a good dad!

This is how the girls slept at night. Who need Annie & Elmo (Lucy's luvies...) when you have a sister to cuddle with!

Here is a picture of all eleven kids.

There will be more pictures to come. We did some fun fun things. It just seemed whenever there was a photo opportunity I had a child in my arms!

Libby Lu

Eleanor & Norah, her best friend and next door neighbor wanted to go to Libby Lu for their birthday celebrations. Heather, Norah's mom and I took them there yesterday. They had so much fun and OH HOW I wish they had things like this when I was younger.
Eleanor & Norah wanted to dress up in Libby Lu's fairy costumes while they were getting pampered.
Here is Eleanor getting her nails all glittery!
She LOVED her nails!!!

Here I am with my little glitter fairy.

After Libby Lu, Heather & I took the girls to Picture People to get professional pictures taken. Here is our favorite. Aren't they adorable!

After Libby Lu & pictures, the dad's and younger siblings met us at The Amazing Pizza Machine for food and fun. Here are the girls on The Frogger.

Best Buddies!!!

Our Cowboy Cutie..

Eleanor has her first recital on Saturday night. She absolutely loved being on stage for the practice. After she was done we waited around and watched about an hour of the practice. She was having so much fun watching the dancers. She is the little one in the front with the short braids and white tutu. Their outfits are blue/white gingham with yellow tutus.

The reason I am taping the rehearsal is they don't allow cameras at the recital. Ella is one of the youngest in her class. This is a class of 3 & 4 years old when the year started...now 4 & 5 year olds.
ENJOY!!!

ALL GIRL....

I remember when I was little and I always wanted to wear anklets. Remember those things? My mom never let me wear them. She was more of a 'tights' mom. I think, had I known about pettiskirts back then....I would not have wanted to wear anklets. I would have wanted to wear these.

My mind is going one hundred miles an hour thinking of the Christmas picture options with these red ones....

She is FOUR

My baby is FOUR! I can't believe how fast she is growing up. She had a great birthday. She got the Bitty Baby Twins and LOTS of Hanna Montana stuff. She loves everything Hanna Montana! Lucy even screams "HANNA" in the stores when she sees something with HM on the box. Yesterday it was at the grocery store....YES, HM was on the graham crackers!

Open for business...

I finally did it....I opened an etsy shop.
Take a look.
www.jellyclothing.etsy.com
And you can always click on "Jelly Clothing" in the right column.