Ticketstock

We went to Ticketstock this past weekend, which is a yearly event for sports radio 1310 The Ticket. Every year they have different sports celebrities available for autographs. We were fortunate enough to get Brenden Morrow's autograph, who is a Dallas Stars hockey player.

While we were there, their photographer snapped a picture of Nolan and posted it on their website. I snagged their pic since it's cuter than the one I snapped. This link will take you to their photo gallery: http://www.theticket.com/Events/Ticketstock/pics08.htm

Ella only briefly woke up to join the festivities.
Brenden Morrow is signing an 8x10 pic for us to add to our collection of cool autographs.
They also had a bunch of bounce houses outside for the kiddos. Nolan LOVED it!!! He's always been a jumping monkey, and since he had the bounce house all to himself, he had a ball!

Happy Three Months, Ella!

Wow, it's hard to believe that three months have already come and gone! Ella is a pure joy to have around. She's smiling, cooing, and beginning to giggle. She's most entertained by her big brother, which it's very heart warming to watch them interact. These are precious times, and I'm so fortunate to be home to watch my babies grow up!

Fun with Elijah and Aydia

A girlfriend from church, Whitney, brought her kiddos over last week since we've been trying to get together for months! It's crazy how whenever we had something planned, one of our children got sick and we had to cancel. Luckily, we were able to squeeze this playdate in before sickness struck again! Elijah and Nolan are only two-and-a-half months apart, and Ella and Aydia are about six weeks apart. It's so great to have friends with children the same ages!

Four friends...this will be really cute years down the road when they're in school together!
Our sweet little girls.
We love raisins!

Ella's first boyfriend

My best friend, Stacey, had twin boys five days before Nolan was born. It's been so fun to watch Nolan, Tyler, and Grant grow up together. Last week was Tyler and Grant's first playdate with Ella, and they were both so interested in seeing a baby, much less a pretty girl! (In my circle of friends, girls are the rarity!!!)

Nolan's introducing his sister to his friends. Watch out boys, he's already a protective big brother!
I think Grant is Ella's first boyfriend. She was all smiles!
Both Tyler and Grant wanted to check out this baby thing. To be honest with you, I think they were eyeing her pacifier the most! Grant even got to it when we weren't looking. He needed a little fix, I guess. Cute!

Emotions

This video was taken in late December when I was teaching Nolan about the different emotions. I love the "mad" look. It makes me crack up every time!

I'm learning how to take the videos from my video camera and upload them to my computer and eventually burn them as a movie on a DVD. My wonderful brother-in-law, Bryan, spent quite a bit of time with me today helping me out. What would we do without technology-talented people?

Cousins

The Hankins/Morris cousins got together last weekend. It's so great to have little ones near the same age in the family. I loved growing up with my cousins, and I'm sure Alec, Brooke, Nolan, and Ella will have many great times together!



Alec is such a loving big cousin! The younger ones are sure to look up to him!


Kissing cousins. How cute!

Fun with paint!

What fun we had painting with Nolan last weekend! Of course, we had to frame some of his first artwork.


Finger painting with Mommy

You probably can't tell, but he has green paint in his hair!