ellison turns 2 yrs old!!

ellison turned 2 yesterday & we had some friends over for a little dinner party. we had all of ellison's favorite things: chicken, mac n' cheese, veggies & dip and edamame. she was so cute & very excited to open all of her presents. after opening each one, she would look up and say thank you [tank-you]. i had a video of this, but it was lost. i thought all of these pictures were lost...i was so sad last night when i downloaded the pictures from my camera to computer & when i opened the file - NOTHING! i did about 20 different searches on the hard drive, memory card, etc. they vanished. so after spending 2 hours searching & thinking, i've lost my 2 year old's birthday memories, i thought, oh yeah, i should e-mail dad & see if there's some sort of back door to recover these files! well, just in case this ever happens to you, go to this website:

art plus digital photo recovery

thanks, dad!!!

i was able to recover all the pictures!! i lost 2 videos, but i really don't care!

anyways, here are some pictures from ellison's big day.

ellison so happy to be playing with her friends


monster cupcakes


kids sitting still for cupcake time! (noah, ellison, kennedy & william)


singing happy birthday


blowing out the candles (clint's idea to put lots of candles for all the kids to blow out)




friends helping put out the fire


ellison picking out her monster...the one with lots of m&ms


kennedy picked out the googly-eyed monster


eating all the m&ms off


yep, m&ms are gone!


cool marble ladder - thanks mary preston & jack!


awesome books - thanks noah!


tissue paper!!! (ellison thought that was an awesome gift)


a barrett!


SO cute - thanks william & olivia!


aaaaaaaaaahhh!!! - who knows?? just so happy!


fun activity center - thanks nana & papa! (and cute clothes too)


love the vet hospital - thanks reed!

and thank you gangee & peepaw for the cute clothes & tricycle you helped buy! that's what we got her...a tricycle. i ordered it the first week in october & it's backordered until the middle of november! who knew there was a big demand for tricycles??? anyways, i'll post some pictures when it FINALLY gets here!