Lovely

One of the dads in Ellie's class is a professional photographer and he came to school to do a class portrait.  I'll post that later, if I can.  For now, enjoy these shots of Ellie in action!

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Home Sweet New Home

After nine months of looking and two+ months of selling/buying drama, we closed on the new house today.  So I think now it's safe to say that this is our new place!  We will start moving in about a week and will have to be out of our current place by the 26th.  Can't wait to get settled!

Happy Pre-K Completion!

It's been a busy couple months around here what with us selling our house and finding a new house to move into.  Hence, a bit of radio silence on the blog.  Sorry!

I'm taking a short break from packing and organizing to upload a few photos from Ellie's pre-k completion ceremony which was tonight.  The kids were so cute and had a couple of songs to sing for us.  It was very sweet.  Hard to believe we are saying goodbye to the JCC and to so many families we've gotten to know over the last four years.  Ellie has a few more days in school and then this summer will be filled with moving, day camps, and some fun trips to California, Minnesota, and Oregon.

Here's our beautiful girl who is now ready for kindergarten!

Jump!

Sporty girls

Fun in the sun

All cleaned up

Menfolk

All the ladies in the house

Swimsuit Edition

Sometimes, less is more.

Bathing beauty!

Polka dot jumper.

Surfer girl.

Does everything have to be a competition??

Dueling eyelashes...

All birthday, all the time

On Thursday, we celebrated with Ellie's friends at school and we got to tell stories from each of her years so far.

Then we went to soccer after school and we even got to bounce in the inflatables afterward!

Then we celebrated Ellie at home on Friday night. (No, we didn't clone her for her birthday.  Ben was able to print out a life-size Ellie at work!)

She got a scooter from us and so many other wonderful presents!

The best present is always the chance to "hold" Miss Mia.

There's a cookie under all those sprinkles!  And, how cute is she? 

Way too many mini-cupcakes!