Eating Bubbles

Ella loves bubbles like any toddler. Unlike most toddlers, she doesn't like popping them. She likes to try and eat them.

After lots of practice, she has also managed to blow the occasional bubble too :)

To My Little Friend

To My Little Friend, Ella:

I love your big smiles and how silly you can be. (1, 2, 3!)

I'm glad you have started to give Mommy and Daddy hugs. That is awesome. I'm also glad that you make sure that Daddy gives both of us a kiss before he goes to work.

I like to go on adventures with you, and I love see how everything is so exciting to you. It is great how you love to play pretend!

I'm glad that first thing in the morning and last thing at night you want to read your books! You are a girl after my own heart: books, teddy bears, and Daddy!

I love how you are creative,(sometimes very creative!) determined, and interested in the world. (Your favorite question is "What's this?") People who just meet you always say how it seems like you are just soaking in the whole world.

We may have our hard days, but I do love you!

Love,
Mommy

P.S.Thanks for making my selfies tons cuter! (1,2,3)

Finished Cabinets

Pictures of the long awaited bathroom cabinets! So three coats of gel stain and three coats of top coat later we have this!

Doors
Frame
Assembled - Close Up

Still trying to decide for sure if we are going to take the kitchen plunge and do those cabinets as well. If we do decide, that will be a post for another day.

Bonus: "In Progress" pictures

Taped, Papered and Sanded
Coat One
Coat Two

Yogurt Making

My mom called the other day and said,"I know how hard it is to find yogurt with fat in it for Ella. Here is a recipe for Greek yogurt! "

She might also know how much I dislike paying $4 for 20 oz of yogurt.

I was in.

I killed my first batch by getting it too hot. Oops.

I tried again, and it worked! I had to strain out the whey to get yogurt.

It took a long time.

Ella wanted lots of samples. Did you know fresh yogurt is sweet?

She waited and waited...

It was delicious!

We only got a pint from a half gallon of milk, but that was like getting yogurt half off!

Bluebonnet Pictures 2015 ( And Other Spring Adventures)

These are really late, but here are our blue bonnet pictures for 2015!

Cute, cute, cute!

(Outtake. Just trying to be like Mommy.)

First Cabinet Staining Samples

I've been thinking about gel staining our cabinets for a while. I'd seen all the tutorials (I'm very thorough :P) on pinterest about General Finishes gel stain. We had used some on our nightstands project. I used some to refinish a little table we had in the house. I loved how it worked, and I felt pretty confident in using it. But before sacrificing our cabinets (and before I thought I could pick a shade), I wanted to do a sample cabinet. We picked up a sample at the ReStore. Here is the progress so far.

Front (two coats)
Front (three coats)

Conference Fun

Conference this year was great. Ella had lots of fun while she was awake: distracting us! She and Daddy had lots of fun going through her make shift tunnel.

We had Easter Treats to supplement our 72 hour kit rotation. (Our new family conference tradition.)