New (to us) dresser

Sometimes when you are pregnant you get obsessed with crazy details. This month's crazy thing was a dresser or changing table. I'd been scouring Craigslist, Goodwill, and even Ikea trying to find something that would work.
Finally a $25 gem was located on Craigslist. It needed a shelf and new knobs, but that was doable.

Finished product

Side note: if I had a reality show, there would have to be a montage of me swearing something will totally fit in my hatchback and then Daniel finding a way to get it home.
Other side note: This reality show would also have lots of episodes of me coming up with ridiculous but awesome ideas and Daniel to executing them. Like buying $25 dressers and putting a shelf in where broken drawer used to be.

Bluebonnets 2016

I think we went three our four different times hoping to get good blue bonnet pictures of Ella this year.

Take your pick!
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Easter 2016

This year Daniel made sure that we kept some actual Easter traditions. It's a good thing because Ella still remembers them!

We died eggs, had bird nests (which weren't as successful, but still were tasty), and did an easter egg hunt. Ella loved hiding and finding the eggs.

Grandma bought Ella an Easter dress. Ella decided that it was just like Cinderella! She loved being a princess for the day.

Miscellaneous March Ella Adventures

Ella Helper:
Here is a very candid shot of Ella helping Daddy. She was helping fix the lawn mower. Ella likes to help get tools, and hold pieces for later.

Texan at Heart
You know your child is a Texan when it is 72 degrees in the house and she would like 3 blankets to keep warm. Oh well, it made for an adorable picture.

Drawing and "Make a Video"
Ella has finally started to draw "pictures" on her own. For a long time she would insist a grown up draw the thing she wanted. She has a lot of commissioned pictures of Pooh Bear, kitties and families. She has finally started to draw things and then tell me about what she has drawn! So much fun!

She had a few weeks where she would insist on making videos on the phone. We would turn on the recording and she would do, nothing. Oh well, she is just very excited to see the pictures and videos.

Blue Baker Adventure

A friend set up a toddler/preschooler adventure to go see our local bakery. The bakery does tour for littles. We got to see different ingredients, mixers, ovens, and bakers at work. At the end of the tour, the kids got to put ingredients into dough which was baked and then picked up later.

Ella had a good time seeing the equipment and the bakers at work. She worked very diligently on her bread project. The results were delicious!

More of Princess Eleanor

Ella loves to wear princess "tutus" to church on Sunday. She loves to be escorted to church by her handsome Daddy Prince.

We decided to have a lesson on Ella being a princess for family home evening. We talked about being children of God, made a chart of how a princess acts, and then had a dress up ball to dance.

Chair Redo

Sometimes I get crazy ideas. Sometimes those crazy ideas turn out okay. We got some chairs from a friend who was moving. I've been wanted comfortable chairs for our library room for a long time. It was really a win/win for everybody. They were both hand me downs that were hand me downs. One was green, and the other had a beige slip cover.

I enjoyed the chair, and would have been quite content until, while wandering through the Goodwill, I saw a big roll of upholstery fabric. Upon finding out this whole roll was only $5, I knew that I would bring the fabric home and do something. Looking at the projects I needed to do that took fabric, I realized that this fabric would be perfect to redo the chair in the slip cover! I had at least a dozen pinterest pin on the topic, so I could totally do this, right?

I pulled off the cover and found this stained yellow fabric. (The picture has the back of the chair in the new fabric, and the rest is the original.) I had a very satisfying time getting started pulling out staples. After finishing the back, I had a very sleepless night realizing that perhaps the $5 roll would not be enough fabric. Oops. After measuring and realizing I needed more, and several different trips to several different fabric stores, I found a coordinating fabric to supplement.

After thinking about giving up in the middle several times and help from Daniel with hard parts, we had a finished project.