Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Birthday Party!

We had such a fun time at the kid's birthday party this past Sunday. We were able to celebrate with family and some close friends. As always, we greatly missed having Ippel presence there, but got to communicate with most of them via Skype on the kid's individual birthdays. We are so very blessed with overflowing love from family and friends!

I had fun making each child a cake of their choice (or my choice in Ella's case).
Isaac's

Kendra's
 Ella's

Julie with Sam who is just 1 week older than Ella.

 Ella has been trying to climb up and down from this chair ever since getting it. There have been a few falls. She is turning into quite a little climber.

Isaac has been working on this Lego set little by little each day. 

Kendra loves her scooter!
This kids were all overjoyed with the gifts and have been very entertained with them!

I love how Kendra'a braids are flying in this picture!



 It wasn't her first attempt at eating cake. She still liked it a lot!

Sunday, June 12, 2011

One Year Pictures

We decided to go the Spring Grove Park today to try to get some one year pictures of Ella. It was a little tricky b/c she was scared to stand or sit on anything other than concrete :)  Here is what we came up with.




I just imagine her thinking "Are we about done here?!?"