May photo favorites

                 

^ Just wearing moms sunglasses and sandals

Always wanting her picture taken!

(And in the photo below she's wearing a bag clip headband she made with some pipe cleaners.)

^ Going on an "airplane ride"...this was either to Alaska, Oregon or Hawaii - some of our favorite places!

^ Ellie on a class zoom meeting (doing a science experiment). You can see Paige was into it also, as she was with every other school activity/project we did, which was really neat to see. Paige wanted to be right there with us - she was giddy and talkative on the zoom calls and wanted us to help her do all Ellie's school work with her as well. 

^ This is a (sweet) candid photo on my phone taken by Paige, which she shouldn't do...but she has a hard time listening...

^ Lots of rock painting!

Lots of homemade gifts for Mother's Day this year - love and cherish. 

^ Steven got the idea to take the girls on a "rollercoaster" ride in a hamper. They were squealing, loving it!

^ Food face brought to you by Ellie. The things she comes up with often just crack us up. 

^ Fry eyebrows also brought to you by Ellie. 

^ Ellie wanted to do this letter matching activity with Paige one morning and it was really sweet. 

A scarf head dressing Ellie put together herself. Apparently, it was also like a backpack. 

^ First playdate with a friend, since quarantine. 

The girls were so happy to get together with someone!  

Ellie's preschool had drive-thru graduation for the kids. It was definitely bittersweet. It already would have been bittersweet, but with the Coronavirus, it made it even more so with how different things had to be. We are beyond grateful for her teachers though and all that they have done, and all the love they showed Ellie (and even Paige!) this year. 

Also, Ellie asked me, "Could you curl my hair, and can I get dressed up because that's what I would want if I had my normal program?" I replied "Yes!" 

^ Paige has been into lining up books all by herself. It's pretty impressive if you ask me. 

^ These girls get so nice when there's a photo op. But don't let this picture fool you, they aren't always this nice to each other. They are the best of friends and the worst of friends. 

The photos below are before and afters of yard work Steven and I (and the girls some) did in our backyard...

^ BEFORE

^ Ellie wanted to get in on helping laying out the sod

^ AFTER

^ BEFORE (there was an old/ugly vegetable bed in here, which I did not get a before picture of)

   

^AFTER

^ BEFORE (I didn't get a good before picture of this space either. In the far left corner, that dead hanging plant came out all the way to that bare tree and there was a lot of dead leaves and branches all on the ground. It was a jungle and scary to clean out. Thank goodness we didn't come across any snakes, or other wild animals back there!)

^ AFTER

Altogether, with the new grass, it feels like a park out there! There's so much space to run around and beauty!

^ Ellie made this picture with stickers all by herself of our family.