The last days

As we near the move date we are spending as much time as we can with friends. Here are a few photos of Elsie with her two best friends.

Moving

Well, I guess I should give you all a few details on our move. We found out Will got a new job about 3 or 4 weeks ago. He will be working in Utah in a Waldorf Astoria which is Hilton's high end brand. It is a resort in the mountains with a spa and condos to be rented out. The best part about moving there is we will be close to Will's family.

Will starts work there next Monday the, 11th. Elsie and I will be in Kansas for 2 more weeks and then go visit family in Vermont and Boston. Will is going to be back in Kansas for the first week of June so I will meet him there and we will fly out that Sunday. We are in the process of putting our house up on the market so we will see how fast it sells...we hope fast!!! Other than that we are just trying to enjoy the time we have left with our great friends here in Kansas. We will miss them all but we are looking forward to this new adventure.

Happy Birthday party

Well it is little early but since we are MOVING we wanted to celebrate with our friends here!!! Yes we are moving!! But that is another post. So our good friends have a daughter a day younger than Elsie. We decided to do a group friends party together. We had to do it before the twins went to Utah so we had it at the end of April. The following is just a fraction of all the pictures I took at the party!!!

Happy Easter 2009

We hope you all had a very happy Easter. Elsie really liked the Easter egg hunt. Her dad got her up from her nap and told her that she was going to find eggs. That is all it took for her to understand what to do next. She just came right over and started picking up the eggs. She did a really great job finding them and only needed a tiny bit of help finding the truly hidden ones.

The Omaha Zoo

Last weekend we took a short trip up to Omaha Nebraska to do two things. First we wanted to go to the Winter Quarters Temple and second the Omaha Zoo. We met our good friend up there and had a great time. Here are a few pictures from the weekend.

a cute shot

Here she is in all her glory. She loves diving her car around the house. If you look closely you can see a new hair bow I made for her...I just used a few precut flowers and a button.

TuTu

Between a friends description and a few google searches I learned how to make a tutu. This is the result. I think it is pretty cute. The only thing is I must have measure the waist wrong because I had to use a few safety pins to hold the thing up.

Crazy kid

Just a few shots to show you what Elsie likes to do in her spare time...which happens to be all the time.

There one day gone the next

This weekend was a fun one. We got a yucky dose of reality in the form of rain and then snow!! Yes we thought we were past the white stuff phase and onto spring but I guess not. So it looked like this by the afternoon on Saturday.




But what luck we have. The weather immediately improved and the next day the yard looked like this by the afternoon.

Cookies

This was Elsie's first cooking experience so I had to take a bunch of photos. She seemed to like it pretty well. I can't say we are going to let her help all the time as it takes bit more energy and time but it was fun to see her stir and dump ingredients in.

Elsie

I can't believe I just made three posts without Elsie in them!!! This must be some sort of a record. I don't have any great photos of the girl, but I have to post something so here you go. My little angel.

Cupcakes

So I hosted a baby shower for a friend and I had the pleasure of making the cupcakes for the event. We were doing a bug theme so I made a caterpillar and some beetles with the left over cupcakes. Like most cute things this took time. I would venture to say that the beetles were actually easier then putting all the little legs on the caterpillar. I might do the beetles for Elsie's birthday what do you think?