Ella's Dance Recital!

I haven't posted in so long, but thought Ella's dance recital that she had tonight was post-worthy! :) 

Ella has been in dance for about a year now, since last summer.  Today was her first recital!  They have been working so hard on their dance at class.  However, Ella got so shy at dance rehearsal last week that I thought she would for sure shy up and not dance...or even make it on stage!  Ella sure did surprise us!  She did so well!  She danced the whole time and looked SO ADORABLE!  Enjoy these photos from our evening!

All dolled up and ready to go!

Her cheer team, plus Paul and I of course.

We were trying to get a photo of Ella and a couple girls in her class before dance.  Her face here made me somewhat nervous as to how her behavior would be during the show!

This is right before I left her to go find my seat!  Ah- I was nervous!

All the little dancers sat right on stage and then just got up and danced when it was their turn.  Everything was organized and put together so well!

Sitting down, waiting their turn!

Ready to dance!  So cute!

Their dance was called the Banana Split Bridge.  The theme of the show was Candyland.  The whole thing was just adorable!

Concentrating on their moves :)

Then everyone in the show did a dance together at the end.  Super cute!

Ella was rewarded with a ballerina teddy bear from Gammy and flowers from daddy!  She couldn't have been more thrilled!

Love this photo!

So proud of our little girl!  She is just growing up way too fast!

These are two phone photos that I had to share!  I just love them!

This was at dance rehearsal.  All the little girls in Ella's class are so cute and fun!

This was from tonight.  My favorite!

Spring 2013 Photos

I have been wanting to take photos of my girls for a while now.  It is such a big production with three little ones, and Paul hates helping me!  He thinks it is stressful and doesn't like to yell, act like different animals, chase the kids around everywhere, and make a fool of himself at parks and such like I do on a weekly basis with other families.  I finally talked him into going with me to help out.  I have a totally different goal in mind when I am photographing my own children:  to get ONE, just one, good photo of them all.  When I am photographing other families, I try to give them about 30 good photos of their family.  I give a variety of ones of their kids, individual ones, family ones, lifestyle shots, etc.  With my own children, I am happy with just one :)  Well, our session was a success.  I got such good ones of my kids together, and even one of each of them separately.  I think Paul is happy to be off the hook for the next few months! 

My VERY favorite photo of our girls to date!  Love that they are all smiling!  I believe Paul was sticking dandelions in my ears at this point and that's what got them to all look and smile for more than one second.  The things we will do for a photo... ;)

Love this of Ella and Hannah!  Ella is a little blown out from the sun, but I still love her with the flower :) 

Paul was acting silly to the side at this point and the girls were all looking and laughing at him :)

Hannah.  They loved the dandelions.

Another favorite

And another favorite.  Love the joy and happiness in this photo.

Ella

Hailee

Hannah.  These three will all be hung somewhere together.

Love each of their faces here.  Very "them".

More laughter!

Hailee is so cute here!

And...the smiles started to get fake!  Still love this one though!

That's a wrap!  Off for ice cream for the good behavior by all...even Paul ;)

I ordered a gallery wrap of the first photo and it came yesterday.  Gallery wraps are a little pricey, but of so gorgeous!  I love that they don't need a frame!  This is a 16x20 and is perfect size for the space we wanted it in. 

This is a phone photo, so isn't great.  This is the wrap on our wall, in front of our two windows.  I love how it all looks!

The wrap from the side.  The photo goes on to the sides and is why a frame isn't needed.

The wrap closer up.  LOVE!

Phone photo dump!

I've taken SO many cute photos of the girls lately on my phone.  Enjoy!  *If you are on FB or Instagram, I apologize for the repeats! ;)

One wants to sit on my lap, then they all do!

Fun at Grandma's!

These two..you never know what they will do next!

She let me put piggies in her hair!  SO CUTE!!!  This was a while ago and now she lets me put them in all the time!

Fun shopping with mommy!  We love stores with kid carts!

So much love between them all lately.  Precious.

My little Snow White, Cinderella, and Ariel!

A favorite photo of them of all time!  I told them to get ready for a picture and Hannah plopped right on Hailee's lap!

Everybody washing each other.  Tub time sure is fun these days!

Ella's dance class all trying on their recital dresses.  Recital is in a couple weeks.  Can't wait!!!  (Ella is second from the right in the back)

We have definitely been taking advantage of nice weather and lots of ice cream lately!

I looked in at them in the car cart the other day and Hannah was on Hailee's lap! :)

This just makes me laugh. 

The other evening Hannah told Hailee to say "cheese".  Hailee lifted her shirt up and posed for the camera!  Oh boy!

More sister love.

And more sister love.  These girls sure love to hug and kiss each other!

Soccer!  Hailee and Hannah started soccer about a month ago.  They finally are getting used to it...it took a few weeks.

This was just this morning.  Hailee and Hannah went in and woke Ella up.  Love our girls!