Ella has gotten a couple birthday packages in the mail, since we live so far away from family now. She loves opening presents! Thank you so much everyone for sending them!
This is the package Grandma & Grandpa Thompson sent her.
Nanna Christie also sent her a package a couple weeks ago, filled with lots of candy, books, p.j.'s, cinderella phone and magna-doodle.
This was her biggest present this year.
She loves to do her make-up and hair infront of the mirror... just like mommy!
After we had pizza and cupcakes, Chucky came out to visit and say hello to everyone. I brought Ella over there to take a picture with her, but she was so scared of him she was seriously shaking! After that she was scared to go on rides by herself.
So, mommy and daddy ended up playing the games for tickets... and we won Ella 84 tickets to trade in for stickers and these pink clip-on earings she absolutely loves!
Happy 2nd Birthday Ella!
Here Scotty is walking in to be seated with the rest of his class while they play the ceremony music...
They each announced their name and where they were from... amazing that only a handful of students were out of state and two were international, and about half were female.
Here's the big moment, of putting on the white coat....
Now he's Dr. Thompson to you! j/k
For the 4th of July we had some friends in our new ward invite us over for pizza and fireworks! Ella had a lot of fun playing with the boys.
Ella was having a great time until she was given a sparkler ... and a spark flew on her hand and got scared. I didn't even know it until the next day, but that spark left a little burn on her finger, poor girl.
So, for the rest of the night she just watched but didn't want to get too close.
Over the weekend Scott and I went furniture shopping and bought a new family room couch as well as Ella's big girl twin bed. I'm scared she'll fall off and hurt herself so we've started her with just the mattress on the floor. She hasn't figured out the trick of sleeping in it right, since this is the way she always slept in her crib. I'll find her either like this or on the floor, and Scott will move her up on top of the mattress. So, how do they figure out how to sleep in it right, or how long does it take for them to figure it out on ther own? Any suggestions?
This is the park that's in walking distance in our subdivision. We spent a couple afternoons here while Scott was away on his Alaskan fishing trip. In the 2nd pic she is laughing so hard...(click on the pic to view larger).
Scott took a well deserved trip before he started his 4-yr dental school career, and went to Anchorage with some buddies from Boise.
They could catch 3 salmon a day, and here they all are holding their 3. Scott is the one on the far right if you couldn't recognize him with the full beard. He had to grow it to be as rugged as he could possibly be.
Scott and Mark
Here Scott is, just about to filet his fish up on this table here and throw the rest of the fish guts back into the water.
They went deep sea fishing one day for halibut, and you could catch 2/day, and he caught both of his within the last 1/2 hour!
Here Scotty is back home slicing up his halibut and putting all the filets in individual bags, ideal for freezing.
