Maternity Pictures

Last Saturday Karina Rigtrup (A Fresh Take Photography) took some maternity pictures for me. I have never done this with my other pregnancies but thought it might be fun to do it now. Here are some pictures from the session...

 

This was the ultrasound picture that was taken of the baby a few days before the pictures were taken.

 

Pictures

I forgot to post these pictures on my last post.
Cousins!

Baby Shower

Sometimes thank you just doesn't seem like enough. I am overwhelmed by the love and generosity I felt at the baby shower. My sister (Stacey) and my mom hosted. THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING!!!
Here are some pictures from the shower. We had a fall theme with pumpkin pie (my fav), apple pie, pumpkin rolls, zucchini bread and yummy cookies shaped like little acorns.

I didn't realize that there were so many cute outfits for little boys!

When I got home Sue and I laid out all the stuff I got to take a picture everything in one shot.

A sincere thank you to Cirdan's family who came from Spokane and Portland to be at my shower. It was great having you :) And to Stephanie for taking all these pictures . There are just so many thank yous, the list would just go on and on. Both Cirdan and I are so grateful! Thank you for everything. We are lucky and so blessed to have such wonderful family and friends in our life~

Little Ballerina

As if its not enough to spend Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday mornings at the dance academy we have one more day to add to the list. Wednesday. They started a ballet/tap class for 2 1/2-3 year olds. Cirdan and I discussed it and thought that we should let Ella try it out. She loves to dance! Kaiya is a good big sister and is always helping Ella with stretches or dance steps and Ella loves to go watch Kaiya dance. We didnt know how Ella would handle the class but she did great! Cirdan and Kaiya took her...she walked right in with no crying or clinging to Cirdan. She listened to the teacher and tried most of the steps. We are so proud of her!

Ella doing her stretches she learned from Kaiya...

Flex (toes pointed toward her)

Point (toes pointed away from her)

Trying to do the splits...

Stretches...