andrew and abbi

my cousin, andrew, married the love of his life, abbi last weekend and the ceremony was gorgeous!! it was at his house and the reception was in a tent a few feet over from the ceremony.  avery was the flower girl and was so great (even though she did ditch the flowers and run halfway down the isle...) everything was so fantastic and the dancing was so much fun!  it rained a little before but everyone pitched in with wet vacs and buckets to clear out the water and it was beautiful (and it never rained during the ceremony. God is so good!).  a few people got stuck in the mud and my cousins and to take off their tuxes to push people out of the mud...hilarious!! congratulations to the gorgeous couple!

babies + heather and her camera = perfection

here are some pics that my fantastic cousin heather took.  she is an unbelievable photographer and she took some great shots of the kiddos while we were hanging out at my parents lakehouse after my cousin andrews wedding.  it was gorgeous and i will post more pics of that soon!

Play Day!

The babies hadn't been all together for a couple of weeks now because everyone took their turn of getting sick.  So when Ben and Sawyer came over to play today Ella was so very excited!  She loves getting to see her friends.  

Last week me and Ella turned a box into her play house and it has since then been her favorite thing these days.  Today was the first time she got to show her friends her new house.  Sawyer admired it from a distance and Ben did just the opposite!  It was hilarious!  He crawled in and showed Ella what being a boy was all about.  Instead of sitting in the house and eating goldfish and playing with baby dolls, Ben went full demolition on the house.  Within the first 5 seconds he had the house turned over, picture ripped off the wall and in mouth!  Ella loved the new game and I even caught her giving Ben some kisses in her new remodeled house!  The video below shows Ben and Ella.

Another thing on the video is all the kids first reaction to the new safety gates we added to our house.  We have two steps and some weird post things that have a drop off so since we have some fast crawlers we had to baby proof some things.  It might not be the best look for our house but safety first!

fenced in

cream cheese muffins

so aves and i had a laid back morning and decided to do a little baking...these were good.  a little bit rich.  i didnt have any vegetable oil so i started out trying canola oil but everything tasted so much like shortening that i had to start over.  so then i ended up just using melted butter (hence the richness...).  so without the oil they were a little  bit dry but overall good.  you can find the recipe on in the mood for food.