A whole bunch of Project Life!

Week 21

Ice cream for dinner night. Mommy's acid reflux was bad :D
They each got their own Ben and Jerry's.



Ella was home with Daddy during the storm
and ran around the house waving her arms
yelling "Shoo Thunder Shoo"
She also tried some lasso
technique to harness the thunder
lassoing a long bead necklace in the
air overhead yelling
"Fazaaa"
She said it worked.

Hail storm! We had to pull over
on the way home from school
because the rain was falling
so hard and fast that the roads
couldn't drain and it was bad!!!
At home our yard was covered in hail.

Laci's end of school eyear program.Her class sang a cute song.
In the upper left is her friend Rebekkah and
at the bottom is her buddy Allison.

Finally picked out porcelain tile for the floor and countertops for the kitchen .

Ella the cow grazing in the front yard of the farm house.

Pondering life's mysteries. ( I told her to look at the sky ;D)

Hannah and Ella at the park. So glad they were born hours apart!

This was in the throw away pile
of course she fell in love with it.
It remained out because she uses
to clean her toys
and does so without a fight.
I think that's a fair trade.

Week 20

Heidi and Mike came to visit bearing gifts!

Going to visit Laci's cat (who is currently knocked up) in the barn.

View from our dining room where I
imagine Ella will stand endlessly at the french doors
or huge window and watch "her" cows.

It doesn't look so good here. You can see on the back
they have the addition on already. It went up in less than
a week I think. Can't wait for the asbestos
siding to be gone!

Week 19

They found bear and deer tracks. They also learned
about ant hills.

Chasing after Daddy after he
stole Laci's bike.

I don't know if she rode anything
or just ran around with a helmet on.

I love these little bitty legs.

Laci riding her bike on the farm roads. Miles to ride
with no cars for mommy to worry about!

One of our fields

My Mother's Day flowers. I don't know why blogger
insists on posting this vertically :S
I also got an Ipod Touch and accessories.
The kids love it lol.

What happens when you stay up for cookies at midnight.

Week 18

Cookies at midnight.

A wood shed outback. I love the coloring of the wood as a backdrop
for pictures.

The view from our porch. Cat Deely ( laci's cat) lives in that red barn.

Ella's cows at the house we're renovating. There are 4
calves. They are the quietest animals.
I have heard only one lonely moo all this time.
Ella moos far more than they do.

Ella making Pioneer Woman French Breakfast Pastries
with Aunt Jenni on one of our weekly girl's days.
I like to go without Ella but it doesn't always happen.
She's always excited to be included though.

Just in Walmart parking lot. I just
loved her littly Gymbo fairy wings fluttering
in the breeze on her shirt.

Tony and I scored NHL playoff tix and headed for our
last trip to the Mellon Arena. While I'm excited for a new arena
we've had so many great times at the Igloo that I hate to see it go.
I'm glad we made it this year. The Penguins lost but the
game was still fun and just being there was great.
It was nice just to get away with Tony for a day. I feel
like we never have time together. It was just
nice to be a happy couple for awhile and not
busy parents!

Week 17

Laci and I haven't had much time together with me being so
sick this pregnancy so I took her for the first time
to get her nails done. It was a nice time for us. She's
been such a big help lately so she deserved a treat.
Notice the unmanicured baby hand
interjecting itself into the picture.

Ella pre-hair and makeup services.
She is so hard
to keep clean!

Wanted to wear the babylegs outfit again.
I love those little
legs :D

She received her first pair of baby legs today in the mail.
We had to find something to wear to match
to go to church with Grandma that night.

Tasting for the first time the combination
of her 2 favorite foods-
chocolate and strawberries.
Notice the blissful look on her face....

She's just so dainty

Week 16

Leigh Anne's first prom. She looked so beautiful. Ella said she always
knew Leigh Anne was a princess.

Ella had these Gymbo Daisy Days shoes last year.
We found them this year and she wore them in April one
Sunday. She loved them but unfortunately
when we got home from church she couldn't walk-
they were a tad small. She refused to take them off!
She even wanted to wear them to the evening
service and her feet were so swollen I had
a hard time getting them on but she insisted!
My 2 year old - already choosing style over comfort!
Luckily I found a size up on Ebay and they came today.
She was sooo happy!

Ella got a Zippity game system for Easter.
Its a really cute system for kids
gets them moving!

Just another day in the Carey
household. Two Sleeping Beauties
(or Sleepy Belles as Ella calls her)
Descending the royal staircase.

Our first trip of the season to the Tastee Freeze up the road. It was a beautiful day for a walk and its always a good day for icecream! The girls both INSISTED on wearing sunglasses. They make me giggle.

Just glad to see some spring flowers!!!

Project life 14/15 (ish)

Combination of Weeks 14 and 15 :

I believe they were singing "We're going to Niagra falls" as the marched around the house.






Ella doing the hula. She also has pen mark tattoos.


Pretty little Chef Laci.

Ella got a Zippity for Easter. I'm really impressed with it. My friend found it at Target for $20, it was $80!


Ella headed to "work" She goes to work in that



We found out we're having another princess!

Project life weeks 12 and 13

Week 13.
Im way behind and week 14 will have to wait til next week with 15. These loaded backwards so I'm just going with it. Blogspot layout isn't very forgiving as far as moving around pictures.

Saturday April 3rd-
We had our annual Egg Hunt at HMC! The girls always have such a great time! Ella was less timid this year and got a good many eggs she even won a big prize inside. Tony took Laci around, I'm going to get his pictures from him when he gets back later tonight and try to add them.


Good Friday April 2nd.

Laci and I went to an Easter play then came home to dye eggs with daddy. Laci had chosen monster eggs so we got some interesting creations this year!



Thursday April 1

We went over to the Porter's for our annual egg dying. Although,we didn't dye this year. Jenn didn't realize she had bought PAINTing eggs. Yikes! With glitter no less! We whipped out some trash bags and tore holes for makeshift smocks and all in all things went smoothly! Very surprising....



Wednesday March 31st - I had gone out to the car to get my camera because I didn't want to leave it in over night and apparently Ella followed me out. I came back onto the porch to see her with her little hands clasped saying over and over "I wish, I wish" as she gazed up at the stars. It was one of the sweetest moments.



Tuesday March 30- Ella went to the library for story hour and an Easter party. She made a basket and a bunny and had a little egg hunt. It was so cute to watch her during the story and song part. She wasn't shy at all.




Monday March 29- Ella trying on potential Easter dresses. This is the one she chose to see the Easter Bunny in, although she screamed when we got there. She insisted her tights were a scarf and wore them around the neck with dramatic flair.


Sunday March 28- I had really bad abdominal pains all day so laid on the couch and started to feel better in the evening so I wanted to do something with the girls since they had such a boring day. Daddy was at work so they had to entertain themselves all day! We made some Easter eggs. Ella really doesn't have the patience for it but does enjoy looking at them afterwards.


Saturday March 27 - Ella put on laci's school uniform tie and a sequined dance skirt and performed the "hula" for us. She loves dressing up lately!

Thursday March 25 - I wanted a picture of her cute outfit- she insisted on the hat before she would let me take the picture.
Friday March 26- She found the sash to my wedding dress and had me tie it onto her. She added the non matching shoes.


Ella taking her Bitty Twins on their first walk in their giant double stroller




Laci listening to the baby for the first time with our doppler. She was really excited.

Alive

I was fortunate enough to spend Easter weekend attending plays portraying the life and death of Jesus. Though both obviously told the same story I was impacted by different aspects of each.

Friday, Good Friday, we went to Central to see their adaptation of Jesus. It was beautifully done with great effects and scenery. I enjoyed it but was really just a spectator as with any other play- until the crucifixion scene. Or maybe more accurately the earthquake after Jesus dies.

Jesus' cross much higher than the others and also rigged w/hydraulics. As those who know the story remember when Jesus dies the earth is darkened and earthquakes shook the land...the play had the cross shake for the earthquake and on it the lifeless body of Jesus.

There was something about seeing the dead body of Jesus shaking ever so slightly with the manufactured earthquake that struck me deeply causing me to gasp "thank you, thank you my Jesus. I'm sorry I'm so so sorry" realizing just what he went through for me. For me specifically.

He was beaten, mocked, spat upon, bloodied beyond human recognition and nailed to a cross left to fight for breath as his lungs collapsed under the weight of his own body to wash me of my sins against him.

I know all this on a daily basis but seeing it brought to life made me realize like the first time, exactly what this man, this Son of God did for me and what it cost and it broke my heart again.

The second play also beautifully done was at Mt. Ridge by my friends' church Potters Place. While their beating and crucifixion scene may have been longer and more detailed something else resonated with me.

They played the song "The Word Is Alive" by Casting Crowns while Jesus walked the streets healing people and teaching and performing various miracles ending with the healing of Jarius' daughter who had died just before Jesus reached her. I've read all those stories time and again but it was just beautiful to see them reenacted before us almost like we were in the crowds 2000 years ago as Jesus passed through and people pressed in for just a touch of his garment to feel that healing power. Being able to watch as Jesus (also known as my friend Ken) walked among the people talking, hugging and healing brought my Savior out of the sacred pages of the Bible and to life before me. It was just a play, but just like the other one, it was an opportunity to feel like Jesus was walking in flesh before us again.


I love Easter week because it brings us back to the truth that we know but so often neglect to reflect upon.

Jesus was here, he wasn't a story- lifeless words on a page. He walked the earth teaching, healing and dying- for you and me.

The beauty of this is that still , 2000 years later, his words teach us, the stripes he took upon his back heal us, and the blood he shed as he died for our sins delivers us.

The Word is Alive because Jesus lives, moving among us and we are free to approach him and ask him to intercede on our behalf. We can talk to him and hear his words speak life into our weary hearts. We can feel his presence as worship him for the King he is.

The Word is Alive, Jesus is Alive and because of that I am free and ever so grateful for all he did and continues to do.

Romans 6:8-11
Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.