reds opening day!

A lifelong dream of ours is to go to the Opening Day ceremonies and game for the Reds.  It is no secret that the Reds are our favorite professional baseball team, but tickets are so hard to come by for Opening Day, a huge tradition in Cincinnati.  Usually, we are in school, but with our new balanced calendar, we were off!  Nick and Chris took an extra day off of work and we headed to the game thanks to our good friend Ozair.  His law firm wasn't using the tickets, so we got them.  Score!  We dropped the girls off at their babysitters and had a fun day planned.  We went to the Moerlein House and had drinks and lunch and then got to the ballpark.  I know it is a moment that we will not surely forget anytime soon!

Pretty decent seats :)

Our main man, Johnny Cueto!

disney world 2014!

Spring Break is finally here and that means that our trip to Disney World has arrived!  We were so excited to share in our love of Disney with Mamaw and Papaw.  We flew out of Louisville early, early, early, and had a layover in Atlanta.  We finally got to Disney around 11 A.M. and got checked into Pop Century and then headed straight over to the Magic Kingdom.  We had a magical time for all five days and cannot wait to go back!

4 A.M. and ready to leave for the airport :)

Entering the Magic Kingdom for the first time this trip, lol.

Seeing the parade and just waking up from her power nap :)

Blowing kisses to the parade characters!

Loving dancing with Minnie

So precious

Kissing Minnie's nose

She loves Sleeping Beauty!

Disney Jr. Breakfast at MGM- Sophia the First

Excited to see Doc!

Daddy kissing Goofy's nose- I keep turning it around, but it won't.  Tusker House Breakfast in Animals Kingdom- one of Mommy's favorite!

Loving on Daisy during breakfast!

King Louie and Baloo in Animal Kingdom- this kid loves the Jungle Book

Tuckered in the middle of the Magic Kingdom

One of Mommy's least favorite rides- Teacups.  E loved them though :)

Silly face :)

Ellie's favorite part of every meal- dessert!

Daddy and Ellie at the hotel

Baloo and Mowgli at the hotel

Papaw and Ellie

Mamaw and Ellie in the pool at night- a bit chilly!

Last full day- Breakfast in the Magic Kingdom before it opened!  So cool!

Twins!

One of my favorite pictures

Rapunzel dancing with Ellie :)

So sweet

Love the way she looked at the princesses

We found Buzz!

Loving the Loops at breakfast

Cutest Snow White around!

new house!

We closed on our old house and new house on January 10th!  We are so very excited to be so close to our best friends and to have so many other blessings that come along with a bigger space.  We got our closest family and friends together to paint our entire upstairs (minus the kitchen and extra bedroom) the first weekend of our ownership, and we moved in on January 18th.  So exciting!

The only picture I took... Ellie's brand new big girl bed in her big girl purple room.  She is still mad at me for painting it purple because she wanted pink :)

our little gymnast

Ellie started a Parent Tot class at SIGS this session!  She was so very excited and did a great job listening to Miss Kandi.  We are hopeful that this will continue and she will make new friends through her gymnastics classes :)

A little anxious...

But overall, very excited!  Love that little belly :)

destin with mamaw and papaw

Since Nick didn't have any vacation at all this year, we kind of invited ourselves to go down with Mamaw and Papaw on their annual trip after Christmas to Ft. Walton Beach and Destin.  Aunt Amy got to come with us since Uncle B didn't get vacation at his new job, either.  We all flew down a day after Mamaw and Papaw got there and we left a few days earlier.  I still wasn't feeling too well at all during the trip, but Ellie had a blast in her own Media Room, watching The Lion King over and over and having Mamaw and Papaw all to herself :)  It was nice to get away while Daddy was back packing our house up for our big move.  When I got back, I went to the doctor right away and they put me on Omeprazole for stomach issues.  It might be stress related, but who knows at this point?
Thanks, Mamaw and Papaw for a wonderful week at the chilly beach!

We survived a flight, a layover, and another flight with a 11/2 year old Ellie Bellie!

At one of our favorite restaurants in Destin, Pompano Joes!

We lost little Stitch in the Gap Outlet, but Jesus was looking out for us, because there was a Disney outlet with this gem in there :)

Knocked out from all of the excitement!

Loving being with Mamaw and Papaw at breakfast )

Beachtime!

Love this time with Papaw!

Marshmallow the Alligator at Fudpucker's.  Ellie liked him!

Silly willy at dinner at Harry T's

christmas 2013

I love, love, love the Christmas season, but I love it about fifty times more since becoming a Mommy.  I love the wonderment and excitement that Christmas brings and I love seeing it in the eyes of a 1 1/2 year old even more.  We always do a TON of stuff for Christmas, so I tried to take pictures of all of the big stuff :)

My kiddos at school for their Christmas play.  Can you tell which one doesn't belong? :)

Not a fan.

A little better with Mommy by her side :)

 Some early snow and ice before Christmas means that Daddy gets home early!

 

The annual Kane/Lawrence cookie night got started off with a bang!

E loving her shades even in December :)

Cookie Night 2013!

Wild woman got into the icing :)

Ellie loves her new Anna hat!

Lawrence Family Christmas 2013!

Ellie loved all of her gifts!

 Ellie and her best pal, Mamaw opening gifts

 

Ellie and Daddy before the big Lawrence Family Christmas at Mark and Jina's.  So cute!

Oh how Christmas Eve night has changed around here :)

Ellie with her Aunt Weesa at the Lewis Family Christmas.  I was really sick and barely made it through :/

Presents, presents, and more presents!