Ella Claire 2nd Birthday!!

After 3 hours of putting together.....what a great Daddy!

Two years old?! Really? Time really does fly by!
No smiles cause I'm stuffing jelly beans in by the handful.

Enjoying my Santa gift with the twins, Cohen and Shep :)

A great BIG THANKS to Uncle Bradley for my one of a kind-hand made picnic table! (Ella Claire and Hudson, aka brother from another mother :)

Grammie got her "baby fix" with Beckett

EC shares her birthday month with Grandma Moore, who turned 88 this year.

EC's two PawPaws....man does she LOVE them!

Auntie Lauren spent a good hour putting my bike together for me....thank you!

Alivia and the gang having such a great day together!

Because my sister is addicted to Pinterest, she thinks I should be crafty too. Thank you Auntie Jac for all the help and ideas for EC's second bday party! You're the best!

Ella Claire on March 27, 2012. You are such a complete joy to me, I love you!

Two Year Old updates....

Favorite words:

me, me, me, no me!

one more

bubbles

peez (please)

thank you

Favorite food:

gold fish

puffs (for some reason loves them again)

ketchup

strawberries

breakfast sausage

New things:

kiwi

salad with feta cheese

finally likes her baby dolls

swimming like a mermaid in the bath

floating tummy up in bath

loves shoes

so independent these days

LOVES sunday school at church

really enjoys saying bedtime prayers, prays for PawPaw at least twice before bed

Christmas 2011.....I know I'm really late to post this!

Some of my favorite 2011 Holiday Pics!! Fun times with Family & Friends

Thankful in 2011

I am so thankful for my beautiful, healthy and loving family. You are my angels.
And guess what Ella Claire has learned to do....

Take off her own diaper! Ugh...this is her face when I'm telling her "no ma'am, we do not take off our diaper", that little grin makes me laugh so hard.

Daddy and I dancing and twirling...

Dancing with Aunt Lauren

Making memories with Papaw Rushing watching the Hog Game.

Making fudge with Aunt Lauren and Grandad Rushing. I'm really starting to like to help in the kitchen.

Thanksgiving Day at Aunt Lauren's. Thanks to Auntie Jac for my turkey shirt and matching belt, wish my mama was crafty like that :)

Enjoying time with Grammie and praying God will move her closer to me!

"Punkin Patchin"

Happy Birthday to Grammie and Aunt Maria on the same day, October 2nd!

Somebody found MeMaw's hair rollers!

Not that my hair needs hair rollers...

Grandad's scooter sure is fun to drive! He likes to give me lessons.

Walking Granny and Grandad's doggie Bo.

Thanks to my Auntie Jac for making me the most beautiful scarecrow there ever was! (yes, this is the best picture I could get of it :(

One of these days I'm going to drive this tractor by myself PawPaw!

Sure do love my cousin Savannah and my Uncle Bradley :)

Touching her first trout. We had a great time on our camping trip with Grandad Rushing, Virginia, PawPaw and MeMe on the White River.
She grabbed it without even hesitating ;)

Watching my grand-daddies clean fish!

I love this picture

Ella's first lesson in blowing bubbles in the water

Fun in the sun!

Practicing her driving skills

Two cutie pies

Loves PawPaw's cows and points to cows when she sees them anywhere!

A big "shout out" to my BFF's Hudson, Drew, Whitley and Will. Of course Ella is the only one not facing the camera! ERRR

Could I please get half of these eyelashes?!

This is how we spent at least half of our summer together, in the backyard, with water!

Jonathan loves this picture of Ella Clair's "golf stance" :)

Getting four wheeler lessons from Daddy

My two love bugs!

Learning to do steps with help from Grandad

This is where Ella's LOVE of tractors came from...Great Grandad Rushing at the May Family Reunion. Last year I was only 9 mo. old!

Sweet Great Grandad Rushing

My first dip in my own pool at Grammie's for Memorial Weekend! We had a blast...just look at that adorable face!

Grammie got me my very own growth board. We hung it in Ella's room, what a sweet gift!

Thanks for the hand Grandad!

Gettin' some lovin' from Hud, one of these days she might like it! :)

Happy B-Day PawPaw and Meme!!

Celebrating Father's Day and ALL the Rushing & Norwood B-days! Thanks for the donation of shrimp Grandad and for helping show Daddy how to do it right!!

She loves her cousin Savannah!

Boy does she LOVE her cell phone :)

Hudson and Holt playing in the sprinkler

Alivia and Ella Claire BFFs

Father's Day Shrimp Boil