Mother's Day

This is also a catch-up post.  I had a really lovely Mother's Day.  Hansen and Eloise greeted me in the morning with a beautiful present-- a delicate, gold necklace with a tiny "E" as the pendant.  I was so touched!  The "E" (obviously) is for my Little Eloise, who made me a mom!  It was such a sweet, unexpected gift.  I will treasure it always (you can kind of see it in the picture below)!  We had a lovely time at church, and then (after a GREAT mother's day nap) we headed over to Rees and KayLynn's for dinner.  We didn't get many pictures, but I thought the one below was perfect for the day.  Eloise would clearly rather be eating than posing for a picture, but we'll excuse her grimace.

2nd 1st Birthday

This post is egregiously late.  As stated in a previous (and timely) post, Eloise turned 1 on April 26th!  This lucky lady had TWO birthday parties: one in Idaho, and one at Grandma KayLynn and Grandpa Rees's home.  Here are the pictures of our sweetie's 2nd, 1st Birthday Party!

I made raspberry cupcakes, and KayLynn gave her a bouquet of sweetpeas.

The Happy Birthday Girl!

The family, enjoying birthday dinner

Birthday swim!

Birthday Jacuzzi!

And finally, the cupcakes!  Singing the traditional birthday song.  Poor Anders!  We were celebrating his birthday too, but I'm afraid the little one got most of the attention!

Not quite sure what to do with that flame...

Touch it?   

Naw, bad idea. 

Mommy finally helped with the blowing out of the candle, so the cake could be enjoyed!

Happy Birthday, Eloise!  We love you!