Elsbury Clan

Saturday, November 19, 2011

The 80's are back!

I arrived at Heather's one day to see my little girl has taken a trip to the 80's!! Ha!

Halloween 2011 was fast approaching. Lily knew exactly what she wanted to be. Her and I had found the costume awhile back, but I didn't get it for fear she would change her mind. But, she didn't. So, he was thrilled when I came home with her costume one day. I didn't have students on Halloween, but Lily did have her Halloween party at Heather's. Halloween is not my favorite holiday, but I love to see Lily so excited. We decided that we were going to stay in Doniphan this year so that she could experience true trick-or-treating door to door.

Lily got all dressed up and then I put make-up and glitter hair spray in her hair.

SHE IS READY FOR TRICK-OR-TREATING!

We didn't think we would make it to Gma and Gpa's and still be able to trick-or-treat before it got too dark, so Gma came to us! Isn't this a great picture of Lily the Mermaid and Grandma? Mom then stayed to hand out candy to our Halloween visitors.

First we hit the houses in our culdesac. Not many were home, but a good enough start to put a smile on our Mermaid's face.

We soon found Morgan (bumble bee) and Skylar (pumpkin), so they went trick-or-treating with us.

We went to MacKenzie's house and they were just leaving too to go door to door.

Then we found a familiar Fireman (Rylen)! Aren't they too cute?!? This will be so much fun every year to go out on the town together! :)

One of many houses they ran up to!

Morgan and Lily were so much fun to watch. They ran everywhere, which is hard for Mermaid! :O ha ha! They argued of whose turn it was to ring the doorbell. By the last few houses, Lily was finally getting good at saying Thank you with out us reminding her. She would get so excited every time. We just went to the homes in our neighborhood and then it was so dark. So, we went back home and relieved my mom. She said she had about 18 kids, I thought there would have been more.

Then we ended the night with our annual tradition. We went to Dave and Chris's house in GI. They had SOOOOO many trick-or-treaters, it was crazy. Of course Chris had a special treat set aside for Miss Lily. Then the Baasch's came and the kids played a little. With school being the next day, we headed home for bed.

Another Halloween was a hit!!!!

Farmer Lily

Lily loves to go out to the farm. Daddy has let her drive a few times out there so now she begs to drive when we go to Gpa and Gma's. She knew we would see Gpa so she put ont he seed corn hat that our neighbor, Kyle, gave her. She even wore her cowboy boots. We are so fortunate to live close to my parents, because Lily enjoys being on the farm!

Lily has Gpa wrapped around her little finger. He even let her drive! ha ha

Jack-o-lantern family!

It has been forever since I have blogged and I have SOOOO much to blog about. So, here it goes. :)

We were so excited to carve our pumpkins. We did them right before Halloween so that we would have some jack-o-lanterns sitting on the step for the trick-or-treaters. We carved the Daddy, Mommy, and Lily pumpkins.

Daddy let Lily design his pumpkin face. It turned out SCARY! ha ha

Our wonderful jack-o-lantern family!

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Our Elsbury clan is growing!!!!!

For those of you that know us well, we have been praying for a baby for a long time. God has now blessed us with a baby!!! I am now 13 weeks 3 days. Baby #2 is due on May 3rd! Perfect time for a teacher, huh?! :) I have been a nervous wreck for the first 12 weeks. It was so hard losing a baby, that I couldn't bare the thought of it happening again. My doctor kept a close eye on me the first few weeks of our pregnancy. That is why we had an ultrasound at 6 weeks (Sept 8th) and 8 weeks (Sept 22nd). Everything looked great at both and were told not to worry. My doctor had told me that my Thyroid was the reason we lost the other baby, so I have been getting that tested every 4 weeks. I have had to increase my dosage every time. I am so glad she knows what we need to do to make sure this baby is healthy.

Baby Elsbury at 6 weeks! Doesn't he/she look cute?!?

Baby Elsbury at 8 weeks! Starting to look a little bigger. I can't wait to see him/her at our next ultrasound around 20 weeks.

On October 20th, we told Lily the great news!!!!! We used the pumpkins on our front step to explain it to her. We had a "Daddy, Mommy, and Lily" pumpkin already on the step, so I told her to get the little pumpkin to add to the bottom of the steps. She knew it was for a baby, but it took some explaining that it was for a baby in Mommy's tummy. She has been praying for a baby and has been asking to be a big sister, so we knew this was going to be exciting for her!!!

She is giving the baby pumpkin a kiss!

We had her wear her "Big Sis" shirt to Heather's on Friday. Heather saw it right away and was very excited!!!

I feel so blessed to have this opportunity to be a mom to another baby!

God has definitely answered our prayers.

Amelia Rea

On October 13th, one of my best friends had her baby, Amelia Magdalene. We were able to go visit her in Lincoln on Sunday. She is such a cutie! Congratulations Erin and Brian! Amelia is lucky to have parents like you!

Doesn't Lily look good holding a baby?!? She absolutely loves babies.

Vala's Pumpkin Patch 2011

Lily and I had a great weekend with Virgie and the Ferzely's. I had class in Fremont while Lily hung out with Aunt Gigi and Syd. We then went to Disney Live. I will post pics when I figure out how to get them off of my phone with out taking forever! :)

On Sunday morning, we went to Vala's Pumpkin patch. It is right outside of Gretna. It is amazing! We had tons of fun! Look at all the fun we had!