Snow in Atlanta

Two Friday nights ago Atlanta was hit pretty hard with a snow storm. Well, it was hard to me!! I work about 30 minutes from our new house. It took me 2.5 hours to get home!! Ugh!! It was awful!! I also had Shauna, Ellie's friend from school, in the car with me as well. She was an angel! She literally only asked me to change the movie and that was it! Once I got home, with cold pizza, I was able to enjoy the snow a little bit more....after an adult beverage as well!!

Here are pics from Saturday morning after the snow had fallen.....

Ellie and Shauna ready to play in the snow!!

Ready to go on a golf cart ride!

The munchkin!!

These are the pics Christian took Friday night. When I did finally make it home, he said I took pictures for you. I figured you would want them. Great is what I was thinking. I brought the camera to work to look at the pictures. He did get several of our house, several of the neighbors kids. Do you know how many of our child? Zero, Zip, None!! I just had to laugh!! Thanks honey!!

This is the view from our balcony off of the guest bedroom, looking towards the right.

Same spot but to the left.

Backyard

Front of the house....

Poor Kaos! He is a mess! He wouldn't go out in the snow!! I really don't know how he is a Husky.

I think we ended up with about 4 to 4.5 inches of snow in Hoschton!!

Ellie had her first spend the night out party a few weeks ago with Shauna. She did great except for Patti, Shauna's mom, said she gets up too early. Shauna and Ellie have basically grown up together at Legacy. Patti and I say that they act more like sisters than friends.

Shauna spent the night with us the night it snowed. The girls did great! They played upstairs Friday night. They actually took just about all of the toys out of the playroom and put them in Ellie's room. They watched Mickey Mouse before bed and fell asleep in their sleeping bags in our room.

Happy Valentine's Day

We had a pretty quiet Valentine's Day. Christian took Ellie on a golf cart ride while I went to the store. She ended up falling asleep on it. Christian said he took her home once he saw that she had fallen asleep! When she realized they were home, she was not a happy camper. Luckily, she fell back asleep once they were inside.

We went on another golf cart ride went I got back. Ellie loves the golf cart. She doesn't care what temp it is, she wants to go!! Christian and I can't wait till it gets warmer. I am sure we will either be on the golf cart or at the pool!

I was out Saturday shopping, so I picked Ellie up this Dora Book. It comes with a little record player. I thought it would read her the stories. Well, it plays music while you read the book. Its actually kind of annoying. The music is loud and then you are trying to read over the music. Oh well, she loves it! That's all that matters!

Here she is trying to read us the book like her teachers do at school! Too cute!!

This is what Ellie and mommy got daddy for V-Day. Christian was being a smart butt, and wouldn't let me take a picture of him. It is a GA shirt with GA pj bottoms. He said that I would probably wear it more than he will. He is probably right, for once!

Christian surprised Ellie with a teddy bear and roses for me. The door bell rang about 11:30 am yesterday. I was thinking who in the world is that! I saw the FedEx truck drive away and then I knew! Ellie loves the bear and I of course love the roses. I did feel bad because he said there was supposed to be a spa gift card in the box. There wasn't, so we will have to get that straightened out!!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Valentine's Day.

Cruise 2010

Christian and I went on the annual FSSR Cruise!! We had a great time as usual! Unfortunately, the weather wasn't the best. The cruise left out of Mobile, AL on Thursday before the snow hit Atlanta. It was right about 60 in Mobile, so that was nice. The next day was just about perfect. It wasn't pool weather, except to the kids, but we were able to sit at the pool clothed and be comfortable. Saturday in Cozumel was rainy and windy. We had a rough time at first coming back. The boat was rocking pretty well. Thankfully, on Sunday the waves seemed to calm down a lot more!!

The hubs and I

Dusty, Mary, Marie, Ashley, and Heather

Heather, Ashley, Grant, Lauren, Travis and Jennifer

Ryan, Jessica, Hannah, and Michael

For some reason, I didn't take very many pictures. These are the only pictures I had.

I hate that we missed the snow....well not really. I do hate that we missed Ellie playing in the snow though!! Thanks mom for keeping Ellie! We really appreciate it!!

Christmas

We had another wonderful Christmas! It was a lot of fun to see Ellie get so excited about Santa!!

We started off Christmas Eve with Christian's family!! We had fun watching the girls open their presents!

Ellie with her new doll.

Haedyn and Ellie

Let me explain the next two pictures. We got home Christmas Eve from Christian's parents. Ellie wanted to make Santa muffins. I told her it was too early and that we would make them later. I threw the package on the kitchen counter. About an hour later, I am sitting in the bedroom reading. I hear a scream from Ellie...worst scream I think I have ever heard from her. I walk in the living room and Christian said that she grabbed the muffin packet and took off running. The only problem was there was a wall there. Ellie hit the corner of it with her ear.

This picture is really blurry, but you can see how black and blue it turned. It looked like this within a matter of about five minutes.

Luckily, the her ear was just badly bruised!! Later that night, we finally got to make muffins for Santa.

Santa was very good to Ellie. She received a scooter, sleeping bag and a baby doll station (swing, high chair, bed, and tub that coverts to a changing table).

Funny story about the baby doll station. Ellie was asleep in our room. Christian and I decided to put her scooter and the baby doll station together upstairs, so that if she got up she wouldn't see us. Christian put the baby doll thing together and I put the scooter together. The baby doll thing just snapped together. It didn't take any screws. We finished putting them both together and picked them up to take them downstairs. As soon as Christian gets to the top of the stairs with the doll thing, half of it falls ALL the way down the stairs! It was so loud!! I ran to make sure Ellie didn'tt come out and Christian had to reassemble everything!! Surprisingly, Ellie didn't move!

I went to bed about 10:30 and about 11:30 I hear Ellie crying. I walk out and she is standing in the living room crying. Still crying she asks, "who brought all of that in here?" She was pointing to all of her Santa gifts. I tried to act surprised and asked her if Santa had already come, but she didn't look the least bit interested. She seemed more terrified that someone had been in her house! I picked her up and we went back to bed! Luckily, she was excited on Christmas Day.

We went to my parents around lunch time on Christmas Day. We had a wonderful lunch and loved watching Brax and Ellie make a mess with all of the wrapping paper and tissue.

Braxton got Ellie a stuffed cat and a book to go with it. Ellie loves it!!!!! Her name is now Sassy Cat. Sassy Cat goes where ever Ellie goes, if possible. She sleeps with her and loves on her. She will give me her stuffed rabbit and tells me to sleep with it while she sleeps with Sassy Cat.

Fellers Family Pictures

The Fellers gang had family pics made back in November. We used Maura again! She did Ellie's 3 year pics back in May. I love her work! She did another fabulous job!!

The whole Fellers Family

The Crumbley Family

Ellie and Haedyn

Cousin lovin'

Grant, Christian, Hunter and Elisa

Family pic

Meme Mary and Papa J

The Original Fellers'

Grant and his girlfriend Lauren

More of our cute girls!

Color.....

Black and white.....

My beautiful baby girl!

Christian being well Christian!

My sweet hubby and I

My little family!

Sweet Ellie

Maura Roberts Photography

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