Spring Break!

We love spring break around here.  Michael couldn't wait!  And, of course, it was not long enough for him :)  So we went to Denver at the beginning for a couple days and saw lots of family and went shotgun shooting (I did pretty good this time round--it was exciting).  Ellie even rode on a quad-she didn't like it.  Ellie loved watching her cousin Callen run around like crazy, and also had fun looking at her new cousin Tyler. 

On Tuesday we left for Salt Lake to stay with Grandma Elaine.  Ellie did great in the car.  I sat with her the last 4 hours and helped entertain and play.  Grandma loved spending so much time with Ellie everyday.  Ellie is usually very reserved with strangers, but Grandma was very persistent and Ellie seemed to warm up to her very quickly.  It was very cute to see.

Grass!
The weather was pretty lovely so we went outside.  Ellie had only sat on grass a couple times before and this time she decided that she didn't want to sit down.  She kept giving us faces like "do you really think I'm going sit on that!", then get bashful about it,  or "this is so totally disgusting!" to "this isn't so bad", back to "I hate this, its gross!"  It was really entertaining as you can see by her facial expressions.

Playing Grandma's organ was pretty fun.  She got to wear her really cute orange fluffy cotton skirt I just bought her.  It is usually too cold here in Laramie to wear it.  I loved seeing her cute legs.

We spent time with Aunt Amber and Uncle Briton.  Ellie always loves Briton.  She will just sit on his lap as he reads to her from a novel, just listening.  It's pretty cute.  On Saturday, Michael and his brother Chris went shooting and Ellie and I hung out all day with Amber and Briton.  I got to help Amber decorate a little bit and clean out the soon to be nursery.  Then Sunday we left around 11am, drove through a little snow and mostly rain until we got past Evanston area and then it was smooth sailing.  We think we hydroplaned a bit on the wet road.  It was a very strange feeling, not like ice, and not like road :)  So we are happy to be home.  The weather has been gorgeous!  It got up to 83* on my porch yesterday and today it is already 73*.  We like global warming around these parts.  Makes us wonder if we might actually have a spring?

Our Mission Impossible baby!  Didn't want to touch the grass!