My Creative side

Ang, here is the photo board that I love so much. Thanks to my friend Amber who taught me how to make it.

Happy Birthday Crue!!!

I can't believe he is the big ONE! What a cute little guy we have at our home. He goes by cruie, shushu, cruiser, and cruebe. (Most of the names Ellie came up with) He is such a funny little guy who always makes us smile. My most favorite to do is get him up in the morning. Right when you walk in his room he gets this burst of energy and goes nuts. He starts bouncing up and down, shakes his head, then he'll find his blanket and snuggle into it and start laughing. I'm never in a bad mood after seeing that.
We had a little birthday party for him which most of the time I think the little guy felt overwhelmed. He got great gifts from all of his cousins and grandparents. It is so nice to have cars, trains, dinosaurs, and balls littered throughout our house now. I'm still amazed that he loves to play with all of it and finds no interest in Ellies stuff. I guess that saying "boys will be boys" rings true. Thanks to everyone who came and celebrated his birthday.

Look out J.Lo!!

I have never in my life seen anyone so excited about an event as Ellie was for her dance "cicital." She was so trilled to put on some of mom's makeup and put her costume on. She was a crack up. Her lipstick had to be just right, I think I reapplied 6 times before we left. I think I have created a diva and then some.

Practicing her moves before the big perfomance.

I was so nervous for her, the same feeling I had at good old Jazz-n-Place. I didn't think that she would do it, I thought she would come out see all the people and then just start yelling my name. To my surprise she came out with such confiedence and found her mark and was ready to dance. That mark that she did find would occupy her the entire dance. The other little dancers would be engaged in following the teacher, but Ellie was trying to see her mark and with that fluffy tutu it made things a little hard. Needless to say it was hillarous. She did a great job and made her family smile. After she kept asking everyone if she was a "bootiful dancer.

Jump-on-It, A tadje dream!

Here is most of the Tadje fam. We are missing Melissa and Dan. We went to jump on it and had a blast. It is a Tadje dream there. I've never see so many grown men have so much fun. I am very glad that we didn't have a trip to the ER because some of the tricks they were pulling were crazy!

Morgan, Ellie, Annie, Kiki, and Angie

Richard doing a 720!

Jona doing a backflip


Ryan doing backflip from tramp to tramp,

Trying to be a Photographer!

So I have been playing around with some of my pictures because sometimes I think that I am a photographer. Here are some of the latest. This is a picture I took of my niece Abby at Ellie's Birthday party.
Here is cute little Crue in the bathtub. He loves his tub and I love to watch him go crazy in there.

I took this before the boys went riding. They were good sports as I was trying to be creative. What a good looking group of boys. Love you guys.

Ellie and her little friend Ashley in Disneyland. What a great time we had there! They were the cutest little princesses.
Ellie loves dance so much. She wears her dance clothes everyday and wants to go everyday. She will go in the gym and dance around and sing princess songs. She didn't get that from me.

I am now a Disney fan. I never really understood all the excitement that went along with Disney until I had my own family. Watching Ellie there was priceless! She loves that place so much it is crazy. We went on a spur of a moment trip to Florida a couple of weeks ago. We found out on a wed that we were going and were on a plane on Sunday. I dealt with all of it pretty well considering the lack of planning. We had so much fun going to disneyworld and animal kingdom. Crue even enjoyed it and did really well being dragged around all day. My favorite day was seeing my cousin Renee. She is such a great gal I just love her and her family. Thanks for the food and fun Renee, you are the best!

I have to admit that I am allot like my dad Richard. In that when we are on vacation there is an agenda to be followed. Hey, we got a lot done and had a good time doing it. I may have been a little uptight sometimes and that may have rubbed off on Ellie, but all in all I felt like our trip was a huge success.
I will post some more pics of ellie with the princesses when I get those because that was another highlight of the trip. I really almost started to cry watching her with them. Sounds really cheesy I know, but her face just lit up when "Cindergrella" gave her a hug. She was in heaven! That is when the whole priceless commercial came into play. All of the tickets, lines, hot churros that cost way too much money, all of that was worth it after seeing Ellie with those princesses.

Happy Halloween

Crue was the cuttest little dragon. He kept on making me laugh because he couldn't move very well and watching him move around cracked me up. He was a good sport and loved all the excitement.

Happy Halloween! I know I'm a bit late, but here are the kids. Leslie I hope to see a picture of your cat all dressed up. Anyway this year Ellie couldn't decide what to be so we changed her outfit every couple hours. She first went to preschool as a spider princess. Then we changed into the cute minnie mouse outfit. This was my favorite and she liked it too, but couldn't handle wearing it for very long so we changed into the third outfit which was the princess. This is kindof what we do everyday so it was no surprise to me that we would be changing outfits on halloween. I don't know what her deal is..... OCD with clothes I guess.

This is my favorite picture. I just love my kids (most of the time).

My Cute little family. We got our pictures done by the greatest photographer - rebekah westover. I loved all of them!

One of my favorite things to do! I think that this picture is so cool, thanks to Leslie for taking it.

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