Elizabeth's Girl Talk. A blog about me, my husband and our six girls.
Me at 5:00 am....just loving, eh?! The hospital didn't actually start anything until 8:00... they told us it was a very busy night. I'll update you on the full labor and delivery story when I have more time. Until then, here's pictures of our sweet baby girl...
Rylee was born at 12:42 p.m. she weighed 7 lbs 1 oz and measured 19 inches long
Isn't she beautiful? Tons of dark hair, at least for one of our babies.
Todd and Rylee
Happy 4th of July! Sorry I haven't updated my blog...no fantastic excuse, just plain busy. Here are the girls for the 4th of July! We just spent the morning and afternoon at our community pool and then went to Dylans birthday bar-b-q. But the girls had so much fun. How do you like Marcella's hair!?!! It's very curly and getting longer. When it's fro-ed out, we call it "Papa Hugh hair". My grandfather had the whitest, curliest hair that was worn very poofy.
Audrey turned the big 5 on June 29th. She had been looking forward to this birthday since November when Olivia and Emily had their birthdays.
I somehow talked Audrey into a Polly Pocket cake. She at first requested yet another Tinker Bell cake. I've already done two of those for her last 2 birthdays...I was fresh out of new Tink ideas!!
Well, we'll see how everything goes, but I'm still pregnant! My doctor told me last Thursday that if I didn't go into labor on my own this week that he wanted to see me Wednesday. Yeah right, like I EVER go early!! So, I'll have my doctor appointment this Wednesday and he said that they would most likely induce Thursday. Wish me luck and I'll post pictures of our new baby girl as soon as I can!
Todd's younger sister, Laura and her fiance Mike were married this past weekend. Laura had all of the kids be part of the ceremony. They matched up perfectly for everyone to walk down the isle together. The ceremony, I hear, was very nice. You see I was inside trying to get Marcella to stop crying the whole time! Unfortunately the ceremony was at 2:00pm, Marcella's nap time...need I say more? Yes, actually it's a pretty funny story. Soooo, Marcella and her cousin just 7 months younger, Austin were paired together. Of course you see, it's his nap time too. Everyone it seems but me wants the line of nephews and nieces to be youngest to oldest, tooo cute, right?! I was just thinking it might be easier to get Marcella and Austin to walk down an isle of strangers if they saw some of the older kids do it first. I was over ruled. Well, well, Marcella was already grumpy from pictures, but we showed her the great basket full of petals that was hers to carry down the isle. That made her sooo happy, to have her very own basket of flowers! Well, the time came for Austin and Marcella to make their debue...Austin had his own basket of petals to keep him happy as well. Well, Austin was not happy about walking anywhere without his mom, so Brittany picked him up once he started to cry. Austin still not happy, chucks his basket on the ground spilling flower petals everywhere! Well, Marcella's quite concerned about Austin, but more so that he's spilled his petals everywhere. Instead of walking down the isle, Marcella wants to pick up Austin's petals. So Brittany takes off with Austin leaving Marcella to Todd. Todd tries to pick up Marcella and haul her down the isle in his arms. This makes Marcella even more mad so she follows suit and chucks her basket to the ground crying the whole way down the isle. I finally relieved Todd of Marcella once we realized that calming her down outside wasn't going to work. I took her inside, got her to stop crying, but every time we went outside to join everyone else, there were those poor petals all over the ground and isle so Marcella would start crying all over again. Does anyone know how to explain to a 2 year old that the petals were suppose to be on the ground?
My Beautiful girls
Payton and Audrey
Dylan and Olivia
Happy Saint Patrick's Day! Marcella turns Two! It's hard to bleive that my baby girl is headed into her terrible twos! Although, three is much worse I believe. So I'll just keep reminding myself that when I'm having a hard moment with her. Or maybe not...it might be too depressing!!
Grandma and Grandpa Riley's package came right on time! It was so fun to have more presents to open on her birthday. Marcella was really getting into it as you can tell by her facial expressions.
Grandma is totally spoiling her. I've already been battling Marcella every morning about what she's going to wear. She wants to wear a dress everyday. And mind you, not just any dress, but a FANCY church dress. I've tried to put on skirts and jumpers, but they're not good enough. Grandma got her 2 new dresses for her birthday and I get to hear every morning that she wants to wear them. 
Marcella has proven since her birthday that her favorite present is the Dora purse. I put some Lipsmackers chapstick in the purse wondering if I had lost my mind too. But I'm shocked and happy to report that the chapstick is still intact residing in the purse. She loves to keep it in it's rightful place and carry it everywhere.
The Poky Little Puppy has become a favorite among all of my girls. Marcella's favorite part is to point out the gross bugs coming up and going down the side of the hill.
