New Sandbox, Princess Dresses, Pregnancy photos

Ella and Ava got a new sandbox from their Gigi and Papa (my parents)  They are totally in love and insist on playing in it everyday!

 Ava loading sand into her bucket!

 Ella Digging!

 This is my at 24wks pregnant... I haven't been good about taking photos this pregnancy...frankly bc I don't want a record of how big I looked, but I know I need to do better because one day this little girl is going to want pictures of her in my belly just like her big sisters have. .... SO, I will keep doing it.

 I got these dresses from one of my friends Moms at the girls shower when I was pregnant with them.  I remember thinking they were huge and the girls would NEVER fit in them! Well, here they are 2T and all :)

 I am teaching them to love one another and that they are eachothers best friend, which lead Ella to ask me, "Mommy? Daddy your best friend?" ... I almost cried, but got the answer out, "Yes!"  So now, Ella will say, "Sissy my best friend, Daddy Mommy's best friend"  I love it!

 Ella

Ava


What we have been up to:
So we are just truckin along here, I have been sick for several weeks and the girls went to stay with my Mother in law all day yesterday and last night.... which was a gift straight from God, I have been SOOOO tired and sick and not to mention pregnant... that it's been hard for me to recover! I spent all day in bed yesterday and today, I have until 3ish to spend in bed... and I'm doin it! :) Although, I have to say, I miss them soooo much.  They are the best part of my day and my little friends, so going without them is  hard, although at times, needed to recover!  I know they are having such a great time and better than having them watch TV while I lay on the couch coughing and blowing my nose!

So I am almost 25 wks pregnant and my last appt. went well, baby was moving lots and I was measuring right on track, which is new to me because before I was always measuring about 6wks ahead cause of the fact it was twins.  This pregnancy has been so much easier! I feel LOTs of movement from her, she is a kicker and likes to move around and let me know whats up! It is my favorite part of pregnancy so I don't mind it a bit, besides when I roll over at night, it's nice to feel a squirm to know, "Hey, I'm here!"  We are getting our nursery room cleaned out and painted later this month, so I will post pictures as it comes along.  I have a shower next month for some diapers and essentials which I am looking forward to. Probably won't fully set the room up till June, but everything seems to be coming along! 15 wks left and that feels like forever, but I know how fast it comes! We are very excited to meet our new little baby butterfly! :)

Happy St. Patty's Day

 HAPPY ST. PATTY's DAY!

Sissy Kisses!  We are doing our spring break thing, trying to hang out with teacher friends that usually work during the week, going to parks and just taking every opportunity to try to do fun things!

I've been feeling pretty good lately and my parents just came for a visit, I will post some of the pictures form the visit soon!

Hope everyone has a wonderful St. Patty's Day!

Baby Nursery Hopes

This is the crib we ordered and have gotten, it's very girly so I LOVE it!

We are painting the room the light pink in the background of this next picture... I am doing a chair rail, so the light pink will be on top and then a light green on the bottom of the white chair rail.  On the wall we are putting the crib on, there will be pink stripes, alternating pale pink and a little lighter pink... very subtle. 

This is the bedding we ordered from Pottery Barn.. I did the girls room in bold colors, so I wanted to do this baby room in soft colors, very delicate and sweet! The bedding is on backorder till July 5th, so we will get it RIGHT before baby girl born!

We want a chandelier like this, but they are hard to find not so expensive, but I am hoping to get something like this at Hobby Lobby and continue to make it my own if I have to! I want to hang in in the corner over the rocking chair...my friend is letting us have her plush lazyboyish rocking chair with ottoman.. :) It's a light light greenish color...

My parents bought the girls a pottery barn chair for their rooms for Christmas, so I am hoping to get this one eventually for the new baby, so she can have her own little reading chair!

I ordered this pillow sham to go with the quilt/bedding ordered from Pottery Barn, it's nice cause you can put the baby's name on it!

These are the curtains I like from Target, I put them on my registry...

This is a picture of the pillow sham I ordered from Pottery Barn 

I got this to go over the baby's dresser

I think we are going to get a plain white dresser from Walmart or Target or somewhere, something with drawers that I can put the changing pad on top of.   Something like this!

Update cause I'm bad

So here is a little update on our life! The girls are 2 1/2 now and do and say the funniest things.  They are huge talkers and talk in full sentences most of the time.  Today we were watching a Sandals Resort commercial on TV where there was a beautiful Blonde haired woman in a bikini running on the beach and Ella says, "look mommy! It's You!" Why yes, yes it is Ella... and thank you for thinking of me that way!  WE are in the process of potty training the girls... Ava is pretty much there, but Ella seems to have no interest.  She says, "I can't want to Mommy, " which is fine by me, I'll take her lead... unless of course she STILL doesn't want to by the time she is 3 and the baby comes.. in that case I WON"T be buying anymore diapers for the girls... so she will have no choice.  Really it's about me being lazy too, I have to be honest, I'm not feeling motivated to get up and take them, sometimes it's nice to be out in public and not have to find the dirty public restroom and always worry about an accident... but I know I need to bite the bullet, that was just the truth.. the truth about my laziness!

So we had our big ultrasound yesterday and it went very well.  I always worry about the big one, where they measure all the parts.. because I can't believe God has blessed me with 3 girls and I feel like what did I do to deserve to be so lucky.. like the ball will drop or something.  Anyways, baby butterfly looked beautiful, she had all her parts and the sonographer pointed out all the things working like her ability to swallow and her kidneys working and her bladder was full so they know she can urinate and her kidneys processing the urine. Her brain looked good and her heart had all four chambers, her spine was looking good... and all I have to say is PRAISE GOD! Such a miracle to have a healthy baby! She was moving around and kicking me lots and I could feel it and it was fun seeing it and feeling what was happening at the same time.  Daniel has just recently been able to feel the baby kicking.. which didn't happen till 24wks with the girls... it was MUCH longer with them... he has such tough hands he had to put his face on there with the girls, this time he could feel it with his hands at 20wks. :)  Baby Butterfly is measuring 1 week behind.. which they said was totally normal, she is still in the average range, she might just be small.  I always like to think about what size baby will I have just having one.  The girls weighed 5lbs some odd ounces... so now I want to know will I have a 6lb baby or a 7lb baby... please? :) haha

 My friend Keelin sent the girls a package with these masks and some cute clothes and things for the new baby.. Daniel tried to get some pictures.. obviously Ella is not happy over not getting to color... :)

 Ella Rae

Ava Paige




Here are some pictures to tide you over :)

And this Baby Is..........

A Girl!!!!!!

We are excited to announce we are having another little girl in July! Her name will be Lilah!

The choices for middle names: Lilah Sloane, Lilah Sophia, Lilah Kate, Lilah Reese, Lilah Gwen... I think the winner might be Lilah Sloane, but Daniel won't agree 100% yet.  He doesn't read this blog so maybe I can go out on a limb and say it will be that! haha, nah, I'll let him decide!

We are really happy to be having a girl, even though we already have 2 we wanted a baby and whatever it was going to be we would have been just as excited!

She looks like she has a beard... hoping it's just a shadow!

Mitchell Baby #3

We don't have any pictures to post, but lots of news!....... for those of you who follow this blog besides my parents... we are having another baby!!!!  July 18th the baby is to arrive! We don't know the gender yet, but we plan to find out soon, until then we like to play the name game... well, let me rephrase that... I like to play the name game, Daniel won't agree!  I think it will be Hudson for a boy and Lilah for a girl, but we don't know middle names yet!

In other news, my family all came for the holidays and we had a great time!  It was nice to be around everyone and they all got to see our new house! The girls had a great time with all their cousins and enjoyed "telling" everyone about their new baby brother or sister coming.

Sorry we haven't been posting pictures, our computer broke, so we had to get a new one and we are still figuring things out, so give us some time and we will be back to steady picture posting!

Pumpkin Carving

 Ava holding her pumpkin to carve...

 Time to carve the pumpkins!

 Ella putting the stickers on her pumpkin

carving....