Girl's Night In

Tonight Joseph went on a scout camp out. Ella was kind of sad that he was leaving with out her. When he left she said, "Ella...camp-een tooooo." So I told her that we could go camping in the living room with her tent. We put up her pink camo tent and then headed to the kitchen to make foil dinners like Daddy had taken to his camp out. We first do the potatoes. Ella washed them and I cut them. Next were the carrots. After they were washed and I was cutting them, Ella asked if she could eat some of them..."Me eat dis?" I told her she could and we talked while we made dinner. Finally came the meat. I would hold the ground beef in my hand and she would sprinkle the seasonings in the meat. Then I would squish the meat together to mix it all in. She wanted to help so I rolled up her sleeves and let her feel the meat squish between her fingers. Next thing I notice, she pops a ball of raw meat in her mouth, closes her eyes to savor the taste and says, "Mmmm Mmmm, nummies". I was like, "Ahhhh! NO! NO! Spit it out, spit it out spit it out!" Luckily she listened to me but I had to keep saying spit it out till finally she did. The dinners turned out pretty good and we sat in her tent while we went on a bear hunt, ate and sang songs. She is such a creative little girl. After the bear hunt she was pointing to all of the miniature imaginary bears in the tent. Once it became time to go to bed we moved the tent from the living room to her bed room. We read stories, sang songs, said prayers and I put her to bed. It was actually pretty fun to play with her and participate in her cute personality. I think she had a lot of fun too. Here are some more pictures...






Carly was invited but snoozed through all the festivities.


Last night for Valentine's day Joseph and I were going to go ice skating but everyone has been sick so we decided to wait till the weekend. (and our babysitter was kind of a flop) So while I put the girls down to bed Joseph went out and got some fillet Mignon and made a delicious candle lit dinner for us. It was so sweet and the food was so good. I think my favorite part was when Joseph was trying to light the candle. He couldn't find any lighters or matches so he went out side and came in with a blow torch and lit the candle with a blow torch. Made me laugh... He is all man. :) Earlier that day my brother and his girlfriend came over and Joseph came home to have Valentine's Day brunch with heart shaped french toast and pink milk. I got a few pictures of the girls. I think Ella had a lot of fun celebrating the holiday and we worked on saying "I love you" with words. (as opposed to using made up signs for it.)