Elayna is such a lucky girl. Her GG Ruth Elaine made her the most beautiful quilt for her big girl bed! Her room is becoming the girl’s room that I always dreamed of for a daughter (pictures coming soon!). Ruth is a very talented quilter (and that’s an understatement). Most of you will have seen…

Elayna sure loves her cousin, Jaden. He is five years old, and she looks up to him a lot. She talks about Jaden quite a bit (always has) and I can tell she truly misses him. So do I. He is the kind of boy that you are very, very proud to know. He is…

E certainly loves her new big girl bed! It has been a challenge keeping her in the bed, since she now knows she has the freedom to climb in and out at will, but she is getting much better about staying in the bed already, and has only had it a couple weeks. I think…

This was our first Christmas in Iowa, and even though it wasn’t a white one this time, it was a warm and love-filled Christmas. We spent Christmas Eve and Christmas day on the farm (and some of it in Gowrie at Ruth’s house as well) and it was wonderful.  Elayna had so much fun this…

Elayna and Gram Jackie enjoyed making cookies together on Christmas Eve. They put on their beautiful homemade aprons (Jackie sews the prettiest things!) and set out to decorate these tree cookies with M & Ms (Elayna may have had to eat some of the broken ones along the way). These were some of the first…