Future Fuel Picnic

This past weekend we went to Batesville for my dad's company picnic. We always love going and Essie is finally the age to enjoy it.

 Here are a few pictures of previous years:
2010...

2009...

Now back to this year. We could NOT believe Essie was not afraid of the bounce houses...she's been TERRIFIED of them up until this!

Our "Big House"

Welcome to our "Big House", our temporary home...

sneaky monkey

Yesterday we drove down to Little Rock to meet Aunt YaYa and go to the zoo. First we had planned to use some coupons we had at Juanitas but it was closed. :( so we stopped at the Clinton Museum store and Essie wanted to drive the truck in there. I found some Bill and Hillary cookie cutters for a dollar so I was majorly pumped!

Essie had a blast at the zoo. She was all into the animals. We didn't even have a stroller...she walked the majority and we carried her some too. She loved the giraffes so much. They were right next to us! She did NOT like thier long tongues. She kept saying "Eeeww". Once we left she got a stuffed animal and she picked out a stuffed giraffe she named "eeewwwwweee". 

A little while back I saw this picture on Ashley's Avenue blog and I had the idea to show this to Essie and tell her the "monkey got her sassy" at the zoo. So that's what we did. And she's been sassy free for over 24 hours now. She seems okay with it and she wants to see the picture of the monkey all the time.

And after the zoo we drove down to Pine Bluff to visit with Meemaw and Peepaw and Uncle Jim and Aunt Jane. Essie had a blast and did NOT want to leave.

We got home late last night and this morning Essie woke up with both eyes almost completed swollen shut. So I stayed home and took her to the doctor. They said it was allergies and she had a stye on one eye.

a princess, a tummy bug, a few projects

So we have a real princess on our hands these days... she wants to wear her snow white consignment find quite often.  She wore it last weekend when we met up with Travis' family in Little Rock. Essie loved hangin with her big cousins!

Our house has been hit with the tummy bug full force. We got called from Essie's daycare Friday that she was sick and needed to be picked up. So Travis got her and by Saturday he was reallllly sick with it. Es and I spent the day making tents and cleaning.

Today Travis felt better thankfully! (Just hoping I'm not next to get the nasty bug). I made Essie a box dollhouse complete with doll bed. It's a Nutrigrain box and an Easy Mac box wrapped in red duct tape! hahah. 

Essie thought it was too short for Cinderella so i had to add another box...so now it's an EXTRA long twin! She's played with it all night though! And she keeps climbing into her box and pretending to be "Alice" when she was stuck in the rabbit's house!

She got to pick out her own outfit today and she chose her new (consignment) fluff rockstar dress and new (consignment) pink cowboy boots. 

I've been cooking all day. I have made 3 tubs of hamburger meat for spaghetti, two of taco meat, three of shredded chicken, a  bag full of baked potatoes all for the freezer! I even made homemade mashed potatoes and beef stroganoff for dinner!

A DECADE

That's how long Travis and I have been together. A solid decade today. 10 years ago we officially started dating after working together for the summer...

We've had a very eventful, bumpy, lovely, exciting 10 years. Here are a few pics of our past decade together!

Travis is my other half and without him I'd be lost...he is THE most wonderful daddy to EClaire. Here's to the next 50...