Tagged

Okay...I was tagged by Ashley to join in on the 'tagging' fun! Here are the rules: Go to your fourth picture folder, select the fourth picture in it, write four things about the picture, and then tag four people to do the same thing. Here is mine:

1. This is a picture of my mom's dog, Honey (left), and my dog, Jax (right), sleeping on my mom's couch at her old house. This was taken 4 years ago while we lived with my mom while we were building our house that we just sold. Coincidentally, we are living with Erik's parents right now while we search for a new house. Weird.

2) Jax and Honey growled and fought with each A LOT. It was quite annoying. Yet, you could always find them getting pretty chummy like this.

3). They are lying on the most uncomforable couch known to man - not to mention, ugly. It is about 100 years old (not really but close) and the fabric is ichy and feels like you are sitting on a potato sack. My mom would NOT get rid of it. She finally did when she moved. The dogs don't seem to mind it though.

4) This was taken at the house I grew up in. We moved there when I was 3 and my mom just sold it about 2 years ago.

Now I tag...

1) Marta Crass

2) Melissa Smallen

3) Melanie Barthomay

4) Okay, so I don't have very many friends who blog :)

We're moving!!!

So, for those of you who may have not heard... The Stringfellow family is moving. We put our house on the market in September with our fingers crossed and really not hopeful that anything would happen soon. Well, to our surprise, in late October we got a couple of offers and a very good one at that. So, here we are, November 12th and we have to be out of our house by the 20th. Our original understanding was that we had to be out on the 28th but the contract was a faxed copy and the "8" was actually a "0." So, franctically, we are packing this week. Where are we moving????.... good question. We want to stay in the Karns/Hardin Valley area. We made an offer on a house we loved and it did not pan out. So, we are moving in with Erik's parents for a little bit until we can find something else we love. We don't want to get in a hurry and buy something that we don't LOVE. Erik's parents (mamaw and papaw) are pretty excited to have Elaina around for a while. Let the spoiling begin!!! We feel very blessed and are very grateful for them for letting us move in and uproot their world for a while. As always, we'll keep you posted on the status of where we end up. Please keep us in your prayers that we find something and that the move goes smoothly.

Elaina is 16 months old!!

Nov 6th - Elaina is 16 months old today. She is really doing lots of new things. She is signing very well these days. They teach signing at her school so it helps to reinforce what we are trying to teach her at home. She signs "all finished," "milk," "more," "eat," and "diaper." She also has started saying "byyyyyeeeee" and waving when people leave. She really drags out the word "bye" just to be sure that whoever is leaving hears her. Pretty funny. She also will blow kisses when you leave - usually without being prompted. It is very sweet.

Also, one of her favorite thing to do lately is growl like a tiger. She will point to a tiger in a book and growl. It's pretty cute. I'll have to record her doing it. Sometimes we wake up to the sound of her growling in her crib. Her second favorite thing to do is stand in chairs (as evidenced below).

This is pretty much her normal thing lately - standing in chairs... can't keep her out of them.

Elaina with her cousin, Zach...

Elaina's day with her cousin Liana

Elaina spent the morning with her cousin Cassie and her second cousin Liana (Cassie's daughter) while Erik and I did Operation InAs Much with the church. Elaina had so much fun. Cassie captured some good shots of the kiddos and I thought I'd share them....

Little girls smiling and having fun - there is nothing like it.

SUCH a good pic... Love it.

Halloween Fun

Another Halloween has passed and it was a fun one for the Stringfellow clan. Elaina was a ladybug - yet again. My friend Melissa got her this costume before Halloween last year and as you would know, it was too big. But this year, it was just the right size and it was too cute to not where so she was a lady bug again. I promised her that she did not have to be a lady bug again - ever, unless she wanted to. At our small group the Monday before Halloween, we had a small yet fun Halloween party for the kids where we decorated pumpkins and made witch hat cookies. The kids had fun and quite frankly, so did the adults. Here are some shots from that fun night....

Elaina coloring with Laurel aka Minnie Mouse

Spiderman made an appearance at our party. I don't know about everyone else, but I felt safer once he came.

Elaina sharing with her friend, Greyson aka Wonder Turtle

Is he not the cutest Wonder turtle you've ever seen???

Decorating pumpkins

The crew....

Goofy came to the party too...
And, the most exciting news of the day - pictured on the left Hannah Montana came to this Halloween bash!! The kids could hardly contain themselves :) No really, here is a pic of all the kids except Spiderman. They actually sat still for this shot

Here are some shots with Elaina's friends from small group on Halloween. These are post trick or treating shots so the kids were not as cooperative with taking pics...