E,E, and Little E Stringfellow: March 2014

Marriage Retreat

A few weekends ago we went on our annual trip (we call it the marriage retreat) with the Halls and the Breauxs to the mountain. This was the 6th year we have done this Hard to believe. We love it and look forward to it every year. As usual, it was a LOT of laughing, a LOT of eating, and a LOT of fun. Not too many pics to share except the following:

We did an "Ellen" selfie. Dave tweeted it to see how many re-tweets it would get. Trying to beat Ellen's record. We got none....hmmm, weird? :) Still a cute picture, I think. I don't tweet so I asked Dave to text it to me - how archaic!

This year we did a little something different - the cabin had a fire pit so Saturday night, we roasted weenies/kielbasa/sausages/peppers over the fire. And Smores, of course. It was so much fun and super delicious. The weather was PERFECT for this!

The Halls

The Breaux's

So much fun!!! Loved every minute of it. Can't wait until next year!

Daddy Daughter Date night

Chik fil A has a Daddy Daughter Date night. We found out about it through our friend Brandi so Erik signed up. They had fun...Elaina has been really "into" her daddy these days and that is something that is super special to watch. So, I was glad they had this opportunity to go on a "date." I, obviously, did not go but I snapped these sweet pics of them before they left. Erik said it was fun and Chik Fil A did a nice job of making is nice.

Love these two people so much!

Valentines Day 2014

Valentines Day 2014.....A good day. I got home late from a whirlwind trip to Denver the night before - it was a crazy week with that trip and my sweet grandmothers both passed away that week within 24 hours of each other. So, Valentines Day was good but I was emotionally and physically tired. We took Elaina to Build a Bear as her gift because she had been asking to go for a while. I thought it was a great creative idea but, oh no....everyone in Knoxville had the same idea, lol. It was fun but crowded. We did beat the line a bit because when we left it was out the door into the mall hallway. It wasn't quite that long when we got there.

Still fun - then we went to dinner the only place we could find that didn't have over an hour wait - Chilis. We like Chilis so that worked out well.

Build a Bear pics:

She picked a Hello Kitty doll - shocking, I know. We tried every way we could to talk her into another one but she wasn't having it. Oh well - it's her gift.

Dinner at Chilis was delish! It was a great night spent together with the 2 people I love the most in this world :)

Cheer Camp 2014

Behind......again......*sigh*

Elaina went to cheer camp again for the basketball season. As usual, she loved it and I am glad even though it's not really my thing. But, it's all about life experiences and trying things. They got to perform their cheers/dance at the basketball game. They got to do it twice - both at the girls game and the boys game. I was glad of that because I did not get good pics/video of her during the first game. So, I was glad for the second opportunity.

Her friends Kaitlyn and Kaelyn...she also has another girl in her class who is Kaitilyn. They all four are best buds. But, we have a hard time figuring out which one of them Elaina is talking about.