Memorial Day

Sunday at church, our Pastor challenged us to really instill patriotism in our children. He said something he does with his children is to take them to a cemetary on Memorial Day to honor the men and women who died defending our country. What an awesome idea! That is something we plan on doing. Today we went to visit Rusty's grandpa's grave site. He served in the air force during WWII. We planned on taking Ella (not that she would know) but it was so rainy and gross out today that she didn't come along this year. Happy Memorial Day!

Today was a rare treat for Rusty and I. We spent the entire day, just the 2 of us! We love Ella dearly but we were desperately in need of a day for just us. We planned on going to Rustic Gardens, this cool miniture golf course in Indy. Its really one of a kind, SO fun. Well, the weather had something different in mind. What started out as a forecast of isolated rain turned into an all day downpour. We were pretty bummed at first but then decided to go bowling. We bowled for a few hours. I'm SO glad it was just the 2 of us. We were an embarassement to the game. I blame wii. Anyways, after bowling, we went to Olive Garden for lunch, went to see the new Night at the Museum and then walked around Family Christian Book Store for awhile. It was a great day!! Big thanks to Rusty's mom and grandma for watching Ella for us!

Here's a few pictures from the past few weeks!

At Steak & Shake. Ella's first time!

3 generations

Me and my sweet girl

PS I keep forgetting to post this but Ella has 2 teeth now!! The first one (bottom right) popped through the Friday before Mother's Day. The 2nd one (bottom left) popped through Wednesday of last week. They are SO cute. I can see the bottom right one when she smiles. She didn't seem to be in any pain at all when they popped through the gum, hopefully that will continue for the rest of her teeth!