Fabulous Ensemble

Annie got to go to her friend Lily's birthday party today. She's been looking forward to it all week. It was a "Fancy Nancy" themed party, and each party guest was invited to wear their "fanciest ensemble." This is right down Annie's sunglass-wearin'-fancy-purse-totin'-tiara-sportin' alley. She's been planning her outfit for days.
The other highlight of the day was pouring a big ol' concrete slab (where our new shed will one day reside), and the girls thought that putting their hands in the wet cement was all kinds of fun. (Also exciting, we worked in the garden for an hour or so this morning, and both of my girls are all about picking up worms and roly poly bugs. "They tickle," Annie giggles. She is slightly more wary of clean worms though, and prefers really dirt covered ones to hold.)

Here's Annie and Daddy, right before her party, after putting her hand in the cement.Ellie found this whole cement/hand thing highly amusing. Greg slightly less so, since it took about 6 tries to get Ellie's hand print done, and one of those she stuck her little whole fist into Annie's original hand print, so we had to redo Annie's again.)

Here was Annie in her 'fancy ensemble' . . . this was her 'fancy' pose.
(I'm kind of an idiot, and about half the time I take a vertical picture, I hold the camera in such a way that I block the flash, thus the weird shadow half way down the picture -- I need more practice on this camera!

Another fancy pose -- but this one cracked me up. She did about a dozen poses in a row, just sticking her fingers in random, odd directions.

Fancy Annie

Ellie also changed into her pettiskirt . . . here she is singing into her giant plastic microphone. This kid is all about putting on a show for company!

This is just a random picture of Ellie from earlier in the week, I just liked it.