Elie and Olivia played dress up at playgroup today, they were very cute!
Elie with her clip-on earrings on...
and looking very "royal" in her throne...
Olivia peeking out of the castle with those beautiful blue eyes...
Very cute princesses, and they are so much fun to watch play now they they actually play together!
Ok, so I am going to be better about blogging...Here is my little princess who now tells people her name is "Elie Yates Princess". It is cold and snowing out right now but she insisted on wearing her "ballerina" with matching barrette, which she coordinates herself. She is very good at matching her clothes and her barrettes which is god because I don't have much of a say.
I have a lot of blogging to do, I take the pictures they just don'r seem to make it onto the computer, so I stole this one off Beth's blog... we met Beth and Mr. Sam at the Children's Museum on Wednesday and then had lunch next door at the aquarium. As you can see it was pretty cool. Elie liked the sharks and Mr. Sam liked Elie's macaroni and cheese!
Aunt Nan, Elie and I took this same picture back in May, the only thing different is we are all wearing headbands and Elie looks a lot older!
The Princess herself...
Playing in the hot tub or "the pool" as Elie calls it with her Dad.
Riding her new tricycle around Grandma's house in Aunt Sarah's sweet middle school sunglasses. 
Elie liked the beach almost as much as she liked Disneyland. There were so many cute pictures from this trip to the beach I had to blog a lot of them...
The sand was perfect and not too hot in November!
Thinking about going in...
Getting her feet wet...
And she is out of there. The water was pretty chilly but she got used to it and loved playing in the waves.
Running along the beach.
Watching the "big waves"!
And playing in them!
And running from them!
I have a lot of blogging to do from California, but I'll start with Disneyland. I wish everyone in the world could have been there to see how much fun Elie had!
First ride, the Carousel! This really kicked things off right...
Then onto to the PRINCESSES-SSS (as Elie would say)! She was in heaven. Cinderella and Aerial are two of her favorites and she got to see them both at once!!! All the princesses were ga-ga over her, they thought she was so cute!
The she sang the entire Sleeping Beauty song to Sleeping Beauty! (This made Grandma cry)!
And she flew on the magic carpet with Princess Jasmine!
Next stop... Toon Town for lunch and her first roller coaster ride (which she was just tall enough for and loved it!)
Then she got to meet the fairies at Pixie Hollow. Here she is with Fawn, the Animal Fairy!
And finally, she got to meet Tinkerbell! Her friend Terrence was there with her as a bonus but Elie LOVES Tinkerbell!Elie had so much fun trick-or-treating! She yelled and carried on and said trick-or-treat and thank you to everyone. She knocked on all the doors with her magic wand and ran/hopped between every house. Here's some video of our second house, my favorite part is when she gets her bag ready for the candy!
Getting ready to leave, and she is bibbity-boppity-booping me with her magic wand! 
Trick-or-treating with Papa! It took four adults to go trick-or-treating, mostly because we didn't want to miss a thing. She was hilarious and loved it. I will post a video of her trick-or-treating in action.
Checking out her loot after!
Ocotber 30th was a fun day! First we had a Halloween party at my club. There were about 40 kids, here they are listening to a Halloween story. Elie sat front and center and shrieked and screamed appropriately at the story, she was very funny!
Then we went to Grampy's to celebrate his birthday!!! Happy Birthday Grampy!!
More fun in the snow! She was helping Jimmy shovel but got some snow poured on her instead. She calls the the snow "snow bees", cause when it falls it looks like bees, but they stay bees even on the ground. We ended up getting about 2 feet at my mom's house!
It actually looks like a house!
This is the kitchen, beautiful, I know!
The living room/ fireplace. Appartently our roof is leaking!
Our Master bathroom, shower and tub! Elie loves to dance Beyonce and Jay Sean, so turn up your sound and you can dance with her!
Her first move is my favorite she likes to watch her reflection dance in the fireplace. Of course she doesn't perfrom as well when the camera is on, but she is only pretending to be shy.
The Wildlife Experience is sort of a museum for animals, here is Elie on our arrival. They have a lot of bronzed animals as you walk in, here she is checking out the beavers.
With Daddy inside with the stuffed elk.
The had a butterfly exhibit and maze. This is Elie in the maze crawling like a Caterpillar.
Now she is COCOONED!!!
Breaking our of her cocoon to become a beautiful butterfly!
Elie's caterpillar face...
Jimmy's caterpillar face...
Mommy's caterpillar face (that is about to get eaten by a bird, eek!)
Elie with the Beautiful Butterfly! 
Silly Faces! It's been a long time since I posted. We are all moved into my Mom's house while our's is being built. So I finally found my camera and my sanity enough for a quick blog anyway.
Me and my sweet girl!
Elie lines her princesses up everywhere she goes. I haven't gotten a good picture f it yet, but she likes ot have a princess tea party with them and line them up with cups and saucers, her Dad is so proud!
I watched McKinley the pther day for a few hours. They had fun not napping (not my choice) and playing with all of Elie's toys. 
