Sunday, June 29, 2008

Special Delivery

EDIT: Ella Grace wanted to say something to Megan, Lauren, and Meagan. No surprise, she is wearing a hat! It's the hat she received at the hospital when she was born. It's one of her new favorites! :)



Saturday afternoon the doorbell rang. Derek went to the door and there was a package addressed to Ella Grace. How exciting and how special! EG's very first package!

Ella Grace helped me open it. She was so excited (so was I)!


There was a sweet card from Megan, Meagan, and Lauren, my best Tennessee friends! I'm REALLY excited now!


EG watched intently as I unwrapped her surprise.



And there it was. Her very own picture of our girls in Tennessee paying tribute to EG's fashion sense inspired by this picture I posted of my "anything can be a hat including shorts" wearing EG...



Girls after her own heart...

A closeup! I don't know that I have laughed quite so hard in a long time. I love how Megan is peeking around a door, Lauren appears to be doing the "robot," and Meagan is blowing kisses all in their "hats" (shorts on their heads)! It was the cutest thing!

Megan told me they laughed a lot while getting this surprise together. I laughed and laughed myself, and EG was so proud pointing to each of their beautiful faces, saying, "hats." She also blew kisses back to them. She carried it around all afternoon. I have the perfect place in her room for it already so she (and I...hee hee) can look at it all the time. She loved it, and so did I (maybe even more)! Thank you, Megan, Lauren and Meagan for making me smile and LAUGH today and for sending EG something she would enjoy SO MUCH! It absolutely made my/our weekend!

I wanted you girls to be able to see EG's (and my) expressions as we opened Ella's surprise. We both LOVED it! Here are the pictures...


This was the highlight of our weekend, M, M & L! Thank you for loving on my children (and me) so much! You guys are the best!

MWAH!

15 comments:

Betsy said...

Oh, that is sooo funny and so sweet!! Blogging friends are the best!

Lauren said...

WE LOVE YOU!! I'm SO glad you and EG liked it! Seriously, all three of us almost peed our pants while we were taking the pictures. We were all crammed in a large handicapped dressing room, trying to get the perfect poses. We made a beeline for the potty after we were done!! (TMI? Maybe.) I love EG's stance while she's waiting on you to open the box. Priceless!

Laura said...

What a neat gift! So sweet and cute! And crazy, too. Nothing those three do surprise my anymore!!

Candy said...

What great blogging friends you have!!! They all seem SO thoughtful and sweet!! This is great, the picture is hilarious! :)

Meagan said...

Too much fun! You know we love you! EG was adorable as usual and I must say, you look great! The slide show was priceless - huge thangs to your sweet hubby for taking lots of shots so we could share the experience!!! I think EG was diggin' on the packing peanuts! LOL!! Glad you laughed as much as we did! LOVE!

The Garners said...

How sweet! Packages in the mail are so exciting!

Kelly said...

That is so sweet!!!!! I'm glad you have pictures of ya'll opening the package!

Laura said...

Oh, I LOVE the video!! That is SO sweet!! EG is adorable. Give her a kiss for me! I hope she and Alise can meet one day!!

Meredith said...

That is so sweet! Ella Grace will probably end up having the sweet personality that you have! Cute gift and I am SURE EG LOVED opening the package! CUTE CUTE!

Megan L Hutchings said...

This ABSOLUTELY made my morning!!! WE LOVE YOU SO MUCH LAH!!! I am so glad that EG loved her surprise gift and thank Derek for us for taking all of those priceless pictures ;)! We had the best time making this gift...laughing so hard we could not breathe ;)!!!!

The video is so ADORABLE!!!!!!!!! Please give EG and BIG HUG from us and I PROMISE we will visit AR soon!

MWAH!

LOVE YOU A GOOGLE... said...

I love the video! That definitely makes me "hurt"! You know what kind of hurt! ha! :) Can I just borrow her for a bit to get over it??? That is too cute. Made me happy this morning even though it is way too early to have already been up for a few hours!

Lauren said...

After the 7th time of watching the video, I had to make myself stop cause I was crying too much!!! She is so, so precious. I just love her little voice. We WILL come to Arkansas.

Meagan said...

I can't wait to hug on you in person - SO SWEET! And... we are for sure coming to Arkansas to love on Evan and EG! I might have to wear a hat just for her! The video is great! It made my heart hurt... in a good way!

Kara said...

EG is so cute! Your blogging friends are so sweet! What a blessing. Hope you had a good weekend.

Kara - John 3:30

Becky said...

Ella Grace has the sweetest little voice. Your friends are too funny!!