I took the kids to the West Jordan Conservation Gardens to take pictures of Ella for her second birthday. I just realized that I hadn't had pictures of her done yet, and I thought I'd give it a try. These are a few samples - I thought they turned out pretty well, considering that Lear wouldn't stay out of the frame, Ella wouldn't do anything but sit on benches to pose, and I couldn't get many pictures of them except for walking-away pictures... but hey, I still got a few good ones.

We went bowling with Nana and Papa last Wednesday for Papa's birthday - all of us. You should've seen the cute little bowling shoes that they had for the kids. Ella's were especially cute, I thought. Who knew they made them so small? In fact, Ella was kicking all our butts for a while. She would lug her six-pound ball to the ramp and give it a little shove down the lane - and then start clapping and screaming before her ball even got halfway down the lane. The journey is more important than the destination, right? Maybe that's why she did so well... Lear decided to stop using the ramp about halfway through the game, and watching him throw the ball down the lane, only to have it go about 0.0056 miles per hour while zig-zagging agonizingly slowly toward the two pins he would hit was hilarious. I think we might have to do the bowling thing more often. It was pretty fun. Unfortunately, I didn't have the camera that night, and I couldn't get good picture with my phone camera. Phooey.