Playing outside

My ladies love to play outside!
They are great little girls. I love being their mom!



Neilie was trying to get a drink from the hose.





Neilie accidentally sprayed Claire with the hose... of course this made her cry... everthing makes Claire cry. :)

Relay for Life 2009

In Loving Memory of Little Donna!

This year my mom was the team leader for the Fairforest Elementary School Relay for Life team. She worked so hard on this whole project! This was a whole family experience in so many ways. Here are some pictures. Hope you all enjoy!

Autumn was spoke during the opening ceremonies. She gave her fantastic testimony! She truly shows no fear in front of all those people... Amazing!



They had two walks at the beginning of the relay. The first walk was for survivors. The second walk was for caregivers. Preston, MaMa, mom and Autumn walked in this walk. I got the best picture!



It happened to be Preston's b-day the same day of the walk. So we had B-day cake! YUMMY. It came from Costco. I highly recommend their cakes!



GuGu and Neilie!



This is the Fairforest Elementary Banner... Give Cancer the Boot!

BathTime in "Mommy's Tub"

For Claire's birthday, Gugu and Papa gave her a swimming baby. Neilie and Claire wanted to take a bath in the big tub so they could let the swimming baby could swim. While they were in the tub, Neilie wanted me to turn on the jets. This is what happened to the bubbles when you turn on the jets!




Here is Neilie when nthe jets are turned on... she loves it when the bubbles get higher!




Here is Claire with the bubbles. She wasn't too sure about the jets but Neilie reassured her that all was okay. Neilie is such a good big sister!



Oh and they named the swimming baby, Sarah the Swimming Baby.

Neilie Meets Cinderella

We took the ladies to Chick-fil-a on Tuesday night to meet Cinderella and Belle. There was an extremely long line to meet Belle (if you wanted to take a picture). The line to meet Cinderella was not long at all. So we chose to meet Cinderella. Here are the pictures from Neilie meeting Cinderella. It was precious!
I didn't get the front of her face but I thought this was a sweet picture too.


This is a picture of the 2 princesses comparing dresses... how sweet!


Notice the look on Neilie face. It is really sweet.

I think GuGu said it best when she said, "Her dream has come true!"

Easter 2009

Here is a picture of what the Easter Bunny brought the girls. They were so excited about getting a new movie! The Care Bears were a big hit with Claire Bear... imagine that?!?!



This is the only picture we got of both girls in their dresses. Don't you love the hairbows... GuGu made them. I think they are great! Neilie loved hers. It took some getting used to for Claire Bear.




Here is the bunny cake that MaMa made. It was a surprise to all of us. The girls were so surprised. They loved it... we all did. It was yummy!


This is Claire's reaction.





Here is the family photo from the dock on MaMa and DaDa's lake. We had a nice day eating lunch with the family.


Happy Easter!
Love,
The Chappell Family

Easter Eggs

Hi all,

So sorry it has been so long since I have posted. The video of Neilie singing is just a no go! It is precious and I just hate that you won't be able to see it on the blog.



Here are some pictures of the girls dying Easter Eggs at GuGu and PaPa's house. This is the Saturday evening before Easter. Neil had to work and I didn't want to brave 6 containers of watery-non-washable egg dye, 4 little hands to my 2 hands... so we went over there and invaded their house. It was great!




Here is Claire doing all the work. I made them wear the cute little aprons. Neither of them really loved the idea of wearing the apron.

Where is Neilie you are asking.... here she is, reading books. She just couldn't stop reading to come and dye easter eggs. I think she just didn't want to put the apron back on.

Hope you all enjoy the pictures. There will be more to come tomorrow. The Chappell Family hopes everyone a very Happy Easter.

"I know my redeemer lives!!!"

trying to post... having issues

Ok so I have tried to post this thing about 5 times now and am getting a little of Blogger telling me there is an error. I will be trying again later but not now. My computer is too expensive to throw across the room... which is what I would like to do at this point.

What I have been trying to post is the sweetest video of Neilie singing "Jesus Loves Me". Maybe you will get to see it... maybe not... we shall see!

~ Abee