Best Friends

Ellie & Madelyn have been friends from the start! Madelyn's mommy, Marianne & I met at the resident picnic when we first moved to Johnson City. She was very pregnant with Maddie & I didn't even know I was pregnant with Ellie!! We became friends & now our daughters are friends! The girls daddies are both surgery residents here at ETSU. They are friends as well as co-workers, so that makes it really easy to get together often! Doug & Chad have very busy schedules. Neither of us have family here, so the McDonald's, among others, are our 'resident family'.
Marianne & I plan play/lunch dates weekly! We enjoy getting together as much or more than the girls do ;) I am happy to have met such wonderful friends here. Here are a few pictures of Ellie & Maddie over the year...

Summer time play day @ Maddie's house. We went outside & played in the baby pool ... which didn't last long :)

Maddie come over one day while her mommy had a hair appointment. It must have been in September, after she turned 1!

Happy Halloween (Marianne is on the left;)) Maddie was a lady bug & Ellie was a nurse

Here the girls are before Christmas~ they are both paci girls but this shot for some reason they are chewing on their fingers ... must have been snack time! They have a lot in common, & loving to eat is one of them!

Happy New Year & Congratulations to Maddie ~ she is going to be a BIG sister. Doug & Marianne were @ their ultra sound appointment to find out the sex of the baby ... It's a BOY!!!

The girls LOVE babies~here they had one anothers baby~so cute they are sharing!

We feel so blessed to have the McDonald's in our lives! They will definitley be 'forever friends'. It has been & will be fun watching the girls grow up together & we look forward to having an addition to the group. Since Ellie was born in March, all the resident babies born have been BOYS (this baby will make 6) ~ Ellie has lots of good choices :)

Cheers to friends & good memories~

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Christmas

Well, I sure hope you all had a very Merry Christmas! We sure did!! It was such a joy to celebrate with our sweet girl~last Christmas when I was pregnant, it was hard to imagine how this year would be. But, it was wonderful & I am sure the upcoming years will be even more fun!
Chad was on-call Christmas day, so we had our little family Christmas on Christmas Eve~I cooked dinner & we opened gifts. Ellie wasn't so sure about opening, but she LOVED her baby doll from Santa which was sitting in a little umbrella stroller :) As for the rest, she couldn't have cared less!

Here is Miss Ellie before church on Christmas morning

Lovin' her baby~she kisses her all the time

I just love this outfit~

Helping mommy make Christmas cookies for Santa

Merry Christmas~in her cute little jammies

We went to Nashville the day after Christmas & spent the week there with family & friends. It was a busy, but as always fun, week. Ellie got lots of very nice gifts from her aunts, grandparents, cousins & friends! She got some clothes, dvds, toys & my fav. a PB anywhere chair which she LOVES!

We rang in the new year with family & friends! It is hard to believe that 2011 is here & my girl is going to be turning 1!! CRAZY how time flies! (I am starting to plan her birthday party :) We have an exciting spring coming~ March is birthday month & May is wedding/baby month! no, no, no ... not me!! My sister, Marie is having a baby boy in May! We are so excited:) & Chad's sister is getting married on the beach! So it will be party party party/shower shower shower!

HAPPY NEW YEAR ~