Ella's Birthday Weekend!

Leading up to Ella's birthday weekend I had been talking with Jen (Logan's mom) about Logan coming out to visit Ella as a birthday surprise. Logan ended up flying in late on Friday night and surprising Ella by calling her at 10:15pm. We don't normally let the kids stay up that late, but I started that new documentary on Gabby Petito and we were really interested in it so the kids didn't ask questions. Ella got a call and was like why is Logan calling me so late. Then there was a knock on the door and that's when I started recording. 

 

One thing we've figured out from this is that Ella does not really like surprises. It takes her a minute to get her emotions to catch up to the situation. She was super confused and trying to process through what's going on. At first I was like is she happy that Logan's here, but she definitely was it just took her a minute. 

Later than night I walked into Ella's room and found them face to face just chatting away like the besties they are! Love these girls and I love their relationship and I love that Logan gets Ella....her weird moods and all! 

On Saturday we just binged watched romantic comedies all day long. We kind of had an Adam Sandler / Drew Barrymore theme going on. First we watched 50 First Dates and then they watched Blended. We wanted to watch The Wedding Singer, but it was rent or buy. 

The girls always have such a great time chilling with each other. 

Sunday was Ella's actual birthday and I'm absolutely sure this was part of why Ella was little thrown off with Logan coming. She was going to get to spend the day with Justine and she had it all planned out in her head how that was going to go and now with her bestie here she wasn't sure how that was going to look. Ella and I had a chat on Saturday and she got her feelings out and I told her that it would all work out just fine. We had to drive two cars to church that day so it worked out perfectly. The boys drove home for lunch and then Michael and I took Ella, Logan and Justine out to Circo Circo! 

They make these faces at each other all the time! 

Oh that's sweet! 

Sitting next to the dad....scary! :) 

I wanted to get a picture of Logan with Ella and Justine so Logan came around and just plopped her head right between the two of them. Then she started laughing and then she started coughing and it made Justine laugh. He doesn't normally show his teeth when he smiles so when I capture and open mouth smile I love it...he has such a nice smile! 

Once they got their giggles out we got a normal picture! 

 

I was there too! 

Logan and I shared my favorite dish....Pollo A La Crema and Ella and Justine shared one as well. Michael got something else I didn't even pay attention. All my focus was on getting this yumminess in my tummy! 

Since Valentine's Day was on Friday and they weren't able to see each other they decided to exchange gifts on Sunday. Justine wrote Ella a letter....they haven't been exchanging letters since their 6th monthsarry. He did buy her a few things as well, but they didn't arrive in time so he gave her those gifts later.

Ella and I went shopping on Friday so she could pick out something for Justine. She also got him a card...which was actually the most expensive part of the gift! We were going to go to The Dollar Tree, but she didn't want to make an extra stop so she picked one at Wal-Mart. 

We found these super cute coffee mugs that hug each other! It's hard to shop for a guy for Valentine's Day, but these were truly adorable! 

Justine was having the mug that represents Ella hug him! 

Aren't they so cute!!!

 The one that's Justine is the one on the right because he's hugging over the top because that's how it's supposed to work. The taller person's arms go over the shorter persons. Also I think it's ironic that his mug is the darker of the two. 

Logan wrote Ella the sweetest Valentine's card. They really are the bestest of friends! 

Look at these cuties! 

Logan was also so super sweet....her and Ella talked about how Ella wanted to spend some time with Justine on her birthday and Logan was totally cool with that. She just went up into Ella's room and watched a movie on her phone. Later on she told me that it was really nice for her to have some alone time too. She feels so comfortable at our house it's like it's hers and I love that. We all need a little reset time when we are around a lot of people. 

Ella was getting girlfriend love so Justine needed to have some bro love. 

Then for some reason it turned into Logan and Justine tickling Ella. 

Later that night we had The Chosen group and even though Logan hasn't seen any of the episodes she joined us. Ella and Justine usually sit on the couch behind them in this picture, but some other kids got those seats first so they had to sit on the ground. 

Charlie was being very social during group so Justine scooped him up and held him.

After group was over Justine and Ella had a little bit of time to use his Valentines gift. I made them hot chocolate with whipped cream. 

At first the whipped cream was nice and fluffy and tall and looked like hair for the huggers. It was cute, but the cocoa was so hot it melted really quick. 

Birthday hugs! 

Just like last year when we flew out to see Logan and had to drive back that's exactly what happened with Logan. The flights were so full she wouldn't have gotten home for days. We ended up driving her to Aunt Becky's house and then Aunt Becky drove her to meet her mom in Ellensburg. 3 day holiday weekends are just not good when it comes to flying standby! It was so great having Logan here and it definitely made Ella's birthday weekend extra special!