Ella's 3!

It's a Princess Party!!!

Ella has known for months that she wanted a "yellow Bell" party.

She was sooo excited while we were making her cake. When we were finally done she just dropped her jaw and finally said, "Wow!!! She's beautiful."


Opening her princess presents.

Singing "Happy Birthday to me."

Showing us that she's 3!!!!
Ella, Ella, we love you!

Fall Festivities 2009

So Kentucky goes crazy with Fall Festivals...
Here are some that we've enjoyed so far.

First was the Bluegrass Balloon Festival:

This festival brings about 70 balloons together onto one field for various activities that range from glows, tethered rides, airplane shows, food, kids games and events, to bluegrass music and skydiving demos.

Here's the Harley Balloon and ya know, we just had to get a picture.
Jed's loving the trike. He's hoping it could be our next family vehicle.



The skydiving demo from the Army.

Cyndi loved seeing all the balloons and their gorgeous colors went lit up. Ella got a little nervous with the balloons firing all around her, but in the end, she saw how pretty it was.

Her favorite balloon was the birthday cake since her birthday was coming was in a few weeks and she thought the balloon cake was for her.


Then we went to the St. James Court Art Show:


This is one of the most popular Art Fairs/Shows in the country. There are literally 500+ different vendors with art that ranges from traditional to insane.
This Humpty Dumpty was a favorite. We were so sad that we didn't get more pics, but our camera battery died. Boo. Well, there's always next year and we definitely plan on going again.

Lastly is Colorfest held at Bernheim Forest:

This celebrates all things outdoors and all things Fall.
We loved painting a pumpkin and see great potential in the Pollack style for little Ella.


This hay maze was by far the favorite. We had to drag Ella away, she would have stayed in there the whole day.

There was a really neat music section that used percussion and then "found" instruments. Jed was master at the wind tube. Ella just thought it was a spy glass.


We all loved the little dock over the pond. The water was so green that we had a lot of fun with reflections.




We miss ya all and wish you could join us on these fun adventures.

Our Annoucement

It's official...the Jed,Cyndi and Ella Nordfelt family are expecting a baby boy January 15th.
I'm working on finding a scanner to upload the ultrasound pictures.

Until then, you can see the fun things mom and Ella have been working on welcome our baby boy.

These are animal friends, that I made from a Valori Wells pattern. Ella likes the lion.
There's also an accompanying quilt we'll be sewing soon. We'll post a picture when it's ready.

The Summer of 2009

So, I haven't written in a long time even though we have done things with our summer.
The first was a day-trip in Cincinnati. We went to Ikea, Jungle Jims and a Cincinnati Reds game.

Ikea was fun, though I wanted decorating fabric to re-upholster one of our chairs. I wasn't loving any of their stuff and went with Amy Butler fabric's instead. Jed was a champion and helped me recover it. The end result...



Jungle Jims is this great ubber grocery where there are 3 or 4 seperate groceries all under the same roof. You walk in to an average, run of the mill store, then to the side of those aisles is an entire organic/farm fresh grocery, then behind that are aisle categorized by country to make an international grocery. Then, of course, there's the bakery, butcher, and candy things to round out the store. As if that wasn't enough, they've made it fun for kids. An example is the talking Robin Hood placed over the English foods aisle.

They have the rice-crispies gang and other figures stationed through the store. Ella kept giggling at the talking animals. We also got a kick out of the hot sauce section. Yes, a SECTION, just for hot sauce...they actually have an national hot-sauce competition and convention hosted at the store. Here's Ella with out favorite packaged sauce.
You have to be brave to use the dynamite hot-sauce.

The Reds game was with other dental families.

Ella's favorite part was doing the cheers between batters.



Our next trip was supposed to be an over-night camping trip that turned into a 2 hour drive home at 11pm because we knew Ella would not sleep in the tent.
The day activities, however, were lots of fun.

We spent a good 3 hours at the lake.
Ella LOVES her daddy.


Ella brought her friend Garrett a cookie and he tried to thank her with a kiss. She just looked at him funny.
This picture is of the Southwells and the story and of the binkie. They have a one year old who will not sleep with her pacifier. Somehow the binkie made its way into the lake and got lost. This caused massive panic for the parents, as that was their only binkie. The prayers started and from there a very diligent daddy spent 45 minutes diving and searching the bottom of the swimming area for the lost binkie. To everyone's shock, he sound the pacifier and everyone lived happily ever after.


We also went to a playground on the Lake grounds. Jed did underdog for the girls, they died of laughter, I almost died because they look like they're going to fall out.


We then made dinners and did ball-toss ice cream.



I learned something from this experience, it doesn't work without the rock salt. We ended up with Oreo milk, but the tossing was a lot of fun.

These are pictures from the Kentucky State fair.

Ella petting a sweet colt at the World Equestrian Games.
And here's Jed a couple bites closed to the grave from this deep fried snickers.

Lastly was Jed's birthday. It was simple with our little.
Ella got to hide dad's presents. And the big surprise was the Primary singing Happy Birthday to Brother Nordfelt instead of the closing song with cupcakes and cookies after the closing prayer for Primary. Each Primary class colored Jed a card. It was really fun to watch Jed be so surprised when I started playing Happy Birthday instead of I love to see the temple.

Independence Festival

For the 4th of July, we went to the Independence Festival on the Waterfront. There was a lot to do between food booths, crafts, inflatables, etc. but Ella liked the regular playground best.

The next item of business was to get out favorite Festival treat; funnel cake.

I don't know what it is about funnel cake but it really embodies the fun and flavor of Festivals. We took our yummy cake and went down to the boat dock. The harbor master was kind enough to let us sit along the dock to watch the fireworks. He said they usually don't let people sit there, but Ella won him over. We were literally on the water.

It rained for about 5 minutes and the best we could do was put our camp chairs over our heads and let it pass. I'm sure we looked ridiculous holding the chairs upside down to shelter ourselves from the rain. It blew over fast and then the show began...

We've never been so close to such big fireworks; it was like they were firing over our heads and reflecting at out feet, all at the same time.

Ella was a little scared but daddy held her close and she began to enjoy the show.

She even started naming the fireworks for family members. "This one's for mommy..."

She went all the way through daddy, granny, both grandpas, grandma angel, all her cousins and herself.

On the way to the car we saw a flame-thrower dancing inside the fountains.

It was a magical and memorable night.