Today, I got sick at work and came home early. I'm not sure if it was the heat or the food I ate for lunch, but I was feeling a little worse for wear. I came home, crawled into bed and slept it off. For hours. Thank goodness, when I woke up I was in a much better way. I grabbed a swimsuit, the dog and a pile of towels and joined Ella at the pool. It was a nice ending to an otherwise yucky day. ...
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The Love of My Life
This is the love of my life. She is in her element... barefoot, fancy, giddy. As many of you already know, my sweet sister K had her twice annual special on Saturday and managed to squeeze her favorite {non-paying} sister in somewhere along the way. We appreciate so much, how often she gives her time so that we can have beautiful photographs of our little girl. Even though I wasn't first in line, she graciously sent a few photos for me to enjoy in the meantime. I won't lie, they brought tears to my eyes, especially the one above. I don't know what I would do without that fancy girl. ...
Birthday Girl
Today was K's 24th birthday. We celebrated with pool time, BBQ, the wedding video and ice cream sundaes. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Kamin, we love you! ...
Working Girl
Recently, Ella has started asking a lot of questions about where I go each day. She talks about how I "work" while she's at school. She knows the name of the company I work for and where it's located. She knows it's called an office. Anytime we are driving she'll point to random buildings and ask, "Is that your office?" On Saturday, I had to work a few hours despite the fact that there was a VERY large music festival on all sides of my office building. Since I wasn't planning on being there all day, I knew it was a good opportunity to show Ella where I worked. We packed a picnic lunch, colors and coloring books and off we went. She was fascinated by the size of the buildings. I'm only on the seventh floor, but that must seem pretty high to a little girl. She was nervous about sitting ...
sew sweet.
This week she became a crafter. Officially. Gran taught her how to sew buttons. Granted, she only sewed one loop through each button, she successfully attached seven buttons. Boy, was she "croud". Crowd: Ella's way of saying "proud." We absolutely do NOT correct these misspeaks. They are our favorite. ...
Happy Day
My goal this summer has been to leave work on time, drive straight to Gran's and spend some time outside with her and Ella. It's almost July and that goal hasn't come to fruition too many times. With Josh out of town a lot, it feels like I spend most of my time during the week working in the yard, folding laundry, vacuuming the floors, bathing babies and disciplining dogs. Since there are only a few short weeks of summer left to be had, I'm going to try and be more purposeful about the time we spend together during the week. In honor of Father's Day, we persuaded SD to stay an extra night this weekend and he didn't head back to work until this morning. Since K & Cory were at the beach and missed our impromptu celebration Sunday afternoon, we decided to coordinate a little shindig at ...
Tooth Fairy
Did I tell you that Ella thinks the tooth fairy came to visit? We had to explain the process of losing baby teeth and getting bigger ones because Molly lost a tooth and Ella was very distraught. One night last week, Ella pulled her cheek aside and said, "Look at my tooth Mom!" I looked at it and smiled and she finished with, "I lost it and the tooth fairy brought me a quarter!" ...
Sweet Daddy
We had a wonderful day celebrating our Sweet Daddy. Any day we get to spend with him start to finish is a good one. Here is the photo recap. I'm guessing you can figure out what we did! ...