This is what happens when Ella spends the night with Gran & Poppy. Beemer misses her. ...
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Let’s Get Crafty!
It's that time again, Show Us Where You Live Office Edition! Since technically our office is in the dining room, which you've already seen, I'm sharing my craft/play room. I would call it my office - it is where I get creative and fill all of my painting and design orders. There isn't a computer in this room, which is a little disappointing, but if we moved it here then I would have to share the space with a boy. I'll take a girly space any day of the week! I first blogged about the craft room here and although the furniture is pretty much the same, we've rearranged a little and added lots of accessories. This room is our former guest room future nursery (I hope), but for now Ella & I needed a place to get creative. I bought the two main pieces of furniture at a local ...
Two Ellas
On Saturday we had the pleasure of attending a birthday for one of my Ella's best friends. Her name is Ella, too and we lovingly refer to her as "Big Ella" since she's four months older and instead of calling my daughter Ella she calls her "Dean Fields." No confusion there. Her party was at Build-A-Bear, which we've never been to and boy was it fun. The kids got to pick out a bear, name it, give it a heart and stuffing, bathe it and dress it. Our bear's name is Peanut and she is wearing a cute polka dot bikini (unfortunately we left her at Garan's this afternoon, so there isn't a picture of the finished product). The photos below are my favorites from the day and there is a link at the bottom of the post for the entire album. I hope you don't mind that I'm not blogging on the ...
The Princess Room
Since this post is long, I thought a gratuitous princess shot might be in order to lure you in. Now... I was thrilled that this week's "Show Us Where You Live" was a children's room edition. Ella's room is still my favorite room in the house and I'd spend time in there over any other room, hands down. Little has changed in this room since Ella was a tiny baby. We've replaced the iron crib with a big girl bed, we ditched the changing table in favor of a kitchen, and we've added drapes to keep this little one from daydreaming instead of napping. My love affair with decorating started early and the fact that my mom should take over for Martha Stewart only helps those efforts tremendously. She and I worked hard the last half of my pregnancy to make the nursery of my dreams. My regular ...
Summer Is Here
Tonight we grilled out at Garan & Poppy's and I watched my girls swim. Both of them. ...
Missing you
I'm really missing this girl right now. When I went to pick her up this afternoon she was crying because she wanted to go to church with Garan. Luckily, I bought her a cute dress and sandals at Target today. I fed and dressed her while Garan and Poppy got ready. It was really fine because I stayed up much too late on Monday watching Jon & Kate fall apart and last night I was up late painting. I came home, finished up a design job, taught myself how to invoice using PayPal, cleaned up a bit and did some laundry. Then she called me from the car. "Can I stay with Garan tonight? There are blue 'jamas at Garan's. I don't want to come home." How can I resist an otherwise quiet evening alone? Then I asked if she would miss me. She said, "No, and I don't want to come home yet." Ouch. ...
Ali-U Are So Much Fun
My first year of college I met Ali. It has been eleven years since we moved into the dorm with two other girls we couldn't have had less in common with. We didn't know each other before school started and that made it so exciting. We had a four bedroom, two bath dorm room with a decent sized living area. Of course, Ali and I were on opposite sides of the suite, but that didn't stop us from spending every waking minute together. Of our other two girls, one spent 23 of every 24 hours in her room and the other spent 23 of every 24 hours asleep. We had lots of time to ourselves and drove the other two crazy. If you know me IRL then you know I'm loud and I never shut up. Well, so is Ali. One of my favorite memories is that although our doors were 20 feet from one another we would call each ...
Park Date
Today, like yesterday, we went to the park on our way home. The sky was grey and I was afraid it would split wide open at any moment. Since I promised I would take her and it wasn't actually raining yet, I decided to give it a go. This is Ella's opinion of the swing. The BABY swing. But she's fine with the ginormous rock wall... and the two-story slide! ...