Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Beat Up from the Feet Up

Ella loves our new Adirondack chairs. I love them because they are plastic and they stay clean and (so far) they haven't faded. ($18.00 at Big Lots!!! They had Hot pink and Green too.)
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Tonight, Ella mowed the deck, while Jason mowed the back yard.
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Later, after Yoga X, I attempted to finish up the bottom half of the dress I'm making for Ella.
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The little triangle pieces are called Godot's apparently and they make the skirt more twirly. Well, we shall see. Hopefully tomorrow night I will have time to put the two halves together and we can see what it will look like. I think the pattern I'm using is a McCall's. You never know what your going to get.
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Most of you know about the trouble my husband and I had having Ella. The doctor's eventually discovered that I have a clotting disorder and I have to take Heparin shots in the stomach if I get pregnant. Well, this is my hideous leg! I don't even remember bumping into anything! My other leg looks like that too!! No shorts or skirts for me for a while!! That's probably a good thing since I'm so white it's blinding if your looking right at me. Still, I'm a little sad that they always look this way.
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Ball Park Baby

Its Tuesday night, so here we are at the ballpark. Tonight's game was at 6:30, so we had to take Ella's dinner with us. She ate a whole PB&J, a whole banana, at least 30 goldfish, about 8oz of milk and about 10oz of water! I guess we should bring her to the ballpark every night for dinner!
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Ella loved that she found a way to hang her milk on the fence, but was traumatized when she couldn't get it down quite as easily.
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Someone she didn't know came to the fence to talk to her. Run Away...Run Away...Run Away!!
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We had her pictures taken this morning and I'm really excited about getting them back. Of course it will be a month before we see them, but well worth it. This is how I WANTED her hair to look this morning! When she gets hot and sweaty her hair curls up in little ringlets, which I love. But of course, she would have a bad hair day on picture day.
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Saturday, June 20, 2009

Saturday

We all went to the mall this weekend to do a little shopping. There were some pretty good deals going on this weekend and I was looking for some outfits for Ella and I to take to the beach next month. Also, we needed something cute because she is finally getting her one year pictures made with the Blink Lady. They have been cancelled twice due to bad weather and FINALLY we are all set for Tuesday Morning at the botanical gardens!! We love Bonnie. You can see some of our favorites that she has done on my sidebar. Or I have albums of our sittings with her on my facebook page, if anyone wants a closer look at her work. I have digressed, needless to say, we were at the mall. Looking for cute clothes for summer.
This was the first time we let Ella out of her stroller for a little adventure. What is it about the clothing racks that is magnetized to children?
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Then after spending WAY to much time at the mall, we were starving and I actually bought one of these on the way to Subway!!! Don't say it, I can't believe I did it either. I feel like such a hypocrite.
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At least they gave us apples instead of fries, and milk instead of juice. I feel somewhat justified.
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I didn't have to worry much about creating a little McCrackhead. Jason told me I shouldn't have put her pieces in the provided catapult AFTER they were strewn all over the floor and the seat. Well, that was only one nugget down, 3 to go. After tearing up another greasy nugget and more apple, Ella made it well known that she was NOT going to eat that. She wanted yogurt and Banana and Peanut Butter. THERE WAS MUCH REJOICING. As thrifty parents, we didn't eat what she didn't, although it was hard to just waste food like that. I did however give one of the nuggets a good long sniff. MMMMmmmm....heaven, smells like my childhood.
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Later, we went to the pool for a couple of hours and then headed back to Pop and Cici's to give Ella a bath. Apparently, she is now fascinated by the water falling from the spicket. I'm not complaining, other that getting a little wet, it was much easier to rinse her hair.
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On to dinner, we ate out....again. This time Olive Garden. This may surprise you since we are doing P90X and Italian restaurants aren't usually expected to be healthy. However, they have a couple of low fat entrees and even a low carb option. So, Jason got Grilled Salmon and steamed vegetables, and I got shrimp pomodoro on whole wheat linguine. Also, you can ask for low fat/ low cal Italian dressing on the delicious salad they bring. It was great. Usually, Ella eats great at Olive Garden, but she was sleepy and she wasn't in the mood to try new things. Apparently she wasn't that hungry because it didn't bother her. We did spend a lot of time doing this..... Ella: "Uh, Oh," then Daddy: "Ella what did you drop?" "Hold on, Daddy will get it."
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Stinker
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Back at home, this is my new project, well, part of it. I'm working on a dress for Ella that criss- crosses in the front and zips up the back. It has been quite time consuming. I have begun on the bottom half and hopefully I will have time to attach the two after picture day.
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Here is my new Sewing/ Embroidery machine. I haven't really figured out the Embroidery part yet, but so far so good on the sewing.
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Sunday, June 14, 2009

Sunday's sendoff for the troops.

Today was the ceremonial sendoff for my Dad's medical unit. They are leaving in the morning heading to Seattle for a few weeks and then on to Baghdad, Iraq. It was a long, hot, sad day.
Ella was very well behaved, we sat in these seats for quite a while. She was very busy though, up, down, cookie, water, read a book, and occasionally shout "TIGER!" (from a picture in her book)
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My brother, Scott, was Master of Ceremonies
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Scott, getting a laugh from our Pawpaw. He seemed to be taking it pretty hard.
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My patriotic princess. The "around the neck" key chain, or whatever it was, that they gave us, made a perfect paci keeper.
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A sweet moment between my grandparents.
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We were playing and Ella tripped on the concrete and landed head first. It SCARED mommy to DEATH!!
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It only slowed her for a minute though.
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Saturday, June 13, 2009

Emma's 1st Birthday

Emma is Ella's 1st cousin and Saturday we celebrated her first birthday. Its is wonderful having all the kids close to the same age. They had a great time.
I'm 1.




I love this one.


Ella was playing "I'm gonna get ya," with her cousing Cooper.


Some more highlights from the party.

Friday, June 12, 2009

Harvest and hygeine

I am so pleased with my little garden. Were bringing in at least this much everyday. Sometimes there are a lot more tomatoes. My window sills stay full. The squash and zucchini are really large and can you see the gorgeous cucumber on the left?

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When Ella wakes up and right before bed, she brushes her teeth. These were just a couple of cute pics from tonight.

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