snuggly :)

I'm starting a new project! :) Today I went with my mom to the fabric store and bought most comfy cozy material to make Ella a super cute blanket! I've decided I really want to be more crafty, and be able to make some sweet, personal gifts for things such as baby showers so i'm starting here! :) I started today, and hopefully will be able to finish it by tomorrow if I work all morning on it. I'll post pictures once it gets all finished! :)

I'm really the worst blogger ever. I never am able to get on here. (I blame it on the fact that we don't have a working computer at home) I only use the internet on my iphone... lucky for me we're getting our money's worth!

I'm so excited for tomorrow! At 3:30 Tony, Ella, and I will be leaving for Michigan! I'm so excited to spend the weekend with Caleb, Theresa and Owen! We really miss having them live in town! However, i'm SUPER nervous about Ella and the long car ride! Hopefully it goes well! :)

aww

This week my baby turned 9 months old! :(
How did that happen so fast!?

Wonderful weekend!

Ah, Sunday evening. It's been a GREAT weekend after a busy week! Tuesday I took my last summer final (finally) and got an A in the class! I'm hoping that I will be able to start the RN program in January, and have my RN by next July! The rest of the week I worked like crazy, and Friday Tony had a wonderful suprise for me! He took the day off work, went to the grocery store and got me flowers and bacon and eggs for breakfast! We decided to do to the State Fair for the day! All three of us had a great time and spent most of the day there just hanging out, walking around, and watching my brother show. Afterwards we went to Circle Center mall and I got a couple cute shirts, then walked around downtown and went to the new Scotty's! We ended up seeing an old friend who we used to work with at the Scotty's here in town and he gave us a grand tour, and even bought us dinner! It was really good to run into him, and of course dinner was amazing, and the new restuarant is AMAZING! It definitly blows our Scotty's out of the water with Decor. They have Flat Screen TV's in EVERY booth!

Saturday I worked until 3, then we went over to Tony's parents to hang out and have pizza. This morning we were pretty productive in cleaning the house and moving things around. We finally got around to lowering Ella's crib to the lowest setting so she cant get out. She still is sleeping in our room and i'm REALLY going to try to move her into her bed soon! Now we just have to get some black out shades so its not so bright in there! After we got all of that over with we headed to the Fisher's again for lunch and played games all afternoon.

Around 5:00 I went to the hospital to visit Ashtyn and Kasen! :) He is so sweet! It makes me miss having Ella be so little and snuggly! (and made me excited for baby #2 whenever that may happen!) Then we had filet mingon at Tony's Parents. All in all, it was a wonderful weekend and i'm sad tomorrow is Monday.... and working 8-8 to start the week. Yuck! Still very happy to be on a break from work though!

Fair week

Today was the last day of the fair, which is always sad! Ella and I went and walked around up there today with Megan and baby Gwen :) I can't believe how many memories it brings back just being in that atmosphere. I can't help but miss it! Last night Tony & I went up to watch Thomas show in his last two classes of the season. He ran an AMAZING barrel time with a 17.9! :) It was the second fastest time in 4H history! Unfortunately he hit the last barrel with his spur and knocked it over which adds a 5 second penalty, but oh well! He still had one amazing time!

Luckily for me this week FLEW by! I now have ONE full week left of summer classes (and then a final on the following tuesday!) I can't wait, I feel like I've wasted all summer long in school and haven't gotten to enjoy myself very much, or get to take Ella to do many fun things.

Speaking of Ella, she just learned to wave HI and BYE BYE! :) soooo sweet!

Summer?

Really, where has the summer gone? I am in SHOCK that it is already officially past mid July! It's definitly flown by and I really wish I would have been able to have more time with Ella. School has really taken over my life these past 8 weeks! Luckily, two more weeks and i'm FINISHED! It looks like i'll be getting an A & B for Anatomy & Microbiology, which i'm happy with!

Today was another jam packed day! Last night I worked until 8, and came home and studied until almost 2:00 this morning! I had a big test this morning and of course I put studying off until the last minute! I did well though, but have been completely exhausted all day. After my test I got a quick lunch with Danny & Sam, then headed back to school for a 3 HOUR microbiology lab! (did I mention how ready I am for school to be over!)

Ella has been pretty much refusing naps lately which is not cool at all. She MAYBE takes a 1 hours nap all day long! For a while she would sleep in every morning, take a great nap, and go to bed around 8:00. Not anymore! Now that she can crawl and move more she is ALWAYS on the move! I knew this would happen, but now it has really hit me. Things are going to get busier and busier, she is going to be quite the handful as a toddler I can already tell! :)

I'm glad it's already Thursday :) I sure wish the office was on, one Thursday closer though!

BIG girl!

As of....7.13.08
[8 months old]

Ella's life lately:

Ella can officially CRAWL!

last day as a 7 month old, her first tooth popped up!

She babbles all the time and makes lots of happy noises

She is sort of getting over her stranger anxiety

she loves to ride in the big girl seat in the shopping cart

She is the best night sleeper & loves naps

she loves to wiggle and dance when music comes on

she loves food. period.

she is such a silly girl and has such a fun personality

and of course... I love her more everyday!

In other news, I am SO ready for summer classes to be over with! I only have the rest of this week, then two more weeks. I really miss getting to spend all day with Ella. She is learning and growing SO fast and I really don't want to miss out! I'm starting to get excited about planning her 1st birthday party! (even if it is still 4 months away!)

Sunday Tony & I went to the cubs game with his family and had the best time! It was my first professional baseball game and I absolutely LOVED it! We're definitly going to have to go alot more next summer! Oh, and we got Ella her very FIRST cubs tshirt!

Fair is next week and I can't wait to go there and eat haha! :)

tiny baby?

Oh where did that teeny little baby I once had go? I seriously can't believe how big Ella is getting! Today I finally went through Ella's dresser and took out all the clothes that were too little. (which ended up being quite a lot of them!) I actually had a really hard time with it, how could she have EVER been so tiny!

We just got back from vacation yesterday and we had a GREAT time! The weather was perfect and we definitly jam packed our days with fun stuff! Ella absolutely LOVES the pool and swimming! She really is such a great baby. The plane ride went way better than I could have even hoped for! She didn't cry or fuss once either way! She was in such a happy mood the whole trip too :) She seemed very excited to spend ALL day with mommy & daddy both for 4 whole days! We spent Friday and all day Saturday at a 4 million dollar house right on Crystal River! It was BEAUTIFUL (and even had an elevator inside the house!) Sunday we took Ella to Lowry park zoo and to the beach! I definitly wasn't ready to go home on Monday!

I have a feeling all these big milestones such as crawling, walking, and talking are just going to come boom boom boom from now on! Ella rolls all over the place, can spin around in a circle on her tummy and sort of scoot, and she just started pulling herself up to stand! I really can't believe it! Next Monday she is going to be 8 months old! How did that happen!

SUPRISE!

I got my iPhone today! :) I am seriously SO excited! (even though Tony has been playing with it all night and I haven't gotten to) We went today to add Tony onto my family plan, but then switched everything over into his name so we could get his Purdue discount... well apparently that means my line is treated as a NEW account= $99 iPhone!

Had to share. It's awesome. :)

back track

Again, I'm awful at updating this so here's a quick update from our life!

Here we go! Last Tuesday Tony & I went to the lake with Mark, Zoey, Sam & Ryan. We had a blast! I love getting to do things with Tony that we hadn't gotten to do together before and this was one of them! The rest of last week was pretty busy too. Friday we cleaned out Tony's mom's car for her, we really wanted to do something nice for her since she watches Ella all the time. We ended up cleaning for over 3 hours! It looks great now though! Saturday I worked Kindergarten round up from 9-3:30, then went to Emily's wedding reception for a little while, and then ended up playing games with Megan and Dereck until 2:30 AM! :) I really wish they lived closer so we could hang out more often! Sunday we originally planned on staying home, cleaning, and relaxing for a change... but, then we got an offer to go to Indy with Tony's family and we had to take it! We had a great time, we went shopping and out to dinner at the cheesecake factory. We went to the Apple store and decided we are DEFINITLY getting iPhones! I'm so excited! I've wanted one for quite a while now! Unfortunately, I looked up online and i'm not eligible for the $99 upgrade until August 18th :( Boo! But i'll be counting down the days until then from now on! Tony is probably going to be getting his this week though.

Its going to be another busy week. Class tomorrow, work most of the day on Wednesday, and Thursday i'll be going to class 8-4:30 with NO break at all :( and then off to the airport! I'm definitly looking forward to this weekend in Florida, a little nervous about flying with Ella, but over all very excited to see old friends, go to the beach, and just RELAX! Well, more updates soon, but I have a whole living room full of laundry that needs folding and some studying to get to! :)

going going going..

Sometimes I really wonder if we will ever have a weekend with NO plans! :(

I feel like the past few months especially, we have been going and going and going every single week, and weekend! This weekend was no exception. Saturday I worked all day, then went to the Fisher's to see the new puppy (who is ADORABLE!) and then headed to the taste for the evening. We got there about 6:30, and ended up staying until close to 11:30. Suprisingly Ella stayed awake the WHOLE time! Towards the end she definitly wasn't very happy and just needed some sleep! Tony and I had a good time though, we hung out with Jason & Olivia, walked around, ate lots of food and listened to some of the bands. Even though Lafayette isn't a big town, its nice that it has some fun activities to look forward to every year. We watched the fireworks show last night which I was looking forward to since we won't be in town over the 4th. Ella just watched them in awe and wasn't scared at all, UNTIL the finale! When they all boomed at once it was SUPER loud and scared her pretty bad!

Today we didn't get to sleep in at all, every third Sunday of the month Tony & I volunteer in the nursery at church. It was our week, and being Father's day we knew it would be busy! The other usual volunteers didn't show up, and there were 11 babies! Someone else ended coming in to help but it was very hectic, and really made me appreciate only having to take home one baby! I really don't know how moms of multiples do it! I used to think having twins or triplets would be fun, but after having one baby, I hope they all come one at a time! :) After church we went to Don Pablo's for Elizabeths going away lunch! It was good to see everyone, but can't believe Elizabeth is MOVING! (We're going to miss you Eday! GET A BLOG!) After lunch we basically went straight to Tony's grandparents, and stayed out there ALL day until about 8:30 this evening. And now the weekend it over!

Its going to be another very busy week I can already tell. Work & studying all day tomorrow, exam Tuesday & class all day, Work 1-8 Wednesday, class all day thursday, and probably picking up a shift Friday. Kindergarten Round up at work Saturday and Emily's wedding... geez! Maybe this is why I feel like time is going so fast! Not to mention how fast Ella is growing up! Seriously, how did my baby get to be almost 7 1/2 months old already!