Summer Frivolities

Well, this will be a long one - since it has been so long, but at least there will be lots of pictures. First off, we were in Winnipeg a few weeks ago visiting family. Sadly, these are the only pictures I took. I really need to get better at this.



Then my parents came out for a little while. These are pictures of a lovely evening we had at our friends Darrel and Sharons. Probably the best hosts I've ever met.

The cutest icecream cone ever.

Papa and Ella going "wheeee" (that's what she says when she sees this picture)

Grandma just watching.

Just eating up the attention


She loves this new book Darrel and Sharon gave her.



On Sunday afternoon we went to the creek to beat the heat. It was such nice family time.


I'm not sure what that face means


Later on we met up with the Falconer fam.

BFF's


Sitting in her new rocking chair, wearing her new dress Nana sent her. Thanks Nana!

The rest of the family...

Wow, an actual picture of Josh and I


We were trying to compare our big bellies. I'm pretty sure I win.

I just love this new dress on her. It's just so summery.

More Ella

Here are some recent pictures of our lives - well, Ella's anyway.
She loves corn-on-the-cob.
Not sure what that face means.
This is the face she makes when she wants to say no, or is just not pleased with something.
Hangin' with Ocean and Meadow
Cooling off in the pool.


She loves Marissa - one of the girls in our youth.
Her first time wearing pig tails! So cute!

You can't catch me!

Well, I got tagged. I've been putting this off, because, well I'm really quite boring... but here goes. I'll see what I can come up with. (For those of you who don't know. I have to give 8 interesting/weird facts about myself and then tag 8 other people to do the same) Sorry in advance to those of you I tag.

1. Having Ella caused my body to trade in a milk allergy for a fish allergy. The weird thing is that fish was the only thing I craved while I was pregnant with her.

2. Sometimes when I am somewhere really high - like a building - I feel an incredible urge to jump. (no, I'm not suicidal)

3. I love the idea of reading, but I'm really quite bad at it. I have numerous books that I have purchased for myself and never read. So sad.

4. I used to want 10 kids, and I wanted all boys.

5. I only lock the door to our house when it's a mess. Like I don't want the robbers to see our mess, but they can take whatever they want any other time. How warped is that.

6. I literally want to throw up when I see someone wipe their childs face with a dishcloth.

7. I ate my first peanut and jelly sandwich in college. I can thank ol' Aaron Oskey for that one.

8. I don't do it very often, but I could kick most peoples butts in a belching competition if I had to.

Now this is the hard part:
I tag: Sarah Gullacher, Chelsey Beda, Pam Meister, Karen Adams, Suzanne Dobbertin, Jenecia Griffiths, Shyla Rohrer

hmmmm

So, she got out of the dryer, but...
This picture was a little staged. She got in head first and I spun her around for a better picture.
This is what we woke up to on Thursday! Crazy weather - and today was beautiful. I'm just thankful all my flowers are ok - the snow insulated them from the cold. That one dead looking plant was already looking that way. They can outlast the cold, but can they outlast my sad, sad not-so-green thumb?

Well, it's been a while, so here are some recent pictures of Ella.

Don't you just love little baby legs?


The swings are still her favourite


Ocean and Meadow had a sleepover the night Blue and Deb's baby was born. Samuel Forest was born on Good Friday - they are all doing well.




She loves helping Josh.

Baby

Well, these may not be the most exciting pictures to some of you, but to me, I will never stop being amazed at what God can do in creating new life. These are from my ultrasound today, and I absolutely love the second and third pictures where you can actually count out the babies finders and toes. The technician couldn't get all the pictures she needed, so she thought I would probably have to comeback for another ultrasound. Oh darn, like I could ever get tired of staring at my child. She couldn't tell what the babies sex was, but we don't want to know anyway. At least this stopped me fram changing my mind at the last minute. That's probably part of the reason Josh comes along because he doesn't trust me with surprises (rightfully so), and obviously because he wants to see the baby - not to mention the fact that I beg him to because I can't carry Ella with such a full bladder. Well, I hope you are as in awe of these as I am.

Oh Ella, where are you?

The other day Ella and I went downstairs to do some laundry. After I was done I told her to follow me upstairs. Well, for some reason she just wanted to stay down and play. For those of you who know Ella that is quite unusual for her because she normally just likes to be wherever the action is. Since there are only who of us during the day the "action" is wherever I am. So I thought I would just let her hang out for a little while and go check on her often (our basement isn't exactly a good play area). So, after going down a few times, the next time I went down there wasn't a sign of her anywhere. I was calling and looking and she was gone. I was starting to get a little panicked. She usually would just respond right away or make some kind of noise anyway. Well finally I looked more closely to where she was playing the last time I saw her - right nest to the washer and dryer - and sure enough, she had crawled into the dryer. She brought all her blankets downstairs, had pushed them into the dryer and gotten right in with them. She was so happy just playing away. I told Josh the story and he got kind of freaked out. I told him there was no way she could shut the door on herself, so no need to worry. He said "yeah, until she has a little brother or sister to stuff in!" So true.

Spring Fever

Well, the other day it was beautiful here, and I totally caught a bit of spring fever. So, Ella and I headed out to the garden store. We bought some poppy seeds, tomato seeds and different herbs. Then we got some little flowers that you keep inside for awhile and then transplant them. They were on sale, so hey why not. They also had some gardening gloves on sale, so I got myself a pair, and then they had little kids ones with frogs and Ella loved them, so once again, why not. They were only 98 cents. So, the two little gardeners went home and got to work. Here are a few pictures of Ella "working" The one with the glove in her mouth is showing how she takes them off - just like an adult would do- well maybe not with gardening gloves, but you know what I mean. Funny girl. Now there is snow on the ground the ground, and it is cold, so my fever has been put on hold - I'm sure it will return soon.